I have had a Google Voice account since before Grand Central was bought out by Google. Like a lot of things, I signed up, played with it a little and then let the account sit there gathering dust.
Last month, Google opened the system up to allow users to set Google Voice as the default voice [...]
Over the last couple of years twitter has become one of the mot popular social media phenomenon in the history of the web. I know several agents who have twitter accounts but have not seen them using it much for business. I just ran across this article which is one of the best discussions of [...]
I get asked a lot about search engine optimization (getting your site ranked high in the search engines). I just found this blog post and a cheat sheet that covers the basics very well. Read to the bottom as some of the comments are very good. I’ll definately be using the cheat sheet as a [...]
Earlier this summer I won a free pass for two for a Jerry’s Rogue Jetboat trip up the Rogue River in a golf tournament. We took the 80 mile trip to Agnes last summer and it was great fun.
Until now I have held onto the hope that we would be able to do it again [...]
I live outside the city of Bandon and our water source is a shallow well. Over the past 6 to 8 weeks we have been having some water quality issues. For the most part a little sediment in the toilet bowels and occasional smell to the water has been inconvenient but tolerable. I visited the [...]
Saw this post on ActiveRain that asks (and answers) this. Some good comments about what agents are doing that are working.
http://activerain.com/blogsview/1088988/are-realtor-com-enhancements-worth-the-money-
I just ran across a couple of blog posts here and here about a NAR decision that Google is scraping listing data from agent’s idx sites.
According to the post:
“Recently, my website was reported for allowing the MLS data on my website to be indexed, which led the Indianapolis Metropolitan Board of REALTORS®, (MIBOR), to issue a [...]
I had every intention of getting to the office early this morning. Didn’t make it because I discovered this on one of the blogs I read:
Service and Selflessness
What we must learn from the monks is a management philosophy that I call “service and selflessness.” It has seven basic aspects.
The first aspect of service and [...]
I have added everyone who has requested to be included to the CyberHomes listing feed. I spend some time this morning going through the CyberHomes site looking for RealWorld listings and have only found listings from the first beta test offices. I will be in contact with CyberHomes this week. I’ll post here as I [...]
For those of you who knew him, David L. Davis passed away Saturday morning. For those of you who didn’t know him, here is the short version of the impact he has probably had on you.
When my wife Janice and I moved to Bandon in October 1992 we figured “how hard could it be to [...]