We’ve established that blogs are a great way to keep your name and services in front of potential customers, but after you start a blog, how do you promote the fact that you have one?

There are a variety of websites out there with the specific purpose of promoting your blog. The best part is, the sites we link to below will promote your blog FOR FREE! All you have to do is tell these sites where to find your content by submitting a link to your blog, or your blog’s RSS feed, aka Real Simple Syndication. (For an explanation of RSS, check out this link from RSSPad)

Below is a list of our favorite blog networks, with examples of the type of FREE exposure they can provide your blog.

• Register for a free account at PRWeb, and gain access to a FREE RSS feed from RSSPad (check out GetMyHomesValue.com on RSSPad).
• BlogCatalog proclaims itself to be the “blogger social network,” and submitting your blog into their free feed is actually part of the registration process (see a BlogCatalog page example).
• Copy and paste your personal blog through your ActiveRain profile (check out the profile and blog of Mark Boyd, a GetMyHomesValue.com real estate coach)

Does anyone out there have any other sites to share with FREE blog syndication for real estate agents? Feel free to share in the comments and we will add them to our list.

We have finally had the opportunity to edit our first of many video podcasts. This particular one you have already read about if you keep up with our blog. It was recorded while we were in Wenatchee, WA meeting with Blaine and Erin Davidson. It’s our first one, so please accept our apologies for the lack of video quality.

In this podcast we learn now Blaine and Erin Davidson have amast over 40 real estate transactions from nothing more than a lot of on line lead generation and a great business model. Those who learn, implement and do what they have to say here will be champions.

Earning over $40,000 in Gross Commissions every month sure sounds like a great idea for most agents. Now go get “schooled”!!! Have fun.

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Whew! We have been CRAZY! Crazy is a good thing though because in just a few weeks, we are going to be able to help our GetMyHomesValue.com clients to follow up with their leads. And I mean all of their leads.

Here’s how the service works. All of the leads that come into the system will receive automatic emails from the subscriber on a regular basis. They will include home owner tips, tips to make your home sell faster, reminders to visit the subscribers website, etc. In addition, subscribers will be able to email their own personal leads, open house leads, leads from other services and more to us and they will be automatically followed up with!

We are extremely excited! Look for this product to be available by the end of July!

This 5 minute tutorial shows you how fast and easy it is to set up your RemarkableAgents.com website. In it, I actually set up a new website in 4 minutes from start to finish. Tomorrow I will post a video on how to edit your website. You’re going to be amazed at how easy it is!

Rory, Steve and I have a passion for helping real estate agents to make more money. We will continue to improve our existing and create new products and services to make that happen for our clients.

Click Here To View The Tutorial
(A new window will open, so if it looks like it’s not working, you may need to disable your pop up blocker if you have one).

I was reading Business 2.0 (I think it’s one of the greatest magazines) the other and came across a statistic that 50% of businesses do not have a website. You always see that statistic that most small businesses fail within the first couple of years. Do you think there may be a correlation between these two stats. In the information age that we are in and understanding the power of the Internet, how could anybody ever think of starting a business and not have a website from day one.

I can see maybe having a very basic website at first and then upgrading, but NOT have a website at all, is business suicide. Businesses need to be in the mindset that a website is more than just for content. LEAD GENERATION!!!! Traffic to your site is money. You have to make the most of the traffic that you get to your website. You hear about these sites that have ZERO income but are sold for millions and millions of dollars. It is because of traffic to the site.

Leads are valuable to every business, no matter how big or small. Companies live and die by their influx of leads. The next thing is, What Do They Do With The Leads Once They Get Them???? You have to work the leads till they BUY OR DIE!!

If you use a Palm Device (like Rory, Steve and I do) of some kind it will not automatically update for this years new daylight savings time program. Be sure to update your palm by following the instructions here. Don’t be late for a meeting because your palm told you it was the wrong time!

If the above link doesn’t work, copy and paste this url into your browser:

http://www.palm.com/us/support/downloads/dst.html?sssdmh=dm13.129641

For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on. At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, “If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $2500 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon.”

In response to Bill’s comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics (and I just love this part):

1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Macintosh! would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive — but would run on only five percent of the roads.
6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single “This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation” warning light.
7. The airbag system would ask “Are you sure?” before deploying.
8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
10. You’d have to press the “Start” button to turn the engine off.

Thanks for sharing, Carol!