The Power of a Post | Ihomefinder Integrated with WordPress
What a nice way to start the day: I got up and looked at my email at 5:55 AM PST: the lead in my form mail from a Realtor in New Jersey said:
” Upgrade current website to WordPress and add blog and iHomefinder IDX intergation….call anytime after 9am EST”
I called at 6:10 our time (9:10 EST) and asked him the question i already had an idea of the answer to:
“How did you find me?”
Of course it was a two word Google search: “ihomefinder wordpress”; which yielded this March blog post:
http://socialmediasystems.com/blog/seemless-integration-of-ihomefinder-idx-into-a-wordpress-blog/
I have been trying to explain this to people who are buying PPC and lousy leads for years, since 2001: because of ActiveRain.com, some of you are finally starting to get it. Maybe this example will help 
(PS: It is about the content!)
A Case For Being Enabled and Empowered – By a Busy Real Estate Professional
As always, I told Brian Cross of The Krone Team in Arizona:
“I want to enable and empower yo to take over your website and online destiny.”
As usual he was reluctant at first, stating that “..we are not techies, we are Realtors…”
Now here is his testimonial two months later:
“A Case For Being Enabled and Empowered
- By “A Busy Real Estate Professional”
Any real estate website has a #1 job. To get leads. That’s it. If people are not putting in their information into your real estate website, please take it offline tonight.
Israel Rothman with Social Media Systems was the perfect solution to our website, social media, and lead capture needs.
Some might say that a sales person should focus on what they are good at, and hire someone else to do their website. Others might say save the money & put up a simple site yourself. I’ve done it both ways. I’ve built sites from scratch, and I’ve paid good money to have sites built. I’m here to say that Social Media Systems offers the perfect hybrid of both.
One of the biggest investments any real estate professional will make is their online presence. Things change in this business every day. Why wait for someone else to make those changes & get charged for it? It just doesn’t make sense. If you can type a note in Microsoft Word, you can update your website with relevant information to your market with Israel’s system. And a partnership with Social Media Systems gives you a huge jumpstart. The key is that it’s not a build it yourself site, and it’s not a site someone else builds, only to leave you dependent on them. It’s the best of both worlds! Here’s how it works:
2010 Top 50 Social Media Marketing Sites updated:
On may 29th, 2007 I published this article about 15 Top Social Media Marketing Resources which was picked up by Web-Pro news and got a lot of traffic and buzz: that was right after I reserved socialmediasystems.com (it was available then for under 9 dollars!) and formed Social Media Systems LLC in March of 2006.
Now, as is usually the case with me, there are a million copy cats out there claiming to be experts in ‘social media marketing’, as traditional SEO becomes outdated (related article: see The slow death of SEO).
Now, since things have changed so much again, that it is time to update the list: 50 Social Media Marketing Resources you cannot be without:
