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This post is has great examples of before and after using a pro photographer. Couldn't pass up sharing it. Thanks Sam! BrettIn today's web-centric world, real estate photos are more important than ever. Many home buyers will "shop" homes online for weeks or even months before actually calling the...

The Northwest Alabama cities of Florence and Muscle Shoals made a good list put together by Yahoo Finance recently.  It's a list of ten housing markets with appreciating prices.  This is something that you sort of know if you're local to the area, but it's still nice to see it verified. Of course...

This post gives some excellent low-cost ways to use photos in your marketing efforts. Reading time: five to seven minutes and well worth it!8 Ways To Use Photos To Promote Your Business - and best of all, most of them are FREE or LOW COST! I didn't start out as a photographer, and I still wouldn'...

I was on Twitter the other day and noticed that Problogger Darren Rowse (@problogger) was taking suggestions for Twitter tip articles for his site TwiTip.com.  So I wrote in and proposed a review of TweetLister.  Darren's contentent manager, Lara, wrote back and told me they liked the proposal so...

Since I posted 4 Must Have tools to Automate Twitter, I've had several comments which tells me that Twitter news is hot and agents are looking for ways to stand out in a cold market. Today I reviewed a brand new Real Estate Marketing Twitter App called TweetLister.  I think of it as TweetLater fo...

 Much has been written on the effectiveness of Twitter as a marketing tool. I won't elaborate except to encourage you to investigate it for yourself. Here's my take on it and a peek into how I'm using it. I'm going to be throwing around the term "Feed" a lot.  I'm referring to web feeds.  If that...

We generate a lot of data every day. Some of it is content we create and some of it gets sent to us. share a list of online utility tools that I use to manage all this data. I come from a manufacturing engineering background so I'm still in the habit of looking for ways to systematize and save ti...

In order to be an effective property marketing resource for my clients, my goal is to always be aware of the latest on line tools for marketing properties for my clients.  Early last year I recognized that social media (networking and bookmarking) was no longer something to be ignored, so I start...

I recently ran across a cool little tool that monitors your website (or any site or sites for that matter).  It's mainly for web developers who manage multiple sites, but even if you only have one site it is handy.  Best of all it's free!  That seems to be the norm with web tools today.  So many ...

One Lawrence County TN builder and Realtor specializes in quality-built homes with highly efficient floor plans.  David Gulley of Century 21 Kelso Realty & Auction, Inc is currently developing subdivisions in Loretto and Summertown.  I recently shot a virtual tour of one of David's homes in Coldw...