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About Schmap – http://schmap.it/about
Schmap is a location technology service provider and local publisher, with cutting-edge expertise at the intersection of local, social, commercial and the real-time web. We’re best known for our real-time city guides, and our popular Twitter service: Real-time City Guides

We released our first Schmap City Guides in March 2006: initially revised twice a year, our guides are now updated real-time, with local buzz for restaurants and bars from Twitter users, reviews from local residents, local photos from more than 300,000 contributing photographers, plus events, activities and local deals via users of our popular Twitter service.
Schmaps & Schnaps Twitter Service

Released in October 2009, Schmaps & Schnaps is now the market leading service for promoting local business and events on Twitter. The basic service is free, with a PRO upgrade giving local businesses and event promoters access to advanced marketing features: approved partners can also offer the service to their users via our API/Plugin.
Schmap was founded in 2004: we’re based in Carrboro, North Carolina, with a development office in Beijing, China.

Are you using Schmap with your Twitter account? Are you using this to promote your real estate properties? We would love to hear from you, please take a moment to let us know your thoughts.

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HTML code for Social Networks

View the text file with the HTML source for the social network icons.

Simply copy and paste the code from the TEXT file into the widgets, inside of your PropTrackr account.

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Setup is simple and easy! Take a few minutes and watch the PropTrackr Real Estate Management System training video and we will show you how easy it is to add multiple languages to your PropTrackr real estate website.

Click the download button to copy the HTML text used to display and link the multiple language icons to Google Translate, converting your site into multiple languages.

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The hottest trend right now is advertising your business and yourself on social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Google Buzz to name a few. Blogging is another great way to get your name and business out there. PropTrackr give you all of these features with our system. Check out the FREE 14 Day Trial and get started today. Contact us today to find out how PropTrackr Web Based Real Estate Management Software can improve your business.

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Here at PropTrackr we have gathered up of a dozen resources and tools to help get you started with your social marketing and online presence. Start with the tools below to get you started with your online marketing, but you have to remember to keep posting and advertising on these networks. Social marketing only works if you join in on the conversation. You don’t have to check these social networks everyday but it would be good to be posting and commenting a few times a week.

Tips & Guides

10 Things to do before launching your blog.
There are lots of posts and articles about why adopting a blog for your small business is a good idea — how it’s good for customer retention, lead generation, and serves as an effective way to build links and rankings in the search engines. But if you’re a small business owner…
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How to get started blogging.
Respond to something elsewhere on the web: the best way to start blogging: simply link to something elsewhere that you feel is interesting, or (better) that you disagree with. If you make a constructive response to what someone else has posted, for example, you can start a…
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How to write for bloggers
This is a short guide that wants to encourage you to blog, and to blog well. The most important thing to remember is that blogging is about conversing – discussing the things that interest you. When you blog…
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The Blogger´s Guide to SEO.
You have a choice. You can target a general high traffic keyword you have little chance of ranking well for and get barely any traffic. Or you can shoot for a keyword that gets a moderate…
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SEOmoz | 21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic.
Hosting your blog on a different domain from your primary site is one of the worst mistakes you can make. A blog on your domain can attract links, attention, publicity, trust and search rankings…
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How to optimize website images from a SEO perspective.
Product images, screenshots, your beautiful team members, catchy images for your website content, corporate images, logos, icons, you name it – all your online images…
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List of social networking websites on Wikipedia.
This is a list of major active social networking website.
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Google Social Search Launches, Gives Results From Your Trusted “Social Circle”
Google Social Search is rolling out, a new service from Google that allows you to easily find material written by people you know and trust. It’s a pretty cool idea, especially in that it’s pretty…
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Tools & Analytics

Google Alerts – The Google Alerts is a content monitoring service, offered by the search engine company Google, that automatically notifies users when new content from news, web, blogs, video and/or discussion groups matches a set of search terms selected by the user and stored by the Google Alerts service. Notifications can be sent by email, as a web feed or displayed on the users iGoogle page.
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Get Started with Google Alerts

Technorati – Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs. By June 2008, Technorati was indexing 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media.[2] The name Technorati is a blend of the words technology and literati, which invokes the notion of technological intelligence or intellectualism.
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FeedBurner – FeedBurner is a web feed management provider launched in 2004.[1] FeedBurner provides custom RSS feeds and management tools to bloggers, podcasters, and other web-based content publishers.
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Google Analytics – Google Analytics (GA) is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. Its main highlight is that the product is aimed at marketers as opposed to webmasters and technologists from which the industry of web analytics originally grew. It is the most widely used website statistics service[1], currently in use at around 57% of the 10,000 most popular websites.
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When using Google Analytics to help track inbound links – When creating an advertisement on another website, this little tool allow you to track all traffic from that website by adding a little bit of tracking code to the website address.
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Trending Tools – help find out what’s hot right now

Digg – Digg is a social news website. The site’s cornerstone function consists of letting people vote stories up or down, called digging and burying, respectively. Many stories get submitted every day, but only the most Dugg stories appear on the front page.
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Google Trends – Google Trends is a public web facility of Google Inc., about Google Search, that shows how often a particular search-term is entered relative to the total search-volume across various regions of the world, and in various languages. The horizontal axis of the main graph represents time (starting from some time in 2004), and the vertical is how often a term is searched for relative to the total number of searches, globally.
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Popular Bookmarks on Delicious – Delicious (formerly del.icio.us, pronounced “delicious”) is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. By the end of 2008, the service claimed more than 5.3 million users and 180 million unique URLs bookmarked URLs.
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Twitter Search – Search Twitter in Real Time.
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Yahoo! Buzz Index – Todayʼs Top 20 Overall Searches – Yahoo takes the time to let you know what is trending on Yahoo. See what HOT now and if you can get involved to drive traffic.
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Tweetmeme – TweetMeme finds the hottest stories from twitter for you to retweet.
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Social Networks

A comprehensive list of social networks
Delicious
Last.fm
Facebook
Flickr!
FriendFeed
LinkedIn
Twitter
Google Buzz
Digg
Seesmic
Stumbleupon
Ning – Create Your Own Social Network
Squidoo
Diigo – Social Bookmarking

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Social Tools & Applications

Topsy – A search engine powered by tweets
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Ping FM – Ping.fm is a simple and FREE service that makes updating your social networks a snap!
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Hootsuite – With HootSuite, you can monitor keywords, manage multiple Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Ping.fm and WordPress profiles, schedule messages…
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TweetDeck – TweetDeck: a simple and fast way to experience Twitter.
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TwitterFeed – Offers to tweet the last posts published in a blog via the RSS feed.
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In the busy world of Real Estate professionals, organization is a critical aspect. Considering all of the work that needs to be done, any tools available can help.

We recommend Google Apps because it has powerful functionality that may be helpful to your business and because, since it is all web based, you can access it from anywhere you have an internet connection (just like PropTrackr).
Google Apps is free for up to 50 users, can be customized to your domain (including e-mail addresses), and comes with:

• Gmail – A web-based e-mail app that provided 25 GB of email & IM storage (that’s a lot!), has excellent spam filtering, and can be synced with Outlook & smart phones.
• Google Calendar – A web-based calendar application that supports shared project calendars, integrates with e-mail, and can be accessed from mobile devices.
• Google Sites – An easy-to-use web site builder
• Additional business applications. – Check out the Google Apps web-page for more information

Google Apps can be used with any web domain. For example, if your website is ‘example.com’, the e-mail app will be located at ‘mail.example.com’, your calendar will be located at ‘calendar.example.com’ and your e-mail address would look like ’email@example.com’

We hope that you find these tools useful, and we look forward to sharing more tips.

Thanks,

The PropTrackr Team

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If you were a potential buyer would you prefer to see a handful of images or a video tour of a property?

We will assume that most of you have responded that you would prefer a video tour, and that’s why we are going to let you know of the free tools (other than time & camera) that make it easy to get virtual tours up on your website/s.
Here is an example of a video tour produced by Kathleen Buckley:

First of all, you will need the raw video footage which will require you to go to the property, with a video camera, and shoot a video of the property. Don’t worry! This will not be your final production so your shoot does not need to be perfect from beginning to end.

It was mentioned above that the camera is not a free tool, but we recommend something like a
Flip because they are provide good video, are relatively inexpensive and extremely portable.

You may have noticed that Kathleen’s video pointed to the property out on the map. You could do the same thing by using Google Maps (Ideally in satellite view). Just zoom in on the property while recording your screen with Jing, an excellent & free screen recording tool.

Once you have obtained all the desired footage, you can use one of several free video editors including, but not limited to:

• Windows Movie Maker (for Windows)
• Apple iMovie (for Macs)
• JayCut (a web-based video editing applicication)

The video editors are pretty straight-forward to use, and I will not go into details. Just import the clips you want, remove the unwanted parts, add music if desired, etc.

Once your video is completed you may want to upload it to YouTube , a free video hosting web site.

YouTube will allow you to obtain the HTML necessary to embed the video anywhere you would like. So all you need to do is paste that code on your website/s and listing sites to make it available to your potential buyers!

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Hello Everyone, Merry Christmas!

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Read Top 7 Real Estate Social Media Sites, by Peter K.

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Take a look at Evan’s article, Real Estate Blog Ideas”

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