JVPress is a new wordpress theme that makes Kajabi style launches dead simple.  Many of you asked how I put up this very successful campaign that has earned nearly 100 comments on Facebook, as well as over a thousand video views and countless shares via Twitter and other social networks.  This video case study shows you exactly how JVPress ties it all together.

Best of all, unlike Kajabi, JVPress does not charge a monthly fee.  Plus, you maintain control of your own domain instead of handing over the hosting to an unknown 3rd party.  JVPress is a very affordable theme that will deliver you powerful results.

Full disclosure: I highly recommend JV Press because of the great results it gives me, and therefore participate in their affiliate program which are tied to the links in this post and my rolodex.  Should you think that I’m not deserving of a referral fee, simply search for their website and visit it directly.  Either way, give JVPress strong consideration for your social media promotional strategy.

You can stop worrying about Search Engine Optimization.  There is an easy way to get more traffic to your site so that SEO comes naturally.

Start a Blog.

Not just any blog.  You have to set it up right so that it is fully optimized for google and the other search engines.  You also have to have a posting strategy that works.  When you do these 2 things you will get results. (hang on til the end and I’ll show you how)

Want proof?

I’ll compare my site, the one you are on right now with the  web site grader of a random site I found of a local business, Marygrove Awnings of Austin, TX.

We’ll use a great, FREE tool called Web Site Grader, put out by Hub Spot.

Now, take a look at Marygrove’s web site grade results.  This site scores only a 63 (out of 100).  Scroll down and you will see that the site has been up for over 11 years, yet only has 45 pages indexed by google.

The search engines do not like sites like these because they are not frequently updated.  Their content gets stale.

On the other hand, this site, SteveRosenbaum.com is optimized much better for the search engines to drive traffic to it.  It scores a 93!  Even though this particular site has only been up for less than 6 months, Google has indexed over 139 pages on it!

Do you want to set up your site to get more traffic, while saving yourself a lot of money, time and aggravation? Ask me about my turnkey blog installation and training program.  In less than 2 days, you can completely upgrade your site to be fully optimized with a custom, full-featured blog installed on your own private domain.

Send me an email, and tell me more about your needs.

Andrew Carnegie, and many business tycoons of years gone by, understood the exponential power gained by focusing the talents and skills of small teams of people into mastermind groups to excel on a single goal or task:

“It is the fuel that allows common people
to attain uncommon results.”
- Andrew Carnegie

Many of today’s business leaders also credit master mind groups for their success.

Within the next few weeks, I will be organizing a series of mastermind groups, focused on individual topics, for today’s business leaders. The first three topics will be:

1. Blogging: Beginning to advanced; setting up a WordPress blog
2. CRM: Setting up and getting the most out of any CRM system
3. Audio/Video: How to produce great podcasts and videos without spending a lot of time and money

My goal is to make my mastermind groups the single best investiment you have made in your career.  These mastermind groups will be for serious professionals who understand the need for active participation.

By design, I will have to limit the number of people in each group to make sure that each person receives the maximum benefit.  That is why it is important for you to register in the form at right and send me a personal email (steve [at] steverosenbaum[dot]com) telling me which group you would like to participate in.

This week I’ve helped many people from Virtual Real Estate BarCamp (#VREBC) that took advantage of my offer for a free blog critique. I’ve seen some great looking blogs, but many of the people that asked for my help did not have a strong blogging strategy and technique that would help them get good search engine results and strong backlinks.

That’s why I made this video called Blog Posting Secrets.

Watch over my shoulder, as I show you step by step how I wrote today’s blog post “Free Webinar – CRM Software: Your Constant Contact Cash Machine” . (Sorry, I was a little tongue tied today… so I sound a bit funny. But the content of this video more than makes up for it!)

Let’s take this post to the next level… Leave your comments about how you write your blog posts.

Educating Real Estate Agents On How To Use Modern Technologies To Better Their Business Will Never Be The Same!

On November 17th, 2009 dozens of the most respected educators in the real estate industry converge to host the first of its kind, Virtual Real Estate BarCamp.

Virtual Real Estate BarCamp is a 1-Day Learning Extravaganza.

From 9am until 4pm PST, three concurrent webinar “rooms” will each host 9 different sessions, for a total of 27 different presentations.

There is something for everyone and everything for someone, and best of all, IT IS FREE and attendance is unlimited!

Click below to:

Register.

Learn more.

See who is coming.

Check out the Session Calendar.

Get sponsorship info.

Attendance is projected to be at least 1000 agents, nationwide.

Do not miss out on being part of this ground-breaking event.

Session topics include:

1. Social Media Risk Management
2. Flickr for Real Estate
3. Developing Your Brand
4. Online Advertising Secrets
5. Facebook for Real Estate
6. WordPress Training
7. Daily Goal Tracking
8. Starting a Real Estate Blog

…and much more, with new sessions being added every day.

And if that wasn\’t cool enough, individuals from around the country are volunteering to host In-Real-Life MeetUps for after the event.

Learn all day, and then meet to have a beer with local participants. This is going to be a blast!

We hope to see you there!

Social Media widgets and viral buttons are everywhere.  But I’ve never seen 2 more powerful buttons than these.  Here are step-by-step instructions how to create these beauties on your blog posts:

There are many reasons these are so great:

• They’re BIG!

• They link to the BIG BOYS! (twitter and facebook)

• Most importantly, they do all the work for your reader.

Take a look what happens when you select the buttons.  They open a new page and prefill your status on Twitter or Facebook with a link to the post.  All your reader has to do is press “Enter” and you will get virally posted to your all your readers friends.

These are easy to use.  Simply Copy and paste this code into your blog post.

<a href=”http://twitter.com/home?status=Magic+Viral+Buttons+For+Your+Blog+Posts.%22+Watch+This+Video.%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly/2scdXW+” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://steverosenbaum.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/twitter_share.png” border=”0″ alt=”Twitter” width=”230″ height=”47″ /></a><a href=”http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://steverosenbaum.com/magic-viral-social-media-buttons-for-your-blog-posts” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://steverosenbaum.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/facebook_share.png” border=”0″ alt=”Facebook” width=”255″ height=”47″ /></a>

CAUTION: You will need to edit the twitter message and the facebook url, or your buttons will post right back to me!  Yes, I would love that, and thank you kindly, but the idea is to make this work for you.  The twitter code gets a little cumbersome substituting “+” between words and a couple other codes like %22 for ” “, %3A for “:” and %2F for “/” in the link.  Don’t worry, after a couple of times, you’ll get the hang of it.  Just open up a notepad file and make the changes.

Make it easy for all your online friends to find your social media sites.  This video tutorial takes you step-by-step through the process of creating custom redirect pages.  It’s easy to do and takes no more than 10 minutes to do all your sites. A definite “Do” for your social media marketing.  After watching the video, scroll down for the code and step by step instructions on how to create your redirects

Here is the code for your “index.php” page:

<?php
header( ‘Location: http://facebook.com/steverosenbaum’ ) ;
?>

Repeat these steps to create redirects for all of your social media sites.  When your done, list them all on your blog and twitter profile.

1. Make a list of all your social media accounts
2. Copy php code into notepad
3. Save as index.php
4. Use FTP Software to Access your Server
5. Create directory
6. Upload index.php to server
7. Repeat for all sites

Create these redirects and watch your traffic explode! If you like the content of this video, please make sure to let me know in the comment section and tell all your friends on twitter, facebook, etc.