Promoting a Conference – Part 1

by Joshua Dorkin on December 26, 2011

I’ve been spending time on a ranch in Southern California over the holidays and came up with a great idea for a series of promo videos for our upcoming BiggerPockets Real Estate Investing Summit 2012. Check out Part 1 of the Cheesy Promo Series Below: More to come soon . . .

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Holy Cow! I’m Throwing a Conference: BiggerPockets REI Summit 2012 in Denver

December 3, 2011 Entrepreneurship

The announcement came two weeks ago, but since then I’ve been so swamped with getting my act together and with travel for the Thanksgiving holidays, that I didn’t have a chance to mention it here. On March 23-24, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center I am going to be throwing the [...]

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September Google AdSense Payments Delayed: Finally, An Answer . . .

November 11, 2011 Google AdSense

I just got the following email from Google regarding the delay of payment that I and many others have been experiencing as it pertains to our September 2011 earnings. I’m glad to hear that there is a resolution to the matter and I’m sure that I’m not alone in looking forward to the one-time mid-month [...]

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Is Social Media Replacing Blogging? Will Micro-Blogging Destroy Blogs?

November 8, 2011 Social Media
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It is always great to have the opportunity to share your knowledge with others, and I am grateful to have had the opportunity to do so at BlogWorld. As a panelist on the topic of Promoting Your Blog in the Age of Social Media, I dealt with many questions on promoting a corporate blog and [...]

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BlogWorld 2011 and the John Chow Cookie Monster Song

November 7, 2011 Funny

I’m just getting back to reality after my trip to BlogWorld, and while going through my camera, I found this little gem that I recorded for your viewing pleasure. I’ll be posting about my experience shortly, but in the meanwhile, please enjoy the always entertaining John Chow, as he does the Cookie Monster song, complete [...]

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Recent Personal Blogging and Speaking News

September 21, 2011 Commentary

Hey everyone. There’s plenty of cool news in these parts . . . I’m going to be a speaker at Blogworld LA 2011 on a panel titled, Promoting Your Blog in the Age of Social Media with Doyle Albee, Brett Greene, Jeannine Crooks and Dave Taylor. Make sure to check out all the great speakers [...]

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Falling Back Into Old Bad Habits: Blogging vs. Social Networking

August 20, 2011 Social Media

The eternal debate over moving your social identity from blogging platforms to other social media like social networks will never die (for the foreseeable future, at least), but I for one believe that you should never cede complete control of your personal brand to the innumerable social networks. A personal or business blog, hosted on [...]

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How Your Virtual Assistant Can Ruin Your Online Reputation

August 14, 2011 Social Media

One of the troubling trends that I’ve seen more and more of recently, is that people are outsourcing aspects of their social profile to Virtual Assistants (VAs) who are clearly unqualified for the task. I see the average Joe, large speakers and other personalities who participate online and use a VA to do so on [...]

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How Dare You! How to Charge Your Friends for Calls, Emails, Texts, Social Networking & Video Conferencing

June 23, 2011 Funny

In a sign of the times, with our economy hitting lower lows and no hope in sight, some savvy entrepreneurs have come up with creative ways to survive. Below you’ll find an actual email I received today from a friend – Charles Feldman. As you can see, the cost of connecting is not cheap, and [...]

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Seeking a Website Developer Position? Don’t Be Stupid!

March 9, 2011 Entrepreneurship

I recently posted on various rails job sites about a new open position available on BiggerPockets (BTW – If you’re a ruby on rails developer and are looking for work, please get in touch ASAP!). In going through the various replies, I came upon one that seemed interesting, but the developer didn’t supply me with [...]

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Yahoo Finally Discontinues MyBlogLog

February 24, 2011 Blogging

It looks like Yahoo has made it official . . . on May 24, 2011 the MyBlogLog service will be “discontinued.” While I haven’t used the service in some time – about 2 years ago I saw this coming when their business development team all but completely blew off several attempts I made to connect [...]

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Why You Shouldn’t Nickel & Dime Your Customers

December 8, 2010 Commentary
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This story can be applied to any kind of business, so pay attention . . . Almost a year ago we found a local company to clean the house. They worked on a few homes in the neighborhood and did a great job. Unfortunately, that relationship came to an unfortunate and abrupt end today. We [...]

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New Paid Directories and Other Online Products: Chicken or Egg?

November 30, 2010 Entrepreneurship
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We just launched a new product on BiggerPockets, a hard money lenders directory, and I’ve been pondering the challenges of getting a product like this off the ground. Lucky for us, our site has a nice built in audience of over 60,000 members and we’re approaching 200,000 monthly uniques, so I’m confident that we can [...]

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Slideshare – Are you using it?

November 22, 2010 Website Tools

The following post, from David at twago, details how businesses can utilize the Slideshare social media platform to drive their marketing efforts. Utilizing the benefits of Social Media is difficult for any company. Whilst the prospect of expanding the online presence of your company into new markets to reach potential customers is intriguing, getting the [...]

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