Las Vegas, Henderson and North Las Vegas Real Estate: October 2006

At 2 PM Central, listen in to investor Wendy Patton, from Detroit, as she talks about pre-construction investing. Topics that will be covered include lead generation, how to find construction companies, and what makes pre-construction investing so easy. Wendy has more than 20 years and 650 transactions worth of investing experience.

At 3 PM Central, Mike Morawski, from Palatine, IL talks about his success using the Millionaire Real Estate Investor Client Workshop Kit. His first seminar resulted in six sales totaling $1.2 million! Find out how they promote attendance, and who they invite to speak at the workshops. The Morawski Team closed 117 transactions in 2005 with an average price of $190,000.

To listen in, dial (512) 225-9443 and input 914315#. The teleconferences are FREE and open to anyone. MP3 downloads of each session are also available free for one week after the call. For more info, visit Millionaire Mondays.

Congratulations to Teri Isner, a Keller Williams agent from Orlando, FL for being the first on ActiveRain to reach the 100,000 point level! Teri did it with over 300 blog entries, over 1600 comments, and by inviting 37 other members to ActiveRain. Teri also helped organize the ActiveRain meeting at NAR in New Orleans next month.

Along the way Teri has shared many tips and content ideas from her website, www.OrlandoAvenue.com and given us some great insight on real estate in the Caribbean. She is the co-author with Ken DeShaies of the Central Florida Edition of How to Make Your REALTOR® Get You the Best Deal. Teri is also involved with KW Cares.

Looking for an example of a FSBO direct mail campaign? Check Teri's blogs on her FSBO 8x8 program (part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5). She has also blogged about farming, a great neighborhood yard sale strategy, and published her team's customer service evaluation.

Teri loves to share new tools and tricks. Entries about the DISC profile, Picasa, Skype, AddBranding, new items from the CRS Store, and more can be found in Teri's blog. And then there's the story of over 200 new listings.

Congratulations, Teri, on your success both in and out of the Rain. You are very deserving of everything you've earned. Now you can relax while the rest of us catch up, or maybe turn your attention to your '100 Things to Do' list. Great work!

Yesterday's Chicago Tribune had a story about blogging, written by Steve Johnson, with some interesting statistics:

• 175,000 new blogs are created each day (Technorati)
• Of the 57 million blogs that Technorati watches, one in eight add new content weekly.
• The primary topics for blogs are "my life and experiences" (37%) and politics (11%) (Pew Internet project - www.pewinternet.org)
• 12 million American adults have blogs; 57 million read them. (Pew Internet)

The story also mentions that SixApart (the company that brought us LiveJournal, Movable Type and TypePad) is introducing Vox.com, a new friends and family-oriented blog tool. Vox.com will integrate with YouTube, Flickr, Photobucket, and Amazon as well as audio and video options. It also lets bloggers set different levels of privacy such as friends only, family only, or public.

For us to grow as bloggers it's helpful to step out of the Rain once in awhile and take a look at the blogosphere from a different perspective. Technorati, Pew Internet, and Vox.com provide three views that can help us understand how blogs are being used and how we can improve our own content.

At 2 PM Central, hear how the father-and-son team of Don and Ryan Zeleznak from Phoenix use wraps, lease options, foreclosures and development opportunities to build wealth for their clients. Among their holdings are 20 residential rentals, 12 office/condo projects, and a 2500-lot golf community. They are also involved in building over 1400 homes. The Zeleznak Group is the #1 group nationwide for Keller Williams.

At 3 PM Central, Jeff Scislow, from Minneapolis, talks about the lead capture techniques he uses on his websites, and how his team focuses on efficiency, effectiveness and excellence. Jeff is a 7-time RE/MAX Sales Associate of the Year for Minnesota. The Scislow Group averages more than 115 transactions a year.

To listen in, dial (512) 225-9443 and input 914315#. The teleconferences are FREE and open to anyone. MP3 downloads of each session are also available free for one week after the call. For more info, visit Millionaire Mondays.

Have you noticed the new navigation enhancements on ActiveRain? Click on any state from the map on the home page, and then in the left-hand margin there are these links:

• Information
• News and Events
• Market Reports
• Blogged Listings

Users can even drill down to the county and city level in those categories. This is a great enhancement to help consumers quickly and easily find information that is relevant and useful to them. Congratulations to the ActiveRain Team and community on this improvement!