http://garronselliken.com Just another the Octopus Network weblog Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:14:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Part One - Initial site construction Is high tech farming the next big use for Websites and tech in RE? Our websites has been focused on SEO/SEM conversion for the last few years and done well but there is only so much room at the top of Google for "Portland Real ... http://garronselliken.com/2010/03/05/is-geographical-farming-is-back/ I got an awesome longboard for christmas this year and decided it would be fun to throw the gopro cam on the nose. Plus I recently washed my 2g iphone and got me a new 3GS. Vid from phone right to youtube. Easy and fun video publishing to blogs is ... http://garronselliken.com/2010/01/09/explore-tech-for-fun/ 1. The future of real estate will be shaped by the brokerages that create an environment to assist agents in gaining market share. Not trying to gain market/mind share with the brokerage brand. 2. Above a certain competency level we as agents are the same in our ability to facilitate a ... http://garronselliken.com/2009/12/12/10-things-i-think-i-learned-this-year/ If we can find this we win!! http://garronselliken.com/2009/11/10/be-in-love/ Wednesday October 7th 4:00-6:00 Come visit with us, learn how we use social media, blogging & tech. Please RSVP - haley@m-homes.net We work very hard everyday to build strong real estate practices and a brokerage environment that will contribute to our agents success. Blogging, social media, Homequest and technology are part of our ... http://garronselliken.com/2009/10/03/an-unconventional-invitation-pg-13/ Last Sunday I presented our IDX and Non IDX versions of the octomap WP plug in. We still have some development to do in order to get it into a distributable state. Here are my notes and the links to the sites I referenced. Wordcamp PDX Octomap plug-in demo I can get really ... http://garronselliken.com/2009/09/22/wordcamppdx-presentation-notes/ Our agents blog. or more accurately they utilize Wordpress sites effectively in their practice. We are very connected with our agents activity because we develop & provide the WP sites, design and SEO. There are three primary configurations that are working for our agents, each site configuration has associated "marketing" ... http://garronselliken.com/2009/09/16/blog-that-work-information-search-and-passion/ I recently went to Inman Connect in San Francisco. Tons of great Ideas and very smart people talking about RE issues.  One of the most compelling items for me was the use of animation to convey ideas in a very fun way. We have all the equipment so we decided ... http://garronselliken.com/2009/08/25/animation-of-ideas/ many of us focus on good search engine placement as a component of our Real Estate practice. It is a never ending competition to create sites and content plus SEO to win the first few positions in Google on the phrases that are most relevant to our business. There are ... http://garronselliken.com/2009/07/30/get-noticed-or-die-design-and-search-engine-performance/ How should we spend our marketing money? The days of big print, radio, billboards etc. are over because they perform poorly compared to new more sophisticated strategies..  internet marketing (PPC & organic), Social media activities, and targeted marketing that supports niche communities are it. This is a great example of a ... http://garronselliken.com/2009/07/17/niche-marketing-sphere-building/