Three Ways to Make Money as a Virtual Real Estate Investor without Having to Invest in Real Estate

July 28, 2010

Many virtual real estate investors start out as conventional real estate investors. Through their networking and promotions, they end up with huge contact lists of email addresses that they may use to find deals, fund deals or move deals. However, sometimes the real estate investing life can get hectic. You may get tired of always [...]

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3 Ways to Establish a Rapport with Your Potential Virtual Real Estate Clients

July 27, 2010

One of the biggest advantages of finding your real estate investing clients and potential clients online is that you can build loyalty and dedication in your client base before they ever even realize that they need to work with you. There are several ways to do this using your website. Some of them require that [...]

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The Pro’s and Con’s of Trading Links

July 26, 2010

In our last article, we talked about a free way to generate traffic and potentially boost the search engine ranking of your website in the process. Today, we will continue in that vein by analyzing another popular, generally free tactic that can help promote your website and that can frequently be accomplished without any – [...]

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A Really Easy to Build Links to Your Real Estate Website for Free

July 25, 2010

If your real estate investing business relies on your online exposure, then you know how important it is for you to have lots of links coming in from other websites to your webpage or blog. One of the easiest ways to make sure that your links are right in front of your target audience is [...]

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Using the Internet to Pre-Screen Your Potential Investments

July 23, 2010

If you have spent any time evaluating properties as potential investments, you know that most of the prospective properties that you go to take a look at will not pan out for you as investments. Either they will not be the fantastic deals that they looked like on paper, or they may just not fit [...]

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A Basic Introduction to Keywords

July 22, 2010

Yesterday, we talked a little bit about sponsored advertising and how your keyword selection for your sponsored ads can influence the success or failure of your sponsored ads campaign. Today, we’ll talk a little bit more about keywords. A keyword is a word or group of words (usually 2 to 4) that is used to [...]

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Using Sponsored Links in Your Virtual Real Estate Investing

July 21, 2010

If you use the internet to gain publicity for your real estate investing business, then at some point you have almost certainly used or considered using sponsored links to boost your visibility. Sponsored links are paid advertising, but they appear in search engine results lists. For example, if you search the term “real estate in [...]

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The New Walk-Through: Newly Released Software “Stitches” Your Property Images Together

July 20, 2010

A new web-based software is making virtual walk-through’s more like a video game and less like a slightly queasy roller coaster ride. The software, called “Photosynth,” actually is able to recognize parts of different pictures that make them cohesive – for example, three different pictures of the same room. It then incorporates these pictures into [...]

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45% of Conventional Renters Use Social Media for “Apartment Networking”

July 19, 2010

A new study released by J Turner Research indicates that about 45 percent of conventional renters – that is, those not in student housing – use their Facebook pages to network in some manner about the services provided by their apartment complexes or rental units. While many property management companies found these results to be [...]

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A Pitfall in Internet Advertising that Can Tank Your Promotional Campaigns

July 17, 2010

If you advertise your real estate investing services online, then chances are good that at some point you have paid for – or at least considered paying for – some advertising space on a high-traffic website. This type of advertising can be quite pricey. After all, thousands or even millions of real estate investors could [...]

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