Jeff Corbett's (thexbroker) Blog

There are many who believe that there is an inherent risk when posting content to 3rd party sites because you allegedly 'don't own your content'. Its true, when you submit your content to 3rd party sites you become bound by their Terms of Use and other guidelines, which can vary greatly but have ...

Details regarding President Obamas $75B plan to stem ‘The Housing Crisis’ are out, or as I shall call them: Obamas Mortgage Economics or MObamanomics. I openly laud some of the principles behind MObamanomics, such as: “It will not help speculators who took risky bets on a rising market and bought...

I've personally known Pat and Kevin of Domus Consulting for a couple of years now and have come to appreciate how they're consistently ahead of the curve when it comes to leveraging the tools of Social Networking for greater marketing and business success...In this case realizing the need to invo...

What the hell is this?  My kindergarten drawing of what happened to the mortgage industry and why so many homes are in foreclosure or heading there. The black dots represent the relative amount of people who have/need a mortgage. The gray circle represents the size of the pool of available mortg...

Inspired in part by Brad Andersohn and Debbie Malones post, I want to draw attention to a potential marketing and monetization strategy for Individual or Team Blogs that most anyone can implement.   Brad discussed one of 5 potential ways to maximize your Team Blog: recruit 'Your Affiliates Who Co...

So, I've been running my mouth about this word called ::Transparency:: for a few years now.  When you wax philosophic on a topic for so long, watching it manifest in the main stream elicits redemptive emotions. What is Transparency?  The word has a far reaching and fascinating taxonomy depending ...

ActiveRain Launches ActiveBlogs, a Multi-Author Blogging Platform for Real Estate Industry Professionals.ActiveBlogs increase online marketing power for real estate with easy syndication of blog content and superior search engine performance SEATTLE, January 7 2009 – ActiveRain (http://activerain...

ActiveRain has been admittedly a little extra 'wonky' lately.  Everyone has probably experienced the 'Proxy' (and a few other) errors, including HTML, widget and other outside application disfunctionalities. While it may seem like things are breaking down, in reality we're really beefing things u...

View Larger Map   ActiveRain party at The Hard Rock Cafe at CityWalk in Orlando tonight from 8pm till? Come alone, bring a friend, bring your friends friends...Once you arrive, look for the red carpet out front or ask any staff member for direction to The Lennon Room. We could have sponsored a bo...

Since launching Listing Router there has been much discussion around if the 'pay to direct traffic to your IDX website' is worth the price.  Its a very valid question and the answer really depends far less on the dynamics of how Listing Router works and far more on where the traffic lands, in thi...