June 1st, 2010
Today I had someone ask me how I use Social Media On PhotographyForRealEstate.net. I have to admit it’s not all that clear. Here is how I use it: Twitter: I have a Twitter account (@pfreblog) and I have the PFRE blog’s Feedburner feed setup so that every time I post to PFRE Feedburner automatically sends [...]
May 2nd, 2010
On the flight over to Hawaii last week, I was listening to the This Week In Photography Podcast. They had an interview with John P, the CEO of woopra.com, and I was so impressed with the woopra live website tracking that I immediately signed up and installed woopra on PhotographyForRealEstate.net and started using it. The [...]
April 18th, 2010
I noticed that the PFRE blog is now closing on 750 posts so I thought it may be useful to review all the ways that the blog is organized so you can find information on various subjects. Only the most recent 15 posts that are displayed on the front page of the blog but once [...]
March 23rd, 2010
The Real Estate Photographer’s directory continues to be the PFRE blog’s highest traffic page (other than the front page). It currently averages about 3600 visitors a month. Which means there are around 120 agents a day using the directory to find a real estate photographer. The reason for this is because the PFRE blog and [...]
March 22nd, 2010
If you frequent the cameras and lenses pages that offer readers a directory of real estate photography camera bodies, lens reviews and links to prices, you’ve probably already noticed that this last weekend I updated the cameras and lenses page (links are along the top of the blog on the navigation bar above the header [...]
January 24th, 2010
Mike Miriello over at RealEstatePhotographyPodcast.com has decided to add a regular Q & A feature to his Podcast and Mike invited me to join him via Skype to discuss answers to questions sent to us via this Q & A form on his site. The way this will work is you just send us your [...]
December 24th, 2009
A few days ago I changed the blog header to my Christmas header. In 2007 when I first used this header, Aaron Leitz pointed out that he had a similar shot that he’d taken during the 2005 Christmas season from Gasworks park on a tripod and telephoto lens. The exact same series of lights with [...]
November 26th, 2009
I want to point out a change to the blog that may not be all that obvious. At the bottom of each post there’s a line of text that says, “Share and Enjoy“. Under that text is a line of little icons and links for posting to social networking sites. The icons are a little [...]
October 10th, 2009
I’ve posted updated versions both the English version and the Russian version of the Realtor photo guide. Andrey Khrolenok who did the Russian translation inspired me to do this update. Andrey reduced the font size in the Russian version so there is room for photo examples. He also overlaid each photo example with a red [...]
October 6th, 2009
OK, check this out this new look! Based on all the reader input that I got last week when Peter, my WordPress guy, moved the blog width to 1280 and 1024, I had Peter do a refinement to make the blog center content column fluid, based on the browser window width. The way the blog [...]
September 25th, 2009
It’s hard to miss the new wide (1280 pixel or 1024 pixel) format PFRE. Last week I hired Peter Spannagle ( blog customization consultant) of yourcustomblog.com to help me fix the problem I was having with the real estate photographer directory. Along with fixing the directory and some long time widget problems Peter suggested that [...]
September 1st, 2009
The 20% discount on all PFRE blog products (e-books and real estate photographer directory registrations) during August has been very popular so I’ve decided to extend the sale through Sept 30. The 20% discount will automatically be applied at checkout to all purchases.
August 21st, 2009
For the last 18 months I’ve experimented with second party advertising on the blog but I’ve now decided to drop all non-PFRE ads on the blog for two reasons: I want to remove any and all appearance that advertising income or advertisers in any way effect what products I write about or what I say. [...]
August 5th, 2009
Peter (flickr handle: Big Other) Just suggested that I should do a sale. So I’ve just setup my E-Junkie cart processor to automatically take 20% off of e-books and real estate directory entry registrations through the rest of August. No discount code required. Everyone gets one 20% discount.
July 10th, 2009
I’ve decided to make a blog page for the Realtor’s guide. Due to reader suggestions I now have three versions for the Realtor’s Guide for Using Photos: The original version with some editing thanks to John McBay. This file was created with Smallest Size parameters so it would be small (108K). The same version as [...]
July 5th, 2009
I want to thank everyone that’s given me input on my Realtor’s Guide to Using Photos In Real Estate Marketing. I just put an updated copy of the guide up for download (click here to download). Although I did a post earlier on what this free guide is all about, just for clarity I want [...]
June 30th, 2009
I’ve been tinkering around with Twitter for a while now. What finally lead me to decide that Twitter is to important to ignore is that the blog has been getting visitors from Twitter links in the last month. What got my attention is that several people are doing tweets on PFRE blog posts. Brad Claghorn [...]
June 7th, 2009
I was working away on Friday when my Google chat came alive and a friend told me he was going to “make my day”. And indeed he did! He’d managed to pick up the PhotographyForRealEstate.COM domain for me in an auction. So I now have the .com domain for PFRE in addition to the .net [...]
May 14th, 2009
I wanted to give everyone an update on what I’m doing with my real estate photography e-books. First of all, after offering a hard copy version of the Photography For Real Estate e-book for the last three months, I’ve decided to discontinue hard copy completely and only do electronic distribution from now on. Hardly anyone [...]
May 12th, 2009
A little shameless horn tooting is in order here! Invesp consulting implemented a new blog rank tracking system last week that uses Google and Alexis ranking, Yahoo’s count of incoming links, social site ranking and some secret sauce to come up with a blog ranking is various subject areas, and guess who comes out ranked [...]
