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The Top Five Online Real Estate Communities

REIW is a real estate industry news blog. If you are a REALTOR and are looking to CONNECT with other REALTORS online to learn best practices, marketing ideas, online marketing, converting leads into sales, share ideas etc, the best place is an online community. Here are our picks for the Top 5!:

The Bloodhound Blog- BloodhoundBlog, the national real estate industry marketing and technology weblog written by, for and about real estate professionals. Some of the best and brightest bloggers in the real estate business write and contribute here. You will also find near real time answers to questions simply by asking a question in the comment section. Helpful people for those who want to AGGRESSIVELY take on the brave new online marketing world. It will challenge you to think deeply about our industry and how we approach marketing to it.

Real Estate Webmasters-RealEstateWebmasters is an online community of the most savvy internet marketers in the real estate space. Their forum is unrivaled for helpful answers to questions. Have a question about building a website? or how to blog? or how to get found online? Ask it here. They are among the friendliest people that you will find and since it is a forum, the information is current and up to the minute.

Agent Genius-Winner of the Inman Innovator Award in 2008, their introduction reads as follows: “Agent Genius is the first multi-author real estate blog designed by and for real estate agents nation wide. ……We talk about whats hot in technology, new and inventive real estate business models, the nature of the real estate industry, hot topics that impact consumers and so much more”

The HomeGain Blog-Nominated for an Inman Innovator Award, this blog has picked up steam with some notable contributors (like Jay Thompson, Mitch Ribak, and Brian Brady) and is headed up by Louis Cammarosano

Active Rain Outbreak release Next Friday dvd – This is one of the most active communities of REALTORS online with thousands of members. It can be a little intimidating to jump into, but there are a wealth of people like Broker Bryant who help to make things easier.

Some More Specific Blogs Not to Miss:

Bloggers tend to specialize on things. Here are some that have a smaller focus but provide great information:

Blogging How To:

The Real Estate Blog Lab (Dave Smith’s great insight into the day to day of real estate blogging)

Da Blog Mother (great tutorials on Wordpress, Typepad, anything!- Cheryl is amazing)

Real Estate Test Blog (good practical real estate blogging themes (wordpress) and plugin advice from Ryan Ward)

Sage Real Estate Sales Advice:

Russell Shaw’s Blog – Number1HomeAgent.com this is the equivalent of getting a peek into Russell Shaw’s black book of his best real estate sales tips. It includes what he has written for both AgentGenius and the Bloodhound Blog over the years.

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9 Responses to “Blog and Forum Guide”

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    This blog has some really helpful ways to work your real estate website. Thanks for all of the help.

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  3. Tehachapi Real Estate Magazine (1 comments.) on August 27th, 2009 11:06 pm

    Great suggestions – Couldn’t agree with your picks of informative real estate sites more. We read the bloodhound blog regularly. Thanks for the suggestions!

  4. Doug Francis (2 comments.) on October 21st, 2009 3:48 pm

    Yes there are some good blogs and “so-so” ones. The AgentGenius site is my personal favorite and it has given me excellent tips on tweeking my my blog.

    But to be honest, I really don’t get the Active Rain blog or concept since it seems to be just agents to agents.

  5. Realhomesestate (1 comments.) on January 19th, 2010 5:12 am

    This blog gives great information. hanks for the knowledge in terms of real estate marketing strategies and the like. Keep it up!

  6. Nashville Grant (2 comments.) on January 22nd, 2010 2:25 am

    Do you know if Active Rain is ever going back to a free model?

  7. Sun Prairie Apartments (1 comments.) on January 22nd, 2010 2:59 pm

    Very helpful suggestions.wonderful post. Its really informative and will help me lot. Thanks for posting

  8. Tim Derylak (1 comments.) on February 1st, 2010 8:42 pm

    Very useful sites. I’m active at many of them, but am excited to check out the rest. I am a Charlotte Real Estate Agent
    Check out my site!

  9. Salt Lake County (1 comments.) on February 16th, 2010 2:08 am

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