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Traverse City Home Selling Tips

C21NorthLand — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:41:56 -0700

What do buyers look for, or look out for when purchasing Traverse City real estate and the five county surrounding areas? This article is designed to help sellers evaluate the important aspects of selling a home and what potential buyers want. more...

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Traverse City Home Sales Are Up

C21NorthLand — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:50:24 -0700

Pending Traverse City Home Sales Up 3 Months in a Row!

Pending home sales rose for the third consecutive month in April, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors; with some economists saying enough consecutive positive traction has occurred to call a possible bottom in the U.S. housing market. According to a Tuesday release by NAR, the trade organization’s gauge of contracts signed in April rose by 6.7% to 90.3, up from March’s reading of 84.6. more...

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8 Tips for Basic Do-It-Yourself SEO

realtourvision — Wed, 13 May 2009 09:32:10 -0700

•1. Meta Title
Create your title using keywords and your farming area. Do NOT use ‘Home Page', ‘Index Page', or just your name in the title of your webpage. Use different titles on different pages to increase your exposure in the search engines for different search phrases. Keep this UNDER 70 characters in length.

•2. Meta Keywords more...

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Obeoman is NOT dead...

Steven Stearns — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:18:48 -0800

To everyone at Inman:

I am not dead or dying.

But zero hour is here.

Very soon, there will be a new face for Obeo here at Inman. Please welcome the new guy as you did me.

And of course, it would be my pleasure to rejoin you as myself-if you can stand me as that and will have me back!

My hew contact information is below.

Hope to see you here, there and everywhere!

Steve

Steven Stearns
Social Network Building
Anyone.Anywhere.Anything.
Content Creation Consulting For Commerce, Creatives and Citizens
shsworks@sbcglobal.net
920-691-6030

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RTV Announces Integrated Social Networking Utility for Virtual Tours

realtourvision — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:35:36 -0800

“Team RTV understands that although we are in the virtual tour industry, we are first and foremost in the marketing business. Our marketing department has been hard at work to not only integrate incredible marketing features such as this, but also to coach our more...

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Dodging bullets, blizzards and the blues...

Steven Stearns — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:30:17 -0800

So,
Do you need a Kevlar vest, a shovel or...?

http://obeoman.blogspot.com

Steve
Obeoman

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FREE OBEO STYLEDESIGNER-GIVING THANKS

Steven Stearns — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:40:24 -0800

Keeping it real-and being grateful for my friends and associates at Inman:

FREE Obeo StyleDesigner ($40 value) on any new Obeo photography package.

StyleDesigner lets you redecorate digitally -on line!

To redeem, use promo code 'PC955689' Ends Nov. 30th, 2008.

Call 800-729-6236!

Thanks to all for your thoughts and comments-(;-])

...Blog ON!

Steve
Obeoman

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Goodbye to Google Ranking

realtourvision — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:33:26 -0800

The days of Googling your keywords to measure the effectiveness of your SEO strategy are coming to an end. According to Bruce Clay of PubCon, there will be big changes in ranking. In the name of Top Shelp Organic SEO, Google will be tuning into the specific behaviors of individual users to serve up more customized results.

What this means to the end-user is better results and less spam. more...

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The Complete Marketing Plan

realtourvision — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:50:09 -0700

In this economy of intense competition, it is easy to get stressed out at the thought of learning new techniques to getting your listings out in the public eye. But, there is no need to completely abandon traditional marketing strategies. The best advertising and marketing strategy is to diversify your marketing to reach a larger target audience. In order to do this properly, you must more...

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Online Curb Appeal

OnSiteStudios — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:32:04 -0700

Curb appeal - it isn't what it used to be. There was a time when a savvy agent could get a buyer to overlook 'flaws' seen from the road. Well in today's online world, curb appeal has taken on a whole new meaning.

When buyers scan listings on REALTOR.com(r) or other real estate websites, if they aren't impressed with the photos in THREE SECONDS, they "bounce" and click onto the next listing. No matter how many print ads, how many brochures, baseball + football schedule refrigerator magnets they mail, the photos are the be all, end all for getting a listing noticed online. more...

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Virtual Tours--A Proactive Step Toward Business Success

chriskuhn — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:31:00 -0700

The Real Estate Industry has some strange peculiarities that are particular to Real Estate and that I don’t think are appreciated by the average citizen, at least here in Alcona County, Michigan. To give you an idea of what I mean take a look some of these oddities.
· How many businesses do you know sign a contract with someone expecting them to provide services, spend a lot of money in advertising, and to expend an undisclosed amount of time, work and mileage to fulfill their part of the bargain with no money exchanged; in other words, all at the agent’s expense? more...