Friend Feed
I have been doing a little bit of work lately on trying to find new ways to connect with friends and new ways to handle all of the RSS feeds that I have at my disposal. It’s hard to keep track of them, much less use them on a regular basis. This is why I just love my specially made Friend Feed.
Friend Feed is an exciting way to keep track of all of your feed and then be able to share them with other people. It’s a great way to connect with other people and a great way to disseminate information and articles that you’ve written.
I am looking forward to adding even more of my feeds to my Friend Feed over the next few days. I know I can add many of my social bookmarks as well as many of the niche sites that I am running. It should be great.
Check out my friend feed here:
http://friendfeed.com/techgringo
The Market is Getting Stronger
It’s nice to see that the real estate market continues to get stronger. I really think the economic stimulus checks did a lot to strengthen up the market and give it a base to build upon. I have noticed that people are starting to go back out looking for new homes. Sales appear to be stabilizing.
This is very good news because the industries that rely on a strong home market have been in tough shape over the last several months. I think that as things begin to solidify in the housing market, these industries, like home appliances and home improvement, will see a nice upturn. I do love happy economic news.
Teaching Web Marketing
I have been asked to teach about web marketing to some students. They are very interested in knowing more about web marketing and getting their feet wet on the business side of the web. I can understand why, there are big profits to make in the web marketing industry.
The first thing that probably needs to be learned is how web marketing works in the first place, from PPC to SEM with a dash of affiliate marketing. Next, basic web design needs to be taught. Once basic web design is taught, then you can move on to putting everything together in a final package.
I do not know how my classes will go and it’s really just a chance to get my feet wet so we will see how things go.
Cheap Way To Market
Search engine marketing is one of the cheapest ways to market your website. You are able to get results in the search engine that people click on for $0 per click.
Succeeding at at search engine marketing is about SEO. You want to optimize your site for search engines to see the best benefit possible. This means having a well designed site with a lot of links. I have found that the best way to get links is by offering a tool that people will link to. I do this with Wordpress Plugins.
What kind of tool would you like to offer?
Using Videos to Sell Real Estate
I am amazed with the explosion of real estate for sale on sites like YouTube. There are literally thousands of videos of properties for sale. I shouldn’t be amazed, anything that helps get a property noticed is a good thing if you are selling real estate like I am.
Unfortunately for me, my clients want videos for their properties as well and I am not good at video or video editing. That means I am busy trying to find an open source video editor for Linux and I am not having any real luck. I guess I will have to look at Windows if I can’t find one.
Any suggestions for a video editor that works in Ubuntu?