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!

AZREBN December 18th - SAAR - Donation Drive

Please join Az Real Estate Blogging Network and SAAR (Scottsdale Area Association of REALTORS(R) and welcome Emily Leach, a SEO expert that is passionate about the success of her audience and has made public speaking a lifestyle; so far in 2008 she has presented at NAWBO New Mexico, UNM Digital Arts Conference, National Video Gaming Conference, Chamber of Commerce and local venues to increase awareness. Outside of Public Speaking she stays on top of SEO skills by teaching SEO certification workshops and Internet Marketing skill workshops throughout New Mexico and Arizona.
With 12 years of experience in the field of Search Engine Optimization, Website Development, Internet Marketing and Information Systems you can rest assured she will deliver new techniques that will entice all real estate professionals that are looking to strengthen their online presences.

Here is the outline for the AZREBN MeetUp:

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Can the Internet Transform Your Real Estate Business?

• Understanding WHY people use the Internet:
• Understanding HOW people use the Internet
  • Both of these concepts apply to every business using the Internet, it isn’t enough to create a website. Whether you have a site or are looking to create one, you NEED to get these two concepts down.
• What is Search Engine Optimization and Internet Marketing?
  • Is there a difference? Or is this a scam to get people to spend money?
  • Find out the answers AND how to put it to use for your business.
• Building a strategy to take you through the next 12 months
  • Find out what almost every company fails to implement when they start using the Internet for marketing
  • How to stay focused in your strategy
  • Should you niche your business?
• Overview of 10 different tactics you can implement in your business
• Open Question and Answers

This is an open and interactive workshop, bring your questions and your creativity!

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With the holiday season upon us we thought that AZREBN would like to join in giving to those less fortunate and help homeless children and families with some daily necessities of life. May you please join us in helping with your donation at the door!

Please help us with your donation at the door for Save The Family with donations of adult toiletries or infant diapers, lotions, toothpaste, etc. Please see other toiletries that are Items needed below:

Toiletries * Adult & Children’s pain reliever Cough drops Deodorant Feminine products Lotion Mouthwash Razors Shampoo & Conditioner Shaving cream Soap Toothbrushes & Paste Thermometers

Baby Items * Baby Pain Reliever Baby Powder Baby Oil Baby Shampoo & Soap Baby Wipes Crib sheets & Blanket Diapers-all sizes Diaper Rash Ointment Instant Formula

Please be sure to reserve your spot and RSVP!!

December 18th, 2008 at 9:45am - 12:00 pm , Thursday!   Click Here for office flyer!

Location:

Scottsdale Area Association of REALTORS®
4221 North Scottsdale Road
Scottsdale, AZ 85251
(480) 945-2651

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Care to comment on that? (Part one)

Just like real estate agents, no two blogs are alike. For instance, commercial real estate is very different than residential; Some agents are better with buyers, some with sellers. Some agents specialize in a niche or neighborhood, some feel they can be all things to all people. Blog styles, formats and specialties can be very different, as well, and no one can or should tell us how to run our blog. I want to touch on a way to “get your feet wet” in the blogging game. You see, there is still a very small percentage of agents that are really doing any blogging. Why not start out by reading interesting blogs and commenting on those blogs? Do you realize that comments can engage people in conversation? Comments can also lead people back to your blog for people to see what you have to say about things. Who knows, they might even come to your blog and leave a comment on something you wrote.

The fact is, many blogs do not get a lot of comments, especially in the beginning. Don’t feel bad and don’t feel like no on noticed your latest masterpiece just because no one says anything. The majority of readers do NOT comment on blogs. Just keep writing, start commenting, and “find your voice.” It is way too early for a beginning blogger to think they will be a “Rain City Guide” where some amazing writers routinely get dozens (sometimes hundreds) of comments on a single post. 

Many bloggers have good luck reading, writing and commenting on the Active Rain network. Heck, you even get “points” for comments on Active Rain. How cool is that!? I have seen people make a ton of friends on their network with very limited blogging and a whole lot of commenting. Again, there is not a right or wrong answer. So, feel free to leave a comment one this post, even if you just say “hi.” I promise to come take a look at your blog and return the favor.

In the future, we’ll talk about: Can/does commenting help SEO? And Getting carried away in comments.  If we are lucky, I can get some of the other AZREBN writers to chime in on this stuff. Either way, we hope you will be back for more…

Meet David Lopez with Pezaudio.com - New Contributor

I would like to take this opportunity to introduce David Lopez with Pezaudio.com.  David and I met through twitter and have since developed a great business relationship.

David will be our newest contributor here at AZ Real Estate Blogging Network and offering some great advice on audio techniques & tips!

David comes with years of experience in the audio industry with owning and operating his MC business and currently has Behind The Wedding Mic for weddings, corporate events and now podcasting services.

You can hear more about David with our first ever AZREBN Podcast interview here.

I’m so looking forward to David’s contributions and tidbits about how we can incorporate podcasting and audio into our businesses and help increase our online presence.

May I on behalf of the AZREBN Team and members welcome you David to our real estate network.  May you all help me give David a nice warm welcome his new journey with our AZ Real Estate Blogging Network! Get ready folks, audio is on the move!