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What is a weblog, well simply put a weblog is a journal that is kept online. In it's simplest form a weblog will have an article every day or week that says what the person is doing.

A great way the weblogs are now being utilised is as a marketing device that allows a person to market directly to their customer without the hassles of email or especially direct mail. Just off the top of my head I can tell you what kind of information can be included in these weblog articles: info on new market trends, personal achievements, buyer and seller success stories, personal stories to personalize yoou to youor public. How else can you do this? With a website you would have to update it often and a weblog is built for this so there is no hassle. With direct mail such as newsletters you would have a high cost to send and a time lag to customer seeing it where with a weblog it is instantly accessible and free to post, and finally with email newsletters you have to keep track of a list and if you sent to them every day you would run into trouble with keeping a good list when everyone is being buried by your emails and think of them as spam.

No matter where you are at with your online presence you can take advantage of the power of weblogs. If you have a web hosting package that includes a weblog , great. Otherwise if you would like to get a weblog you can get one for free at Blogger.

The next question is how to get the word out about your weblog. First of all each one of your posts is treated as an article and will be indexed by the search engines if it is good content. So make sure that your posts have great content. The next thing you can do is go to some of the indexes and let them know about your weblog. Try these ones first:

http://www.blogstreet.com
http://www.blogarama.com
http://www.blogcatalog.com
http://www.bloguniverse.com
http://www.lsblogs.com
http://www.bloghub.com
http://blogdigger.com
http://www.feeds4all.com
http://www.blogclicker.com
http://www.plazoo.com
http://www.blogsnow.com
http://www.blogtopsites.com
http://www.blogwise.com
http://www.pingmyblog.com
http://www.blogexplosion.com

The other two best ways to make your weblog popular is by sending the link to your email list and also link the weblog directly to your website. Offline methods are probably not the best but you also may have a newsletter, business cards and classified ads.

Good luck and happy blogging!

Chicago Real Estate News

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WASHINGTON - Shopping mall owner General Growth Properties Inc. is getting a two-week extension on $900 million in debt that had been scheduled to come due last week as the company works to stave off bankruptcy and negotiate longer-term extensions ...

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Mall operator gets 2-week loan reprieve - Boston Globe

Interest in buying the Chicago Cubs remains healthy despite the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. At least three prospective buyers submitted second-round bids to Tribune Co. for the North Side team by the Thanksgiving deadline ...

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Cubs' allure still strong - Chicago Tribune

CHICAGO — At least two prospective buyers have submitted a new round of bids to Tribune Co. for the Chicago Cubs. Chicago real estate investor Hersch Klaff and the Ricketts family, founder of online brokerage TD Ameritrade Holding Corp., delivered ...

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MLB: Two more submit bids to buy Cubs - Omaha World-Herald

HEADQUARTERS: Chicago INTERIM CEO: Adam S. Metz BUSINESS: Owns or manages about 200 regional shopping malls in 44 states, totaling 200 million square feet of retail space including over 24,000 stores. NORTH CAROLINA PROPERTIES: Four malls totaling 4 ...

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Southpoint owner negotiates loan extension - Raleigh News & Observer

This is in response the Tribune's recent article about the state of the Illinois housing market ("Illinois housing prices, sales plunge; State's losses worse than U.S. average," Page 1, Nov. 25). The article gives compelling reasons for including ...

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Voice of the People - Chicago Tribune

When Janice Borndahl died Nov. 20, she was survived by grieving family and friends. But the 39-year-old Elgin resident also left behind a worldwide readership that had followed her struggle with cancer on her blog, www.myrehabnotes.blogspot.com ...

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Local woman's blog has global impact - Beacon News

New York, NY, December 02, 2008 --( PR.com )-- PinHawk LLC, a leading publisher of news for professionals, and ShiftCentral Inc, one of North America’s leading independent market intelligence agencies announce that they are joining forces to offer ...

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PinHawk and ShiftCentral Announce Partnership - PR.com

"Developing exemplary projects that stand out from the crowd is the best way to find a competitive edge in a down real estate market,” states Theodore C. Thoerig, author of ULI’s new publication, Best Practices in Development 2008. The book ...

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A New ULI Publication--Best Practices in Development 2008--Outlines ... - PLANetizen

CHICAGO : On a dark afternoon last week, the road to Jerusalem and Beijing momentarily veered through the office of a real estate company here. Valerie Jarrett, the chief executive of the company, had signed her resignation letter an hour earlier and ...

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Chicago mentor follows Obama to Washington - International Herald Tribune

Chicago Tribune Chicago real estate investor Hersch Klaff; the Ricketts family, founder of online brokerage TD Ameritrade Holding Corp.; and a group led by Marc Utay, a New York private equity investor, are in the hunt to land one of baseball’s ...

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