What really drives the point home on the importance even to think about the SEO implications (getting onto Google Page 1) is the video below:

Holy Twitterfeed and Friendfeed Batman…

Click Play Below Now to see Official Google Video…

There was a fantastic article today on the  Small Business Trends website that really should have all business owners, and individuals concerned about their reputation online…listen up.

This latest Google Announcement is HUGE for Brand SEO

Right from the Official Google Site:

Relevance meets the real-time web

12/07/2009 11:31:00 AM

Search is a natural starting point for discovering the world’s information, and we strive to bring you the freshest, most comprehensive and relevant search results over an ever expanding universe of content on the multitude of devices you use to access it.

That’s why today, at the Computer History Museum, we’re excited to share a few new innovations in the areas of real-time, mobile and social search that we feel are important steps in the evolution of information access.

First, we’re introducing new features that bring your search results to life with a dynamic stream of real-time content from across the web. Now, immediately after conducting a search, you can see live updates from people on popular sites like Twitter and FriendFeed, as well as headlines from news and blog posts published just seconds before. When they are relevant, we’ll rank these latest results to show the freshest information right on the search results page.

This actually is such a timely article since I’ve been releasing the Free Tri-Branding Strategy Formula Webinars where branding online is becoming so fluid and if you are a marketing consultant, having a reputation management offering as part of your services is a big trend to be on the forefront of.

The article discusses…

…how social media such as twitter really interplays with getting onto Google Page One…especially if a bunch of customers start discussing a company’s brand, product or service.  And watch out if it is of a negative nature…

We all know that it is impossible to have every customer satisfied and there will always be an element of the ‘keyboard junkies’ who love to flock to negative remarks…and shoot…what isn’t even discussed is this:

A company’s competitor may create pen names and say negative remarks in the social media arena!

How to address that?

Have a social media strategy in place that has a ‘reputation management’ piece to it.

Why do you have to be so heavy on social media?

Because browsers online first go to social media sites before even your company website to find out about you, your product or service!

Four years ago, social media would never have appeared on the chart below!

Check this graphic out:

source: OTX/DEI Worldwide Report The Impact of Social Media on Purchasing Behaviour

Hope you enjoyed this post, Maria Gudelis

A lot of people are not aware that you can take over an existing commercial real estate property (storage unit, apartment building, retail complex) without having to go through the tough application process of using a bank loan.

There are many deals out there where you can convince the seller to allow you to take over the existing loan. Commercial real estate agents in fact, are much more aware of this buying strategy than residential real estate agents.

You would be suprised how well a commercial real estate agent can negotiate this for you with the seller and if you know how to market well and get the cashflow of a commercial property in a profitable state…then you might want to investigate commercial real estate a little more!

To your success, Maria Gudelis

From the Fannie Mae announcement:

“Fannie Mae is updating the policy that pertains to multiple mortgages to the same borrower.

Fannie Mae’s current policy limits the number of one- to four-unit financed properties in which theborrower may have an individual or joint ownership interest to

four financed properties when the

mortgage being delivered to Fannie Mae is secured by an investment property or second home.

The limitation on the number of mortgages currently being financed applies to the total number

of properties financed, not just the number of mortgages sold to Fannie Mae. Fannie Mae is

modifying this policy to allow investor and second home borrowers to own five to ten financed

properties if they meet certain eligibility and underwriting and delivery requirements as outlined

in this Announcement.”

To your success, Maria Gudelis

Here is what the deal is in Las Vegas, the FHA loans go to $400,000 limit and there still exists the ‘downpayment assistance plan” that allows the seller to contribute towards the buyers downpayment and as long as the seller agrees to the ‘seller contribution’ in the purchase offer, then Voila, a buyer can get 100 percent financing with no down payment. You see, part of the seller contribution goes to ‘non-profit’ (wink, wink, nudge nudge) organizations such as Nehemiah, Ameridream, Preferred Program and they then turn around and provide those funds to the buyer! Hmmm….only in America!

Well, as of September 30, 2008, no more – The seller funded down payment assistance program (DPA) will be terminated. The buyer will have to put at least 3.5% down of His/Her own money. Now, that is still absolutely amazing when you compare getting a mortgage in ANY other country – it is simply a white unicorn to get even 96.5 percent financing.

What does that all mean? Buyers who want to get into a home with no money down have until Sept. 30th to do so, thus, the demand for $400,000 homes and under in GOOD neigbourhoods in Las Vegas to the point of multiple offers on a property right now!

Some of you may know that one of the keys to making my first million in real estate was research and watching for economic trends of an area. For instance, in the early 2000s…I’ve never visited Las Vegas yet I fully moved there just for the real estate market!Fast forward to today, I do see great trends for a few areas and each area has a specific ‘real estate investing’ tactic required to create wealth for you. Let’s look at one trend some of you may know I’ve been watching for over a year now. That trend is the foreign investment in other countries and fractional real estate. My trip last fall to Ecuador to investigate in-depth with real estate developers the ‘lay of the land’ so to say of Ecuador real estate showed me that indeed, Ecuador is the where Costa Rica or Mexico was 10 years ago and I believe it is time to seriously consider buying real estate in Ecuador.

Now…let’s go to the ‘great sign’, just released today is a press release from Delta Airlines how they are adding more non-stop flights to Ecuador. You can read the press release by clicking here, and the interesting trend is that while airlines are closing or decreasing certain flight routes… here is a major airline investing into the routes to Ecuador!

Hope you enjoyed this post, Maria Gudelis

An excerpt from the breaking news by Reuters:

“Florida sued mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp (CFC.N) on Monday for predatory lending practices, alleging the company at the center of the U.S. mortgage crisis made subprime loans to people who could not repay them.

The Florida attorney general filed the lawsuit, which names Countrywide Chief Executive Angelo Mozilo as a defendant, in state court in Broward County, Florida.”

To see the entire article, click here.

Enjoy reading, Maria Gudelis