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Exclusive Podcast with Stefan Swanepoel

The Top Real Estate News Makers of 2007

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Stefan goes Back to the Future as he explains how last years news makers affects 2008 and beyond. This is just a taste of his 2008 Trends report that is being released in the next couple days. This pod cast is part one of a two part series.

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We work our way up from # 10 thru # 6. Next week we release the top 5. Show notes for Swanepoel Top Ten News Makers for 2007. (opens in new window)

6. Harley and Kaira Sturdivant Rouda
7. Sherry Chris
8. Errol Samuelson
9. Allan Dalton & David Lereah
10. Walter Forbes

PRE-ORDER 2008 Trends Report Addition
For more information on the 2008 Swanepoel TRENDS Report visit www.ReTrends.com
To purchase a copy of the Report and enjoy free shipping go to www.RealEstateBooks.org and use the promo code Houseblogger.

We work our way up from # 10 thru # 6. Next week we release the top 5. Show notes for Swanepoel Top Ten News Makers for 2007. (opens in new window)

6. Harley and Kaira Sturdivant Rouda
7. Sherry Chris
8. Errol Samuelson
9. Allan Dalton & David Lereah
10. Walter Forbes

Blog Article

A nice little starter blog article at entrepreneur.com. We have a few blog articles and podcasts ourselves in the blogging section of this site.

My favorite piece by the author is that you should look at the blog as a book instead of as a diary.

Ethical Link Bribes

Perhaps, I could call this Garage Sale Linking!

My wife tells me I gotta clear out the garage. I have what seems to be a lifetime of killer sales, and marketing books, tapes, cd's etc. Yah, I am a pack rat.

Kinetic Knowledge Interview

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I interview Chris Frerecks from http://kineticknowledge.com/.  Check out his affordable blog hosting and tell him Tim sent you. And when you sign up, let us know and we will put your new blog in our Page 2 Directory section here at HouseBlogger, and RealtyBloggers.

We discuss everything from Blogs, Direct Marketing, RSS, and the long tail. And if you are stuck on creating content we cover that too. Discover the advantages of a blog like, discoverability, and brand. Chris defines WEB 2.0.

Local Bubble Battle

This could be subtitled how to extend your 15 minutes of fame......

There is a battle going on in near my home town between an anonymous bubblista critic of local real estate and local Realtors. Mostly from Shorewood Realtors one of L.A. Counties largest players.

Note:Find out how to make the news more positive. Use the web to change the marketplace. http://www.positiveonrealestate.com

Google Loves Blogs

And I gotta Bridge I want to sell you.

So not to try to take anyone's dinner off their table, but lets be real here and have a real conversation. Let's not be parrots and give a xerox copy of every other website advice that claims to do SEO.

Google so called enamoration with blogs makes for a good sales pitch, but it is technically false. If that was true perhaps we would see more blogs in the top of Alexa.

Google does not love blogs, or favor blogs any more than it favors any other website. In fact a blog is a website. Google doesn't love anything. It follows links and indexes the web. The easier you make it for them may help your cause. But it is not a guarantee.

Most blogs do have three advantages pre-built into its design. They are conveniences though as they can be built into any website.....

How Traffic Happens

Website traffic comes from a referral from another website.

That referral could be a link from another website, like a blog or even non hyperlink link on say a video.It could be for bought traffic like Homegain, or banner ads.  Or it can be the motherload of all traffic the search engines. The traffic from an engine can come from more paid ads, or from organic search.

Blog Commenting for Clients

Or perhaps we can call this one....

The Scourge of the Coffee Room Blogger

The 80 20 rule is alive and well.

Go to any real estate office or any sales office in the U.S. And you will find the producers talking on the phone or belly to belly. While the non-producers will be caught chatting in the break room, selling each other on why they are so smart. Now they very well may be smart, but they are not wise as they are more than likely broke.

Whilst the intelligent pontificate their smarts onto one another, the "wise" do deals. Online communities have emerged called blogs, forums and WEB 2.0 hybrids where the conversation humms.

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Tim O'Keefe
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Taking a Blender to Todays Online Marketing

Or Should I say :

Mashing Up Online Marketing?

The Web has created a bunch of labels that we all use. And smart marketers (self included) reinvent labels to persuade our buyers to buy into our techno wizardry. As if it is something new.

And the most powerful word in marketing some say is free. But then NEW is a close second.