Paul Chaney's (pchaney) Blog

They say all good things must come to an end and I'm afraid that's true of my participation here at Active Rain. This will be my final post. Starting next week I'm moving to a new job with a different company, one that is not focused on the real estate industry. As much as I enjoy posting here, I...

Rich McIver of BusinessCreditCards.com sent me an email to a post on their Bootstrapper blog, The Business Blogging Toolset: 100 Resources for Entrepreneur-Writers. It's chock full of information about blogging, including blog platforms, design and marketing ideas, stats and analytics, money-maki...

And the winner is....Frances Flynn-Thorsen and Mary Pope-Handy!!!! Congrats to them and to all the contestants. Perhaps the best part of this whole exercise was that $5,000 was raised for CARE, a non-profit organization. (Sorry about the sucky photo. I took it with a cell phone and I guess my ha...

Inman Blogger's Connect is starting today and I'll be live-blogging it. So will a bunch of other Active Rainers, I'm sure. I won't be doing it here though, but at our company blog, Blogging Systems. I invite you to link there. Subscribe to the RSS feed to be alerted each time I update.I'm on the ...

Inman News is announcing today the availability of a new research report on real estate marketing. Entitled “The State of Real Estate Marketing – 2007: Assessing Marketing Budgets, Trends and Opportunities for Real Estate Agents and Brokers,” the report, according to Inman, provides some "very in...

The first blogger I ever met in person is long-time friend and colleague Toby Bloomberg. We met in Atlanta at a marketing seminar and ended up sharing a drink in a biker bar. But that's another story. Let me leave it at this -- so far as online marketing, blogs and social media are concerned, Tob...

Think being nice doesn't matter? It does. How about conducting yourself in an ethical manner? That too. Why? Aside from obvious reasons, the fact is, thanks to the Internet, each of us, to one degree or another, now has an online reputation we've got to worry about. What do I mean? Do a search fo...

Just in case you missed it, Active Rain is one year old today. My congrats to Matt Heaton and the other principals on their hard work in creating what has become a phenomenal, runaway success. (Although, I'm still trying to figure out how they're making any money.)Keep up the good work guys. I lo...

NOTE: On this post, you get to be the "blogger." IOWs, I'm not making a comment at this point, but really, really want to hear from you. This is a continution of the conversation I started in response to Renwick Congdon's article about Realtors use of email as a marketing tool.  In its daily news...

Call it laziness, but I'm going to briefly touch on several topics in this post. Just some quick hits. Roboform OMG!!!! Get this app. It is a lifesaver. Roboform remembers all your usernames/passwords. I found this through an AR member and am so grateful I've agreed to sing at her next wedding. (...