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Google +1 – What is it? Why Realtors® should care?

On March 31, 2011 By Jimmy Mackin

Google’s definition

“The +1 button is shorthand for “this is pretty cool” or “you should check this out.” Click +1 to publicly give something your stamp of approval. Your +1′s can help friends, contacts, and others on the web find the best stuff when they search.¹

How does Google define “friends”

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Want more leads? Speed up your site

On February 7, 2011 By Jimmy Mackin

Want more leads? Speed up your site If you “like” this post – don’t forget to share it!

One of the easiet ways to get more leads online is to increase your sites performance. The first thing to do is to test your sites speed. You can do this by visiting Continue Reading →

Insert foot into mouth

On January 26, 2011 By Jimmy Mackin

WOW!

That is pretty much all you can say after reading this article from Alisha Alway Braatz with Inman News.

Here is a quick summary of the article for those of you who haven’t read it

Realtor breakdown by age group

20-29 – You are a frat boy 30-45 – You are a soccer [...]

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The road to 1,000 Fans

On January 25, 2011 By Jimmy Mackin

The Long Road

I can vividly remember the days when I would work 3+ hours on a video, post it, and get no likes or comments.

I felt frustrated and lost.

It wasn’t until I stopped focusing on promoting my own product did I start to see measurable gains.

I almost feel like this [...]

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Why you will never hear me talk about SEO

On January 13, 2011 By Jimmy Mackin

SEO is this big shiny object that distracts you from what you should be caring about…your content. As an agent, focusing on keywords, inbound links, anchor text and meta tags is a bad use of your time. Every minute that you focus on optimizing for the search engines is a minute that you are not focusing [...]

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