"real estate 2.x:

If the real estate market continues downward, do you think Zillow’s traffic will go up? I am pretty sure that Zillow’s traffic will be directly related to property prices. Everyone loves to see how much money they are making – it is fun, but most people are not going log on each day to watch their zestimate go down (accurate or not). Personally, I find the site quite boring…one visit seems like enough. My fourth question would be –

Business Plans Are They Worth Your Time
Although you may know what a business plan is or heard about it is passing, you may be wondering if you really need to have one. Better yet, you may be wondering if making a business plan is even worth your time.When it comes to business plans and being worth your time, you will, almost always, find that they are. In fact, if you are interested in starting your own business, no matter what type of business it may be, you are urged to make yourself a business plan. Developing a business plan may take a little bit of time and research, but it will, almost always, be worth it in the end.One of the most common reasons why business plans are created is to give a busin

After over 100 days straight of posting to the Tomato, you may (read: should) be wondering to yourself if there's a life outside of this blog? We're often asked, "How do you come up with all of that information?" "How do you find the time?" "How can you still manage to have a family, a job, a life?" I can't speak for Greg at BloodhoundBlog (Mr. 101 posts in 24hrs) but the short answer is that we have a strategies for consistently generating quality content. Being consistent with your expected posting schedule is crucial when it comes to maintaining an audience. Below are 5 strategies for populating your blog when you find yourself short on time and creativity. We use the top 4 to ensure the Tomato is fed its daily article.

1. Store Content For A Rainy Day

If you were to log into our Writely account, you would see on average about 10-12 partially written articles. As soon as a compelling thought pops into our head, it becomes a title and an outline or paragraph. As we revisit the idea it beings to resemble a blog entry. Having a pipeline of good potential blog posts alleviates the pressure of having to be creative when you have limited time to publish for your hungry audience. Simply hop into you Writely account, throw some lipstick on an almost completed article and presto, you have earned your readers attention until your next article.

2. The 101 Blog Post Challenge (a.k.a. The Greg Swann/Ardell DellaLoggia) Method

Earlier this week, these two decided to do the unthinkable and write 101 articles on their blog in just 24 hours! They couldn't produce a thesis for every article, so they had to cut some corners, yet still give the impression that each post had some clout. The strategy was this: find an intriguing article online, copy an excerpt from it, generate your own opinion of its value. Take this article for instance from Swann over at the Bloodhound Realty:

"real estate 2.x:

If the real estate market continues downward, do you think Zillow’s traffic will go up? I am pretty sure that Zillow’s traffic will be directly related to property prices. Everyone loves to see how much money they are making – it is fun, but most people are not going log on each day to watch their zestimate go down (accurate or not). Personally, I find the site quite boring…one visit seems like enough. My fourth question would be – i

The Ugly Truth about Search Engines
Do you want more search engine traffic? Are you having trouble getting it? You’re not alone. You could have the most highly optimized web site possible and still fail to achieve a top ten, or for that matter, even a top 20 ranking in an engine like Google.Why?It’s quite simple: content rules over keywords. Think for a minute about the sheer number of web pages out there today.Here is the number of pages Google claims to index currently: 4,285,199,774. For the math challenged, that’s Four billion-two-hundred-eighty-five-million-one-hundred-ninety-nine-thousand-seven-hundred-and-seventy-four!Now, while it’s still generally a good idea to at least o

nt with your expected posting schedule is crucial when it comes to maintaining an audience. Below are 5 strategies for populating your blog when you find yourself short on time and creativity. We use the top 4 to ensure the Tomato is fed its daily article.

1. Store Content For A Rainy Day

If you were to log into our Writely account, you would see on average about 10-12 partially written articles. As soon as a compelling thought pops into our head, it becomes a title and an outline or paragraph. As we revisit the idea it beings to resemble a blog entry. Having a pipeline of good potential blog posts alleviates the pressure of having to be creative when you have limited time to publish for your hungry audience. Simply hop into you Writely account, throw some lipstick on an almost completed article and presto, you have earned your readers attention until your next article.

2. The 101 Blog Post Challenge (a.k.a. The Greg Swann/Ardell DellaLoggia) Method

Earlier this week, these two decided to do the unthinkable and write 101 articles on their blog in just 24 hours! They couldn't produce a thesis for every article, so they had to cut some corners, yet still give the impression that each post had some clout. The strategy was this: find an intriguing article online, copy an excerpt from it, generate your own opinion of its value. Take this article for instance from Swann over at the Bloodhound Realty:

"real estate 2.x:

If the real estate market continues downward, do you think Zillow’s traffic will go up? I am pretty sure that Zillow’s traffic will be directly related to property prices. Everyone loves to see how much money they are making – it is fun, but most people are not going log on each day to watch their zestimate go down (accurate or not). Personally, I find the site quite boring…one visit seems like enough. My fourth question would be –

Having A Hard Time Focusing On Your Job Search - 4 Tips That Get You The Job - Part 2
In Part 1 of this article we explored goal setting as a tip to finding a new job. Part 2 will wrap everything up for you.3. Set a timetable for the action items and steps that you need to take to get to your end result goal. By setting a timetable to accomplish the action items you have written down it will keep your job search on a specific timetable.Getting a job or a job offer maybe a little different story when it comes to setting a timetable, you are not typically in control of when you will get a job offer or you will find that perfect job. If you do set a timetable to follow the action items in the steps it takes to get the job you will be that much closer

itle and an outline or paragraph. As we revisit the idea it beings to resemble a blog entry. Having a pipeline of good potential blog posts alleviates the pressure of having to be creative when you have limited time to publish for your hungry audience. Simply hop into you Writely account, throw some lipstick on an almost completed article and presto, you have earned your readers attention until your next article.

2. The 101 Blog Post Challenge (a.k.a. The Greg Swann/Ardell DellaLoggia) Method

Earlier this week, these two decided to do the unthinkable and write 101 articles on their blog in just 24 hours! They couldn't produce a thesis for every article, so they had to cut some corners, yet still give the impression that each post had some clout. The strategy was this: find an intriguing article online, copy an excerpt from it, generate your own opinion of its value. Take this article for instance from Swann over at the Bloodhound Realty:

"real estate 2.x:

If the real estate market continues downward, do you think Zillow’s traffic will go up? I am pretty sure that Zillow’s traffic will be directly related to property prices. Everyone loves to see how much money they are making – it is fun, but most people are not going log on each day to watch their zestimate go down (accurate or not). Personally, I find the site quite boring…one visit seems like enough. My fourth question would be –

Put Your Mortgage Business Advertising on a Bag
Have you had a prescription filled recently for either you or a family member? Take a close look at the bag that it comes in? Depending on your situation...there may be a huge opportunity here to promote your Mortgage Business.The prescription bag that my pharmacy uses is called a "medibag" and according to the little note on the bag, it's recyclable, renewable, and biodegradable (Yes...I'm impressed). It's roughly 5 inches wide and 10 inches long and room for 5 space ads on each side. Each two-color ad would be approximately 1.25" by 4.25." You can of course, commit to double for even triple the ad space.Here's a few of the national demographics on this type of

dell DellaLoggia) Method

Earlier this week, these two decided to do the unthinkable and write 101 articles on their blog in just 24 hours! They couldn't produce a thesis for every article, so they had to cut some corners, yet still give the impression that each post had some clout. The strategy was this: find an intriguing article online, copy an excerpt from it, generate your own opinion of its value. Take this article for instance from Swann over at the Bloodhound Realty:

"real estate 2.x:

If the real estate market continues downward, do you think Zillow’s traffic will go up? I am pretty sure that Zillow’s traffic will be directly related to property prices. Everyone loves to see how much money they are making – it is fun, but most people are not going log on each day to watch their zestimate go down (accurate or not). Personally, I find the site quite boring…one visit seems like enough. My fourth question would be –

Excel: Creating Dynamic Graphs and Charts
I am going to throw this out there right now, I do not have a college education and I graduated from a small town high school. When I made a decision to take a corporate position, I really thought my options were limited to how high I could go on the corporate ladder. Never would I have thought a small, green icon on my desktop could have proved me so wrong. In order to improve my position, I taught myself programs other individuals in my field didn't even want to look at and I increased my skill set in the programs that our upper management needed. Most importantly, Excel. I learned to create dynamic charts and discovered ways to tell the financial stories ever

lty:

"real estate 2.x:

If the real estate market continues downward, do you think Zillow’s traffic will go up? I am pretty sure that Zillow’s traffic will be directly related to property prices. Everyone loves to see how much money they are making – it is fun, but most people are not going log on each day to watch their zestimate go down (accurate or not). Personally, I find the site quite boring…one visit seems like enough. My fourth question would be – if the validity of their purpose has been picked apart, and their revenue model is full of fatal flaws – when do they run out of money?

Maybe we should start a pool?

I’m thinking they probably have a business, if only because Realtors will always throw away money on advertising that is easy but useless. On the other hand, I’m suddenly flush with play money…"

He took a question that was proposed on another blog, added a two sentence response, and just like that, he had an article. Brillant! Granted...he had just finished posting 102 articles the day before...

3. Have someone write it for you

There are companies out there now that will write your articles for you. TheWritersForHire.com for instance, are professional copywriters who will write your website content for you. In their own words "Website content is more than just a word document. Professional website copy is fully laid out and ready to use. We don't just write your content but do all the layout and research involved in creating truly custom copy."

Or how about Elance.com, DirectFreelance.com, and GetAFreelancer.com, where you can post a project (title of a blog entry, and maybe some bullet points of the content you would like), and have free lance writers bid for your business.

Another option is heading over to Craigslist and posting an ad under writing gigs.

And finally, partner up with some other good writers to provide excellent content. We do it, RainCityGuide does it, SellsiusBlog does it, BloodHoundBlog does it... we're all doing it! In fact, most of this post was written by Jason Benesch, and not me, Jim Cronin.

4. Post Revisited

A great way to continue providing content that revolves around your core topic, increase past article readership and fill the void of nothing new to say is: Take an 'oldie but goodie' post you have written