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Your Online Reputation

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Is your online professional reputation up-to-date? I work with numerous real estate agents and was recently searching for a few on Linkedin. Imagine my surprise when I found not one, not two, but 38 different agents still listing a brokerage that went out of business over a year ago as their current employer! I checked [...]

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Gentlemint…Testosterone-driven Social Media!

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What is Gentlemint? As simply stated by the co-founders (Brian McKinney & Glen Stansberry) of this new social media site, “A Mint of Manly Things.” Ladies, take heart, there are no gender barriers to membership. As a matter of fact, my wife, Ashley Drake Gephart, was a “Gentleminter” almost a week before I was. Perusing [...]

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The Evolution of Social Media

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This Friday, Jan 13th at 9AM, don’t miss Ashley Drake Gephart talking about the “Evolution of Social Media” on KIVA AM 1550′s “New Mexico and Company with Larry Ahrens!” If you don’t live in the Albuquerque metro area, you can still listen to the broadcast using the radio station’s Internet link below: KIVA 1550 AM [...]

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Windows 7 Taskbar Icon Trick

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As I’ve said before, Microsoft’s trend in the last couple of Windows versions has been to move the user off the desktop and toward the taskbar. Well, if you’re like me, you like all of your most frequently used apps to have distinguishable shortcuts. So, you customize them as best as you can visually. But [...]

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eCleaner Add-on for Firefox

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Those of you who know me know all too well how passionate I am about Firefox. Besides my open-source convictions of Mozilla, I have always loved the browser for its ability to be greatly customizable through its registry of settings and many developers’ add-ons. One of my favorite add-ons (and I have many) I find [...]

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7 Things Every Dental Website Needs

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Like countless industries, dental practices need to keep in mind what information their site visitors are looking for and how to obtain it easily. By providing their users with the content they’re looking for in an easily navigatable and self-serving website, they’re increasing their users’ satisfaction and their conversion rates. We believe there are seven [...]

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Clean Web Design

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Nothing drives me crazier than perusing a website and being assaulted by flash slideshows, changing javascripted background images, sidebar animations, and four columns of tightly-squeezed information so small I can’t even read the font! Yet, this is what I see far too often these days. After I bounce immediately off the site, I am reminded [...]

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Windows 8: Throwing Desktop Computer Users Out the Window?

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It’s been said that Microsoft has about a year until their estimated final release of Windows 8 and a lot can change (rather, be added) by then. I think they’re going to need it! Microsoft has the right strategy in mind–grab onto the tablet market with all its might–which they so desperately need to do [...]

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Facebook & Blogging Seminar For Realtors 10/21/11

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Why should I be on Facebook? • Because my business needs to create more buzz and relationships with my customers! • Because I’ve been noticing that many companies (large and small) are using Facebook Pages! • Because my sphere of influence and potential clients are already there! Who is this Class for? ANYONE in the [...]

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Facebook & Blogging Seminar For Realtors 9/23/11

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This seminar is currently full. Please check out the next Facebook & Blogging Seminar on Oct 21st! Why should I be on Facebook? • Because my business needs to create more buzz and relationships with my customers! • Because I’ve been noticing that many companies (large and small) are using Facebook Pages! • Because my [...]

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