Marketing tactic or honesty: what secrets do think need to be revealed?

For a small business targeting a local area, a blog can be an effective tool. You do not need to work on it like many other blogs to have it drive clients to you.

A post disputing some articles about going into the home inspection business at this time.

A housing summit is being organized by HUD to deal with the housing crisis.

The beginning of a series of post on the idea of how to convert your existing home into a green one.

Documenting my efforts of creating and marketing a real estate destination site for Houston to benefit my home inspection business.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are said to end up under government control today due to accounting which hid problems with their abilities to handle our financial storm. Maybe it is time to consider more accountability for firms reporting financial numbers.

Some thoughts on improving the Houston Association of Realtors’ website (HAR.com)to better serve the community (real estate professionals and consumers).

Search is the medium we use for interacting with the web, and more sites are offeing search specific to one topic. Could Yahoo’s BOSS help a new search site take on established sites?

Creating a useful blog for your business sometimes means going beyond the immediate boundaries of your business to create a “third place” on the internet for your market. Affiliate programs can help with this goal.

The problems at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are being causes by reactive investors, who are not looking at the details, while InndyMac’s fall is hastened by our own actions. There is a way to get by in a Bear market though.

After finding a marketing study detailing the positions for brokerages on the internt, I am thinking about if it might be better for your marketing to go through an alt search engine.

Going through what I am doing with my blog, and why I am doing it. I look at aspects of my advertising on the internet and other basic SEO strategies.

A post describing my first steps in my SEO effort for this site. By using Google Alerts and Technorati, as well as media blogs, I can connect with visitors.

Bad housing news feeds upon itself, which causes more bad news.

A post describing whether you should be choosing a static site or blog for your business, and the image created by disabling your comments section.

An overview of what you might find when looking for a home inspector in Houston.

Considering the design of a business card, and how it can be used to better your business.

Everyone is looking for a free ride, here is what I found.

An examination of marketing and real estate.

Improving customer service through the use of exit interviews.