By Jeannette Kocsis RISMEDIA, Jan. 16, 2008-These days, no one questions the value of search engine marketing - but there remains

By Don Kottick RISMEDIA, Jan. 15, 2008-The real estate industry previously had a tendency towards tardiness when it came to adopting

By Dr. Cliff Baird RISMEDIA, Jan. 14, 2008--"If you do not allow your manager/coach to hold you accountable, you WILL NOT and you CANNOT reach your full potential." Most of life is simple to figure out but it is often not easy to carry through on what we know we should do.

By Dr. Cliff Baird RISMEDIA, Jan. 11, 2008-Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart, wrote the following: "The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want.

By Richard Abronson RISMEDIA, Jan. 10, 2008-There's a new game in town and it promises to further reshape the real estate industry

By Barry Hurd RISMEDIA, Jan. 9, 2008-Do you need a basic introduction about search engine optimization (SEO)?

By Ralph R. Roberts RISMEDIA, Jan. 8, 2008-During the current mortgage meltdown, the press has turned its focus on the most

RISMEDIA, Jan. 7, 2008--InternetCrusade® and RISMedia have announced a new partnership in RealTown, a trademarked Nevada corporation that owns and operates the RealTown.com real estate web portal.

By Don Kottick RISMEDIA, Jan. 4, 2008-So, you want to know about the demographic segment of our population known as Generation Y

By Eugene L. Meyer RISMEDIA, Jan. 3, 2008-The latest news on the real estate front was either calmly reassuring or deeply alarming, depending on your point of view.

By Brian Corey RISMEDIA, Jan. 2, 2008-For the average Web user or a Realtor who concentrates his or her efforts largely on traditional sales and marketing methods, Google is basically a wildly popular search engine which is so famous, its name also acts as a frequently used verb. When you ask someone a question about a topic they're not familiar with, you may have heard them reply "Why don't you Google it?"

Commentary by Dr. Cliff Baird RISMEDIA, Jan. 1, 2008-"If you do not allow your manager/coach to hold you accountable, you will not and you cannot reach your full potential."

By Lorne Wallace RISMEDIA, Dec. 31, 2007--In my 20 years of traveling around to real estate brokerages, one of the areas that most everyone struggles with is recruiting. What I'd like to explore this month is how your back office operation can help you with this process.

By Barry Hurd RISMEDIA, Dec. 28, 2007--Professional networking is getting more and more complex. In addition to business parties and family events, professionals are constantly

Commentary by Ralph R. Roberts RISMEDIA, Dec. 27, 2007-In response to my article, "Realtor Caught in Cash-Back-at-Closing's Crosshairs," a newly licensed associate broker from Washington state e-mailed me asking whether a cash back at closing deal could ever be legal. His question applied to the following scenario