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On a personal level, I enjoy helping people.  I always have.  The harder the case the better.  I seek out broken things to fix – makes me feel good.  Professionally, I own a full service marketing company.  I get to help people succeed in business, whatever business they are in.  As such, we find...

I’ve gotten the privilege to play in the new, shiny, nifty GooglePlus for a few days now. I’ve been circled, shared, +1ed and darn near everything else, less huddled with. I, too, have circled and +1ed in return, as is only to be expected, given that those of us hanging out together were indeed a...

No matter how many gurus, coaches, fellow bloggers or real estate agents tell you that you must. The recent featured post by Jermey Blanton prompted this post (and one of only two dissenting comments), so for those of you who missed it – go read it.  The gist, if I may, amounts to advice to just ...

  Chris Olsen has been one of our most loyal clients since we first met somewhat over a year ago as a result of an Active Rain post by a sweet Canadian, Tanya Nouwens.  She bragged about a postcard design we did for her, and Chris hired us to do a Just Listed thing.  Since then, we've done all so...

WordPress, by virtue of being a pretty nifty platform, contains almost a promise of magic. If you go with a WordPress real estate site – everything in the world will be just fine, so they say. I love WordPress for many reasons, and yes we do build real estate websites almost exclusively in WordPr...

No matter what business you run, chances are you watch for what your competition is doing.  You want to know what they charge, how they advertise, what their clients think of them and you want to better them.  You believe, not unjustifiably, that if you stop paying attention to the Joneses, they...

My parents had a guest this Easter – a woman who was our neighbor for many years when we were kids.  There was no such thing as a babysitter where I grew up, so after daycare or school my brother and I were on our own until our parents got home from work.  This woman, whom I now call Tasha, was ...

It’s Saturday.  Two dozen eggs waiting to be painted old school, with onion skins, by our ten year-old remind me that tomorrow is Easter.  Not being a religious sort, for me, Easter has always been the beginning of Spring.  There is shiny new-ness to the brand new leaves on my few garden dwellers...

I see it on Active Rain almost daily and a handful of articles a week land in my inbox, touting SEO WordPress Blog Design and such.  I hate to tell you, but there is no such thing.  There is website design, wordpress website design, blog design and then there is SEO.  But there is no such thing a...

Real estate web design seems all the rage now.  You hit Google and hundreds of pages show up with various real estate web design firms that that weren’t there a year or even six months ago, and new ones coming daily.  With so much stuff out there, what should you be looking for in your real esta...