So by now you know what Spam is and wish you could find a way to eliminate it from your email box.  Have you heard of Bacn?  It is one of my favorite foods for breakfast, but in the digital world it is much more than that.  Pronounced Bacon, this is a powerful internet marketing tool that you have most likely embraced, but haven’t heard a term for!

Bacn refers to electronic messages send by a service that you subscribe to and receive notifications from. Basically this is anything you have opted in for — RSS feeds, sales flyers, newsletters and much more.

Our number one tip on Bacn is keep your messages relevant to your readers.  Don’t risk them considering your Bacn Spam and opting out.

Contact mRELEVANCE for home builder marketing strategies including social media for home builders and blogging.

Online definitions for common Blog Terms:

Blog: short for Web log, an online journal.

Dashboard: the administration area of your blog that facilitates posting, moderating comments, uploading files and much more.

RSS: Really Simple Syndication, an easy way to distribute your blog news via email or Internet sties.

SEO: Search Engine Optimization, what you do to attract the search engines to your site that ranks it high in SERP results

SERP: Search Engine Results Placement, where you rank in the organic search results when you Google a phrase like, “top builder blogs.”

We will continue to add to these over time.

Top Builder Blogs founders Carol Flammer, MIRM and Mitch Levinson, MIRM are offering an Agent Direct Webinar on April 9, 2008 at 1 p.m. Learn the answer to the number one question that homebuilders ask us, “Who will manage the blog?” As well as many others.

Homebuilders, developers and agents will benefit from the increased Search Engine Optimization blogs create for their websites. Blogs increase referral traffic and organic SEO by providing fresh content on a regular basis.

Internet Marketing expert Mitch Levinson and Social Media expert Carol Flammer explain how to set up a blog and get started. Everything from where to host your blog, to who should moderate or manage the blog will be discussed. Learn how blogging can help you gain and maintain a competitive advantage.

What you will learn:
• What is a blog?
• How can blogging help my company?
• Should I blog on my site or someone else’s?
• What about comments?
• How does blogging increase website traffic?
• Can I build my own site?

Kairos Development seized an opportunity to utilize blogging as a form of Internet Marketing for their communities with the launch of The Art of Opportunity.

The blog, built and moderated by Top Builder Blogs, promotes the developer’s luxury communities, The Astoria at the Aramore and Avignon at Vinings.

mRELEVANCE builds home builder blogs and creates powerful social media programs for builders and developers.

Atlanta Bloggers, here is your chance to rub elbows with fellow bloggers from all over the U.S. The REtechSouth conference is taking place on March 27, 2008 at the Hilton Atlanta Northeast. This is a don’t miss event.

The real estate business has changed dramatically because of the influence of blogging, video, listing syndication, and other web 2.0 realities. We also know that it is continuing to move & change very quickly. Atlanta Realtors, Brokers & Builders are coming together in Atlanta on March 27th to get re-connected, and take the pulse of the ever changing tools at the REtechSouth Conference.

Top Builder Blogs founder, Carol Flammer of Flammer Relations, Inc. is one the speakers at this interactive symposium. Additionally, Flammer Relations, Atlanta’s Premier Real Estate Social Media agency, is a Gold sponsor of REtechSouth.

Top Builder Blogs is pleased to announce The Skyline Report a blog about living at Skyline at Lindbergh. Learn more about the skyhomes at Skyline and MCL properties by subscribing to The Skyline Report’s RSS feed.

This Atlanta condo developer is utilizing an optimized blog and social media optimization to reach potential home buyers through advanced Internet marketing techniques for home builders and developers.

The number one question that homebuilders ask us is, “who will manage the blog?” Your homebuilding or community blog could be moderated by someone within your homebuilding organization — your sales director or marketing director. Or you can outsource this task to the expert Bloggers at Top Builder Blogs, we are finding that this is a very popular option! Contact us today to discuss launching a blog and ongoing blog posting and moderation. Top Builder Blogs will build, moderate and maintain your Builder Blog to keep you ahead of the competition while maximizing you SEO.

Top Builder Blogs recently launched the Heron Bay Blog for Heron Bay Golf and Country Club. Named community of the year by the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association, Heron Bay was carefully planned to preserve the area’s natural beauty with an abundance of green space. The community features amazing amenities and an active homeowners association. Read more about Heron Bay activities on the blog.

Top Builder Blogs is pleased to announce the launch of 1010 Midtown Condos new blog. For more information on how to “live life on the curve” visit this sleek site.

Homebuilder, Developer and Community Blogs provide excellent opportunities to increase the number of key words coming into a website. Additionally, they are great SEO tools. Find out more by contacting Top Builder Blogs.

Carol Flammer, MIRM and Mitch Levinson, MIRM speak to the Metropolitan Builders Association (MBA) in Milwaukee, WI on Internet Marketing including pay per click campaigns, SEO, Blogs and more on Tuesday, January 29, 2008. The Web 2.0 Duo’s seminar is part of the MBA’s Residential Sales & Marketing Symposium.

Sales and Marketing directors and new home builders alike will find new ways to make the Internet and Web 2.0 work for their companies.

Flammer states, “The Internet offers trackability and thus added credibility to the age old profession of public relations. When true relationship based public relations goes online it becomes relevant social media. Web 2.0 and blogging has opened and entire new world for promoting new home communities, builders and developers online. It is available 24/7 and it is interactive.”