Google is Closing Down Picnik

It’s true.  Google.com, owners of Picnik.com will be shutting down the site on April 19th, 2012.  I’m totally bummed.  I’m one of those thousands of people that used Picnik’s photo editing tools on a regular basis.  I’m really going to miss this site and all of its easy image and graphic editing features. Some of

RECloudCamp for Real Estate

RECloudCamp for Real Estate is the Real Deal! Many real estate Industry professionals have been to REBarCamp events all across the US.  REBarCamps started in San Francisco a few years back and became one of the more popular One-Day Real Estate events to attend if you’re in the business.  They were coined as the unconference.  

3 Top Keyword Tools for Bloggers

Search engines like Google focus on returning the best quality and “Best Available” SERP’s (Search Engine Results Pages)  It’s all based on what “Keywords” or phrases are being typed into the Search box.  Search engines simply want to return the best available matching content based on both short-tail and long-tail keyword searches. Keywords are closely

Free Webtools & Software for Business

Free Webtools and Software Discovery There are so many great sites and tools available on the web for your small to medium sized business. I’ve researched this in great detail for many years and continue to be amazed at some of the products, tools, and services you can access absolutely free from the Internet.  From

Create FREE Real Estate Websites

Before you spend a fortune creating a Real Estate related website, take a moment to review this article.  You can spend a ton of time and money on developing a really cool webpage with java, multimedia, sound files, images, video, and great content that is SEO optimized. But did you know that some of the

Converting Online Luxury Home Clients

Gary Gold presented to a packed room at the REMS  (Real Estate Marketing Summit)  in San Diego today.  The topic was breaking into the luxury Real Estate market.  Gary shared the following 12 tips and secrets on how to convert leads that come from the Internet. These are the “best practices” Gary uses that result

How To Add Blogs To Facebook

A complete step-by-step tutorial on how to add your Blog posts to Facebook. How do you make your specified blog posts show up on your Facebook Business or Fan pages automatically?  It is not too difficult but it will take some patience and these step-by-step instructions.  If you don’t have a Facebook Business or Fan

Mobile Device Apps for Business

This past week I was fortunate to attend and speak at the Wisconsin REALTOR Association Management Conference with a closing discussion about mobile technology. We shared some of the many ways that consumers and businesses are now using mobile devices and how this affects the real estate industry and businesses across the globe. MOBILE IS

Internet Marketing Specialist Designation

People keep asking me, “What is the IMSD designation?” The IMSD program is designed to help your business both online and offline.  IMSD training and designation was created and developed to help real estate professionals who understand the importance of Internet marketing and having an online presence, but can’t seem to get their arms around

The Rules and Tools Have Changed

Buyers Still Use a Variety of Sources Real Estate sales in this country will never be hindered or held back due to a lack of information and resources that are available to the general public.  It use to be that the most powerful and effective tool available with the least amount of cost and most