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Realty Lifeline- agent-to-agent free referral network was announced today at PRWeb. Website is aimed at providing real estate agents to share the referrals. Any agent can submit and bid on referrals for free. However every referral will expire in 90 days. When submitting a bid no personally identifiable info of your seller or buyer is required. After another agent successfully accepts the bid, you finalize your bid with that agent:

What are Bids?
When a referring agent posts a Rerrral on our site, it is available for all other agents to view. If you would like to get that lead (or Referral), you must place a “Bid” on it. When you place a Bid on a Referral, the referring agent can review your profile and reviews from past Realty Lifeline transactions.

How do I bid on Referrals?
You create a Bid by clicking on the Bid on this Referral button on the Referral Details page. The referring agent will review all of the Bids that he or she gets, then choose an agent that they want to work with. Who is selected is entirely dependent on the referring agent.

What are Active Bids?
A Bid is active on a Referral unless you withdraw it, or unless the Referral expires.

I’ve submitted my Bid… what’s next?
The Referring Agent will review Bids as they come in and make a decision on will get the Referral. When a Referral is awarded to you, you will see a message on the Home page and the Referral will appear under the Pending Transactions section.

This website indeed can become very popular among the real estate agents because it’s free and no third party is involved in the referral process.

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Participating in online forum can benefit you on many levels. You can network with other real estate agents and even can bring some extra visitors to your website. I have compiled a list of five real estate forums that you can not afford to ignore. I will later explain who it can be used on occasions while working with Hittail. However there is one very important thing to remember when joining an online forum. You will benefit form online forums by contributing to them. If you join a forum only as an opportunity to leave links back to your websites, soon you will earn a reputation of a spammer and no one will take you seriously.

Many online forums reward active users by offering a signature which can accompany every post you write on the forum. Some use this signature to promote their websites. Many forums will require to write certain amount of posts before allowing you to use the signature. Some forums grant you this opportunity from the time you join the forum.

Forums in the list below are particularly focused on real estate. If you are not member of any forum on the list consider joining them. Should you be already a member of some of them feel free to leave your feedback.

Real Estate Webmasters Forum- probably my favorite forum. You can find there great webmasters tips for your real estate website.

Bigger Pockets- Real Estate Investing Forum- another great website to network not only with real estate agents but with potential clients as well. As an expert real estate agent you can really shine on this forum and earn good reputation.

Real Estate Forum- is another highly recommended forum for real estate agents. With over 13,000 members it is a busy place. You can find and/or share your expertise on anything from web design to mortgage and loans.

Agents Online- another “must join” forum for any real estate agent. This forums is more exclusively focused on real estate and everything that comes along. There are 9,333 members on this forum today. Why not to join the crowed?

The Pro Real Estate Network Forums- although this forum has only 457 members today, it deserves credit for the outstanding efforts in SEO and marketing. I will not be surprised that the forum will have few thousand members by this summer.

There are many other online forums that real estate agents can benefit from. Especially if they are looking for webmasters, SEO, PPC and other tips. I will write about those in the future. The above forums were chosen specifically because they are closely related to real estate. I hope you find the above list helpful.

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It was very surprising to find out that there wasn’t a Real Estate group over at one of my favorite online community- BlogCatalog. There are however many real estate blogs listed on BlogCatalog.

Anyway, if you are real estate blogger or a real estate agent who blogs consider joining both BlogCatalog as well as Real Estate Group. Evidently BlogCatalog is removing inactive groups and groups that are three members or less. I will be writing in the future how online communities like BlogCatalog can help you grow your real estate business.

If you are already active BlogCatalog member please comment and leave the link to your blog so I can review and rate it via BlogCatalog’s rating/voting system.

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On Saturdays I will be posting much lighter articles and will be sharing what is know as “link love” with other websites and blogs. If you have interesting and real estate related blog e-mail me and I may feature it in one of my Saturday posts.

Today I would like to bring to your attention two different online forums I am a member of:

• Real Estate Webmasters Community- I have just recently discovered this forum but I am already very impressed with the amount of great information that can be found there. Whether you have a design questions or need some advise about your pay per click advertising you can find answers to your problem there. Great community and support. Highly recommend for real estate agents and real estate webmasters.
• Real Estate Forums- I have joined this community back in 2006. Great place for real estate agents to exchange their experience. While they have few forums that are dedicated to subjects like advertising and search engine optimization, I think this forum is more geared to wards non technical part of real estate profession.

If you are a member of these forums please tell us what is your experience and if you benefited from being a member there.

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As you can see in the video below, BlogRush offers a unique opportunity to get more exposure and more traffic to your blog.

Unlike many other traffic exchange website out here, you are not required to visit other blogs in exchange for traffic. Simple, easy and free. Don’t miss out on this opportunity - sign up today.

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Our blog is a found member of Real Estate Community over at BumpZee! In efforts to introduce this wonderful and one of the fastest growing community on the Internet we have decided to introduce “Real Estate Links Bubble Burst”. What is it? It will be a short post of the finest real estate articles from the blogosphere. If you would like to make sure we keep an eye on your blog and highlight your posts join BumpZee! Real Estate Community- if your blog is already submitted, you can claim it there.

Following are the post we chose for today’s “Real Estate Links Bubble Burst”:

The Anatomy of a Credit Bubble

Top 5 Mistakes Made By Real Estate Investors During the Housing Bubble

60 Minutes and real estate

Cash Equivalency, Terms, Time, Location and other Adjustments Often Omitted

Eurozone housing markets cool

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