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RSS Pieces-How to perform simple, quality SEO on your website yourself
2007-03-30 00:00:00
The guys over at RSS Pieces have a great article on improving your blog and/or website ranking. See below:How to perform simple, quality SEO on your website yourself:Know how Google sees your site and where you rank in the search engine results for your primary keyword before you begin SEO. Read also: SEO Autopsy: see your site like Google doesRead also: Where does your site rank in the SERPS? Select 100% relevant keyword on each of your website?s pagesThe overall relevancy of keywords, title tags and descriptions is what counts to search engines not simply the existence of the keywords. Basically, engines rate the quality of a page based on it's content relevancy to meta tags and no longer take the word of the meta alone to figure out what a page is about. Read also: How and why to select 100% relevant keywords Grow your backlinks naturallyBack links (links from another website back to yours) are still currently the backbone, Holy Grail and Grand Poo-bah of increasing Page Rank,...
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Make Things Easier on Your Real Estate Investors
2007-03-30 00:00:00
Here's a good marketing tip from One-2-One Real Estate University.Most real estate investors have a full-time job other than investing in real estate. Wouldn't it be great if you as a real estate professional, could make his "side venture" easier?Instead of just sending him automatic listings via e-mail, weed out the ones that meet the investor's criteria and run comps, sold data, and days on market for maybe one or two listings. Yes, I know the current trend is to add your potential clients to your e-mail list and use technology to give them info.But this makes things easier on YOU and not the investor.Remember an investor is a different type of animal. He is not the normal client that may buy a home once every few years or so. Just read the latest entry on the My Real Estate Venture blog. The topic of the post is that there is not enough time in the day to get everything done. The writer goes on to say he is upset that one of the agents he works with keep sending listings that ...
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Become an Instant Trusted Advisor
2007-03-30 00:00:00
One simple way is to become an expert in real estate investing in your client's eyes.Take foreclosures for example.I did a quick search on Ward Hanigan's website regarding San Diego County's foreclosure rate. Ward Hanigan by the way is considered the premier expert on foreclosures in Southern California. He is not a television guru by any means. He is a no non-sense, straightforward expert who knows California foreclosure laws inside and out.According to Ward's research, the statistics (Jan 06 vs Jan 07) for San Diego County are as follows:Notice of Defaults (NOD) increased 139% The number of Trust ee Sales increased by 637% . The numbers of Deeds Recorded went down 6% The % of homes that went to sale went up from roughly 11% to just over 31%Those are staggering numbers. But knowing those numbers alone do not qualify you as an expert. What qualifies you as an expert is knowing what to do with that information.Here is what Ward's says about how to use the information:"The monthl...
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Short Sale May Be an Option When Mortgage Debt Looms Too Large
2007-03-30 00:00:00
A distressed home owner asks June Fletcher of the Wall Street Journal about the possible solutions when having more debt that what your home is worth. What would you do if you had a possible listing with this type of scenario? Would you walk away?If you walk away then you just lost a chance at a payday.Read the article and find out how working with an investor who is experienced in the process of short sales, can help you and your client.Read more...
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Some Real Estate Investors Aren't Going Anywhere
2007-03-30 00:00:00
It really doesn't matter where you are in the real estate cycle, your investor clientele can still make a profit. And it goes without saying that if they make a profit, you will too.In her latest article, Blanche Evans, editor of Realty Times, has optimism that investors can still make money in real estate. I tend to agree with her. Gone are the days of rapid appreciation, at least in the Southern California area where I do my investing, but there are different strategies to use in a "seller's market". For the purposes of keeping it short, I will only mention two.The first strategy is to find your investor a property whose owner who is 60-90 days late on his payment. This properties are commonly known as pre-foreclosures. Even though some experienced investors hate this term, it is the term often used for properties who have not started the foreclosure process.You must negotiate the lowest price possible, by using a "net-sheet". Once you fill out this sheet you will be able to eas...
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How to Turn Your Client's SPAM Into More Commissions
2007-03-30 00:00:00
The the number one U.S. home builder thinks 2007 is going to be a bad year for new home sales. The Fort Worth, Texas Company has a current backlog of over 16,000 unsold homes. I knew there was a reason why there has been an increase of "Pre-construction Opportunities" in my inbox lately. For those that don't know, pre-construction investing is when a builder releases a block of houses to real estate investors for less than they are offering to the public.They sometimes offer a lot of incentives such as:paying your mortgage for a specific period of timeguranteeing to get you a tentant if you are an investor Not all pre-construction opportunities are good. You will need to advice your client on the true assesment of the market and compare it to the selling price of the home. You should also find out how many other "blocks of houses" they are releasing to investors. If most of the homes in the project are sold to investors, then your client is going to have a difficult time renting an...
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