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As we know living here in Bali, the real estate & land development sector is white hot: development projects are everywhere; new real estate companies (and websites) spring up left and right; and new villa resorts are opening almost weekly. What once was a relatively niche market (I remember developing one of the first bali-villa-rental .com’s back in 2001) is a highly competitive market with big name brands jockeying for the top spot.

I ran across Aaron Wall’s post today about Niche SEO Advice who had some a propos insights & links that address this subject thoroughly. In particular, Dave Conklin at RorySteveAndDave.com applied this niche SEO advice to the online Real Estate market, saying it straight up:

If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it 1000 times – if you want to boost your real estate business, make sure you have a STRONG presence on the Internet. As much as old-school agents may want to deny it, the majority of your prospective clients are going online to get real estate information nowadays.

The question is, are they finding YOU when they do it? Or is it your competitor that catches their eye? Luckily, more and more agents ARE getting on the web and attempting to make themselves known on the ‘Net…but we’ve still got a ways to go.

These guys found an excellent guide to online marketing for Real Estate; if you’re a Bali Real Estate agent and want to learn about how you can compete in this heavily competitive market, it is highly recommend you take the time to read these strategies for marketing your real estate online.

Wall Street Journal’s Independent Street blog, a resource for entrepreneurs written by Wendy Bounds, posted a list of 15 Blogs by Entrepreneurs Worth Reading.

The best entrepreneur blogs – and often the most successful ones – do more than just promote the entrepreneurs or their projects. …it won’t sustain it if the blog doesn’t “give.”

Among them are the well known – Seth Godin, Guy Kawasaki, Kevin Kelly, John Janatsch, and Mark Cuban, and a few other quality blogs that look like they are worth checking out.

ChrisBrogan.com posts a brilliant list of 100 things you can do to better brand yourself online, broken up into categories with short, succinct tips. This is Social Media Strategy 101 — excellent tips for building personal brand.

Branding one’s self in an online environment built on entropy and go-baby-go is difficult at best, and impossible if you forget to take your happy pills. To that end, I’ve come up with a quick list of 100 things you might do to help with these efforts.