I’m throwing my hat into the ring for this one! I came up with the idea, but Morgan Carey from REW has the clout to make it happen. Take a look at the rules for the Greatest Real Estate Agent in the World contest. I’m planning on using a combination of social media campaigns, traditional article campaigns, and some good, old fashioned blogging to make this happen! I will update this blog w/ commentary on techniques other agents/brokers are using to go after this keyword, and I what I think of their techniques. For now:

1) Eric Blackwell – this is viral at its best. He’ll have to continually promote this, but if/when he catches a foothold with it (and he has the microphone to do so) he stands a huge chance of winning. After all, a team of agents working is much better than just one. They have a great chance of winning the Greatest Real Estate Agent in the World competition!

Google recently acquired 25k square feet of office space in downtown Austin. They have been advertising for engineering positions, and expect to employ 125-150 people. Personally, I think that Google & Austin are a perfect fit…Austin, as a city, encourages creativity, and Google does the same.

I’ve noticed that more than a few commentators are leaving 3 mediocre comments & leaving. I’m assuming this is to get the link juice. So…I’m bumping up the LLL settings to 4. This will make it even more obvious when people are just trying to game the blog for PR, and it will also add the nofollow to people who’ve done it in the past.

I appreciate all the genuine comments, and to the spammers, “please go away!”

Alright…I’m jacking w/ another new theme now – Mandigo.  It has tons of backend features, but it’s a little more complicated.  It’s definitely going to be jacked for a few days (unless I find more free time.)

I’m messing with a new theme for the blog – Cleaker – and am trying to tweak the new header correctly.  It will probably be a bit jacked for a few days.  Sorry…

Pop the champagne!  We sold our first bottle of lotion today!

I haven’t blogged about this yet, but it’s been in the works for a couple of months. We’re finally launching (as in, it’s live) so I thought that I should introduce it. First, let me state one important fact:

I am still 100% focused on real estate – this is what I specialize in, and this is what I love (not to mention, it’s what I’m good at.)

With that said…I’ve partnered with two good friends from college to launch TanTans.com, an “ultra-premium provider of tanning products at discount prices.” Basically, it breaks down like this: One of my good friends is a phenomenal graphic/web designer, another owns a kickass tanning salon, & I’m OK at web marketing. So…we decided to join forces.

We’ve been working on it for about 2 months & we’re already ranking 10-11 for “tanning lotion,” among other terms, and we have ~30 uniques/day. I’m very interested to see where this goes. It will definitely be a learning experience, but if we’re able to make it mildly (or wildly) successful, it will make for a fantastic template for future projects.

Let me know what you think of TanTans!!!

I haven’t blogged about my tanning lotion project yet, but I will in the very near future. I’m teaming up w/ 2 of my good friends from college to pull it off – and it’s going to be killer.

I’ll get into the details later, but I wanted to write about how easy it is to put together a super custom myspace profile. I searched around for less than five minutes & found this great squidoo lense on how to put together custom Myspace designs. It’s ridiculously easy…I don’t have it 100% down yet, but I was able to put this design together for my tanning project. Let me know what you think!

More on this later…

So…I’m trying out mybloglog.com – I noticed I was receiving quite a bit of links from the site, so I thought I’d check it out. If anyone has any experience with it, I’d love to hear about it. The purpose of this post is just to put the tracking script in….I’m typically not this boring.

I was reading Kid Disco’s SEO blog yesterday & he mentioned the SEO Expert Quiz that SEOMoz.com put out. I’ve never claimed to be an SEO expert, and now it’s official! I am an:
SEO Newbie – 63%

Now…in my defense, I was on my way out the door to a wedding, the quiz is 75 questions, and some of them are rather tricky.  The quiz’s difficulty level is pretty tough, too – so I don’t feel that bad about a 63% score.  Disco got an 83% & he’s a full time SEO consultant – I’m fine with having an SEO knowledge base 20% below him.

If you get a chance, take the quiz & let’s compare scores!