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Entries from May 2007

Bad Publicity is still Publicity

May 11th, 2007 · 3 Comments

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. If you would like you can also Subscribe by Email. Thanks for visiting!This Sunday’s 60 Minutes episode seems to have caused NAR start running around like chickens little screaming “The Sky is Falling, the sky is falling”. NAR is running around [...]

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Tags: General Real Estate Technology

Using a Mac for Real Estate

May 10th, 2007 · 1 Comment

This evening I had a visitor to the Blog chat with me on my new chat widget and it worked great. See this post for more about the new widget.
She had some questions on my opinion of using a Mac for Real Estate and specifically how it would work with the MLS. The question was if [...]

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Instant Message Widget for your Blog or Website

May 10th, 2007 · 4 Comments

Do you IM?
How would you like to have visitors to your blog be able to directly chat with you on your preferred IM/chat client? I would.
Many of you are might be using Meebo. Meebo is a similar chat widget for your blog or website. What I didn’t like about it is that for me to [...]

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Tags: General Real Estate Technology

Real Estate 2.0 - Companies and Technology You Should Know

May 9th, 2007 · No Comments

These past few years we have been seeing countless web technologies pop up out of nowhere and many of you are wondering who are they and what do they do.
Joel Burslem from Inman News and Future of RE Marketing has reposted a chart originally put together by Oliver Muoto, cofounder and VP of business development [...]

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Tags: Websites

Using Adsense Correctly for Your Real Estate Business

May 7th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Yesterday I showed you that wonderful screen-shot of a Real Estate adsense ad displayed on a completely irrelevant site.
I also told you that I didn’t know how to avoid this problem and that you should look into how to avoid the problem if you are running adsense for your Real Estate Business.
Since I didn’t know [...]

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Tags: General Real Estate Technology

Clean your new computer with the PC Decrapifier

May 7th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Here is another neat must have tool.
The PC Decrapifier
The PC Decrapifier, which is a simple executable that doesn’t even require installation, can detect upwards of 50 common programs and optionally remove any of them.
The idea to use this program on a new computer but you can also use it on a currently in use computer. [...]

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Tags: General Real Estate Technology

Where are you spending your AdSense dollars?

May 6th, 2007 · 2 Comments

I was doing my typical search the interwebs for anything interesting about real estate, real estate technology, real estate marketing, and I found this article at SEO Book
They featured a screenshot of a Made for Adsense website www.4spark.com (link removed). This website is all about adsense for South Park (the cartoon). The really funny thing [...]

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Tags: General Real Estate Technology

Mac Backup Solutions for the Real Estate Agent

May 6th, 2007 · 2 Comments

 
With all this talk about backups, I have been leaving out all those Mac users. I have told you about Mozy and its set it and forget it feature.
Well now Mac users can do the same thing. The Mac software is in Beta so check it out and see how it works. It might have [...]

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Tags: General Real Estate Technology

Backup your Real Estate Blog - Update

May 5th, 2007 · No Comments

Yesterday I put out a quick article about Blog Backup Online.
I mentioned that it did not backup comments and I was wrong on this one. Blog Backup Online does backup your comments along with your content. So if you still looking for a way to backup your blog without thinking about it I still recommend [...]

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Tags: General Real Estate Technology

Backup your Real Estate Blog

May 4th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Everyone knows that I am always screaming “BACKUP YOUR DATA”
But do you backup your blog?
Here is a new service I found that does that for you. I don’t know how reliable it is or but it seems like something good to check out. This service is called Blog Backup Online and they promise to backup blogs [...]

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Tags: General Real Estate Technology