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I have a column! The following will go into print in the up coming news letter Gulf Coast Real Estate News! First run will be 10k distribution. Technology and Real Estate James Pendleton Copyrights 2007 Hello Readers of Gulf Coast Real Estate News. I would like to thank you for taking the time to read our new Real Estate Magazine. This section will endeavor to share information on the use and relationship of Technology and Real Estate. Way back when working in Real Estate was a manual process... Read Full Post

So that you know my talk (text) is not just lip service. I have been working on my relatively new site for ranking over the past several months. I am proud to announce its rank has been achieved in the key word niche I chose. The niche words are Find RealEstate in Mobile Alabama. Notice the word real estate is all one word. A over site on my part. However it turned into a ranking wind fall. Granted on my not type it as one word. Sometime the searcher may. Still as two word I still appear with... Read Full Post

ThyssenKrupp Steel is a German based corporation coming to the Gulf Coast of Alabama. This will mean major growth for the region. The Corpration will be pumping over 3 billion dollars into construction of a state of the art steel manufacturing plant that will employee over 2600 people. over 20,000 people will be needed to build the facility. Its target date of operation is 2010. This development is said to be the largest development in the history of the United States. I do believe they are c... Read Full Post

It has been a long 6 months with lots of computer time. Reaching out to other webmasters and searching for good directories and web sites to link to. Sending personal emails requesting links. Asking sometime calling and discussing the reason why my site is good enough to link to. Making the claim that it will grow in prominence and presence in the search engines. having to back that up with results but not being sure it will actually happen. Well as I hit most of my domains and other areas th... Read Full Post

One on the beautiful things about life and making money is having passive income streams. There are lots of gimmicks and tricks out there that many have tried. The common belief is that you can get rich quick. Well unless you hit the lottery good luck ! I for one have always been grounded in the belief of working smart and not hard is the answer. When I joined my company, one of the things that stood out was the offering of a second stream of income with sponsoring and mentoring of new agents... Read Full Post

Word of mouth marketing (WOMM) -- a strategy in which you engage customers and get them talking about your service or products -- can help grow your business. Here are some tactics for implementing a successful WOMM strategy: Use incentives to pass the word. A customer who loves your product or service will want to spread the word. Provide them with coupons to pass to other people, or offer them discounts for referrals. Some companies have WOMM elements built into the product, such as free pe... Read Full Post

Seasoned business owners implement systems to measure their marketing effectiveness. To avoid losing time, money and customers, here are some methods to monitor your next campaign: Give your pieces a "call to action." Make sure your printed materials, such as coupons, print ads, business reply cards and brochures, have a unique telephone number or URL prominently placed on the piece. When consumers call or visit a particular webpage, you can easily measure that collateral's response. For coup... Read Full Post

Now that I am done with my volunteer work with habitat for humanity. Also finished with some training classes I have gotten back to building the presence of my Real Estate web site. Adding it to more directories and making a few more contacts. My traffic is building slowly. Not as fast as I would like but I know it takes time. I had a surge of visits from my offline promotion. As I saw the numbers build I started thinking about other ways I could cause interaction on my web site. I came up wi... Read Full Post

I have always been a community oriented person. One thing that I like about my company and the independent brokerage is that it too is community oriented. Exit International and all the Brokerages inside exit have been working with Habitat for several years. To date the entire company via a small donation taken from each transaction has given over $800,000 to habitat. This can be done because Exit Corp. does not sell Real Estate. All the Brokerages inside it are Independent Franchises. I am a... Read Full Post

This is a very interesting set up. I have been on the web for a very long time and watch the transition from forum message boards to the bloggin craze. I thought blogs would come and go but it seems as if they are here to stay. And hey blogging is fun! I have a blogging system on my site but use it as a forum and out let for various real estate topics as they come along. Being set up here to blog will be a treat. But I will explore the site in detail to get a feel on the topics of interest he... Read Full Post