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Social Media Marketing Workshop January 7th

We would like you to know that we enjoy this. We have posted about 900 articles mostly about Issaquah. We hope you enjoy them as much as we enjoy posting them.
Between Issaquah Undressed, Real Estate Undressed, and this blog – plus managing a network of 60 such neighborhood and topic blogs we have learned a lot about internet marketing plus a few cool computer tricks. I’ll share one with you today. But first, just know we welcome your inquiry if you think blogging might help you. Our blog network is powerful with Google but can be the center of all your marketing. If so, it would be inexpensive and effective.
Todays trick: A tool. This is actuall a free tool from Techsmith the makers of Camtasia and other products.
How would you like to be able to quickly and easily make anything you see on your screen into a photo? You can do that with Jing. Go to jingproject.com and download it for free. Its a great way to add visuals to a document, add photos to a website, or just store something on your computer or in Flickr. Here are a couple of examples that I captured, saved to my desktop, and inserted into the post in less than a minute. Lar
Today there is no national MLS, there may likely never be. The reasons are complicated, political and technical. So this addresses why sellers, you need your listing all across the internet? Things are different now for listing agents, even buyers agents.

Why? Answer: Because that is where the buyers for your Issaquah home for sale are, all over the internet. They want information from sources you may not know about yet. The logic that you just list in the local MLS is out of date. Buyers are hitting these other sites for various reasons. Some just do a Google search, some have RSS feeds tied to Craigs lists. Some buyers are foreigners that have heard of Trulia. Another internet friendly we do is a single website for your listings. This provides even more search power with the focus on the search engines finding the listing.
Larry Cragun
PS: A common misconception is that Realtor.com has all of the listings. This is wrong, and in fact this MLS does not automatically send listings to Realtor .com