http://www.milesofdesign.com/blog Graphic Design & Marketing Tips for Real Estate Agents and Small Business Owners Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:54:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Many of the larger brand real estate companies offer their agents some sort of personalized agent website.  The agent websites have an admin area where you may add new content pages, change the names of their navigation buttons, incorporate a blog, Google Analytics and even SEO options.  The issue that ... http://www.milesofdesign.com/blog/2010/01/20/fixing-up-your-real-estate-website-in-2010.html We have a lot of clients who come to us stuck in limbo over what to do with their website.  Their website is not getting the traffic that they would like, doesn't look the way they would like it to or they just feel the need to change their look on a ... http://www.milesofdesign.com/blog/2010/01/06/start-over-with-your-website-or-redesign-the-old.html If  you have been using Bravenet to host your business or personal website because of its free hosting, you may have gotten an unpleasant email recently.    An email sent yesterday by Bravnet News states the following, "We have come to a time where we need to better define our Free Hosting ... http://www.milesofdesign.com/blog/2009/08/28/is-free-hosting-a-good-idea-for-your-website.html If you are looking for a free software that will help protect your computer, I highly recommend this product Comodo.  You can never be too safe and this company offers free internet security, antivirus, firewall, malware protection, disk encryption and backup. http://www.milesofdesign.com/blog/2009/08/20/free-internet-security-software.html I recently made a purchase on ebay (which I rarely do) and used my Paypal account (which I rarely do).   About a week later, 3 mysterious charges from Paypal showed up on my First Bank checking account.  They were all for small amounts ($10-$15) so I wouldn't usually pay attention ... http://www.milesofdesign.com/blog/2009/08/05/paypal-fraud.html For the past couple of months, I have been trying to figure out why clients with Comcast email accounts were not receiving my emails.  I did not receive an error message or any kind of undeliverable message.  The emails just vanished into a dark hole.  After searching on the Comcast ... http://www.milesofdesign.com/blog/2009/08/05/comcast-email-problems.html If managing all of your daily Tweeting and friends on Facebook has become overwhelming and too time consuming, you might want to download this free application, TweetDeck.  It gives you a quick snapshot of all of your daily updates and helps you organize them into columns so that you can ... http://www.milesofdesign.com/blog/2009/08/04/tweetdeck.html NetworkedBlogs.com is a Facebook application that helps you promote your blog.  Essentially, when you sign up, it will ask you to follow 5 other blogs.  There is a long list of categories and languages, so you will have no problem finding that meet your requirements.  You may enter in a ... http://www.milesofdesign.com/blog/2009/08/04/networkedblogscom.html With the current state of the real estate economy, many agents are trying to find ways to save money.  I have noticed more agents are eliminating custom websites that they had designed in the past 5+ years and moving over to the free or less expensive company provided agent templated ... http://www.milesofdesign.com/blog/2009/07/10/real-estate-agent-templated-websites.html I think more and more people are understanding the benefits of blogging and social networks.  The problem is that most of us don't have the time to write the blog posts or set up all of the social profiles.   Here are a few tips of what I am doing to make ... http://www.milesofdesign.com/blog/2009/06/23/not-enough-time-to-blog.html