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Kudos from AZ 'No Blogger Left Behind' Alum Yvonne Coelet
The next eight-week series of No Blogger Left Behind Webinars starts August 29, 2008.
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Extreme Blog Makeover at TheREALTYgram Blogger
This blog has worn the same skin since January, 2005 (shown at right). The Blog Roll links have been removed; the next step will be to update a Blog Roll that is consistent with my evolution as a blogger. I've changed the color from blue to green, with an eye to increased financial abundance ;-) I love the larger headlines and the ease with which I can make these changes. The built-in widgets here at Typepad make it easy to install web analytics with a single click in a check box! I LOVE it! Next makeover is at my newest blog, No Blogger Left Behind.
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Laser Blog Coaching Series
I've started a series of Laser Blog Coaching seminars that I am posting on my Blog Coach Blog -- No Blogger Left Behind. Joeann Fossland and I are gearing up for another Webinar series that starts this week
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NO BLOGGER LEFT BEHIND -- ActiveRain Breakout Session
No Blogger Left BehindActiveRain Breakout Join us for a Webinar on July 10 Space is limited.Reserve your Webinar seat now at:https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/850331901 What is new at ActiveRain? What is the scoop about the Outside Blogs and Localism? No Blogger Left Behind Blog Coaches Joeann Fossland and Frances Flynn Thorsen will talk with special guests and panel membersabout the pros and cons of the "points game" at ActiveRain. Title: No Blogger Left Behind - ActiveRain Breakout Date: Thursday, July 10, 2008 Time: 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM EDT System RequirementsPC-based attendeesRequired: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista Macintosh®-based attendeesRequired: Mac OS® X 10.3.9 (Panther®) or newer
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Planning Blog Webinar Breakouts
Looking for Wordpress and ActiveRain Panelists
No Blogger Left Behind is an eight-week Blog Coaching Webinar series. Our "Breakout" sessions are open to the public. We are planning a Wordpress Breakout and an ActiveRain Breakout in July. The Wordpress Breakout is a discussion for entrepreneurs and is not exclusive to real estate; the ActiveRain Breakout will be real estate centric. If you are interested in sharing your Wordpress expertise or your thoughts about ActiveRain as a panelist, please let me know. I will be scheduling the Webinars in the next couple of days. We expect a large turnout for each of these events. E-mail me here.
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No Blogger Left Behind Kicks Off
New 8-Week Webinar Series
The latest series of No Blogger Left Behind began with a great Webinar ... we had some audio difficulties and I covered the basics in a follow-up presentation. For more information, visit our registration page. Here is a HANDOUT for Week One.
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Trulia Jumps on Foreclosure Bandwagon
That Disenfranchises Distressed Homeowners
Distressed homeowners who want to KEEP their homes are a forgotten class. Real estate search giant Trulia is the latest mediatainment player that sees the distressed home market as a pool of buyers and sellers and panders to the hungry investor. Never mind the hundreds of thousands, maybe 2 million, homeowners who would prefer a choice to remain in their homes! From Trulia press release: " ... we scoured Trulia Voices to find a panel of foreclosure specialists across the country to provide some advice."Sadly, there is no advice for homeowners facing foreclosure. The distressed homeowner is the invisible man in terms of real estate industry outreach and support. Relevant links: Let's Learn How to Help Americans KEEP Their Homes Podcast: How REALTORS Can Help Americans KEEP Their Homes Voices of Foreclosure - Homeowners Sing a Victorious Tune Homeowners around the country are successfully staving off foreclosure with consumer advocates at Ac... 10 Tips to Help Homeowners Avoid Foreclosure Keep all of your loan and sale documents, consult competent help, and avoid foreclosure rescue scams...
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Webinar - RealTown Blogs and Social Networking at RealTown
Join us for a Webinar on April 25 Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/646599313 Learn how to create a RealTown blog with Frances Flynn Thorsen, Managing Editor of RealTown.com and award winning Blog Coach. Watch as she launches a new blog in RealTime. Learn how to use new RealTown social networking tools to attract more visitors to your web site and more buyers and sellers. The following week Joeann Fossland will join a Webinar featuring ActiveRain Blogging and social networking on that platform. Title: No Blogger Left Behind - RealTown Blog Breakout Date: Friday, April 25, 2008 Time: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM EDT System RequirementsPC-based attendeesRequired: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista Macintosh®-based attendeesRequired: Mac OS® X 10.3.9 (Panther®) or newer
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Hack Moderators at ABC Should be Ashamed!
If you missed the Democratic presidential debate on ABC last night, Editor & Publisher called it "perhaps the most embarrassing performance by the media in a major presidential debate in years." I Twittered the debate proceedings yesterday (Twitter is a microblogging platform: http://www.Twitter.com/FrancesFlynnTho Moderators George Stephanopolous and Charlie Gibson spent the first 50 minutes obsessed with distractions that only political insiders care about--gaffes, polling numbers, the stale Rev. Wright story, and the old-news Bosnia story. And, channelling Karl Rove, they directed a video question to Barack Obama asking if he loves the American flag or not. Seriously!I just signed a petition to ABC and other media that says: "Debate moderators abuse the public trust every time they ask trivial questions about gaffes and 'gotchas' that only political insiders care about. Enough with the distractions--ABC and other networks must focus on issues that affect people's daily lives."Want to sign it to? We need a bunch of signers for ABC to take this concern seriously.Click here to sign.Thanks!
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Going to San Francisco to Real Estate Connect;
Special Foreclosure Workshop to Help Homeowners
I am heading to the top real estate conference of the year in July, Real Estate Connect, in San Francisco in July. I will be speaking at a pre-conference Foreclosure Workshop titled, "Relationships 2.0: How to Help Homeowners While Closing Business" on July 23, 2008. The Real Estate Connect Conference is sponsored by Inman News. The confab assembles real estate industry leaders to share thoughts and ideas in one of the most highly charged and provocative meetings in the industry.
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Creating an Online Presence in Tucson
This weekend's task is building a new real estate web site in Tucson. I am working with stock photos today, but I will add my own images over the next few days, including an original header. Here's what I have done so far: Created a new blog dedicated to foreclosure resources. I expect that I will have multiple Tucson area blogs in the short term ;-) Registered the domain name TucsonTown.com and hope it will start pointing soon.
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Foreclosure Fair in Tucson Smashing Success!
Almost 500 homeowners facing foreclosure met in the Tucson (AZ) Convention Center yesterday and attended workshops and one-on-one counseling sessions with loss mitigators and lenders. Many of these people will keep their homes. Sadly, there was no REALTOR participation at the event. The event was sponsored by Pima County, with partners that include Freddie Mac, HUD, state regulatory agencies, lenders, ACORN, The Urban League, and Legal Aid. Additional workshops are being planned for Tucson and other locations throughout Arizona.
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Podcast: How REALTORS Can Help Americans
KEEP Their Homes
I had a discussion yesterday with Regan Brewer, Homeowner Services Coordinator for ACORNHousing.org. We talked about REALTORS' role in helping homeowners at risk of foreclosure. We talked about helping those homeowners KEEP their homes. Sometime over the weekend I will post the visuals.
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Real Estate Tools Raise the Bar
Here is a discount link for a $25 savings on the e-PRO Certification course for real estate professionals. Play The FSBO Real Estate Game® with me and build your listing inventory with good, saleable listings! Sign up for No Blogger Left Behind and learn how to Blog like a superstar!
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Rounding Up Real Estate Bloggers
To Share Ideas At Blog Roundtable
NO BLOGGER LEFT BEHIND Roundtable:Converting Visitors to Clients (Special Breakout Session) Join us for a Webinar on February 21 Space is limited.Reserve your Webinar seat now at:https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/613746814 Join a roundtable discussion about Real Estate Blogging. How do you capture and convert leads from your blog? How do you identify bona fide prospects? Title: NO BLOGGER LEFT BEHIND Roundtable -- Converting Visitors to Clients (Special Breakout Session) Date: Thursday, February 21, 2008 Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST System RequirementsPC-based attendeesRequired: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista Macintosh®-based attendeesRequired: Mac OS® X 10.3.9 (Panther®) or newer
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Tag, I Am It ... Meme'd!
Brendan King meme'd me a couple of days ago. He shared some personal tidbits about himself. Jay Thompson of Phoenix meme'd him. Here's how it works, according to Jay: “Someone with too much time on their hands thinks up some question (typically personal) and starts a post, “tagging” others to do the same, and it flies across the Internet. Before you know it, you’ve found out more about some people than you probably want to know…” And then Brendan tagged me! Here are the rules for this one: (1) List 7 things about yourself, (2) Tag 7 people to do the meme on themselves including a link to their sites. I am a proud Blogaholic and I find this whole "meme" business very attractive because I LOVE lists, especially viral lists. I wrote a Be/Do/Have List for My Lifetime just this week. I love Web 2.0 and social networking and I am working on a huge Web 2.0 share initiative you will hear about soon. I am a New Jersey girl. I was born in Jersey City and grew up in Paramus. I have wonderful memories of educational adventures with the Sisters of St. Joseph of Newark and the Sisters of Charity. I had my first weekly newspaper column when I was 15 years old in The Paramus (NH) Post. As an adult I worked in Manhattan for years as a magazine editor and writer before I went to Pennsylvania in 1985 and became a REALTOR. I have been married for almost 32 years ... we have two sons. Jens Holger Thorsen, nearing 30, is married to a wonderful young lady and he is a partner in an Employee Benefits company in Central PA. His little brother, Andreas Holger, 27, is an engineer in Columbus, OH. I am 75% Polish and 25% Irish. I have NEVER learned how to polka. How embarrasssing is that? To be SO Polish and not know how to polka? I love to make bread and soup. Every kind of bread and every kind of soup. And I like to cook for a crowd, so I never make fewer than six loaves of bread at a time and I never make less than two or three gallons of soup at a time. I am going to become a ferocious advocate about the foreclosure crisis in 2008. Tag, you're it! Joeann Fossland, Amy Chorew, Karen Kay, Justin Farrow, Jessica Swesey, Byron Van Arsdale, Al Heavens
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TheREALTYgram Blogger Is Three Years Old
I am very happy to visit these pages on the third anniversary of my first blog. Since my next visit is The Fat Lady Blog, I am going to celebrate with a no-cal treat ... a visit to some of my favorite blog posts: The Day the DOJ Came to Visit Bleeding Edge Journalism Chalkboard Whore Lesson -- Bankruptcy Bill FSBO Open House Brawl (with help from the Property Grunt) Pre-Katrina Photos in the French Quarter Heavenly Deed Transfer Coorrupt Mortgage Lender Sonnet My First Thoughts About RealTown Blogs (July 2005) Genesis of a Blog that Has Changed My Life Blogging About an Event that Changed My Life
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No Blogger Left Behind - Develop a Blog Business Plan
INVITATION: First Class FREE You can sign up here Join us for a Webinar on January 16 Space is limited.Reserve your Webinar seat now at:https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/558575420 What exactly is a blog? We will talk about The Anatomy of a Blog, Different Blog Platforms, and How Blogging Fits Into A Real Estate Agent's Overall Web Strategy. Title: No Blogger Left Behind -- Develop a Blog Business Plan Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST System RequirementsPC-based attendeesRequired: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista Macintosh®-based attendeesRequired: Mac OS® X 10.3.9 (Panther®) or newer
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The Eyes Have It
Magic in Manhattan. Aussie lassie and soon-to-be-RealTown-Blogger Finn Hanna meets Uber Blogger Kevin Boer.
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Craig Newmark Weighs In On Obama
At Inman Real Estate Connect Confab
Craig Newmark is sporting a new Obama lapel pin at the Inman Real Estate Connect Conference in New York City. He waxed melancholy about the days when there was a rule of law and Bill of Rights in the United States. Some of us are old enough to remember those days.
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