Ken Horst's (khorst) Blog

The recent PR debacle from Tiger Woods camp makes me wonder if some of these "PR pros" have ever been on the Internet.  The guy supposedly crashes his car on his own street and his wife has to smash his windows out with a golf club to help him get out of the car, at least this is the story I reme...

Metropolitan Financial Mortgage Company, a Minnesota mortgage company,  launched it's new web site today which is a real upgrade from what they had.  The previous site lacked good content for Minnesota home buyers or people looking to refinance.  The new site offers free reports including; 20 Way...

How many of us have ever sat down at our keyword wanting to put out some good content for our readers and been struck with writers block? I'd be surprised if everyone didn't suffer from at least one occurrence.  It's a tough challenge we bloggers face, how to blog frequently enough with quality c...

Matt Cutts recorded this video at Wordcamp 2009. It's a great lesson in white hat seo strategies for real estate bloggers. I've been blogging for over 4 years and I found a lot of benefit in this presentation. I thought this would be very relevant for AR members as many of us hope to generate new...

Tweet Me Homes has launched 6 new cities in the past week; Oakland, California real estate and homes for sale tweets Sunnyvale, California real estate and homes for sale tweets Palo Alto, California real estate and homes for sale tweets Memphis, Tennessee real estate and homes for sale tweets Lou...

Agentopolis recently launched a large number of web pages designed to get Agentopolis real estate agents in front of more people who are looking for a Realtor online. According to Google, "real estate agent" is included in a search roughly 4,090,000 times each month.  The challenge for agents is ...

Ever since my first day in the real estate and mortgage business 8 years ago I have struggled with my web presence.  I'm not a designer and don't know HTML so I can't build my own website.  Like many of you, I have checked out most of the template sites available for mortgage and real estate prof...

TweetMeHomes is a new service that instantly delivers homes for sale and real estate to home shoppers using Twitter. We've currently set up 40 major metro areas and made it super easy to subscribe. You will get instant notification of any new homes for sale on your twitter account or as a text me...

I recently created a short video to show how to use Twitter to follow real estate listings in your local area.  Tweet Me Homes, a new real estate marketing site, is currently in beta and has home tweets available in the top 40 metro areas in the US.  Follow this link to watch video http://www.scr...

My wife is Honduran and I have been traveling to Honduras for the past 25 years.  It is an amazingly beautiful country with a great culture and people.  Unfortunately it is one of the poorest countries in the third world with roughly 70% of Hondurans living in poverty. I've always wondered why re...