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One of the most frequent questions I'm asked is, " how do I get my website to the top of the Search Engines? " There is no simple answer to this question, but it is not as hard as it may seem. 

We just got back from a great,  Star Power event in Phoenix, Arizona. Lucky for us the weather wasn't too terribly hot and humid, thought it had its moments.

It was so amazing to see so many agents full of enthusiasm at the conference. It is nice to see everyone sharing information which each other and brainstorming for new approaches to drive new business in today's down trending/ slower markets that many areas of the country are experiencing.

Our booth was present among other venders with today's best solutions to help Real Estate  professionals take their business to the next level.  Real Pro Systems stealth sites  and automated email follow up systems always stand out as the leading approach to capturing buyers and sellers that are not ready to work with an agent.

We had a wonderful client reception that was a lot of fun. All of us enjoy meeting our clients in person and hearing about their successes.

Hi Charlee and Shelly,

I wanted to Thank the both of you and all of those who have helped me with any questions that I've had with the website. I believe it has been approximately 9 or 10 months since Real Pro started my website and I have been very happy.

I also wanted to share that I have been closely tracking all leads from the website and as of June 30, 2007, I have closed two separate transactions where both buyers were the results of Real Pro Leads. Total Commissions: over $13,000.

Troy

CRS Paradise, CA

Real Pro Silver - Are you looking for an easy way to get  online with a professional, content-rich website and email follow up system for lead cultivation?  Real Pro Silver is an ideal solution for agents who are new to real estate, getting online for the first time or supplementing their Internet presence with an additional site. 

Designs:

Here is a wonderful tip from Rob Levy. This comes from his June, 2006 Newsletter.

Need Extra Space? Try Storage

We conducted a webinar Tuesday that was well-attended by real estate agents. Some of the interesting pieces I came away with were:

Blog Content

The goal is to write or post relevant content that your website visitors will find useful, that establishes you as a leader in your market and reveals your personality, creating trust. Sprinkle the text with keywords and relevant links to support the points you're making and you increase your search engine rankings.

Easy ways to add content to your own Blog, if you're not a writer:

• Put together an interview on a topic by requesting by email answers from influencers in your market such as news anchors, business owners, civic leaders
• Ask business partners or affiliates, such as mortgage lenders, home inspectors, title companies, escrow officers, to send authored articles and links to their website
• Announce your involvement in non-profits, charitable events and organizations
• Paste tables of recent sales or other industry stats

Top Ten Public Real Estate Blog Sites

These are the top ten public real estate Blog sites as ranked by "Realty Blogging" by Richard Nacht and Paul Chaney

Grow-a-Brain - www.Growabrain.com

Rain City Guide - www.raincityguide.com

Inman News Blog - Blog.inman.com/

RealBlogging - www.realblogging.com/

The Walk-Through - walkthrough.nytimes.com/

Realty Blog - www.realtyblogging.com/

Transforming Real Estate - jimkimmons.typepad.com/

Flipping Feenzy -flippingfrenzy.com/index.php/?page_id=83

Matrix - matrix.millersamuel.com/

Lenderama - reblog.mariah.com/

 After years and years we finally tied the knot.

My girlfriend asked me a week after the wedding, "So how is married life?" I replied, great, if I had to do if over again I would. Both of us chuckled thinking at the same time..... with today's divorce rate, that could happen. So I'm modifying my answer to, "I'd do it again, but not to someone else. :)

I just became a member of Active Rain, a Real Estate Community site. If you are looking for tips and advice for your business, it can be a good resource. All sorts of topics are discussed and It is free to join.

"Speaking as a REALTOR®, I can tell you that so far this year, my personal RPS stealth sites generated about $10,000,000 in sales. Remember: this is Portland Oregon, not Berkeley, so our average price is only $240,000. 

"The secret to the whole thing is keeping our egos out of it. As agents, we always promote ourselves. We name domain names after ourselves, have 6" glossies of ourselves on our sites, etc. This does not appeal to the consumers as much as directly meeting their needs through a stealth site.  

“I am in Portland Oregon, home to 20,000 Intel engineers. Some of my clients are in the ‘social anthropology’ group, and they literally do studies on how we do things. What they have shared with me is that our main buyer group grew up trusting technology, they hate salespeople and they don't want to be ‘sold.’ One of the reasons is they can find out more on the product they are buying on the Internet than the salesperson knows, whether it be a car, a camera or a house. They tell me that those people are more attracted to a "stealth" site precisely because they don't have to talk to a salesperson in order to get information.

 “This is why stealth sites work. We promote our stealth site addresses over and above our main site address in real estate magazines, on the back of our flyers and via postcards mailed to our IVR callers.”