by Brian Brady
Commercial Real Estate Finance Expert
Structured Debt and Equity
Licensed Real Estate Broker in AL, CA, and FL
I’m ecstatic about our latest addition to the UNCHAINED faculty.
Laurie Manny, host of Long Beach Real Estate Home, has signed on to discuss how to build a locally-focused real estate weblog. In one short year, Laurie has enjoyed a meteoric rise in the search engines for the competitive keyword phrase “Long Beach Real Estate“. More effective, however, is her complete domination of long tail searches, “downtown long beach real estate“, “goldengate square“, and “oceangate square“. The latter two search terms are buildings in which Laurie has a major market presence.
Alas, search engine placement is nothing if the site doesn’t create fans. Laurie delivers the goods consistently with interesting content, a plethora of guest authors, and detailed market reports. She enjoys commercial success by employing a sophisticated IDX feed and CRM solution.
Laurie cut her teeth on Activerain.com and has strong following of “students” there who model her. She readily shares her success causing many Active Rainers to wonder why Laurie hasn’t had a more prominent, instructional role in RE.net conferences.
Frankly, we couldn’t let her knowledge escape the national spotlight so we invited her to join the faculty of UNCHAINED.
Ask Laurie a question about how she thrives in the rough and tumble world of online real estate marketing and the answer you’ll get will be complete. It’s like taking a sip from a fire hose as she rattles off actionable ideas about how to drive traffic and attract customers.
Leave your raincoat at home but bring a pen and paper. Laurie Manny is UNCHAINED.
PS- When Laurie writes, Active Rainers listen. The smart money is getting seats in the front row before Laurie’s fans hear about this and crash the server.
Ann Cummings says:
Brian – how AWESOME to have Laurie as a speaker! She does have many MANY ‘students’, that’s for sure. How fortunate for those attending to hear her speak – she really does know her stuff.
Ann
February 22, 2008 — 11:16 am
Kevin Tomlinson says:
Laurie is an INCREDIBLE asset to UNCHAINED. I’m sure it will be refreshing to hear NEW advice from a knowledgeable AND successful agent.
February 22, 2008 — 1:17 pm
Brad Coy says:
Very Cool!
>Leave your raincoat at home but bring a pen and paper. Laurie Manny is UNCHAINED.
Indeed. Laurie was one of the first RE bloggers I ever met. I still have a page of notes from a conversation I had with her that’s worth gold. She is very generous in sharing what she has learned from blogging.
February 22, 2008 — 2:06 pm
Brian Brady says:
Laurie’s a success. I chased her for three reasons:
1- She loves to talk about this stuff.
2- She should be talking about this stuff.
3- Nobody else was smart enough to put her in front of a crowd, TO talk about this stuff.
Laurie’s no theoretician; she’s a roll up your sleeves, action-based, soldier in the trenches.
February 22, 2008 — 3:21 pm
Jeff Brown says:
She is one of the few out there who really do succeed in her $EO efforts. I’ve not met anyone like her. She’s the real deal. Quite a feather guys.
February 22, 2008 — 6:02 pm
Drew Meyers from Zillow says:
Though I don’t follow her Long Beach blog (I live in Seattle), Laurie seems like a great speaker on the subject of best practices to building a hyper local RE blog — great addition.
February 22, 2008 — 6:19 pm
Brian Brady says:
Thanks, Drew. We think so, too.
February 22, 2008 — 7:01 pm
Mary Pope-Handy says:
Laurie rocks. She is an encyclopedia of knowledge but never dry! She will make a GREAT speaker. Good job in getting her signed on!!!!!!!
February 22, 2008 — 7:37 pm
REBlogGirl says:
Laurie has loads to teach. This woman works hard to sit on top of the search engines and is happy to share how she does it and what blogging does for her. This is one speaker you can’t miss.
February 22, 2008 — 8:35 pm
Pat Kitano says:
Bravo! Laurie’s insights are direct and profound…
February 22, 2008 — 11:34 pm