More online digital photo editors

http://www.fotoflexer.com/ - Remove blemishes, Change skin and hair color, Morph photos, Change backgrounds, Completely Free!

http://www.phixr.com/ - Besides the usual resize, rotate and color adjustments. You have a choice of many effects including an instant picture.

http://www.wiredness.com/ - A set of the basic tools... but very fast!

Have fun checking these out and discover which on eyou like the best.

Looking for help on writing copy for your blog?

Are you getting started in Blogging? Do you stare at the screen trying to think of what to write? I know I have but http://www.copyblogger.com/ has helped me so I wanted to share it with you. There articles will help you to write in a strategic, persuasive, compelling manner.

Here are some great articles:

• When You Write?">Do You Make These Mistakes
  When You Write?
  
• Five Grammatical Errors That Make You Look Dumb
• The 5 Immutable Laws of Persuasive Blogging

UNLIMITED Virtual tours for a Year $35.00

Saul Tucker with Chase is offering you the opportunity to have unlimited virtual tours through RealEstateShows.com for only $35.00. To learn more about this go to Saul's blog on ActiveRain.
Just today RealEstateShows.com has added a bunch of new features.

Flyers
You can now begin building and distributing flyers.
You can view the demo flyer from this video here.

Category RSS Feeds
You’ll notice an RSS Feed icon in the “Manage and Edit Existing Shows” area. Click on that icon and you’ll be taken to a page where you can select a full or partial feed of all the Shows marked as “Viewable in Other Shows.” You can do this for any category you wish.

A Brand New Player
You will notice a change in the look and also a new ending to each Show that will better focus the Internet viewer on the additional features of the Show.

Social Bookmarking and Social Networks
We’ve also made it easier for Internet viewers to share Shows they like via social bookmarking sites, like Digg, Del.icio.us, and StumbleUpon, and the social networking site, Facebook. Each of these will make it easier for people to spread the word about a home they are considering for purchase, or to promote the home you are selling for them, or to simply share a random Show they’ve enjoyed.

Google has made it easy to map

When I am writing a blog or adding things to our website that has a location I like to have a map. But I have always just had to link over to a map on Google, Yahoo or Mapquest. Well Google has made it much easier to ad a map right on your page. In just 3 easy steps:

1. Go to maps.google.com and search for an address.
2. Click “Link to this page” in the top right-hand corner. Copy the text that you see in the second box.
3. Paste that code onto your blog or website. (It looks like they are using an “IFRAME” in order to make it work. )

Here's an example:


View Larger Map

Just for FUN!

Sometimes you just want to add some fun to your graphics for your blog or website. Here are a couple of sites that make it very easy AND very fun!

http://www.imagechef.com/

http://www.graphita.com/

FREE Legal Documents

Over 300 free professional legal documents and forms available to download as Microsoft Word documents (.doc) ready for you to print.

• Wills
• Bill of sale
• Lease
• Partnership
• Promisary Note
• and many more
  
  http://www.prolegaldocs.com/

Early flight out of LAX? This might help.

This tip is something that was taught to us by Marlene Bridges. Whenever we fly out of LAX on an early flight we stay at the Hacienda Hotel. They provide a service called "Park & Fly". For $149.00 you get a room, 7 days of parking and a 24 hour shuttle to LAX. This makes it easy to come the night before and rise early in the morning refreshed. They will shuttle you right to your departure gate.

Website: http://www.haciendahotel.com/spa.htm

List of 103 websites that Realtor.com posts to

This list was provided by Sherman Smith. Please thank him for assembling this for us. Add this to your listing presentation and give your Sellers a wow!

• Realtor.com website list

Sherman sent this $100 off a la mode Coupon

Save $100 on anything in the Spring catalogIf you've thought about adding some extra tools to your XSite so you're more profitable than ever, now's a great time to do it. Turn up your power now and land more clients and listings, without draining your bank account.

Meeting Summary - 5/8/2007

Todays meeting was about "Template" websites. Three were discussed:

• Agent X
• Advance Access
• Number 1 Expert

Laura Weber spoke about her site (www.lauraweber.com) as a tool. Where she sends clients who do not wish to come into the office.

Pricing for Agent X is $399.00/yr, Advance Access $399.0/yr, #1 Expert is $60 a week and you own a zipcode. Marlene has Laguna hills. But also gets leads for Laguna Hills.

You can get a discount with Agent X if you are referred.

Marlene also said that when she went to a Howard Britton presentaion the panel all used #1 Expert.

Other miscilanious things that were mentioned :

Linktiger - a utility to check for broken links on your website.
Garmin Nuvi - GPS unit that I got for my birthday and love

Next meeting topic: Text messaging, beaming, Jott.com

A Dictionary for Text Messaging

As per our Mastermind meeting this afternoon I am providing the website for a good text messaging dictionary. I am not sure if it was the one that was shared during the meeting so if it is a duplicate, ok, and if not it is an extra resource. The address is as follows:

http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/textmessageabbreviations.asp

This is the preferred way of communication for the 30 year old and under generation. From what has been said more and more people are preferring the instant text message over voicemail and phone calls. It is easy and you can read them without disturbing any one and during a meeting. You can't do that with the cell phone calls.

Need A Passport Photo? Quick & Easy

Go to ePassportPhoto and simply upload a photo captured on a white background, then simply edit and crop the photo for a valid 4"x6" photo sheet. Be sure to share this with your fiends and family as the rules for where a passport is needed is changing. This tool makes it easy and free.

Fixya

Do you have a consumer product that is giving you problems? Not sure where to go to get help, well there is a new website called Fixya. FixYa is a huge knowledgebase that is constantly updated by a live community of users who share their experiences of technical problems and solutions. ou can search by manufacture, model name or even find a repair man near you. Next time you are having trouble with a device give Fixya a try.

Can't I just speak to someone without going through voicemail hell

BRINGO cuts through all of that so you don't have to. That's right, BRINGO has conquered phone trees.

Here's how it works:

1. Find the company you'd like to call by category (credit cards, mortgages, loans, health care)


2. Enter your phone # (we will never disclose your phone number to anyone, not even your mother!).


3. Wait a few seconds while we navigate the phone tree.
   When we call you back, pick up your phone and you're done. No more phone trees.

They currently have 10 catagories:

Auto (28 companies)
Communication (43)
Computer (24)
Financial Services (162)
Health Care (86)
Media (5)
Other (9)
Retail (58)
Travel (59)
Utility (9)

Is your website broken?

Haven't you ever clicked on an interesting hyperlink and got a "page-not-found" error? That was very annoying, wasn't it? Can you imagine how many customers have left that website in that way? LinkTiger.com alerts you on those broken links, so you can have it fixed, before your customer sees it. This online tool will search your whole webiste and also notify you via email when a link is broken. The graphic interface is very easy to understand.




So make sure your customers can see all your pages and give LinkTiger a try.

Watermarks revisited - online

A while back I posted about watermarking photos using a tool you download called Picture Shark. This was a tool you donwloaded and worked with on your computer. Well I may have found an easier solution. It's a tool you can use online, no downloading and installing of a program. It's called Watermark Tool. No registration forms to fill out, just upload your file and select your watermark options to quickly and easily watermark your images.



You have the ability to choose the text, color, transparency, and more, you're able to personalize your watermark to suit your needs. It doesn't get much easier than this.

Do you need photos or clipart for your website, blog, flyer?

Are you looking for stock photos? Here are two sites that you can get photos for FREE... royalty free.

Yotophoto or Everystockphoto.

Don't forget to visit Microsoft, they have a good selection of clipart. Over 40 pages if you serach "Real Estate".

Just Call Me!

Would you like to be able to allow potential clients who visit your website, blog or even from your email to call you just by clicking on a link? Well you can and for free using Jaxtr.

Jaxtr brings voice to social networks and blogs. Use Jaxtr to link your phones with your online network to receive the calls, voice messages and texts you want while keeping your phone number private.

You choose the phone where you receive your calls. You can block callers or specify on a per-caller basis who can ring your phone and who gets routed to voicemail.

They provide different widgets to place on your site or blog or a link.

or use a link in your email signature:

http://www.jaxtr.com/greggfranklin

There are other companies that provide similar services that charge from $49.95 to $150.00 a month so this is a bargain.

Another way to email LARGE files

Sometimes you need to email a large file to family or clients. For example a scanned contract or a photo. Many ISP's limit the size of files that can be attached to an email, often as little as 10 or 20 MB's is the maximum size. Go to http://www.mailbigfile.com and you can upload upto 100MB file for FREE!

Here is how it works

1. Sender uploads the file.
2. Recipient receives an email, with a link to download it.
3. Recipient downloads file.

Benefits:

• Web Based - No software to download.
• Easy To Use - 3 simple steps.
• FREE - No cost, no registration - just start sending files.
• Virus free - All files are virus scanned.
• Send Big Files - Up to 100MB in size.
• Progress Meter - Features a progress meter.
  

* Files sent through Mail Big File will be available for up to 3 days, or a maximum of 3 downloads.

They also offer a PRO version for only $19 a year with these benefits

• Max File Size - 2GB!
• Enhanced Upload Speeds
• Secure Encrypted transfer
• Receive a notification when the file has been downloaded
• Pro Support - Fast response
• Send to up to 5 recipients per file
• Delete files after retrieval
• Files are available to download for 14 days
• Address Book - containing all the email addresses you have sent files to.
• Quick Links - Receive download link once file is uploaded.
  Each file can be downloaded up to 25 times
  

Google can give you the 4-1-1

Google Voice Local Search is Google’s experimental service to make local-business search accessible over the phone. They do not yet provide residential information.

To try this service, just dial 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411) from any phone.

Note: Google Voice Local Search is still in its experimental stage. It may not be available at all times and may not work for all users. We’re fine-tuning the service to get better at recognizing your requests. It’s currently only available in English, in the US, for US business listings.

Google also has the ability to respond via text message.

Text message your search query to 466453 ('GOOGLE' on most devices) and they'll text message back results. To learn more go to: http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/mobile/sms/