We are happy to offer a playback of Week One Webinar, Develop a Blog Business Plan.

There is still time to register here for the remainder of the session. This is the final eight-week series in 2008; the price for No Blogger Left Behind will be $297 starting in January, 2009.

Here is a handout for Week One.

We are pleased to announce that we are making a $25 contribution for each No Blogger Left Behind registration to CARE for humanitarian relief.

Sites and sources referenced in the Webinar are hyperlinked in the PDF handout. Other sources mentioned in the Webinar include:

• Mary Pope-Handy's award-winning blog, Live in Los Gatos
• Mary Pope-Handy's Haunted Real Estate Blog

A RealTown Blogger will win a Full Conference Registration to the Inman Real Estate Connect Conference in San Francisco, July 22 - July 25, 2008, one of the most highly touted real estate events of the year.

Write a winning blog post on a RealTown Blog within the next week for a chance to attend ths event! There is no limit on subject matter or length of post. Entries will be judged on the merits of creativity, inspiration, and construct.  Judges from the Publishing Team at RealTown will select a semifinalist winner each day next week, Tuesday through Friday. The winning entry and Grand Prize Winner will be selected from the semifinalists on July 7, 2008.

If you do not have a RealTown Blog yet, you can get started by visiting http://RealTownBlogs.com.

GRAND PRIZE: The contest award will be 1 free “Conference Package” to attend Inman’s conference and 1 workshop (Internet Marketing or Bloggers Connect or Foreclosures) an $859 value.

SEMIFINALISTS will each receive an autographed copy of The Real Estate Technology Guide by Saul Klein, John Reilly, and Mike Barnett.

Conference Highlights:

RealTown Blogger Mary Pope-Handy will be featured on a panel at Bloggers Connect, "Case Study: How Four Bloggers Are Closing Sales -- What tactics work for generating business?" Mary was last year's winning Blog Apprentice and Frances Flynn Thorsen was the winning Blog Coach in the Inman News/ActiveRain Project Blogger competition.

Frances Flynn Thorsen, Managing Editor of RealTown.com, will be a featured panelist in a session titled, "How to Help Homeowners While Closing Business" in a Foreclosure Workshop moderated by Bernice Ross, Ph.D.

Saul Klein, CEO of InternetCrusade and Point2 Agent Technologies, will be featured in "Change or Die - Does the MLS Risk Becoming Irrelevant?"

Mary Pope Handy was a brand new blogger last spring. She launched her first blog, LiveInLosGatos.com as my Blog Apprentice under the watchful eyes of thousands of real estate agents and bloggers during the Project Blogger Contest sponsored by Inman News and ActiveRain. I had the privilege of working with Mary as her Blog Coach. She won the contest handily and she reflects upon the last year at her ActiveRain Blog.

Mary has numerous blogs now. One of my favorites is her Haunted House Blog. She launched another gorgeous new blog last week. ALMOST everything about that blog is perfect: design, illustrations, writing!

I confess that the title of this blog has my Blog Coach hormones raging out of control, however, and I have to give Mary a shout about her URL:

 www.SanJoseRealEstateLosGatosHomes.com

Mary, What are you thinking, girl! You have the keenest, most wonderful style in the Blogosphere ... your other blogs are wearing finery from their domain names to the smallest detail of their construct. Haunted House Blog is wonderful ... Live in Lost Gatos is easy to remember ... but San Jose Real Estate Los Gatos Homes????  This is a name that speaks to SPIDERS, not PEOPLE. It has no heart, no soul.

I beseech you to shed that awful, boring URL for something that befits a Mary Pope Handy blog. Your blog needs a more elegant name, something that reflects YOU.

Invite interactivity on your blog in more than just the COMMENTS section. Invite guest authors to write stories that you can share. Mary Pope-Handy, a REALTOR in Los Gatos, CA, publishes Live In Los Gatos for her local market. She was the winning Blog Apprentice in last year's Inman News/ActiveRain Project Blogger competition (photo at right l. to r: Mary Pope-Handy, Frances Flynn Thorsen, and Joeann Fossland hold check for CARE, the grand prize in the contest). Mary also publishes a niche blog, The Haunted Real Estate Blog. I wrote a piece for her yesterday about a an experience that I had when I was showing a house in eastern Pennsylvania.

Teresa Boardman publishes a highly successful  blog, St. Paul Real Estate. She has a regular contributor, Erik Hare, who writes a post for her every Sunday. It is one of the many ingredients in Teresa's formula for a highly successful real estate blog.  

In 2006, Joeann Fossland popularized Blog Guest Posting with her Coachadelic Blog Tour for CARE. She visited numerous blogs over several months with guest posts to raise money for humanitarian programs around the globe. Her Web Women Giving Circle raised about $25,000 for CARE.

RealTown Blogs has a multi-author, time-saving function that lets you grant author privileges to others.