Luke Bouman's (doogers) Blog

Hi All, I am looking for fellow realtors to do link exchange.  I have a website with a PR 2 and rankings in the top 5 for a number of my keywords.  Anyone interested in exchanging reciprical links?  Send me an email.  -Let me know if this is not a valid post.  I don't want to do anything wrong.  ...

I just added a blog to my real estate website.  I learned how important a blog is from using this website.  So I wanted to thank the Active Rain Community.  You can find it at Holland Michigan Real Estate Blog.  It is set up differently than active rain, but it is fresh content which helps with SEO.

My custom real estate website is about complete.  It will go live next week sometime.  It has been many hours of work.  If your interested take a look, and if you would like a review on your realestate website I would be happy to give you one.  Holland Michigan Real Estate

Having a career in real estate makes it hard to determine a successful day of work.  The only way you get paid is if the home or property closes.  Unfortunately, for most real estate agents a closing doesn't take place every day.  There will be times were you will go days, weeks, and even months ...

I called to set up 3 showings for a client of mine to view properties tomorrow afternoon.  I checked my voice mail tonight and all 3 agents said that I could show their listing.  The thing that got me thinking was 2 of the agents said "My Clients are very motivated to sell".  Are we hurting or he...

I spend a lot of time working on SEO, and I was wondering if anyone has recommendations for someone who will do this for me at a resonable price?  I have been on realestatewebmasters.com a few times and it looks like they will do that for you.  Anyone use them, and what do you think of them as fa...

Hello All,I assume many of you are experiencing a very tough sellers market.  I was wondering what creative things you are doing to get the home sold, or atleast get more activity.  My buyer came to me the other day and asked if it would be a good idea to offer to pay the buyers mortgage every mo...

How do you maximize your blog on your personal website to get better SEO rankings?  I Do not currently have a blog on my website, but my next custom website will have one.  Are there certain things you should write about to make the blog more valuable, or is it just the fact that you keep fresh c...

I have been a member of active rain for a few weeks and have been very pleased with the responses I have recieved from other real estate professionals.  I am wondering what other features I should be using to maximize this site?  Can I put my listings anywhere?  Is there a forum?  Sometimes the p...

 I recently read the book, "Greatest Salesman In The World" by Og Mandino and took the most important information of the book as a summary below.  I believe that this information is very valuable to any person in sales, especially those who are commision based.     Greatest Salesman in the WorldD...