Tara Cummins' Marketing Blog

Tammy offers some great insights on how we can optimize our blogs for even more Google Juice!  Can't wait to implement some of the things I've learned!Email Contest - Quick Checklist for Optimizing Your Blog Email inquiry on how to optimize a blog: ActiveRain is a great platform for instant Googl...

Kirk Adams is a good friend of mine.  I have known him for most of our lives and have had the privilege of watching him grow into the great man and leader he has become.  Yesterday he was sworn in as the Speaker of House in Arizona.  Following is the text of his speech, which I have extracted fro...

You are invited to attend a FREE 3 hour California Dept of Real Estate Continuing Ed Class hosted by Performance School of Real Estate#4919, sponsored by PRMI, and taught by Ricky Khamis.We are excited to be offering this valuable class at no charge to you!Learn how we can help you:•  Put your li...

Many ActiveRain members aren't aware of the ActiveRain toolbar.  I have it installed on both my work computer and my personal computer, and I use it daily to navigate around the site.  Take a look at this quick video tour to see what it's all about. Get the toolbar for yourself!See the ActiveRain...

Dear Facebook, I’ve been dreading bringing this up, wondering how to say it and let you down easy. I could say that it’s me, not you. It’s really not you! But I think I just need to put it out there: There’s someone else. We’ve been through it, haven’t we? I know when we first met I was skeptical...

I work with a great team of loan officers and their real estate agents in an amazing marketing program that helps them increase their online presence and generate more business.  They are really good at what they do - helping their customers buy, sell, and finance homes.  But a lot of them are ne...

If you're new to ActiveRain and are still trying to wrap your brain around how to subscribe to a blog, what it means to subscribe to a blog or why the heck you'd want to subscribe in the first place, this post is for you! Apologies to Craig Daniels for unsubscribing and resubscribing to his blog ...

Many of the loan officers I work with have asked how I create the screenshots I often include in emails or tutorials that I put together.  I use a handy little tool called SnagIt.  I started using Snagit more than 10 years ago when I was teaching school.  The program has come a long way since the...

Recently I posted about how to take the html code for an ePropertySites.com listing and put it into an ActiveRain blog post. Since then our friends at ePropertySites.com have made it even easier to do that by creating a short cut. You'll notice that video is just over a minute, where as the last...

A little over two years ago I started reconnecting with old friends on Facebook.  (Perhaps my greatest joy was finding a former missionary companion in France who I had lost contact with for quite a few years.  We've since kept in touch, made a few phone calls and hope to meet up in person before...