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Are you ever in a building, canyon or some dark spot that has poor reception for your cell phone or broadband card?
There is a fix and this one seems to work. Watch this video.
I used to think and believe all those cell phone reception improvement devices are bunk. I still do but this one is definitely not bunk and looks like it really works.
The reason why this works is because it’s not some stupid piece of tinfoil you stick to your phone but it is actually a real antenna. Reminds me of a cantenna (geek term) but high quality.
If you have serious reception issues this antenna might be the ticket.
May 1st is RSS Awareness Day. Many of our customers ask,
“What is RSS and why should I use it?”
I will answer the why first.
Do you like to read multiple newspapers or magazines? If so do you go out driving all around town to find the magazines and newspapers you want to read? Of course not. You subscribe to all your favorite periodicals and have them delivered to your house.
RSS is the technology behind Subscribing to websites. So instead of having to visit each website to see if there is anything new you can subscribe using the RSS feed published on almost any website. Just look for this symbol (colors may vary).
If you subscribe to all the sites you want to read then you do not have to spend time visiting each site you want to read.
What program do you use to read your RSS feeds? You use a feed reader. The best reader to start with for the beginner is Google Reader and you can start here -> http://reader.google.com
….early marketing material suggest that one of their big selling points is that they are going to start with tons of users because they’ve bought a list from another real estate site (presumably with tons of users).  This has me scratching my head on a number of levels.
So who is going to build a site with users built in.
Number 5 - Alf is Back and he is bringing his friends
Number 4 - New Century Mortgage is now becoming a Lead Generating Social Network
Number 3 - Rupert Murdoch is Starting MyRealEstateSpace.com
Number 2 - Dustin is Starting the New Social Network after buying the customer list from Move Inc.
And the Number 1 Speculation is….
REALOGY
They don’t need to buy the list to build the initial membership. THEY OWN THE LIST!
One suggestion to whomever is starting it up should give each and every person the opportunity to have their membership deleted if they don’t want to participate.
Do you think you should have video comments on your blog? I think they are kind of neat. I also think that video comments remove the anonymousness of the internet comment. Now, not only are you leaving your name and info you also have your face. I think this is great as a troll would not leave a video comment.
One thing I don’t like about the Seesmic plugin is that when you make your video you can’t add text along with it.
Riffly does allow this and their video comment plugin has been around for a little bit and I think it might be better at this time.
One thing the Riffly plugin does not do is allow you to create a video post DIRECTLY from the ‘write post’ screen within wordpress.
Which is better? Depends on how you are creating your video and what kind of comments you are looking for on your blog.
a very important notice to anyone using Sprint and Supra E-Key
Every Realtor using Sprint PCS that signed up during the initial phase of the E-Key launch that were offered freebies to change their plans should immediately be aware that Sprint is expiring those freebies.
If you have a Sprint phone and you are using the Supra E-Key check your bill and talk with Sprint before having any problems as Lani did.
We’ve spent the better part of 4 hours on the phone with customer retention as well as several hours in the Sprint store over the past month resolving these issues to the tune of nearly $1,000.00
Do you take video testimonials of your clients? If you don’t and you want something easy, pick up a Flip Video camera.
If you do here is a neat little plugin for adding them to your Blog’s Side Bar.
If you are reading this by email or a feed reader click on over to my blogs main page Future of Real Estate Technology and take a look at the top right to see the plugin in action. Currently I have four video testimonials loaded but I will add more later.
To make this work I actually modified the theme to create a third sidebar that is a combination of the widths of the two smaller side bars.
The plugin I used is Daiko’s YouTube Widget and after installing the plugin all I had to was drag the two widgets that are part of the plugin to the new sidebar I created. The plugin is very easy to configure and the player part of the video can be made to any size you want.
Would video testimonials help potential customers choose you to be there Real Estate Agent? I can’t guarantee it will but it wouldn’t hurt to put them up on the front page or maybe create a category and have a special menu of Testimonials.
If you would like me to modify your theme to do something similar, contact me at 866-987-8324.
The main reason to subscribe to your own blog is to see how your formatting on your blog posts looks in a Feed Reader. This way you can see what others are seeing and adjust your posting techniques to fix any formatting issues.
Another important reason is to watch for anything that shouldn’t be in your feed. A few weeks ago I had a customer call me up who was getting porn links in their blog posts. When you would look at the site and posts they were not there. This was caused by a bug in older versions of Wordpress that allowed these links to be injected with out their knowledge.
A quick cleanup of the affected posts and upgrading Wordpress to the newest version fixed the problem for now but it can happen again. So when the next update comes around do it within a reasonable amount of time. I would venture to say a weeks wait would be fine to find if any others had problems with the update.
Now that blogging is taking the world by storm and Real Estate agents are using them to grow their business you now have another program to keep updated.
If you are running Wordpress Self Hosted (not using wordpress.com) then you need to make sure your Wordpress installation is up to date.
A landing page is any page on a website where traffic is sent specifically to prompt a certain action or result. Think of a sales pitch. On a Landing Page the point is to make your sales pitch and make it good and the end result should be a sale.
I have seen many REALTOR landing pages that they pay for PPC ads to bring people to these pages and these pages are horrible and give the visitor no reason to fill out the form or do whatever it is you want them to do.
I will not admit to being good a creating Landing Pages for Real Estate or any other field for that matter. But, I did find this great list of articles from Copy Blogger that has tons of great info that REALTORS could apply to their Landing Pages.
If you are running PPC campaigns for Email Campaigns you should read the articles listed in the linked article and see how yours compare.
