AZREBN Welcomes 100th Member!

Az Real Estate Blogging Network is proud to announce our 100th member on our AZREBN Meetup.com group, Nancy Sexton!  Nancy joined our AZREBN group in December of 2008 and we are pleased to welcome her to our network.  Nancy comes with a very impressive background in Real Estate and is currently building her Home Staging business locally.  She has shared her website with us, Sexton Services Home Staging.

With our SpotLight of the Month, I would like to recognize our 100th member and say, "Thank You Nancy," for joining our network and we look forward to getting to know you better and wish you much success and a very prosperous year!

Nancy Sexton’s career in real estate began as early as high school back in New Jersey when she worked part-time in a real estate law firm that handled real estate closings (the practice done on the East Coast). A few years later and 3000 miles across country she became a California Real Estate agent in 1989 and will be celebrating her 20 years in real estate this upcoming year. In the meantime, she graduated from UCLA, and went on to become a level IV paralegal. Taking skills from her real estate career, her analytical skills from law, her inherited interior decorating skills from Mom, and her training as an Accredited Staging Professional®, she is now focusing on her own home staging company — Sexton Services. 

As a proud “Dog Mom” of two German Shepherds, she understands the special needs of families living in their homes while they are for sale in the real estate market, and thus specializes in owner occupied home staging. She also offers vacant home staging, and home redesign for homeowners who desire some assistance setting up their new home, or would like an interior design change in their current home.

Nancy’s goal is to educate the public and the real estate industry on the amazing benefits of home staging to sell a home faster and for more money! Home staging is clearly here to stay as more people realize that marketing a house for sale requires the same “product showcasing” as any other product for sale. The statistics are amazing and prove that the investment in home staging is returned several times over.

Nancy is thrilled to be one of the lucky people in the world who loves her work and enjoys not only the satisfaction of transforming a home for sale into a buyer’s delight, but also the grateful joy of homeowners who accomplish their goals of selling their house and moving on to their own dream homes.  If you would like to contact Nancy Sexton for her services and/or a quote please contact her at 480-553-1105 or contact her through her meetup profile! Thanks again Nancy for sharing your story and look forward to seeing you monthly!

Bring Your Buyers To You Workshop! January 15, 2009

Come join Emily Leach, an SEO expert offering a one day workshop created for the Real Estate Professional.  Even if you are just beginning your career as a Realtor, Real Estate Investor, Property Manager, or Mortgage broker - this workshop is for you!!

In this workshop you will learn: Internet marketing Secrets, Tips, and Techniques to Increase Your Real Estate Website Traffic
• How to develop a web site that attracts sellers and buyers
• How to apply Search Engine Marketing strategies to drive visitors to your website
• How to leverage your areas of specialization so that you are given preference with Search Engine results
• How to create a “Google Friendly” website
• Lower your costs of Pay Per Click Advertising and increase your traffic
• Use result tracking techniques to direct visitors to call you!

The bottom line:  You will leave the seminar with enough ideas, techniques, and strategies to catapult your business to the next level.  The workshop is presented in easy to use, easy to understand terms.
Click here to get the complete outline of the sessions that will be covered for the entire workshop!

Interview with Social Media.ist, Mortgage Expert, Speaker, Negotiator Mike Mueller

During my trip to the Blogworld Expo in Las Vegas last week I had the pleasure to meet up with a long time online friend and social network guru Mike Mueller.  I shared with Mike about the Arizona Real Estate Blogging Network and he was more than happy to discuss social media networking with me.  Mike was a great sport to allow me to interview him with some video coverage and I wanted to share it here with you.

Mike Mueller does a really great job in getting his message out and in using many different social media tools in his business. Mike uses a lot of video and is an active blogger.

Of course, you can find him on Twitter, Facebook and just about any other network you can think of.

For some of the local agents that have no idea what any of this means, you should follow Mike and you should get involved by joining AZ Real Estate Blogging Network.

Here you can learn and share ideas with other agents of similar interests and goals.  With our Arizona Blogging Network we encourage one another with blogging for business and understand the value and importance of blogging, social media.

If you are looking for a great role model and social media guru then check out Mike, the Social Media.ist, Mortgage Expert, Short Sale Negotiator & Speaker with over 14 years experience.

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AZ Real Estate Blogging Network MeetUp - Sept 26th

Come join us for our monthly meet up for all real estate professionals eager to learn and share about blogging for business!

Jay Thompson, Broker, Avid Phoenix Blogger with Thompson’s Realty will be the keynote speaker for the September 26, 2008 meet up from 10:30 a.m to 12:30 pm.

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Jay will cover Link Building: The Basics & Beyond for your blog. If you haven’t had the pleasure of sitting in with one of Jay’s workshops then you won’t want to miss this event live!

The Friday mid morning workshop will be RSVP only with limited space. Be sure to sign up with our group within the MeetUp.com platform. You can reserve your seat with AZREBN MeetUp group here.

Location will be at our local sponsor On Q Financial, located at 1820 W Ray Rd, Chandler, AZ 85224, building ‘J’.  The On Q Financial building is located on the NORTH WEST corner of Cooper and Ray roads look for the AZREBN banner and the LandAmerica Title ‘A’ frame sign with balloons!

Meetup #3 Rocked!

At least I thought it rocked… what a great group of people. I throughly enjoy talking with most of you today. Could have used more time, but then again, I could talk about this stuff for days.

Special thanks to Candace for all she puts into this and our pals at Land America Title for sponsoring!!

Here’s my presentation on “Building Blog Readership”:

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AZREBN - Friday, June 20th - Meeting in Scottsdale!

You’re Invited June 20th

AZ Real Estate Blogging Network

Dear Member,You invited to the June 20th meeting for AZ Real Esate Blogging that will be held in Scottsdale at the Keller Williams Realty Sonoran Living 5301 N Pima Suite 130 Scottsdale, AZ 85250  map here 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m Friday, June 20th (come early@ 9:00 am if you want to set up ActiveRain with Shelli Bates) FREE Breakfast, coffee, tea, juice, soda for you to enjoy! Due to our network growing, the format will be a little different this month and we will break-out into smaller classes/workshops! We will be offering five (5) workshops and you will be asked to pick two workshops to attend with your RSVP. This offers a variety of topics, and allows those bloggers at different skill levels to have the opportunity to learn something new. RSVP is REQUIRED! RSVP HERE and FAX CLASS FORM HERE For those of you new to AZ Real Estate Blogging , we are a network of real estate professionals that gather once a month and we share ideas, thoughts and learn from the AZREBN Team on how to build our business with blogging! Be sure to see the workshops below and fax over your selections as classes will be limited! You get two workshops (40 minutes each)!

I’m Online! Now What? Surefire Traffic
Jay Thompson - AZREBN Instructor Driving traffic to your blog, building readership and tips on SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Jay has been blogging for three years and has become a blogging expert for real estate blogs! PhoenixRealEstateGuy.com

Getting Google Juice from Your Photos (Really!)
Mike Jones - AZREBN Instructor How to make Google “see” what your photo “says,” and  how to make your photo “say” what you want. You will learn how to crop & size your photos for the Web. How to improve the “look” of the photo (cheap and easy)! Mike in Tucson

Wordpress.com & Wordpress.org - The difference!
Steve Belt - AZREBN Instructor Full instructions on how to get started with a FREE blog vs. a hosted blog.  Working on creating your own outside blog that you own! RealPhoenixLiving.com

Social Networking/Media & Why?
Bill Austin - AZREBN Instructor Social Networking and Media and how it plays into our Blogs!  Joining the likes of Linkedin, Twitter,  Stumbleupon, and other social networks/media and how that can work for building my business!EVLiving.com

Starting Your ActiveRain.com Blog!
Shelli Bates - AZREBN Instructor For beginners that don’t have a clue what a blog is! Who have no experience blogging but would like to start! Help in joining a Real Estate professional platform on Activerain with over 90,000+ members. We all started somewhere! LandAmericaLawyersTitle My Website

Please be sure to invite your guests, however they need to be registered too! We don’t want to turn anyone away and you certainly don’t want to miss out on some fantastic hands-on tutorials.There will be WiFi, so bring your laptop and hungry belly! See You Next Friday, Candace Robinson Founder/AZREBN Member Join our Mailing List of future workshops: Join@AZRealEstateBlogs.com

Demystifying Real Estate Blogging

About 45 folks gathered on Thursday for a real estate blogging seminar. Thanks to Nick and Candace (and everyone else) for attending. Candace asked me to post my presentation here. For your viewing pleasure…

Presented at The University of Phoenix on June 12, 2008. Sponsored by First American Title.

May 29th - AZREBN Photos

Here are some photos of the meeting on May 29th. Both Mike Jones and Shailesh Ghimire taught classes on Wordpress and Getting your Blog started!

The attendance was outstanding and I anticipate the coming months to get even better!
The June 20th meeting is getting pullrd together now and details will be out soon!

Be sure to mark your calendars, we are going to be meeting in a larger room and breaking out in yet still smaller groups for a more details instruction!
Keep your eyes and ears open!!

May 29th - AZRE Blogging Network Meeting

Come Join Us Thursday, May 29th at for lunch and a ‘hands on’ blogging event! AZ Real Estate Blogging Network will be meeting monthly to pull together all real estate professionals to learn, share and implement blogging techinques for beginners and pros alike!

Thursday, May 29th: 11:30 p.m. to 12:00 lunch will be served.  Break out for classes at 12:00 to 1:30 pm at 3100 E. Ray Rd., Chandler, AZ (NW corner of 101/Ray Rd)..

If you are interested in learning, starting or sharing your talent be sure to join us Thursday for  two      classes given by the AZREBN Team members. 

Shailesh Ghimire and Jay Thompson (starting in June) will be teaching how to get your Wordpress Blog up and running.  Mike in Tucson will be teaching those that need to start from scratch with an Active Rain Blog.

If you are interested in getting started be sure to RSVP to join@AZRealEstateBlogs.com and be sure to share this invite with a friend!

 

Agents have a thirst for Blogging

Yesterday, I attended a blogging class at SEVRAR taught by Rob Gibbs. Rob did a great job answering a ton of questions and by providing a nice lay out of relevant information. The class was very well attended and gave a nice over view blogging. Some of the items of discussion were.

Blogging - What is it?

Blogging Platforms - Word Press, Blogger, TypePad, Active Rain and others.

Customization - Explaining a few of the endless ways to customize your blog.

Widgets - resources to find and add to your blog.

Content - Yep, content is king. Who are you speaking to?

Social Networking - Briefly touched on a couple of these.

How to use a blog in your business. The class was asked to think of and discuss ways to use blogs.

I really enjoyed Rob’s style of teaching. He is a nice guy with a real passion for blogging. On a break, I mentioned this blog and invited him to check out OUR group. :-)

I believe most of the people in the class were new to blogging and I could tell the amount of interest was sky high. Blogging is still something very “new” to many of us. Classes like this and groups like ours will certainly help many agents get a grasp on this effective way to reach an audience.