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Re: SOS:UrbanDigs.com Blog Down

Tom Royce — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:56:26 -0000

It looks like the evils of DNS made the difference.

Re: A New Approach To Facebook

Tom Royce — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:19:12 -0000

I have been doing the same for a year now, it is a nice combination and works well. Congrats on taking the leap. It will really let you open up on Facebook and enjoy the experience more.

Re: Small Brokers vs Large Brokers

Tom Royce — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:55:40 -0000

Brad,

I think you are right that staying small in this market gives you a competitive advantage. Very Seth Godin'ish.

Re: SOS:UrbanDigs.com Blog Down

Tom Royce — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:56:26 -0000

It looks like the evils of DNS made the difference.

Re: Bigger Penis Ads? What’s Up With Trulia?

Tom Royce — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:48:47 -0000

Since this happened to me with one of my computers, I can probably explain what happened. The guy who saw this ad has a virus on his computer. The virus replaces the ad blocks with their own ads, in this case the penis ad.

Trulia is not serving the ad, it is being served by a third party who has hijacked the computer of the reader.

Re: The End of Our Thrashers Era?!?

Tom Royce — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:57:37 -0000

I feel your pain. We gave up our seats a couple of years ago. We started in 111 and then ended up at 121. The fun thing is that now you can get lots of discounts and get begging calls from your ticket rep.

Re: Did you know that income tax liens attach to “after acquired” property?

Tom Royce — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:31:45 -0000

Paul and Ciba

This is a great dialouge on how to work through issues borrowers face. In these times of tight credit trying to get buyers through the credit approval process will take a strong team of financial and mortgage types.

Excellent example of an out of the ordinary case that might look more ordinary as time goes along.

Re: With Great Blogging Power, Comes Great Responsibility

Tom Royce — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 15:10:56 -0000

What interests me is the fragility of the press. They tend to be cut throat with other public figures, cutting very little slack on those they cover.

But because they follow the unwritten rule of not covering each other, they are amazed when those of us on the outside look in and cover them with the same jaundiced eye.

I would give the man on the street much more lattitude with my "blogging" than a reporter. Expressly because the reporter has put themselves into the mix.

Re: Newspapers Still Whining About Google News

Tom Royce — Thu, 24 May 2007 09:19:48 -0000

It is pretty simple.

Newspapers think in terms of geography. Back in the day, if you lived in Buffalo you got your news from the Buffalo News. You did not drive to Cleveland to get the Plains Dealer.

So they had the vehicle to sell specific ads of local businesses to local people. And if you were a national business, the local paper was still the best vehicle to get to those people.

Now there is Google News which messes up the papers conventional thinking two ways. First, their local people can read the stories in other papers. That is stealing.

Second, and more importantly, the local advertisers do not want to pay for a non local person to see their advertising. If I am in Atlanta and read the Buffalo News, I will not be buying a car from the Buffalo Ford Dealer.

So the newspapers, whose job is to sell advertising, is losing readers online in one direction, and gaining readers from outside their target market that ruins the ROI for the local advertisers and creates a harder sell for them.

Essentially their marketing methodology is getting creamed in both directions. That is why they hate Google News.

Re: Win Copies of Bryan Eisenberg’s New Book “Always Be Testing”

Tom Royce — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:18:41 -0000

This book looks like just what I am looking for as I try to generate more income out of my sites. I would love a copy.

Tom's last blog post..Case Shiller June, 2008 Numbers

Re: One browser feature that would take the market!

Tom Royce — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 09:02:01 -0000

This is why I use the program Blogjet. I lost to many posts due to "hiccups" in the browser.

An added benefit to using blogjet is that you can save draft posts locally to your hard drive. Adding images is also a breeze.

There are other types of posting software, ecto comes to mind, but look into it. Saving one epic post is worth the price of admission.

Re: 3 Essential Requirements for any Web Application

Tom Royce — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:46:16 -0000

Doug

Your idea of the agency feature for domain registration is brilliant. That is exactly what I need for one of my projects.

Re: Arizona Republic: Mainstream Media at its Finest.

Tom Royce — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:47:44 -0000

I got to tell you, with all the talent in Phoenix I was shocked my little site was mentioned. I think that the writer searched Google for Real Estate Blogs and mine popped up and that was that.

Of course, if the writer did cover some of the better Phoenix Real Estate Bloggers in the article and their boss read them, this writer may have feared the competition.

Keep up the great work.

Tom

Re: Please Stop Stealing My Content!

Tom Royce — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:34:16 -0000

These folks are endemic. And to be honest you are seeing only a small part of the scrapers, the moronic fringe so to say.

The good ones also strip the links out so that you can not find them. To prove this, find a sentence in a post from a couple of weeks ago that is truly yours. Do a search on that sentence and you may find a few more that are scraping you posts.

The reason why Real estate blogs are such a great target is that the ads on the pages tend to be a higher dollar amount. And if they can get their sites ranking they can get the gold standard mortgage traffic that pays very well.

Hope this helps and keep up the great work!

Tom

Re: Purchasing Part of an Existing Lot: Ask the Broker

Tom Royce — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:45:00 -0000

Or you can not worry about the mortgage at all and get a lobbyist and vendor to pay for it like Tony Rezko.

Sure worked well for Barak Obama... :)

Sorry, could not resist.

<abbr>Tom at the Real Estate Bloggerss last blog post..The Sky Is Not Falling When Bad Bills Do Not Pass</abbr>

Re: Why Paid Blog Comments are a Waste of Your Money (and my time)

Tom Royce — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:15:24 -0000

You are a better man than me. I spam these comments as it is a distraction and it seems someone is trying to get one over on me.

What is even more annoying is this type of comment that I am getting more and more of now.

Good comment

(then) blatant advertising pitch including a couple of urls.

While I love the comment the advertising pitch has to go. So I am deleting the pitch and posting the comment. It is a little more work but it helps everyone as opposed to just spamming the comment.

<abbr></abbr><abbr>Tom at the Real Estate Bloggers´s last blog post..Leonardo DiCaprio Selling His Malibu Home For $8,999,000</abbr>

Re: Why Paid Blog Comments are a Waste of Your Money (and my time)

Tom Royce — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:42:02 -0000

Odds are the people doing the comment spamming are the same ones who pass their cards out to every single person they come into contact with. They have no shame and see the world only as a marketing opportunity never thinking about the damage they are doing to their reputation.

Re: Win a FREE Pass to Inman Connect! (oh, and a t-shirt too…)

Tom Royce — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:04:37 -0000

Would love to win the pass to the conference but to wear the shirt? Priceless.

Great contest and great idea.

<abbr></abbr><abbr>Tom Royce´s last blog post..San Diego Real Estate Bubble Caused Local Recession</abbr>

Re: And the Winner is…

Tom Royce — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:58:31 -0000

Congrats Poppy. Have a great time in NY and make sure you learn a bunch you can share with us.

<abbr></abbr><abbr>Tom Royce´s last blog post..Activist Moving Homeless Into Vacant Foreclosed Homes - And Ruining Lives</abbr>

Re: From the I don’t get it files: I need more info on your listing

Tom Royce — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:46:33 -0000

With a little tweaking this could be an Abbott and Costello routine. Actually now that I think of it, it does not need a little tweaking at all.

Humor does arrive from human suffering.

<abbr></abbr><abbr>Tom at the Real Estate Bloggers´s last blog post..$1 Million Real Estate Coupon - Thinking Outside The Box</abbr>

Re: How to Write a Proper Website or Blog Review: What Elements to Include in a Paid or UnPaid Review

Tom Royce — Thu, 10 May 2007 22:00:56 -0000

That is the problem with a 5 dollar review. Ugh, he should have made change...

Of course, it led to a 100 dollar post, this one, so it pays off in the end.

Re: Start Your Month Off By Looking at Last Month: Traffic & Profits

Tom Royce — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:00:40 -0000

Joshua

I know exactly what you mean by the numbers on Alexa. One of our overlap markets is miserable for Alexa and it is costing me every month. If the numbers matched up with the reality the revenue on the site from a couple of sources would jump significantly.

Steve, thanks for the link on the Alexa tools, I will try a couple.

Tom

Re: Should Blogs Focus on a Particular Niche?

Tom Royce — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:19:47 -0000

Like a laser to the point of writing the same article just slightly differently makes you think that nausea is right around the corner. LOL

But seriously, the other alternative is to have a loosely focused blog on a vertical and then do microblogs that target the specific niches of that vertical. The main one can bring you fame and glory and occasionally funnel traffic and link love to the other sites, but it also allows the other sites to gain the benefit of tightly targeted advertising and sponsorship opportunities.

Re: Online Business Tragedy: The Loss of My Email, Address Book & Calendar

Tom Royce — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:21:03 -0000

Josh,

If you have a good backup of the data, or one that may be good but you are not sure, start calling the MAC shops in your neck of the woods. Odds are there are tools for Entourage just as there are for Outlook that can recover the data.

You probably will have to pay a couple of nickels for the work, but that is for you to determine how much it is worth. I have saved many an Outlook file the owner, who in the midst of a huge stress attack, could not see that they could be saved.

Good luck, I know it is a very difficult time.

Tom

Re: How to Quickly Screen an SEO Company in Less than a Minute

Tom Royce — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:13:17 -0000

Great post Josh.

It is amazing how people who will contact you about advertising will then berate you for charging too much. It is not like you cold called him!