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This weekend, a friend sent me this link to a website which is a duplicate of an Ubertor website. (http://www.julialau.ca/) This site is not running on the Ubertor system but it looks just like an Ubertor site. When I say "look" I'm not just talking about the color scheme, but the listing module is the mirror image of Ubertor.

We all know that copy and paste is prevelant on the internet. You find something you like, whether it is text or a cool widget and you want it on your site. But the level of copying on this site is over the top - it is just blatant theft.

Funny thing is if you look closely in the code you will even

Yesterday Google announced an agreement with Yahoo! to show their Sponsored Links (Google Adwords) on the Yahoo! U.S. and Canadian search results. Google will also provided content advertising to Yahoo! as well. Google is already has a similar partenership with Ask.com and AOL.com and you can read more about Google's Post about the Yahoo! Google agreement here

A few points about the deal according to Tech Crunch

1. It is none exclusive - Google and Yahoo! ads will run on Yahoo! 2. It is expected to add $800 million in revenue 3. Yahoo! natural search will be unaffected by the agreement

What does this mean for you the advertiser?

One

Video is Hot! We are teaching it and 24Hours Magazine is writing about it. Our next session is in three weeks. People are already signing up. Take 2 minutes and read the article below and you will see why Video is a hot topic and how you can easily get started right away

Article Printed in 24Hour Magazine by Buzz Bishop The revolution will be streamed online

When Leo Laporte’s TV show, The Lab with Leo, was cancelled earlier this year by Rogers Television, he didn’t get on the phone and try to shop it to another network. Instead, he rented out a second floor of his workspace and created his own network – online. Such

At our inaugural Video Training Workshop we had a very special guest in attendance.  Gillian Shaw from the Vancouver Sun was there to learn about the use of online video in the business world and to write an article about Reachd and online video.  At that workshop, all the participants received a FREE Flip Ultra Video Camera and we told that we were running a contest.  All of the students were asked to submit a video using their new camera and Gillian Shaw would pick one 4 days later that she felt was the best.  We recieved 3 submissions.  I emailed Gillian with the submission so that she could judge them.  Not only did she like

At last weeks 3 hour video workshop we had Gillian Shaw from the Vancouver Sun as a special guest.  She wrote an article about online video and the workshops that we are running.   At the end of the workshop, all of the students had their new Flip video cameras and we setup a contest.  All were asked to submit a video by the end of the week, Gillian Shaw would be the judge and the best video would get a seat in any of our upcoming workshops.  3 videos were submitted before the deadline.  Here they are: (winner will be chosen this week) Condo Living In North Vancouver, BC, Canada from Mike Giesbrecht on

Welcome to the Carnival of Real Estate.  Lots of submissions this week with some really well written articles.  I have picked 8 of the posts to be included in this weeks carnival.  They are below in no particular order.  

1. Home Staging - You can stage it, even if they don't get it.  

2. Home Staging - Real Estate Death Match: Martha Stewart vs. Oscar Madison 

3. SEO - The Light Just Went On At NAR And Move

4. Real Estate Sales - Bad Pricing Strategies That Will Likely Come Back To Bite Sellers In The Arse!

5. Real Estate Investing - Scenario 28: Criminals Everywhere.

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Reachd.com just experienced a facelift! Kuni, from kunidesign.com has been working with us to develop a new look and feel for the Reachd website and branding, and I have to tell you I'm pretty excited with what he's come up with. 

Reachd.com is hosted by Ubertor, a content management system that is SEO friendly and one which allows for lots of customization options since the CSS is unlocked. If you are sure that all that means, you might check out this short video that give a before and after look at Ubertor websites that have been customized via CSS.

The new look is still in it's infancy and will be changing and morphing

Apparently the link to the Google form that I sent out in the last blog post was...no good. 

Thank you Patricia for helping me to fix it.

Here is a new link to the form that I created. http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pYutyq9ZTXhd2CTn9y_SWOg

Take 2 minutes and fill it out...and please let me know if the link works -- thanks.

How do I plan to use this new tool and How does it relate to SEO?

I would like to begin surveying the people that visit our website. People come to Reachd.com because they are looking for info or help with SEO or Adwords. My plan is to use this tool to quickly and easy

Google has been at again. Releasing new cool stuff to make our lives easy. Maybe this is old news for you as the tool was release just about a week ago but this is first time that I got ot look at it.

Here is how you create your own custom form with Google Docs

1. Log into your Google Account 2. Go to http://docs.google.com and click new spreadsheet 3. From there Name your worksheet something and save it. 4. Then go to share and you will see a link that says "invite people to fill in a form" 5. Create your form and then either email it to people or frame it in on your site using the URL provided.

Pretty Cool --

I just finished listening to an audio recording of an interview with Seth Godin. Also on the interview was Michael Port and David Meerman Scott

I was cleaning up my office and trying to get a bit more organized as I listened. Actually not a good ideas as I find multi-tasking to be less productive then focusing on one item -- but that is the topic for another day.

As I was working and listening, Seth mentioned a mortgage broker as one of his examples. Since we have taught mortgage brokers and real estate agents, my ears perked up.

Seth said, "In times past if you had a good experience with a mortgage broker you would tell