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Real Estate Lead Generation- Changing Your Mind Is Allowed

April 27, 2012

Real Estate Lead Generation - Changing Your Mind Is Allowed 

Since most of our subscribers have been following us for a while you may well know how important I think and know blogging to be for real estate agents. Blogging is great for building relationships with sellers and buyers. 

You also know that I am one who believes that blogging does not create massive leads but rather a few 'perfect fit' people who have chosen to work with you prior to them ever even calling you or emailing you. The few are very real people and that cements the connection and relationship. 

Since Nestor and I work primarily with sellers my focus has not been on writing content to attract buyers. Yet, we still have attracted enough buyers to keep our buyer agents busy. However, we want to bless the lives of others and one way we can do that is to provide business to real estate agents. We have chosen to build our company in a much more aggressive way in order to feed those hungry agents who want to make a better life for themselves and for their families. 

Now with that all being said, you should ask yourself; how much business do you want? What can you do with more business? How much business in the price ranges you work can you handle? What is your growth strategy? 

Depending on what your answer is will determine the different lead generation systems you will want to put in place. Blogging is fantastic, you must blog to communicate but then you must convert that traffic. 

One of our websites is a magnet to the search engines and gets a lot of traffic. But our means to convert that traffic into prospects and ultimately buyers and sellers well, was poor to say the least. Yes, we did get calls, yes, we did get business but compared to the traffic numbers it was a shame that more did not convert. 

Then we decided to give a lead generation website a try and placed the widget on our website and overnight, the traffic started converting. 

In fact, we are hiring new agents just to keep up with verifiable good buyers who want to get qualified, they want to look at homes and they are giving their phone numbers without a forced optin to leave their phone number! The trust relationship is being build in great follow up and vetting processes. In less than 30 days we had close to 50 buyers search for homes on our site and 3 so far have changed their minds about moving to Florida. So out of the 47 left in the lead funnel 12 of them have responded and are actively working with our agents. Every day we get 2 to 3 more that are ready to go and look and are qualified to look at homes. 

I am eating my words about lead generation sites. Of course not all of them are equal, most are below par. But this site that I got turned on to is nothing short of amazing. If you want to know about it you can call me at 561-502-1577 or email me. I don't want my competition all to know about this technique so I am NOT going to be sharing here. Many agents in our market read our blog. If you are looking to expand your business, add on agents to your independent brokerage or just work with the buyers yourself you need to call me. 


Dislosure: I am NOT a reseller of this product. I am NOT an affiliate of this product. I am NOT being paid to write this about this product. I am only sharing what is working for us. 

 

Business Blogging is for the Long Term- Building your Following

March 25, 2012

Business Blogging is for the long term- building your following

I was looking at our clustrmaps a few minutes ago and wondered if the numbers are going up or down. In other words, are we gaining readers or not. The second question that came to my mind is has our following been growing over the years I have been blogging. 

I started blogging on ActiveRain in June of 2007.  I had another blog on blogger before AR. Consistancy is one of the keys to business blogging. You can see by this chart that...


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Online Business Coaching | SEO Blogging | Website Domination| Linking Campaigns | VA Services

March 20, 2012

Online Business Coaching | SEO Blogging | Website Domination | Linking Campaigns | VA Services 

Google makes changes in the their algorithms and has been doing so quite a bit it seems as of late. There are some things that remain constant while others die out or become obsolete. It takes time to stay up with all the changes and then shift your internet marketing strategies to align with what is working today and then tomorrow and so on. 

We get emails weekly from agents and brokers around the c...


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SEO To The Top, SEO Extreme and Group Coaching Clients- Please read this message

November 14, 2011
IMPORTANT NOTICE- 

All SEO TO THE TOP Alumni and new students- All Group Coaching Students, All SEO EXTREME Students, All Private Coaching Clients-

Our membership site came up with an error message last week. We have not been able to resolve this issue as of yet because the tech support person at Premium Web Cart where my membership sites are hosted did not have the knowledge to fix what was causing the error message. He had to send it over to the programmers who of course do not work on the we...

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What Do You Need Help With?

October 17, 2011

I need your help. I am creating a totally revamped program for you that is going to cover SEO for google page one domination, keyword research, discovering your niche and then creating a marketing branding campaign to speak to that audience and branding yourself as the agent in your market that dominates the search engines. 

I want you to be a part of this product creation. This is going to be your product. I want to make sure that I get everything into this program that you have been asking f...


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SEO Blogging Really Works

September 17, 2011
SEO Blogging Really Works.  You know, it is one thing when I can show how SEO blogging works for us in our market in our business. But it is more important for SEO blogging to work for you in your markets and in your businesses. 


There is this post I wrote back in January of 2008. It seems like it was only yesterday but that was 3 years ago. It was called, Fishing for the longtail. This one post has garnered over 320 comments and still gets comments in 2011. 

Back when I wrote that post the onl...

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Social Media Summit- Will I Meet You In Lehigh Valley PA?

September 16, 2011
If you are close to Allentown, Lehigh Valley, Breinigsville or even Philadelphia come join us at the Social Media Summit being held at the Holiday Inn Conference Center in Breingsville on September 28th! 

 
 
 I will be among the social media speakers at this full day event including some great networking. I am excited to be a part of the social media summit because there are going to be real estate agents, small business owners and some not for profit groups in attendance all eager to learn how...
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ActiveRain Meet-Up At E.R. Bradley's - West Palm Beach Florida In Photos

September 13, 2011
As soon as I finished presenting at ActiveRain RainCamp Online- we had to get ready for the AR Meet-Up because it was starting at 5 p.m. and we like to leave about an 1 hour before so we could be there as the hosts about 15 minutes before the meet-up started. I still had to get our little guy ready, get the camera ready and all the prep stuff that you do before you leave the house. 

I was able to stay on to hear about 20 minutes of Chris' presentation.

 





We had about a dozen Rainers at our AR Me...
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Active Rain Meet- Up For Palm Beach County Rainers!

September 6, 2011

We are looking forward to meeting you next week on Thursday September 8 at E.R. Bradley's downtown West Palm Beach on Clematis!  Be ready for photos! 

The address is: 104 Clematis St. West Palm Beach 



E.R Bradley's is a fun one of a kind local hang out right across the street from the Intracoastal waterway at the end of Clematis Street. 


We will be meeting from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. 


Please RSVP on the form below so that we can reserve a table. If we don't reserve the table then we will be standing at...

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Video -Blogging Tutorial -On Getting All Those Fancy Colors and Fonts on Your Blog Posts

September 1, 2011
SEO Blogging Tutorial On Getting All ThoseFancy Colors and Fonts on Your Blog Posts. 


Over the years we must have written more than a half dozen posts on how to add the different color text, highlights, text sizes and other visual changes to blog posts. But as time goes on, newbies who wonder how to do this most often don't know where to begin to find this information. This is one of the most asked questions on ActiveRain. 


Here is a video tutorial on using Scribefireto not just add variety to ...

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