Positive Real Estate Professionals

Positive Real Estate Professionals adds Google Buzz to it’s list of tools. What does this mean for our members and readers? Well, for the members, it is just one more social outlet that their articles can be shared on. As well, it will create another link on the world wide web, so ultimately, it will provide more Google Juice. For our readers, it will provide an easy and quick way to add things to their Google reader or share them with their friends in their Gmail account. This might be one of the easiest share tools that I have seen in some time. Below is a short video that will help to explain Google Buzz.

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It is the desire of PREP and their admins to stay on top of the social media world. The only way for us to do that is to keep up with the social media marketing tools that these social media networks are putting out there. Ultimately, our job is to provide not only our members, but our readers as well with avenues to share articles on our site with their family, friends, and followers. In other words, their sphere of influence (SOI). We will continue to march forward to bring the best of social media marketing to our members and readers alike.

Positive Real Estate Professionals (PREP) can help you achieve the recognition you and your business deserve through our highly versatile and search engine optimized member websites, lead capture, and visitor friendly layout. If you are a professional who works in the real estate industry or one of the related fields that service the needs of the real estate industry then this real estate network can be just what you need to take your business to the next level. If you have questions or would like to join CLICK HERE.

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A few days ago I had a member  of our real estate network, Positive Real Estate Professionals, ask me “What can Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn do for my blog”? I decided the best way to answer this is by writing an article so that anyone else that has this same question lurking can get the answers. Without further adieu, let’s dive into this article.

I guess the first thing that one has to understand is Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn and what they are designed to do. For those of you that are unfamiliar with the term “microblogging”, this is the best way to identify each of these networks. Microblogging is very different from blogging in that the posts are much shorter. In most cases, your posts are limited in the characters that you can use. For Twitter and LinkedIn, it is 140 characters. This includes spaces and punctuation. For , it is 420 and the same rule applies for spaces and punctuations. The biggest difference between microblogging and blogging is the fact that most microbloggers use “status” messages like ” I am brushing my teeth” or “I am heading to a closing”. While these are fine, they do nothing for your blog.

Having a blogsite that is integrated with Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, or even FriendFeed, it is easy to have a notification go out to the systems automatically that states that a new post has been created on your blogsite. In doing this, you can actually alert readers to this fact quickly and automatically. Ultimately, this will drive more readers to your site. A integration simply sends a message to the twitter account supplied and allows for it to state that “What can Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn do for my blog” has just been published on PREP, for example. With Facebook, the best integration to use is an application called NetworkedBlogs. It allows for a short excerpt to automatically post to your profile and/or fan page. With , there is an integration to have your blog feed set up.

In closing, the answer to the question is that these networks can drive more readers to your blogsite. Ultimately, this is what we are all after.

Positive Real Estate Professionals (PREP) can help you achieve the recognition you and your business deserve through our highly versatile and search engine optimized member websites, lead capture, and visitor friendly layout. If you are a professional who works in the real estate industry or one of the related fields that service the needs of the real estate industry then this real estate network can be just what you need to take your business to the next level. If you have questions or would like to join CLICK HERE.

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One of the keys to having a successful business website is to actually have visitors to your site. After all, you can’t convert site visitors into clients or referral sources if you don’t have visitors. A properly optimized site will go quite a long way toward attracting traffic thanks to high placement in search engine results. But can’t you do even more? Of course you can…enter social media. From to you probably already participate in at least one social media. In the past the admins of Positive Real Estate Professionals have written posts extolling the benefits of several of these social medias: Read More

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This is part three in the Marketing Your Business Online series of posts. In this installment we will look at the sometimes controversial world of social media marketing (SMM). Social Media is the medium through which social media marketing is conducted. Do these terms seem foreign to you? I would venture to guess that most people who are reading this post are actually participating in some social media already. Read More

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Over the last six months or so, I have refused to join any group on . I get asked at least 25 times a week why I choose not to join groups. So, in an effort to answer this question, I decided to write an article about it. I hope that this clears up the mystery of groups versus Business Pages (a.k.a. Fan Pages) on . Read More

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Yesterday I received a great email from one of the members of this real estate network. In that email the member was looking for actionable steps to take that could help maximize the available benefits of PREP. I am converting my email response into this post that will hopefully benefit all of our members. By the way, all of these suggestions are FREE! Read More

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Over the last few months, I have been reading and studying videos and how to get them to show high in the search engines. Most people think that they will leave that to , , , or any of the other video sites that allow you to upload and share your videos. Well, that is just the start of the issues for your videos. While these sites might help you get your videos high up in the rankings with SEO, they are not doing anything for your website. With that said, let me share a few tips that might actually help you. Read More

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Yesterday, I was blown out of my chair. A REALTOR® asked me a question that I was unprepared for. “Do you need to use Social Media outlets?” he asked. Well, the answer is actually “NO”. You do not HAVE to use social media outlets like , , , or any of the other social media platforms. The real question though, is why would you not want to use any of these services? Now that the real question is out, let’s examine it. Read More

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Social media is an excellent way to attract visitors to your site. In a post this past June Danny Thornton wrote about Embracing Technology. If you missed that article, I would definitely recommend taking the time to click on the link and read it. In a related article entitled Putting The Cart Before The Horse, Danny goes on to discuss the numerous social media networks or platforms that are available. The biggest point he makes in that article is to not allow yourself to get overwhelmed by all that is available instead recommending that you choose a system or two to learn before moving onto another. In this post I want to highlight  . Read More

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Since I am associated with the real estate industry, this post is going to be directed right at people that are also in the real estate industry. With that said, I am sure that it can apply to many other industries just as well. Learning how to separate business from personal is not a hard task. It is all part of the art of marketing. Many people either do not care or do not realize that their personal life can actually be detrimental to their business life. It is one thing to be controversial but it is totally something else when you take those controversial feelings and stances to the extreme in a public forum. This is where some people use the cop out of ‘I am entitled to my opinions’ or ‘We are entitled to free speech’. You are entitled to both your opinions and free speech. However, so is the consumer. The question is, when you go EXTREME with a public comment or stance that is already controversial, does it effect your business life? That is the question that we will look at in this post. Hold on because the ride can get a little bumpy. Read More

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