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2007-10-03 19:11:00
Real Estate Bloggers Embrace Web.2.0 in Blogging Webinar Series

No Blogger Left Behind is the brainchild of two notable real estate bloggers -- popular real estate coach Joeann Fossland, GRI, e-PRO, PMN, SRS ACRE, and Frances Flynn Thorsen, e-PRO, SRS, ACRE.
Thorsen is managing editor of RealTown.com and publishes several blogs, including The RealTown Report, The REALTYgram Blogger, and Web Women Giving Circle Blog. Fossland publishes Relaxed Real Estate for Magnificent Agents and a blog on ActiveRain.
Thorsen and real estate Blog Apprentice Mary Pope-Handy (shown above with Joeann Fossland) won top honors in a national blogging contest sponsored by Inman News and ActiveRain at the Inman Connect Conference in San Francisco earlier this summer.
"I am so excited to be working with Fran to bring this class to agents. Every day, I get questions about blogging and how to do it! This will be the EASY way!!!!," says Fossland.
The Webinar series will feature eight modules and it will be offered live starting October 4, 2007. The series will be recorded so that attendees can review the materials online if they are unable to attend in person.
Webinar Curriculum
WEEK ONE: Develop a Blog Business Plan
What exactly is a Blog? The first week is all about the basics:
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Anatomy of a Blog
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Discussion of Blog platforms
- How Blogging fits into overall web strategy
WEEK TWO: Find Blog Focus and Your Own Niche
There are tens of thousands of real estate Blogs. What makes some Blogs special and stand apart from the rest?
- Different flavors of real estate Blogs
- Find your voice
WEEK THREE: Creating the Blog
By week three you will be Blogging! You will have exercises to sharpen your skills between classes.
- Writing and Design
- Adding a Domain Name
- Working with Blog Templates
WEEK FOUR: Promote Your Blog Organically
On supermarket shelves, “organic” products have premium price tags. On the World Wide Web, “organic” means FREE. Learn how to seduce the search engine spiders and drive more traffic to your Blog.
- SEO (keywords, backlinks, pinging)
- Generational marketing
- Directories and Communities
- Share your RSS feeds (learn what RSS is and how to use it!)
WEEK FIVE: Track Visitors
Do you know that visitors to your Blog leave footprints?
… and you can learn to measure those footprints and profile your cyber guests?
… and THEN convert them to solid leads?
- Site statistics
- Lead generation and lead capture tools
- Collect e-mail subscriptions
WEEK SIX: Adding Podcasts and Video to Your Blog
By now you will be ready to add multimedia to your Blog! Don’t be nervous, we have lots of FREE resources for you.
- Podcasting
- Internet Radio
- Slide Shows
- Video Vlogging
WEEK SEVEN: Menu of Widgets and Cyber Gadgets
You will build your own community after you install some simple enhancements. You will WOW your local market and be a STAR!
WEEK EIGHT: Monetizing Your Blog
What are the possibilities for earning income from your Blog? There are SEVERAL that you will learn about. If you do this right you will EARN money from your Blog, and it will appear as INCOME and not an EXPENSE at the end of the year!

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