Yes, I’m asking about January in September.

You don’t have to have your marketing budget set. You don’t need to know your January sales quota. You don’t need to do a lot of things. Not yet.

But at this point in the year, you probably have a reasonable idea of how you’ll finish 2010. You…
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Have you been wanting to “reboot” your business for success? Many of us at Market Leader have attended the past few Inman Agent Reboot events around the country, and found them full of energetic dialog and powerful ideas.

We’re looking forward to attending the next two: Portland, OR, on Wednesday, September 22 and…
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Many of us at Market Leader are getting back in swing following the San Francisco Real Estate Connect conference. As always, it was a fascinating look at how technology is changing the face of real estate and offering new tools to take advantage of opportunities. Some of our highlights included:

Kara Swisher from the…
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Lately I’m seeing lots of online “advice” for agents who want to market listings on Craigslist. Many real estate agents are increasingly relying on Craigslist—and with good reason. It’s popular among homebuyers and, according to agents, delivers what agents want… qualified leads!

If Craigslist is in your area, don’t…
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In a previous post, I blogged about search engine optimization (SEO) and the role it plays toward acquiring organic (non-paid) traffic for our customer’s web sites.  Now I’d like to turn attention to the paid side, search engine marketing (SEM), which in its simplest form is focused on paid placement in search results.

While…
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You probably already know that social media is a cost-effective way to drive traffic to your website and receive more prospects to grow your sphere of influence. The following are a few techniques to quickly grow your Twitter followers:

1. Provide a bio. Your Twitter bio is the first and often only place users

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Check out our RED Day recap on my ActiveRain blog!

Good morning!  Today we are joining the local Keller Williams market center here in Kirkland, WA in their RED Day efforts.

What is RED day?  For Keller Williams, “RED (Renew, Energize and Donate) Day is a Keller Williams Realty service initiative dedicated to improving our local…
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I spent a few days in Dallas this week for the 2010 Gathering of Eagles, a conference for the nation’s largest real estate brokerage companies put on by Real Trends each year.  While our industry has more conferences that most of us can attend, I always find the Gathering to be an excellent event and…
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A recent article by Michael Parker on RIS Media posed the question: “Is It Time to Retire the Word ‘Lead?’” The author made some interesting comments, concluding essentially: no, it’s not time yet, but you need to define the word correctly.

Because Market Leader is a company that provides technology and marketing services for…
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