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Darin Ferraro
7813 Posts |
 Posted - 03/20/2006 : 09:51:19 AM
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Everyone knows having your own mortgage blog in today's market is important to grab your customers attention and interest in your services and products. Anyone can create a blog for free on any one of many blogging sites, but how will you separate yourself from the millions of others in our own industry?
Now you can using the Broker Outpost Blogging Features!
You can quickly grab a host, select a template, and start blogging mortgage related information to create your own corner of the web. But the true advantage is it's integration with our mortgage content!
Easily select contributed mortgage content from our vast database contributed by mortgage professionals just like you. Mix in the content with your own personal blog posts about the industry or your local area and you'll soon have a very unique and content rich blog for customers to find, and subscribe to.
The blogging system generates your own personal RSS feed which you can add to newsreaders, aggregators, and blog search engines so consumers can find and subscribe to you!
Checkout this sample site here:
http://www.vegasrefinancing.com/content/blog.htm
With it's matching RSS XMl File for submission to RSS resources:
http://www.vegasrefinancing.com/content/blog.xml
For more information upgrade your Broker Outpost account to a Premium Member and have instant access to all available features. |
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lenderama
887 Posts |
Posted - 03/20/2006 : 1:39:46 PM
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That's awesome Darin! Blogs are the future. I have a question about the service. If a member uses some of the content written by others (like on the web sites) do the original authors still get a link like before?
Also, for anyone who starts a blog, remember that I have a huge Blog Roll Page of mortgage a real estate bloggers that I will list you on, no strings attached. I only ask that you blog steady for about three weeks before you ask me to add your blog. This way, I know you are committed to keeping it going.
In addition, I will trade links on my main blog lenderama.com with any blogger who links to me first. My blog is ranked pretty well, so you definitely benefit from trading links with me if you are a blogger. |
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Darin Ferraro
7813 Posts |
Posted - 03/20/2006 : 2:35:12 PM
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Hey Todd, the content you use still works the same, everyone gets link backs on those posts. The content pages you select are like separate blog posts. So basically anything you blog yourself is free standing and not connected with the system at all.. which means anyone can basically blog about anything they want (hopefully mortgage related!).
I do have some other features which till take advantage of some of the more popular blog networks as well.. including the blog rolling.
I look forward to members creating their own unique blogs and gabbing about their local markets and services! |
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adrian
23 Posts |
Posted - 03/20/2006 : 4:36:16 PM
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So what's the response been like?
Thanks,
Adrian |
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Darin Ferraro
7813 Posts |
Posted - 03/20/2006 : 4:47:33 PM
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Excellent!
I see members already using the system. I just checked one of the blog engines and found a few of our members blog pages already listed :) |
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bnageh
1 Posts |
Posted - 03/21/2006 : 02:12:57 AM
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| i am sorry but what is a mortgage blogg |
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Darin Ferraro
7813 Posts |
Posted - 03/21/2006 : 07:33:02 AM
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| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog |
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lenderama
887 Posts |
Posted - 03/21/2006 : 1:43:04 PM
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A mortgage blog is a way for loan officers to comment on mortgages, real estate, or even who won the state footbal championship. Blogs are written like a newspaper column. The writer is expected to give his perspective/opinion. Some exellent examples of mortgage/real estate blogs are
http://blog.pacesettermortgage.com/
http://www.behindthemortgage.typepad.com/
http://matrix.millersamuel.com/
http://www.raincityguide.com/
http://philleto.blogspot.com/
My personal blog lenderama.com is a blog geared toward other mortgage brokers. I also blog for realtyblogging.com. My specific focus on that blog is to show other real estate and mortgage professionals how to get started in blogging. My posts can be found under Todd Carpenter in blogging for business.
What Darin has done, is make it very easy for Mortgage Pros to add their own news and opinions to their web site, without the need for a web designer to do it for you. By publishing always fresh content, you give readers a reason to frequent your site, even if they aren't necessarily looking for a mortgage. |
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Darin Ferraro
7813 Posts |
Posted - 03/21/2006 : 3:25:49 PM
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| BTW Thanks Todd for posting about my new blog services on your site! I found it on blogsearch.google.com :) |
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lenderama
887 Posts |
Posted - 03/21/2006 : 11:52:04 PM
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Originally posted by Darin Ferraro
BTW Thanks Todd for posting about my new blog services on your site! I found it on blogsearch.google.com :)
Your welcome! Google Blog Search is very cool. I use the RSS feeds from the results for terms like "mortgage" to see what's new with other mortgage bloggers. The feed automaically updates with the latest posts. I will be including this in my update to my mortgage bookmarks tool soon. |
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govnasteven
1357 Posts |
Posted - 03/22/2006 : 01:24:44 AM
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| I'm really digging the new blog feature. Darin, every time you add something new like that, it makes the small monthly fee worth it all by itself. I would pay $10 per month for any ONE of the services that are now offered through premium. Not that I am going to go out of my way to give you extra money - I am happy with my $10/month deal. |
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Darin Ferraro
7813 Posts |
Posted - 03/22/2006 : 06:56:58 AM
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| Thanks Steven.. I think.. :P |
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MortgageLead.com
517 Posts |
Posted - 03/26/2006 : 7:49:30 PM
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Once you get your blog set up please post or email me your URL and I will add it to my blogroll.
Also send me the anchor text you want me to link to you with:
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Darin Ferraro
7813 Posts |
Posted - 03/26/2006 : 8:37:02 PM
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| Hey AJ, whats your blog(s)? |
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MortgageLead.com
517 Posts |
Posted - 03/27/2006 : 05:29:03 AM
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mortgageblog.com (what else would you call it?)
:)
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Darin Ferraro
7813 Posts |
Posted - 03/27/2006 : 10:32:50 PM
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| Whoa how come the outpost isnt on your list! pfft! |
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lenderama
887 Posts |
Posted - 03/27/2006 : 10:52:50 PM
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quote:
Originally posted by MortgageLead.com
(what else would you call it?)
Call it lenderama! Now that's a name  |
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VanMan
424 Posts |
Posted - 03/28/2006 : 02:28:42 AM
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| I would like to know where to start Darin! As far as set up goes for us newbies? I don't know where to start! |
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MortgageLead.com
517 Posts |
Posted - 03/28/2006 : 05:33:49 AM
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Lenderama? Wasn't that the name of a Cars "album"?
:)
I will add the BO link for you Darin. What anchor text do you want?
AJ |
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Darin Ferraro
7813 Posts |
Posted - 03/28/2006 : 10:00:00 AM
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| 'Broker Outpost' is fine! Thx! |
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MSMTGFINDER
4 Posts |
Posted - 03/28/2006 : 6:18:50 PM
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| What do you need to do to start a Blog? |
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MortgageLead.com
517 Posts |
Posted - 03/28/2006 : 7:35:01 PM
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Hobby sites or just a place to test and learn
Free one is http://www.blogger.com/start
or
https://www.typepad.com/t/app/register
To build a mortgage blog then try Darin's system in the Premium area.
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Darin Ferraro
7813 Posts |
Posted - 03/28/2006 : 9:31:45 PM
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| OR you can upgrade to Premium Membership and start your own blog here. Lots of content to use and features not found anywhere else for a mortgage professional! |
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Darin Ferraro
7813 Posts |
Posted - 04/18/2006 : 09:55:36 AM
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| Tom just upgrade your account to Premium Membership. |
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roslyngrant@sbcg
2264 Posts |
Posted - 05/01/2006 : 12:23:26 PM
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| k...what is RSS? |
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Darin Ferraro
7813 Posts |
Posted - 05/01/2006 : 12:28:32 PM
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Real Simple Syndication is most cases now. Its a way to expose information in a machine readable structured file called an XML file.
Most any news service now offers their news in RSS format. |
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