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:
I am so happy with my riversidecommunity.info Blog from Israel Rothman at Social Media Systems.
“I am so happy with my http://riversidecommunity.info/ Blog form Israel Rothman at Social Media Systems.
I wanted a strategy that would work, where people would click through from the search engines, and I could show my clients that I have Google juice to help them.
I have listings and they are all on top of Google and they are getting sold! But that is not all: the customer service is excellent.
I can call or write or chat with Israel any time of the day or night. He is always available to me and he has never charged me anything to answer my questions, and I have many of them. He integrated my MLS nicely into my template, which I love, even though he had to choose it because I was too busy, just the way I want to be. (more…)
IdeaPals: Connect with Like-Minded Passionate People and Win $50K
IdeaPals offers two $50,000 prizes for Beta Testers
IdeaPals is the evolution of an inspiration transforming into a thought, then an idea into a reality. It is about users, and content, and websites, and humans, and machines. It is about collaboration, in person, remotely, and from across the world.
For what would cost millions only few years ago, IdeaPals.org, the website that offers jobs, networking and even hosting social events.
Join Ideapals.org, for free social networking and free project management. Ideapals also has social network integration; you can now sync your Facebook profile or your Twitter account with IdeaPals and it’s all free!
IdeaPals.org combines the best features from Linked-In, Meetup, Basecamp, Ning, Facebook, Digg, Associated Content, Activerain, E-Lance, Rent-a-Coder. IdeaPals.org has unique features, such as a social network to encourage ideas to become reality through various project management tools. Best of all? This is all free of charge!
Bringing passionate people together to collaborate, innovate, and make money doing what they love at IdeaPals.org!
On IdeaPals, nearly everything you do earns NODs (Natural Overtures of Distinction), our currency. Whenever you have an idea, an opinion, a comment, a friend, or what we call a ‘spark’, and you share it: you get paid in NODs! With NODs, you can win a website worth $50,000, earn prestige, and recieve free marketing and promotion.
You could win a $50,000 marketing campaign and Modern Social Website for your business for just for signing up here for free!
Here is what we will give away in less than one year
Watch the clock ticking down at the left of every page at Ideapals.org!• Completely FREE Acquia Drupal elaborate, custom website
• Complete with Branding, Graphics, Custom Functions
• A Viral, Guerilla Marketing Public Relations Campaign
• A Video in HD and Web-ready formats to promote the project, distributed to the world on multiple video sharing sites
• SEO (search engine optimization) SEM (search engine marketing)
• Premium, Dedicated, Unlimited Usage Hosting for one year on our server
• Link building and other advertising including a premium video advertisement added at the end of every episode the 56 week Crowd-Driven Series we are about to Release
• A banner and ad showing your progress as the first year winner on Ideapals.org for the next year!
There two ways to win this $50,000 Website and Marketing Campaign
1st WAY TO WIN: (Luck) BE one of the FIRST 5000 people to sign up here: Ideapals.org
Sign up and be lucky!2ND WAY TO WIN: PARTICIPATION: (Merit) Whoever has the most *NODs wins an additional $50,000 Campaign identical to the one above!
Everything you do at IdeaPals, you will also be compensated in NODs.
*What is a NOD? It is our currency of participation and innovation: Everything you do at IdeaPals.org or MoviePals.org earns Natural Overtures of Distinction; NODs for short.
Actions you get NODs for
1. Authoring the best reply – 5 NODs
2. Commenting on Sparks (ideas), IdeaPals groups, – 5 NODs
3. Invite other people – 5 NODs each
4. When invited user registers – 50 NODs each
5. When you register if you were invited – 50 NODs
6. Moderation – Approve – 1 NOD
7. Moderation – Delete – 1 NOD
8. Moderation Response -5 NODs
9. Viewing IdeaPals Group, Spark – 1 NOD 1
10. Registering – 25 NODs
11. Posting an IdeaPals Free Group – 50 NODs
12. Posting a Spark (idea) – 10 NODs
13. Moderating a comment – 1 NOD
14. Posting a picture – 10 NODs
15. Voting up or down – 1 NOD
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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:
