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November 2009

Internet Marketing Webinar Slides

November 30, 2009

For the folks who joined us yesterday in our first webinar for Real Estate Investors, here’s a copy of the slide deck. It’ll also give you a pretty good idea of what we covered and what will be on the table in the future.
We finished in about an hour with some great questions from a [...]

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Ranking Reports – You Decide!

November 26, 2009
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The two rental website ranking reports we’ve done have been big hits, and I’ve had requests for more from landlords big and small (and also from a couple of the websites in question).
There’s a lot of cities and towns to choose from, and I have my own ideas of what people want. However, the point [...]

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Internet Marketing for Real Estate Investors (A Webinar Live from Ireland!)

November 25, 2009
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To help investors in general and REIN members in particular, I’m going to be running a series of webinars and in-person workshops on internet marketing. The first will run for 1 hour this Sunday, November 29th at 6pm GMT. (1pm Toronto, 11am in Edmonton/Calgary, 10am in Vancouver).
This first workshop is completely free and is limited [...]

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Roll Your Own – Organized Crime Moves Into Rental Properties

November 25, 2009
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Alex Kubyshyn shared this press release (I think from Calgary Police or Health) which is a good reminder of why you should check on your properties on a regular basis to prevent marijuana grow-ops. In BC, as I learned when I lived in Kelowna, grow-ops are a much larger problem than in Alberta.
I’ve run into [...]

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Want a Christmas Card?

November 22, 2009

I’m reinstating an old tradition from another group of friends. I’ll send you a real, actual, written on paper postcard or Christmas Card.
All you have to do is use this form to give me your address. As usual, your info is kept confidential, and won’t be sold, given away or used for wallpaper.

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Dear Batman; Love Bruce

November 20, 2009

This week’s SOW comes from my friend Jesse, and it’s called Dear Batman; Love, Bruce. All I’ll say is I’m excited to get back to Edmonton and have a chance to jam with Jesse and my other musical friends.

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Magnetic Photography In The Post

November 16, 2009
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It’s always nice to get mail, and it was particularly nice to get this big package in the mail. It’s a copy of Magnetic Real Estate Photography by Carla Johnson, a REIN member from Ontario.
I’m looking forward to reading it, both because I like taking photos and because I’m often entertained by the horrible photos [...]

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32 Amazing Real Estate, Investing and Economics Blogs I Read

November 16, 2009
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32 Real Estate, Investing and Economics Blogs I Read
Here you go, straight out of my RSS reader. These are 32 of the blogs I follow via RSS. If you’re a new real estate investor and you’re looking for reading material this should let you get started.

Alberta Bubble – Every investor should follow a bubble blog [...]

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