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50 states means 50 opportunities for real estate bloggers in the rapidly growing foreclosure, REO and loss mitigation/short sale categories!

No blogging experience necessary! The opportunity includes blogging mentoring from an experienced mentor and basic formats (templates if you like) to get you started on your first few blog posts.

No REO experience necessary! The opportunity includes mentoring by an experienced REO agent to help you find sources for REO listings, BPO assignments, listed REOs for your buyer clients, government owned properties and more.

Licensed real estate agents preferred!

Agents with existing website willing to link to the blog (or even republish its headline feed on their own site!) get first shot!

Here's what else you get:

• You'll be blogging on a site linked off several existing real estate sites, so plenty of opportunity to put your name in front of buyer's and sellers.
• First contact from potential buyers and sellers in your area
• A share of referral income for areas of your state that you don't service
• You'll personally receive all referrals for your market area from anywhere in the network at a reduced referral fee
• You can republish the headline feed on your own real estate site - further establishing you as the expert in your local market
• First crack at future real estate sites in lucrative fields relocation,luxury homes,commercial,international investment and relocation,vacation/retirement. Take them yourself or farm them out to someone in your office!

Remember the big added bonus: mentoring from an experienced REO broker. For agents new to foreclosures, this could be a great opportunity and a great way to build your business even in today's down market.

Ready to start? Send me a message. If you have an existing website, please include it in the website field. Please include your state, service area (zip code or city/county list), license information.

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RenaisNet has several opportunities available for people looking for anything from a part-time income to a full-time online business. If you are interested in any of these opportunities, simply contact me here.

• McGossip: This blog focused on the TV show Grey's Anatomy was established over two years ago, has an established search engine presence including a «PageRank» of 2, some existing traffic and some existing material. Unfortunately, it hasn't been updated in 17 months. With its existing inbound links, some new material and a new marketing push, it could have substantial traffic. For the blogger or bloggers who'd like to take this blog and run with it, you'll get: a substantial share of Adsense profits (at least 75% to start) and the ability to include your own Amazon and other appropriate affiliate links in your own posts. I'll also use the tools at my disposal to promote the blog and its new author(s).
• Talkster: This blog is focused on talk radio, both traditional and internet radio. Talkster was established several years ago, is updated every few months, has a main page PR of 2, has moderate traffic (Alexa rank of 1,74637,397). I'm looking for fans of specific radio shows to build pages and eventually forums around those shows. You'll get: a share of sitewide ad revenue, a larger share of revenue from your own pages and the ability to include appropriate affiliate links in your own posts. This site is very well pre-positioned to be a major resource for anyone searching for information on the lucrative talk radio market and simply needs more content. Aside from the possibility of shared ad revenues, writers will have the opportunity to strengthen their brand as talk radio authorities.
• 2010Votes and 2012Votes. These unlaunched sites will build on the presence and popularity of my 2006 and 2008 election sites. The 2006 and 2008 sites were «one man shows» and as such did not have the breadth and depth of information to make them truly great, but did have good traffic and search engine presence including a PR 5 for the 2008 election site. The new sites will start with relevant inbound links from those and other political sites. I'm looking for contributors with expertise (or the willingness to research) specific House and Senate races, gubernatorial races, third parties, Presidential primary campaigns and anything else you might like to pitch. You'll get a share of sitewide revenues, a larger share of your own sections of the site, ability to sell your own affiliate links. More importantly, you'll get the opportunity to present your own political reporting and/or commentary, to expose your writing to a larger community. My prior political sites have had material syndicated by Reuters, the Chicago Sun-Times and the Wall Street Journal, among others and this could be your chance to get your clippings from those major publications as well.
• Real estate foreclosure bloggers: Looking for real estate bloggers from every state (Missouri already covered) to blog on foreclosures, local market conditions, topics of general real estate interest on a foreclosure site. This site will be linked off the existing REODirectory site and other real estate websites. Preference is for licensed real estate agents, with first preference for those with an existing website willing to link to the foreclosure blog. You'll get: first contact from potential buyers and sellers in your area, support developing your blog (templates and instructions to produce regular posts in minimal time), a share of referral income for areas of your state outside your own market, personally receive all referrals for your market area at a reduced referral fee, republish the headlines as news on your existing site, first crack at future real estate sites (relocation,luxury homes,commercial,international investment and relocation,vacation/retirement) for you or someone in your office. An added bonus: mentoring from an experienced REO broker. For agents new to foreclosures, this could be a great opportunity and a great way to build your business even in today's down market.
• Any blog topic! Pitch me your idea! I'll buy the domain name, setup the blog, guide you through writing your first posts, show you how its done, market the thing and help you build the traffic. You bring the ideas and we'll go from there.
• Anything else! Pitch me your idea for The Next Big Thing. I have reasonable resources for domain name, site hosting, site design and scripting and most importantly marketing your idea. If serious programming is required, I'll take a look at outsourcing or hiring someone to do it. If it's beyond my resources, I'll take it my network of contacts and see what we can find to help make your idea a reality!

If you are interested in any of these opportunities, simply contact me here.

Interested in building some good one way backlinks? I've got good news for you. Link to any blog in this network, drop me an email and I'll send you several quality backlinks. (Check the bottom of the left sidebar for a complete list of sites in the network.) Specifically:

1. I'll send a one way link to your blog from at least one other site on my network, on a different Class C IP address from the site you linked to.
2. I'll include a link to your site in a post submitted to a link building network that will show up on 2 to 5 other blogs, all on separate class C addresses.
3. I'll submit your blog to a «dofollow» social bookmarking service, Mr. Wong. Better, I'll submit your link through a social bookmarking network so 2 to 5 other people will submit it to Mr. Wong as well.
4. I'll submit your link on several other social media sites including Digg and Stumbleupon.
5. I'll subscribe to your RSS feed in Google Reader and share several posts. These links appear in Readburner and are indexed in Google.

Some of these things are limited time, first come first serve based on my available credits in the link building network and social bookmarking network. Once my credits run out, I'll still follow my generous linking policy. So, send me a link and then send me a note. The more links you send me and the better the quality of the site you link from (content, Page Rank, traffic, etc.), the more extras I'll do.

Many business owners started their web marketing with the traditional «postcard on the web» site. Maybe they added some basic e-commerce functionality, bought a few pay per click ads and waited for traffic to come. When it didn't come, they asked why and, in many cases, turned to blogging to help drive traffic.

One issue for business bloggers, especially the vast majority who blog in between dealing with demands of their real business, is finding extra content that can sustain the blog between posts. We all love the eye candy sidebar widgets from social media sites, the traffic exchanges, the quizzes and memes. But, especially on business oriented sites, these are often not enough to fill the bill.

For business bloggers, I'm offering free business oriented news feeds to add a little something to your site's sidebar, to fill in as «mini-posts» or pretty much any other way you can think to use them subject to a few simple rules.

Sites and feeds

• Financial topics, personal finance, markets from a member of the Forbes Business and Financial Network - feed URL
• Real estate and mortgage news - feed URL
• Economic indicators - feed URL
• Morning economic news - feed URL
• Feeds for specific topic categories from each site are available - contact me for category specific URL

Rules

1. The content on the sites is copyrighted by me and you are using it by permission.
2. All links, both the feed links and any internal content links, must be left intact.
3. Links can not be «nofollowed» in anyway. This includes any use of nofollow, etc. in META tags on your page.
4. Links must be search engine readable. This generally means javascript, AJAX and similar methods can not be used to publish the feeds. PHP scripts, server side includes, etc. are generally acceptable.
5. If your site has more than 25 visitors a day on average, please use a caching mechanism on your server and update from the feed up to 5 times a day.
6. Do not repost entire articles. Use headlines and first paragraph or short excerpt only.
7. You do not have to notify me you are using the feed, but if you do I will include you in lists of users that may help publicize your site. Contact me here.

If you'd like to use full articles on a case by case basis, contact me and we can discuss it.

If you need help with syndicating feeds to a site, installing blog software, getting a blog up and running on your business site or any other aspect of business blogging - contact me and let's talk.

Update: I'm looking for a total of ten bloggers for this new non-exclusive network. Three spaces are spoken for. For the latest current information, check here. Information below is dated.

I'm looking for five bloggers or other website owners to join in an informal promotional network. This will be a mutual promotion group, no financial obligation, just quid pro quo with a half hour a day or less spent promoting each other's sites and our own. «Or less» because each of the things you'll do, should be a thing you're doing anyway to promote your own site, it will be just a matter of adding a few clicks and a couple of minutes reading and writing about the other members blogs as well.

This is non-exclusive. You can do whatever sort of cooperative efforts you are already doing with others. The more traffic you generate elsewhere, the better this works, so go for it! This doesn't affect your ownership of your blog, your advertising, your links, your membership in other networks, your content, your blog design, etc.

I have found one very interesting and potentially very big opportunity to generate lots of quality inbound links for each other's sites and that's a big part of the impetus behind this project. A half dozen members is sufficient to create a «critical mass» with this particular tool, though we might add a few more if all the original members agree. This is something I stumbled onto in the backend of the Google Webmaster tools. I managed to find one SEO guy that has spotted this same thing and that is it. Darren Rowse hasn't written about it, John Chow hasn't mentioned it. I don't read Shoemoney, but if he wrote about it, it didn't show up in a Google search.

You'll need to have two websites to join. (If you only have one and want to team up with a friend who has one and be considered one «member», that's fine.) These should preferably be sites with their own domain names. If you have an existing Blogger blog or something similar that is well established, indexed in Google and Yahoo, with some «Page Rank», that might be acceptable. At least one of the sites needs to already be indexed in Yahoo and Google. The other site can be new and PR0, but sites that have been banned for spam, etc. are not allowed. The sites have to have original content. They have to be more than just link blogs and they definitely can't be scraper sites.

This is going to be first come, first served and I'm not revealing much of anything to anyone I don't think is serious. If you're already active with things like EntreCard, social networking, Digg, StumbleUpon, etc. you're going to get first shot. To «apply» send me an email tomhanna a-t tom-hanna d-o-t com.

Here's what I'm offering to get this thing moving for all of us:

1 - Links from an existing PR 5 blog for every member. This is a bonus, in addition to my own equal contribution as a member. Want a free link from a PR5 blog? Join and devote half an hour a day to driving traffic to your own blog and others. That's called «win-win».

2 - I've set up the system so we can all do this in a matter of a half hour a day or less.

3 - I'll be offering my help or advice as needed to get setup.

For anyone who might be following the progression of the various sites on the network or of some specific site, regularly scheduled posts have been badly interfered with for the last month and unannounced updates/upgrades/revisions are behind schedule.

July 2, my DSL internet service went out. I placed a call to tech support who determined that onsite service was necessary. They gave me a confirmation number and took my phone number. As of today (July 30), no one has called. I had cable TV and cable modem installed July 11.

In the 9 days in between, I kept up a minimal posting schedule using an AT&T wireless connection running through my Nokia E62. Because it's a slow connection, I had to turn off Windows automatic updates and my laptop, which runs a flavor of Linux called Ubuntu, wasn't online at all. The first two days after getting reconnected to broadband the Windows computer was installing updates every time I turned it on.

Last week, I got caught up in Problogger's Social Media Love-in, the sort of one-time only, free opportunity that you have to take when it happens.

Tuesday and Wednesday of this week were devoted to catching up online and making a car repair. Last night (Tuesday), another Windows update screwed something up completely and in the process my firewall went down completely. By the time all was said and done, I had a big spyware outbreak. After trying four different spyware tools (Search and Destroy,Adaware,Xsoft and A-squared), I turned the computer off and inserted an Ubuntu CD. The computer is now running like a champ and I'm Windows free.

Since I have a library full of Audible Audiobooks that will only work with Windows and a handful of Amazon Unbox videos that will also only work with Windows, I'm planning to purchase a cheap ($300) emachines PC from Wal-Mart sometime this month, install a TV-out video card and hook it up the to TV strictly for media streaming. That will, of course, not affect business much, except that I'll likely write a review of the process.

Anyway, scheduled posting - which largely means the Financial Roadmap series and weekly petroleum updates on Financial Options and economic indicator posts on EconoIndicators - should be on schedule in August. Stay tuned for some other housekeeping posts upcoming including a new tool to improve and expand discussion on the network and with sites outside the network.

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The January contest to award my entire end of month EntreCard balance is over. The winner of 10,066 EntreCard credits (roughly a $100.66 value) is Mark Fulton of DotSauce Magazine.

There were a total of 24 entries from 6 entrants, so anyone who took the time to enter and follow the rules had a good shot at a prize worth roughly $100. And they are all automatically entered 1 time in the next contest where Everybody Wins! That's a lesson worth learning for the current contest where the top prize is $50 cash, 2500 EntreCredits (worth roughly $25) and a year text link. Plus, every website/blog owner who enters gets something of real value just for entering - a nonreciprocal link, the most valuable kind. Everybody who enters wins. You just can't beat it. The lesson - ENTER!

Anyway, congratulations to Mark and thank you to these folks who followed the rules and sent their entry email:

• Brandie from BrannRay.com (site down - I'll put a live link when it's up and running)
• Erz from Blog Paradise
• Kent the EntreBanker of My Internet Marketing Adventures fame
• Debbie (link to follow)
• Andrew who blogs at Environmentastic - the best of several great conservation blogs focused on personal action that I've run across through EntreCard.
• Sweet Mummy of It's OK to be WEIRD!, who is «(striving to be) a wife of noble character.»

To those who recognize that they entered and aren't on this list, a consolation prize - send me the entry email you didn't send to start with and I'll enter you in the next contest (where Everybody Wins!)and add your link to the list.

A few odds and ends:

I used the random number generator at Random.org to pick the winner. This generator uses atmospheric noise to create a true random number instead of the pseudo-random numbers typical of software randomness generators.

I listed the entrants and assigned them one number for each entry.

My original plan was to generate a random number between 1 and the number of entries and count down to the individual email it represented. With a large number of entries that would have been a quick and workable solution. Since the number of people who sent the email was so small, quick and workable wasn't an issue, fortunately.

JPratt made $16,000 online in 2007 and tagged me to disclose my own online earnings. I wouldn't normally be writing about this, as I'm not primarily in the «make money online» blogging business. But, since a few people are apparently curious, I will write about it. Also, the per click value paid by the CPC networks for finance, mortgage and real estate related keywords dropped compared to 2006.

My 2007 gross was $7,938.05. Google Adsense accounted for $3,264 of this. Text-link-ads.com accounted for $4,406.49. Yahoo Publisher Network and BlogAds accounted for the rest. These numbers should have been higher. I had very low growth from 2006 as I let some sites lapse due to other obligations and dealt with some problems on others. (One entire site got banned from Google because the information I was publishing appeared to be keyword spam. It consisted of bank and government owned home listings and it duplicated city names hundreds of times a week. It was all legitimate information, but the duplication got picked up as spam. It didn't help that I was selling text link ads on that site, I'm sure.)

My expenses were probably higher than average as I added unlimited wireless internet from AT&T midway through the year ($50/month roughly) and the cost of a DSL connection in this backwoods area is $65/month.

I also purposely pay for multiple web hosts for a couple of reasons:

• Multiple IP addresses may marginally improve search engine results
• Redundancy. I've been burned three times now by very good web hosts suddenly turning to crap. I'm now using the highly recommended A Small Orange for one site, Daily Razor for another site and GoDaddy for the balance.

Finally, I've plowed a lot of money into long term domain registration during December. That should mean lower expense for a few years and it should also increase the earnings as longer term registrations reportedly get a higher authority from at least one big search engine that starts with G.

My advertising expense on the other hand is fairly low. I ran a couple of BlogAds - basically spending the money I made selling BlogAds - and that's it. I have year old unused credits for AdWords and Microsoft's advertising network. Guess I ought to use those...

In this contest Everybody Wins!

The weekly prizes won't start until the first week in February, but you can jump on board now and get a slot in the first set of Everybody Wins! prizes. There are multiple prizes with this contest and it will be simple for any blogger to enter - no email, comment, or subscription required as long as you have a way to be contacted at your site.

The EntreCard credit contest for January is still going with over 7600 credits and counting to be awarded and very few entries. Entering the January contest earns a bonus entry in the EveryBody Wins! contest!

The prizes:

1. $50 (US), 2500 EntreCard Credits and a 1-year text link
2. 200 EntreCard Credits and a month of advertising (Monthly)
3. 200 EntreCard Credits and a week of advertising (Weekly)
4. Everybody Wins! - nonreciprocal link to your site from this one

2 Ways to enter:

1. Write a blog post with a valid link about any blog post on any RenaisNet blog and send a trackback. (If you don't have trackback, use SimpleTracks or leave a comment manually.)
2. Post a link to any RenaisNet site on your own site and leave me a comment or send me an email.

A complete list of sites you can link to or blog about follows along with details about the prizes.

Rules:

1. Enter as often as you like, but only one link or blogpost to each RenaisNet site from each of your sites.
2. First prize will be awarded when there are 500 trackbacks or links.
3. Contest will start again with a new first prize after 500 trackbacks or links and all original entries will be included in the new contest.
4. Anyone who entered the current EntreCredit contest gets an automatic entry.
5. «Bad neighborhoods» aren't eligible for the Everybody Wins link.
6. Please no adult or gambling sites.
7. Legitimate links - no «nofollow» or similar cloaking and no javascript links.
8. Your link or blog post should say something that would make the reader want to take a look.
9. Links should have reasonable anchor text - some keyword reasonably related to what you're linking to should be included.
10. No «splogs». Your trackback has to get past Akismet and Spam Karma II set to «Total Beeatch» setting. It also has to pass muster with my nose test. My decisions on this are final.
11. Cash prize will be sent by PayPal or check at the winner's option.
12. Don't be an idiot.
13. Any threat of legal action will immediately end the contest with the cash prize donated to the American Tort Reform Association.

More on the prizes:

A year text link - This will be a text link network wide for a year. It wil be a «dofollow» link but may be below the fold.

A month of advertising - This will be a 125x125 pixel ad (you supply the graphic) on 5 RenaisNet sites of your choice for one calendar month. This will be in prime territory above the fold.

A week of advertising - This will be a 125x125 pixel ad (you supply the graphic) on 1 RenaisNet site of your choice for seven consecutive days. This will be in prime territory above the fold.

EveryBody Wins! links - These will be posted as blog posts monthly on RenaisNet.com. If your entry points to RenaisNet, I'll post your link on another site so you get the nonreciprocal link benefit.

Site List

RenaisNet

Internet and Technology

Blog Carnivals

Blog Carnival Strategies for Readers and Bloggers

Googleholism

Googleholism: Online Support for Googleholics

Entertainment and Media

McGossip

Grey's Anatomy: The McSteamiest Gossip around!

Talkster

Talkster the Talk Radio Resource

Politics

Election 2008 Countdown

News, Information and Resources on the 2008 US Election

Election 2006

Archived news and information from the 2006 US Election

Tom Rants

Flyover country libertarian Republican perspective

Business and Consumer

Tom's Reviews

Product, Service and Website Reviews

The Barter Blog

Trade and Barter News

Financial Options

Investing and Financial Planning

EconoIndicators

Economic Indicators and Statistics

Building Wealth

Business Opportunities and Asset Protection

Safe and Secure

Keep your family safe and secure in a risky world

New Jobs' Caling

Your new career is calling

Real Estate

RealNews

Real estate and mortgage news

RealAnswers

Answers to your real estate and mortgage questions

Luxe Homes

Luxury, Executive and Resort Homes

REO News

News from the Foreclosed Real Estate Industry

RealStake

News on commercial and investment real estate and development

Growing Global

International Real Estate

Missouri REO Foreclosed

Foreclosed properties on the market in Missouri

Books

RealShelf

Lists and reviews of business, real estate, finance and investing books and magazines

My Library

Personal Book Collection - With Reviews

Other

Floater

Outdoor fun and travel adventures