Atlanta Real Estate Investors Alliance Blog
Atlanta REIA South Meeting on SEO for Real Estate Professionals
Posted on August 13, 2010 byWe had a great turnout at last night’s Atlanta REIA South Meeting in Stockbridge, GA. Special guests, Mark Galey, President of the Fuller Center of Atlanta, and Shane Persaud, President of the Fuller Center of Henry County, both residents of McDonough attended last night’s meeting. Mark talked about the Fuller Center of Atlanta’s relationship with Atlanta REIA and our recent work on Project Lakewood and how members can get involved and help us rebuild, renovate and repair homes for some of Atlanta’s most needy citizens. Shane talked about the brand new Fuller Center of Henry County that he just started and some of their recent accomplishments on Project McDonough. Atlanta REIA and Atlanta REIA North & South look forward to working with the Fuller Center on both Project Lakewood and Project McDonough. We hope you will get involved and lend a hand too! For more info, see the Fuller Center of Atlanta Website or the Fuller Center of Henry County Website.
Our main guest speaker this month was Dustin Griffin (Local Investor, Trainer, Website Developer, Internet Marketer and President of Atlanta REIA) who spoke on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) for real estate professionals and “How to Establish a Strong Internet Presence Quickly, So You Can Dominate Your Competition Online in Weeks, Not Years!” Read More→
Atlanta REIA News for August 11th, 2010
Posted on August 11, 2010 byWe’ve been busy since starting our new Atlanta REIA group back in mid June 2010. This post is designed to keep you updated on what we’ve been up to lately. Be sure to check to Join Our Email List so we can email you all of our latest updates and event notifications.
We Have 3 New Atlanta REIA Meetings
You now have 3 ways opportunities to stay plugged in to our Atlanta REIA group for all your real estate information, training, networking and community service needs!
- Atlanta REIA Main Meeting is held on the 1st Monday of the month at 5:30 PM at the Doubletree Hotel in Roswell, GA.
- Atlanta REIA North Meeting is held on the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 6:00 PM at 1960 Skylar Hill Dr, Suite D, in Buford, GA.
- Atlanta REIA South Meeting is held on the 2nd Thursday of the month at 6:30 PM at Ryan’s Restaurant in Stockbridge, GA.
Atlanta REIA South Meets Thurs, Aug 11th @ 6:30PM
At our August 12th Atlanta REIA South Monthly Meeting in Stockbridge, Dustin Griffin (a Local Investor, Trainer, Website Developer, Internet Marketer and President of Atlanta REIA) will be teaching you “How to Establish a Strong Internet Presence Quickly, So You Can Dominate Your Competition Online in Weeks, Not Years!”
Atlanta REIA North Meets Tues, Aug 17th @ 6:00PM
In case you could not make our South Meeting, you will get a 2nd opportunity to hear Dustin Griffin talk about how you can easily start to dominate your local competition online in a few short weeks rather than years by using simple, easy-to-implement internet marketing techniques! Come learn how to leverage of the power of the Internet so you can get more leads and more deeds and stay a step ahead of your competition. There will be Late Nite Networking at the Mall of Georgia Taco Mac following the meeting at 8:30 PM.
Come Network with Other Real Estate Professionals!
We now have 3 opportunities for you to come network with us and other Atlanta area real estate professionals. Come eat, drink, network and have fun with us!
- Late Nite Networking Main Meetup is held on the 1st Wednesday of the month at 8:00 PM at the Cheyenne Grill located at 2391 Peachtree Rd NE Atlanta, GA 30305.
- Late Nite Networking Atlanta REIA Meetup is held on the 1st Monday of the month at 8:30 PM in the lounge of the Doubletree Hotel in Roswell GA following the Atlanta REIA Main Meeting.
- Late Nite Networking North Meetup is held on the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 8:30 PM at the Mall of Georgia Taco Mac following the Atlanta REIA North Meeting.
Our New AtlantaREIA.com Website is Online
You might not have noticed since it is so new, but AtlantaREIA.com has been online for almost two weeks now. We’ve been working hard to lay a solid online foundation from which to build our new group. For now, AtlantaREIA.com serves as our official website to see our scheduled meetings, seminars, workshops and networking events as well as our volunteer community service workdays with the Fuller Center of Atlanta. Soon we will be adding our new webinar schedule, podcasts as well as our new, private, Member Only, REIA Manager Membership Site.
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Get Your Shorts Sales Approved Faster. Learn How on Tonight’s Webinar with Kimberlee Frank
Posted on August 10, 2010 by
Do you need to get your Short Sales through Faster? Are you unsure why your short sale is taking so long? Have you submitted all the documents and it seems like the mortgage company has put the brakes on your deal? Join Super Smart Power Hour with Kimberlee Frank a licensed Real Estate Broker/Investor who will share the secrets of her success to get the short sale approved faster than before. The mortgage industry has changed and it has caused a delay in getting your files approved. Learn what additional forms are necessary to get them accepted quickly. Kimberlee will be sharing with us all the latest tips and tricks on short sales and answer your questions on this monthly webinar. Join us on the webinar on first Tuesday of every month!
Click here to Register for the Webinar Now!
How to Dominate Your Local Competition on Google, Yahoo & Bing at the Atlanta REIA South Monthly Meeting
Posted on August 10, 2010 by
With the rapid growth of the Internet over the past 10 years and millions and millions of sites competing for the coveted top 10 listings on popular search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and others, a good website alone is no longer adequate to compete for your fair share of Internet leads. If you want to dominate your local competition online by dominating the top 10 search engine listings for your targeted key word searches, you must do MORE than everyone else and do it BETTER! Read More→
Mark Galey
Posted on August 10, 2010 by
Mark Galey is the President of the Fuller Center for Housing of Greater Atlanta, a faith-driven and Christ-centered, non-profit organization that promotes collaborative and innovative partnerships with individuals, organizations, corporations, and religious groups of all faiths in an unrelenting quest to provide adequate shelter for all people in need in the Greater Atlanta area. Read More→
Kimberlee Frank
Posted on August 10, 2010 by
Kimberlee Frank is known as “The Real Estate Junkie” is a Foreclosure Short Sale Expert who is regularly sought out by the media. She has been featured on ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS as well as Wall Street Journal, Newsletter, USA Today and numerous other publications. She is the best selling author of “Big Ideas for Your Business” (Advantage Media 2009). She is also 1 of Americas Premier’s Experts. Read More→
Super Smart Power Hour – July 6 2010
Posted on August 7, 2010 byOn this month’s Super Smart Power Hour Webinar, we talked about what’s new with your Super Smart Websites as well as upcoming events and announcements. We covered the new Zillow update, new categories for DeedFlow Deal Docs, bulk emailing your tenant buyers list, posting properties to your site as well as our national sites as well as the new Squeeze Page Update. Read More→
Atlanta REIA North Meeting Announced
Posted on August 5, 2010 by
At our August Atlanta REIA Main Monthly Meeting, Dustin Griffin he is starting a new “Atlanta REIA North” subchapter meeting being held at 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM on the third Tuesday of each month at his office located at 1960 Skylar Hill Dr, Suite D, Buford, Georgia in North Gwinnett County a few miles from the Mall of Georgia. Like the Main Atlanta REIA Monthly Meeting, this subgroup will be led by Dustin Griffin and Gordon Catts and will focus on a wide variety of real estate investing strategies with a special emphasis on Internet Marketing and Technology for the modern day “High Tech Investor”. Immediately following the Atlanta REIA North Monthly Meeting, we will reconvene at the Mall of Georgia Taco Mac for Late Nite Networking North. We hope you will come out and eat, drink, network, learn and have fun with us! Read More→
Atlanta REIA Has 3 Monthly Meetings You Need to Know About and Attend
Posted on August 4, 2010 byThe Atlanta Real Estate Investors Alliance has 3 meetings each month that you need to know about and attend… the MAIN monthly meeting and the two subgroup meetings called Atlanta REIA North and South.
- The Atlanta REIA Main Monthly Meeting (Roswell – Fulton County) is held on the first Monday of the month at 5:30 PM at the Doubletree Hotel located at 1075 Holcomb Bridge Road in Roswell, Georgia. This is our MAIN meeting for the month.
- The Atlanta REIA South Monthly Meeting (Stockbridge – Henry County) is held on the second Thursday of the month at 6:30 PM at Ryan’s Steakhouse at 5425 N Henry Blvd in Stockbridge, Georgia. This meeting is a subgroup of our main monthly meeting above. The cost is $5.00 at the door.
- The Atlanta REIA North Monthly Meeting (Buford – Gwinnett County) is held on the third Tuesday of the month at at 1960 Skylar Hill Dr, Suite D, Buford, GA 30518. This meeting is a subgroup of our main monthly meeting above. The cost is $5.00 at the door.
The cover charges and/or membership fees for these meetings and our REIA are subject to change at any time at our sole discretion.
How to Quickly Build a Strong Internet Presence and Dominate Your Local Competition Online
Posted on August 4, 2010 by
Perhaps you’ve heard, that as a modern day real estate investor, you need to have a strong Internet presence and the ability to convert online traffic into leads and leads into deeds in order to survive and thrive in this new economy and real estate market in which we now live and operate. Just a few short years ago, if you had a real estate investor website and could be easily found on Google, you were far ahead of most investors and likely got your fair share of the online leads. These days, a good website alone is no longer enough to adequately compete for leads online.
In order to compete for the coveted top 5 listings on any Google search, we must now use a variety of other Internet websites, pages and profiles such as blogs, social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and others, videos sites, photos sites, RSS feeds, squeeze pages, classified ad sites, article sites, press releases, social bookmarking and other sites too numerous to mention. You’re probably bombarded with emails on a daily basis about search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing, Internet marketing, social networking, Web 2.0, and gurus claiming to have systems to do it all for you with no effort on your part. With so many choices and so many gurus telling you what to do and how and where to spend your hard earned money, perhaps you’re confused and just don’t know where to start. If you are, you’re definitely not alone. Read More→
Thank You for Making Our August Atlanta REIA Meeting Such a Great Success!
Posted on August 3, 2010 by
I want to personally thank all those folks who came out to participate in our 2nd Atlanta Real Estate Investors Alliance Monthly Meeting for Atlanta real estate investors, Realtors and other real estate professionals and entrepreneurs held at the Doubletree Hotel in Roswell, GA from 5:30 PM to Midnight. We truly appreciate all of you who are helping support our new Atlanta real estate investing group and are committed to supporting you in return.
As you now know, Atlanta REIA’s mission is your real estate success! In order to achieve this mission, it is our goal to provide you with Read More→
Four Powerful Tips to Survive and Thrive the Current Atlanta Georgia Rental Market
Posted on August 3, 2010 by
At our second Atlanta Real Estate Investor Alliance Monthly Meeting in August 2010, Gordon Catts brought in his old friend and Atlanta property management expert, Robert Locke. Robert’s company, Crown Realty & Management of Atlanta Georgia, manages over 700 houses, maintains a staff of 24, has managed over 7,000 tenants and provide a full range of services for private investors, banks, builders, lenders, REIT’s, government agencies, and other brokers. Robert gave us a brilliant overview of the current state of the Atlanta rental market and offered us these 4 tips to survive and thrive in the current Atlanta rental market: Read More→
