Sometime in June,there is going to be a Prince George's County MD Home buying seminar. Our company EXIT Advance Realty has a booth and I am one of the real estate agents who has a slot at the seminar. But my problem is that I have never done one of these home buying seminar before and I don't know what I should pass out. So I really need your help. What should I pass out to potential home buyers when they visit our booth?

I want to pass out something that we make me stand out and make them remember me so when they do decide to make that decision of buying a house,they will remember me for what they received from me. Should I pass out a bag with items in it such as a pen with my name and business contact information,magnetic business cards,notebooks with my name and business contact,jumbo color postcards,information on "Why they should buy now?". I am not sure what I am going to do.

And if you know any companies or anyone company here on Active Rain that can help me with this I would really,really appreciate it. This Prince George's County MD Home buying Seminar is going to be June but I definitely need to be ready before then. June will be here before you know it. Thank you all in advance.

Have you heard of loqize me? Found out this one by Nishika Jones-Baltimore MD Broker with Urban Living Realty on her Twitter profile who I am now following. (I guess it is a good thing to follow people on Twitter). Anyway I found out about this new website Loqize.me.

So what is Loqize.me? All I know about loqize.me is a Q&A site for places. You can also get advice from locals and friends about any place in the world. Loqize.me was developed by two engineers in Switzerland,hacked together the first iteration of the product,raised some seed money and incorporated the company.

Their headquarters is right next to the beautiful lake of Zurich. And there is supposed to be a office opening up soon in the Big Apple (NYC) soon.  Can this be the next Localism,Google,Facebook,Yelp or Twitter? Stay tuned. Thanks again to Nishika Jones for sharing this on her Twitter page.

Here is an early version of the site.

How to Add Your Blog to MapQuestLocal.com and drive traffic to your blogs FOR FREE 

Mapquest.com is a website that we all of us know use to get driving directions to our favorite local restaurants,church,schools,shops,stores,gas stations,movie theaters etc-(I feel a Localism blog coming on-LOL). 

I'll rather be at a Local Silver Spring Md Movie Theater watching a good movie right about now. But instead I decided that I am going to finally write this blog for the 195,991 members on this site.

Since people use mapquest.com to find directions to their favorite local places. Wouldn't you want them to do the same trying to use mapquestlocal.com to find their favorite local real estate agent-YOU on your local real estate blog? OF COURSE. Who doesn't. And imagine that kind of traffic that we will get if we write about our local real estate market reports or blogs on our favorite local places? ONLINE TRAFFIC JAM.

Anyway With Mapquest collector, you can now add your blog feed to MapQuest Local so that it will appear in the list of blogs for your location. Here it goes:

1. Go to http://local.mapquest.com/ and scroll down the the Blogs section.
   
   
   
   
2. Click Add Your Blog.
   The MapQuest Content Collector page appears.
   
3. If your blog is not yet GeoTagged, click GeoTagging Your Content for instructions on how to GeoTag in your specific blogging tool.
4. Click Manage My Content on the left side of the page.
   
   
   
5. Click the My Blogs tab.
   
   
   
6. Click Add a Blog.
   
   
   
7. Copy and paste your blog URL into the Blog URL field.
   
   
   
8. Click Find My RSS Feed URL
9. Select the Related Categories for your blog.
10. Click Update Preview to see a preview of how your blog will appear on MapQuest Local.
11. Click Publish Blog.

UPDATE: I have e-mailed the people at Mapquest.com. So hopefully they will respond. I am having the same problems too as far as trying to log in. Hope everything works out.

   When me and my good friend took his German bulldog (I think that is the dog breed)for dog grooming at the PETCO Store in 4500 Mitchellville Rd. Bowie MD 20716. 301-352-7286 Monday-Saturday 9am-9pm; Sunday 10am-6pm, . Here he is in this Youtube Video. How come it hasn't gone Viral yet? LOL!

I found out about the Howl-O-Ween at PETCO Stores. Who said Halloween is just for kids? Dogs can get in on the act too. Stop by your local neighborhood PETCO Store Trick or Treat Bar to pick up a spooky treat for your dog.

    You can also tell them about your best pets Halloween costume at www.petco.com/contest to win prizes! Scare up some fun at their in store Pet Costume Contest. Ask an associate for details. Have a great weekend everyone.

Burley Insurance and Financial Services Inc. free financial seminar will be held at 13621 Annapolis Rd Bowie MD 20720. This seminar will be by Noted author Ernest Burley Jr,CFP,ChFC,CPCU,AIS will share money management principles to help you with your finances and answer the questions you need answers to. Ernest will also be available to sign his books,

Money Management:Easy as 1,2,3. and Money Management:From Grade School to Grad School.

The Social Security Administration will be here to share valuable information and answer questions about the future of Social Security. They will also cover topics that include Retirement/Disability/Survivor benefits,Benefits planners,Calculators,etc.

Please call 301-262-2600 or e-mail:ernest@ernestburleyjr.com to register for a head count. There will be bottled water and light snacks. SPACE IS LIMITED.  Also listen to Ernest Burley's live radio talk show every Sunday from 3-4pm on WOL 1450AM.  And for more information about Burley Insurance and Financial Services Inc. please go to the websites at www.ernestburley.com and www.liveandsave.com.

And if you are in the market to buy a Woodmore Bowie MD Single Family Homes for sale,Bowie MD Townhouse for sale or any house in Prince George's County MD,START YOUR HOME SEARCH HERE

Freebie of the Day-Screenr.com. www.Screenr.com is a free tool that I stumbled across on the Internet while I was watching a webinar by those two dudes-Josh Schoenly & Ryan Hartman webinar on how to get leads with Craiglist. Anyway I am going to be concise and to the point. www.screenr.com is a web-based recorder that you can record on your PC or MAC. You don't have to download anything which is great. It gives us real estate agents more space on our computer to use for other things if you know what I mean.

Anyway check out how this PG County MD Real Estate Agent used it in this one minute video on the $7500 home buyer grants for home buyers who are looking to buy PG County MD Homes for sale.

   THE REAL ESTATE FARMER-I've done real estate before I became a Real Estate Agent. Yesterday I wrote a blog called

  THE REAL ESTATE FARMER-Where did the name come from?. I won't talk about it,I'll let you read it yourself. But while writing the blog,I realized something. In a way I have done real estate before I became a Real Estate Agent. While working on my father's farm,me along with a couple of my cousins would go to the lake and go fetch water. The water would be used to mix the dirt that will make the bricks to built the small houses. The houses would be where we would stay to either first eat breakfast before we began working on the farm,lunch/break(Some of my brothers and family members slept on the farm once)and to stay in case in started raining.

I guess my old man said why pay somebody to do something when you could do it yourself? We built I believe two small houses by ourselves.  They will make bricks and let them dry for about two days or so. Then they we will start building the house. We even built a poultry for my father's 40 pigs. It might have been more. That was pretty impressive considering none of us had knowledge,skills or experience in building homes.

Maybe I should become a home builder. I hear those guys make some really good money. But on second thought,I should stick to my day job and help the home builders sell their PG County MD New Construction Homes. So if you are looking to buy a new construction home in Prince George's County MD,Charles County MD,St.Mary's Country,Baltimore County MD,Montgomery County MD or Washington DC,please give me a call. I don't help build houses anymore,I am trying to help home builders sell them.

The Real Estate Farmer-I've done real estate before I became a Real Estate Agent.

Find Public Records for homes in PG County MD,Charles County MD and St.Mary's County and Washington DC.

      Why do I blog? Here is one good reason why.

     Many non-believers of Active Rain still ask me why do I blog? People think blogging especially on Active Rain is a waste of time of time. Why will I want to blog on Active Rain when I can be out prospecting trying to generate some Real Estate Business instead of staring in front of a computer all day. Its true.

    But (I got to stick my big ol butt in this one)HOWEVER has it dawned on you that doing Real Estate in 2010 is totally different than how things were done prior to the Internet and Social Media. Blogging online is the new Prospecting Web 2.0. Besides how do you think those heartless ruthless no good bastards called Lead Generation companies get the leads that they have sold or try to sell to you or me? (Okay! It is not all of you guys-JUST 95% OF YOU-IT'S TRUE. YES IT'S TRUE).

    We all know that now 90% of potential home buyers start their home buying search online. So if you do not have a presence ONLINE,your line of communication with home buyers and sellers is OFF. So you want to know why I blog? Here is one good reason why.

• I'd rather be No.one and be found by someone than be found by No one-Blogging can get you found by a potential home buyers and sellers very quick. Especially now that people are on the Internet and Social Media around 32.7% of the time a day,you can't afford not to be on the Internet. If potential home buyers and sellers type in long tail keywords in search engines such as Tantallon on the potomac Fort Washington MD Homes for sale , ,Single Family Oxon Hill Md Homes for sale  and P.G County MD Homes for sale,since I came up first page on Google and other major search engines,I have a better chance of being the chosen one picked over a Real Estate Professional who only does not blog and have a Internet presence,but doesn't blog at all.

Having a strong Internet presence can show potential home buyers and sellers that you are very familiar and knowledgeable of the local community or neighborhood where they plan on buying their next house or sell their current home. And don't forget about Generation Y either. Another good reason why you should be online.

So why do I blog? I just gave you a good reason. Now why are you still standing there. Get blogging right now. Why are you trying to make things complicated? It's so easy. Gees.