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Slowdown in Real Estate and Condo Sales Spurs Internet Marketing

While the present real estate climate helps buyers with incentives, and sellers are willing to lower prices, desperate real estate agents look for magic bullet from the net.
(PRWEB) September 5, 2006 -- Just a year ago, real estate and resort condos for sale were the hottest thing going. If you advertised one with a price even near appraised value, or offered a preconstruction condo loaded with amenities, investors couldn't buy it fast enough. Realtors were happily making huge commissions, and the investors happily anticipated huge profits from "flipping".

Prices increased in the resort areas like Florida and Las Vegas, while huge high-rise developments took over and carpeted the landscape with bulldozers and construction workers.

Then hurricanes came, the war progressed, interest rates and gas prices went up, and the so-called real estate "bubble" became a reality.In the summer of 2006, developers have more condos than they have buyers, prices on homes and condos are coming down, and realtors are suddenly hurting for sales.

One thing is obvious - the internet is the lifeline. But those fancy websites known as "flash sites" are dangling in cyberspace, and the money required to advertise with the search engines is hard to come by.

Real estate web designers that are skilled in search engine optimization are the answer, but they are a rare breed. Most web designers go for the most high-tech look, and have no idea what the search engines require to rank a site in the natural search results.

There are so many developments now that ranking for all may be impossible.And there are a few areas where real estate didn't top out last year. Prices remain affordable, and the hometown agents are now gearing up for their share of the pot.

"These developers and real estate marketing firms are looking for the fruit of their investments in internet advertising." says Bryan Pearl of Pearl Web Marketing.

Myrtle Beach Web Design, a real estate search engine optimization company owned by Jan Chilton, has teamed up with Pearl Web Marketing to offer the solution.

Websites specialized for realtors and property developers can be attractive to buyers and search engines alike. Between the two companies, Pearl and Chilton have a large number of clients who benefit from referrals, can provide press release services and advertising blogs, and have several real estate directories to provide a complete internet marketing experience.

Pearl modestly tells his prospective customers,
"Out of twenty-seven million results on the internet our website, CondosAndResorts.com, is in the top ten search engine results for the term 'condos for sale.'"

Chilton maintains several condo websites that are near the top for most Myrtle Beach search terms.

Angela Privett Treadway, Co-owner of Privett and Associates Realty in Sevierville, Tennessee has been with Pearl Web Marketing for three years.

"Internet advertising is a significant part of our marketing and it drives hundreds of leads per month to our office," Treadway explains. "The internet is certainly the best and most cost effective way to generate sales, providing you get with the right company."

Pearl Web Marketing and Myrtle Beach Web Design currently service realtors in South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Hawaii, Kentucky, Arizona, California, and Florida. For ethical reasons, they will seldom work with more than one agent per city.

Although their primary focus is in real estate, they have together designed a mortgage company site, a condo insurance site, a lake front property site, and have customers in interior design, engineering services, construction, and resort rentals.

Pearl does website design primarily with developers and realtors for search engine placement especially geared towards selling the dream of owning vacation homes and condos. Myrtle Beach Web Design has been helping realtors and Myrtle Beach condo rental companies with search engine placement since 2003.

The merger of these two talents has been a perfect match, even though they are several states apart. Learning what each search engine expects, enticing prospective home buyers, and keeping up with the constant algorithim changes is what, together, they do best. Pearl and Chilton share their knowledge and confer daily to keep each other informed. Chilton is presently working on a Real Estate marketing tutorial site to help with Google placement, called EchoForum.com.

There are many other tools to use in driving traffic to websites. Online ads in the right places, trading links with other quality websites, and creating press releases which span the globe are just a few. All of these factor into your placement in the search engines. There are many things which can be done to generate traffic. It isn't rocket science, but requires time and constant monitoring of the trends.

For this reason, most realtors would prefer to have a professional handle this important aspect of their business.

If you would like more information, contact Bryan Pearl at (256)550-1333 or through his website, Pearl Web Marketing.

Jan Chilton can be reached by phone at (843)602-0000 or through her website, Myrtle Beach Web Design.


Pearl Web Marketing265
Irby CircleUnion Grove, AL 35175
www.pearlwebmarketing.com

Myrtle Beach Web Design
2423 Hwy 17 SouthNorth Myrtle Beach, SC 29582
www.myrtlebeachwebdesign.com
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Company Name: MYRTLE BEACH WEB DESIGN-PEARL WEB MARKETING
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Capitol Hill Blue - Has Bush gone over the edge?

Totally off-topic and stictly the webmaster's opinion. I feel this is an important bit of news...


Capitol Hill Blue - Has Bush gone over the edge?

Has Bush gone over the edge
September 5, 2006 06:06 AM

An increasing number of Republicans, ranging from former conservative Congressman Joe Scarborough to former President George H.W. Bush, worry that President George W. Bush's tenuous hold on reality is slipping away and the leader of the free world may be sliding into a full-fledged mental breakdown.

Scarborough sounded the warning recently when he devoted an episode of his MSNBC talk show to the topic "Is Bush an Idiot?" Other published reports say Bush's own father is worried about his son's mental state. Psychiatrists who have observed Bush during his presidency share this concern.
Writes Jeffrey Steinberg in Executive Intelligence Review:

The word is circulating in high-level Republican Party circles that former President George H.W. Bush is profoundly worried about the mental state of his son, the current President. According to the sources, Bush has been communicating with his own intimate circle, including former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft, and former Secretary of State James Baker III, along with former President Bill Clinton, about G.W.'s over-the-top support for Israel's current self-destructive assault on Lebanon.

The ex-President has reportedly conveyed to his close associates that he fears that G.W. is in a messianic state and is "unreachable," even by such close advisors as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Insight magazine, the online publication of the Washington Times, buttressed this account, reporting in early August that, for the first time, a rift has developed between Rice and President Bush, over the President's one-sided support for Israel, in the ongoing Israeli Defense Forces invasion of Lebanon.

Bush family insiders say the former President's concern over his son's mental state was a primary reason why the President made a rare appearance at the family home in Connecticut during August. Bush rarely visits his father. In fact, NBC news anchor Brian Williams recently reported that former President Bill Clinton, who defeated the elder Bush after one term, visits his former rival more often.

White House aides point to the President's increasingly bizarre behavior: an inpromptu "massage" of a foreign leader at the recent G8 conference, his penchant for farting in front of new West Wing aides and his rambling, often incoherent answers to reporters' questions.

John Dean, the White House counsel who helped bring down another deranged President: Richard M. Nixon, shares the concern.

In his book, Conservatives Without Conscience, Dean calls Republican-controlled Washington a bullying, manipulative, prejudiced leadership edging the nation toward a dark era.

"We have returned to the imperial presidency (that existed in the Nixon era)," Dean says. "We have an unchecked presidency."

"Are we on the road to fascism?" he adds. "Clearly, we are not on that road yet. But it would not take much more misguided authoritarian leadership, or thoughtless following of such leaders, to find ourselves there.

"I am not sure which is more frightening," he adds, "another major terror attack or the response of authoritarian conservatives to that attack."

Dr. Justin Frank, the prominent George Washington University psychiatrist who wrote Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President, says Bush has lost touch with reality:

With every passing week, President Bush marches deeper and deeper into a world of his own making. Central to Bush's world is an iron will which demands that external reality be changed to conform to his personal view of how things are.

As far as Bush is concerned, he is telling the truth; as Madeleine Albright recently said to Columbia Magazine: "the most serious problem is that George Bush now believes what he says." Like many of my hospitalized patients, Bush has created a vast, detailed but vague delusional system he feels compelled to maintain at all costs. This system helps him manage the terrifying anxiety that threatens to make his already endangered inner world more chaotic.

Psychoanalytic theory suggests that Bush's true enemy is an aspect of himself -- the overwhelming anxiety he works so hard to manage. For Bush, lying remains a central defense mechanism in managing his fears; he lies foremost to himself, altering his perception of external or internal reality to fulfill his psychic need to maintain order. His anxiety is so great that he cannot shift his thinking to account for new information --especially the fact that patriotic families of patriotic soldiers demand that he speak with them.

Taking responsibility has always been hard for George W. Bush. And taking responsibility for inflicting harm on others, a major step in the development of maturity, is a step President Bush has yet to make. Instead, he persists in lying to himself, surrounding himself with people who agree with him. And now he is not safe even inside his own closed circle.

Dr. Frank has studied Bush's actions and personality extensively and believes the President needs extensive analysis and help.

"It is not too late for President Bush to have the second half of his medical check-up: psychological testing," Dr. Frank says. "After his recent press conference in which he kept talking about finishing the job while attacking Democrats for wanting an exit strategy, Bush showed even more telltale signs of a particular kind of mental disturbance which medical professionals call thought disorder."
Writing in The Huffington Post, Dr. Frank continues:

I had always felt that his inability to respond to crisis, as seen in his response to 9/11 and Katrina and Israel's bombing of Lebanon, was because he suffered from something called affective flooding, where overwhelming anxiety paralyzes any ability to think or even function. Such a response is similar to denial.

Those who observe the president at such moments - thanks to smuggled film clips and his historic April 2004 press conference when he was asked if he had made any mistakes as president - see that he starts rapid blinking movements before his eyes glaze over and become almost fixed in a blank, mindless stare. This massive disconnection from inner self and outer world is called "splitting."

But a recent press conference (August 21, 2006) showed that when he is in control he is not flooded in this way. Rather, his splitting takes the form of hatred of reality. I use the term hatred purposefully. When he was pushed by a few increasingly frustrated reporters, he behaves like the untreated alcoholic he is - summarily dismissing material reality.

When offered a chance to re-think the Iraq war he becomes obstreperous, using sarcasm to both mask and express his internal rage at being challenged. When back in control he patronizes members of what he calls the "Democrat" party, saying that they are "good people" and that he doesn't question their patriotism. In control he is a poor man's Cicero, saying what he's not going to say anyway. Reading between the lines, he calls his critics quitters.

All of this behavior is in the service of defending himself against reality - something he actively hates. At times, his attempts to ward off reality make him appear stupid. He is not. Rather, internal and external realities are too threatening for him to face. When asked whether he had been surprised or frustrated by all the bad news from Baghdad he didn't even understand the question. This is because the very act of facing such questions threatens to destroy his tenaciously held preconceptions. This he cannot risk; he employs various coping mechanisms to attack such questions in any way he can. Instead of acknowledging personal frustration he said that the war must be frustrating for the national psyche. But his hatred of reality required a more violent approach - the day after his conference he sent more of those poor marines back into a world of horror.

His ability to dismiss reality is profound - more than the simple method used by his mother Barbara, who said she wasn't going to watch the TV news during the war because watching body bags would spoil her "beautiful mind". No, he has a rugged inner strength - unless confronted by surprise - that enables him to dismiss and destroy personal perception.

His mental pulse needs to be taken, not just his physical one. I think that what prevents his doctors from doing so is their fear of what they'd find. Without such an examination, we are left with no medical terms to describe his mental functioning, his private global war on terror which extends to attacks on his own capacity to perceive reality. I have not examined the President, so it is not proper for me to offer a diagnosis. However, my observations lead me to believe that he is psychotic.

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