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April 2010

Twitter Announces Sponsored Tweets Platform

April 13, 2010 Marketing

Today Twitter released it’s Sponsored Tweets advertising program. In a nutshell, it gives advertisers the ability to move their tweets up in the timeline. As the New York Times article says: Starbucks, for instance, often publishes Twitter posts about its promotions, like free pastries. But the messages quickly get lost in the thousands of posts [...]

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Thirty Days From When You Get Off You Ass

April 12, 2010 Real Estate
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I’ve said before that writing offers is the critical success event in investing. It’s usually about 30 days later when you know for sure if you’ll be able to close on the property. There’s a lot you can do/learn/change in those 30 days. Part of the reason that writing offers is the critical point is [...]

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Song of the Week from the San Francisco Jazz Collective

April 11, 2010 Song of the Week

Just like the title says, it’s some great jazz. The tune is Criss Cross, and they’re smokin’.

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Edmonton Internet Marketing Workshop – Postponed

April 8, 2010 Marketing

I’m going to have to postpone this Saturday’s internet marketing workshop until early May for a variety of reasons. Everyone who has signed up has been contacted and we’re looking at moving things to May 8th or 15th. If you’re still interested, be sure to check out the information on my earlier post, or drop [...]

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27 Easy Ways To Improve Your Real Estate Business

April 4, 2010 Real Estate
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Call some FSBO‘s. Go look at properties for sale. Call your mortgage broker about new financing. Check the renewal dates on your mortgages. Call a friend who could be a JV partner just to catch up. Don’t talk about real estate (yet). Sit down with your Realtor and define exactly what types of properties you want. [...]

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Happy Easter!

April 3, 2010 Song of the Week

Happy Easter Weekend! I’m enjoying the extra day off, time with family and the beautiful liturgy of the Easter Triduum. I also finally saw Juno last night, which is a brilliant movie with an amazing soundtrack. Here’s one of the tunes which makes up the opening sequence.

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*Your* Edmonton and Calgary 2010 Price Predictions

April 1, 2010 Real Estate
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A couple weeks ago I asked for your predictions around the Edmonton and Calgary real estate markets in 2010. There’s lots of predictions on the national level, but essentially none for individual cities. Here’s what 16 of you thought 2010 will bring for Alberta. You were more optimistic about Edmonton, most people predicting positive growth [...]

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