It never dawned on me there may be people who don't understand the very basics of Twitter. This would be the person to whom someone said, "Create a Twitter account", so they did. Chances are it was even an email with a link to http://twitter.com with no further instructions. So, for those of you
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09/04/2009
I hear it all the time, "Twitter is a waste of time." "I just don't get the big deal about Twitter." "I'm too busy." "I only focus on mortgages." (A little secret snark there for a friend.) Let's back up just a few steps so we all have the same perspective. Twitter. If you have not heard of it we
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09/02/2009
Rule one: Do not "borrow" one of Lenn Harley's maps. Rule two: Use maps. Dynamic maps, maps that zoom in, scroll and give the choices between satellite photo and map views among others are a little involved. Using static Google maps, however, is a cinch. In fact, you'll be able to do it yourself
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09/01/2009
Everyone who has a web page has a "landing" page. Simply defined a landing page is the page people first visit when they come to your website. If you have a single page web site that is your landing page. For example Active Rain has millions of possible landing pages because they have millions of
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08/14/2009
For the past several months I have told many AR friends (free consultations :) of the negative impact of cross posting duplicate content. In fact for many of you I have even created unique articles optimized for search engines to be used on your site to help you avoid this error. Not to slap any
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08/12/2009
(Warning: Not for babies or whiners :) [Unless you read it as it was written: the vent, the whole vent and nothing but the vent] If you plant your tongue firmly in your cheek while you are reading and go ahead and hit a great big old Cheshire Cat smile right now you will probably make it through
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07/23/2009
A good friend who has been in the business for many years asked a simple question of me today. It had mostly to do with credit score and what can be done. The answer was black and white - no room for gray - and his response was, "took the mortgage broker 3 months to figure that out. that's how lo
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07/01/2009
1 Laptop running low on memory space because of all those photos or PDF's? Here is a cure for you. Mozy offers TWO GIGABYTES of free online data storage. Seriously, no credit card needed. Upgrades are reasonable, too. I find the free service just fine for most of my needs but you can go unlimited
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06/21/2009
No, it's not a joke. I came up with this idea and my friends Jason Crouch ("heck ya, let's do it") and Jeremy Blanton ("I'm all over it") kind of kicked me into gear with it when they jumped on board so quickly. Times are tough and there is no denying it. Sure we can have "positive thoughts" and
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06/13/2009
Ken has flipped his lid! What in the world could a title like that be attached to? Simple enough: yet another article about Social Media and what you should and should not write. Actually the title came from a little inside joke between Jason Crouch and me. We were actually joking about content o
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06/05/2009