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Looking for a home for sale in Idabel, Oklahoma? Let me Google that for you.
Judi Barrett, B.S. Edu.,
Broker, Integrity Real Estate Services, Office Address: RR 5 BOX 126, IDABEL, OK 74745 580-212-5946
Our Name Says It All.
Real Estate Services You Can Trust.
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4 comments • Judi Barrett~Broker/Owner Integrity Real Estate Services~IDABEL,OK 580-212-5946 • May 15 2012 01:14PM
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This blog post was originally posted at Integrity Real Estate Services Blog.
Looking for a home for sale in Idabel, Oklahoma? Let me Google that for you.
Judi Barrett, B.S. Edu.,
Broker, Integrity Real Estate Services, Office Address: RR 5 BOX 126, IDABEL, OK 74745 580-212-5946
Our Name Says It All.
Real Estate Services You Can Trust.
If you enjoyed this post, why not connect with me elsewhere?
2 comments • Judi Barrett~Broker/Owner Integrity Real Estate Services~IDABEL,OK 580-212-5946 • May 15 2012 11:04AM
I absolutley love this quote that Lou shared with us tonight. So does your beauty shine when it's dark or difficult time are present... or only in the sunshine when things are easy?
Motivational Power Quote
Our Life is Like Stained Glass Window
“People are like stained glass windows;
they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.”
Elizabeth Kuble-Ross 1926 - 2004, author, Swiss American Psychiatrist
As I see it . . . . . . .
Our life is like stained glass window
When the sun is out in our life the sun radiates through the stained glass window. The brilliance of the stained glass is there for us and the world to see. We have a spring in our step; we feel confident in our actions and see our world through a positive prospective of the sun being out in our life.
There are times that clouds come into our lives. The sun becomes blocked by the clouds and will not be there to shine and bring the brilliance of the stained glass window out for us to see.
When the sun is not out in our life we have light our world from the inside with a positive thinking and positive activity to bring out the brilliance of in the stained glass window.
The brilliance of the stained glass window is always there.
Our life is like stained glass window. There are times that our life will be lit by exterior sources and easy to see. There will be times that we have to light our own way to being the brilliance of our life to surface.
©2012 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author
This blog post was originally posted at Integrity Real Estate Services Blog.
Looking for a home for sale in Idabel, Oklahoma? Let me Google that for you.
Judi Barrett, B.S. Edu.,
Broker, Integrity Real Estate Services, Office Address: RR 5 BOX 126, IDABEL, OK 74745 580-212-5946
Our Name Says It All.
Real Estate Services You Can Trust.
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8 comments • Judi Barrett~Broker/Owner Integrity Real Estate Services~IDABEL,OK 580-212-5946 • May 14 2012 08:34PMREDUCED! SALE!! 4 Bed 2 Bath Home Land For Sale Fort Towson Oklahoma 74735 approximately 4585 sq ft under roof.
This gorgeous home for sale in Fort Towson Oklahoma 74735 is just waiting for your family to move in! Four bedrooms with 2 full baths that are spacious and inviting. The counter in the primary bath is 8 feet long! The counter in the Master Bath is 7 feet long! Large garden tubs in both baths with custom ceramic tile work.
One of the nicest homes in Fort Towson, Oklahoma (74735), this home for sale is situtated on 1 acre and includes a huge attached garage. The attached garage is approximately 2100 sq ft making the total under roof of 4585 sq ft. Need more room, lots of room to expand. Bonus area in the garage is between the parking space and the double French Doors into the Family Room. Bonus area has it's own exterior door to the front and one to the back. Would make a great work out room, an office, a work area, shop, or whatever you needed and still have plenty of space for parking two vehicles. Automatic garage doors.
The living room in this home for sale in Fort Towson Oklahoma has a beautiful wood burning fireplace that has it's own vent system in the ceiling for the great room and is thermostat controlled for zone heating with the fireplace. The other end of the room has a built in entertainment system. Carpeted in the seating area, wood laminate flooring around the seating area, ceramic tile in front of the brick fireplace.
The dining room next to the huge eat at bar that separtes the dining from the kitchen, is wam and inviting. The eat-at-bar will seat several people. The kitchen has lots of cabinets all along three walls. It includes a gas burning range, dishwasher, and refrigerator. There is room for a freezer in the kitchen also.
The family room is a great place to spend time with large windows and french doors opening into the back yard. Ceramic tile floor in the family room, easy clean.
All four bedrooms have large closets that have mirror doors. The home has wood laminate flooring, ceramic tile flooring, and some carpet.
This home for sale in Fort Towson Oklahoma is beautifully presented with flower beds and well appointed landscaping around the home.
Very near the Raymond Gary Lake for fishing and swimming, state park with playgrounds and boat ramps. Also close to a duck hunting refuge, and other larger lakes such Hugo Lake, Pine Creek Lake, and about an hour from Broken Bow Lake.
Approximately 30 to 40 minutes to Paris Texas for larger town with more medical facilities and shopping. If interested, email me and I will send you links to information on Paris.
This home has been reduced in price and is an excellent buy!
This blog post was originally posted at Integrity Real Estate Services Blog.
Looking for a home for sale in Idabel, Oklahoma? Let me Google that for you.
Judi Barrett, B.S. Edu.,
Broker, Integrity Real Estate Services, Office Address: RR 5 BOX 126, IDABEL, OK 74745 580-212-5946
Our Name Says It All.
Real Estate Services You Can Trust.
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10 comments • Judi Barrett~Broker/Owner Integrity Real Estate Services~IDABEL,OK 580-212-5946 • May 14 2012 06:10AMTell Me Something Good That Happened To You This Week! May 13, 2012
It's graduation time across the nation. High Schoolers, Junior High Students, Kindergartners, and on the other end of the spectrum, college graduates are all having commencement exercises.
I love the fact that graduation exercises are labeled commencement exercises.. the beginning of something new instead of the end of something.
We watched our granddaughter Chassy graduate Friday night at Idabel High School. She was sad and happy at the same time as were we.
Change in our lives often causes mixed feelings. It was the end of her high school education, the end of day to day associations with friends in that setting. At the same time, she's moving on to other things.. college in the fall.
This week she is paging for our State Representative Curtis McDaniel. I appreciate Representative McDaniel extending that opportunity to her to participate in our state legislature as a page. I just talked to her on the phone.. all checked in and excited about it.
This next week we watch two more of our grandchildren go through graduation/ commencement exercises. Chassy's younger brother Davin graduates from Holly Creek Elementary School, finishing elementary (8th 
grade) and commencing high school. Another Big step. AND then on Friday, it's Morgan's turn.
Morgan is graduating from high school also at Stroud, Oklahoma. Morgan is also excited..college in the fall and a full schedule between now and then. I'm so looking forward to watching her walk across that stage.
This week was haying week on the farm. Big round bales all baled up nice and tight and stored away for the cattle for this winter.
I'm looking forward to this coming week, with showings scheduled, a listing scheduled, and a home inspection on the calendar so far.
We started this tradition of telling something good that had happened to each one as we gather around the family dinner table. It's a good tradition and I've carried it forward to my friends and acquaintances on Active Rain.
So now it's your turn. Tell me something good that happened to you this week.
This blog post was originally posted at Integrity Real Estate Services Blog.
Looking for a home for sale in Idabel, Oklahoma? Let me Google that for you.
Judi Barrett, B.S. Edu.,
Broker, Integrity Real Estate Services, Office Address: RR 5 BOX 126, IDABEL, OK 74745 580-212-5946
Our Name Says It All.
Real Estate Services You Can Trust.
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8 comments • Judi Barrett~Broker/Owner Integrity Real Estate Services~IDABEL,OK 580-212-5946 • May 13 2012 05:32PMWOW ! Bartley Wilson has written a super informative and helpful post here. I'm sure you will want to read it! I was glad that I did and will be re-reading it again and again.
Sorry the bartman has been away for a while. It seems that a few new clients have taken me away from my blog writing for ActiveRainers.
If any of you watch ABC's SharkTank we picked up one of their companies that was invested in by sharks: Mark Cuban and Daymond John. The company is EzVip.com and it's essentially doing for night clubs and venues what Expedia.com is doing for hotels.
About Google's Penguin. What happened?
It was bound to happen sooner or later. Google actually got around to (strictly) enforcing the laws that are on the books @ Google's Webmaster Guidelines.
For a few hundred thousand unsuspecting websites (including a few thousand real estate sites), they were dropped from Google's visibility from page one down to page 67 - the Internet equivalent of "nowhere."
Many agents and webmaster are crying foul, but the Bartman cannot feel for ignorance or stupidity on this one. Because the rules have been published for quite some time.
If you were foolish enough to buy five thousand links with anchor text tags laced with "colorado springs real estate" or "denver homes for sale," and you used Fiverr.com or any one of the thousands of text-link ad vendors... then you simply got caught with your pants down.
Because buying links from the Link Farms is a "no-no," if you bothered to read Google's Webmaster Guidelines.
If your site has been affected by the Penguin Update or if you want to minimize any impact from a future Google update to Penguin, the Bartman has put together a top (5) thigns you must do to avoid getting on Google's Radar Screen.
1.) Get Real On Your Content
Nobody wants to read how good you are with horses. Nobody wants to see you posing with your dog. Nobody cares how well you know the local area. Nobody wants to read the same story you just copied and pasted from another site into your website or blog. All of this is real estate websites circa 1999. It's as dead as 8-track tape stereos are.
You have to get real on writing content about things that buyers want to know about. What are the top (3) growth areas in your town? Where are the best schools? What's fun to do this weekend? What are the local attractions? If you write about things in local neighborhoods and let people start conversations about it, you'll do just fine.
Example: Keller Williams agents Dan and Traci Rochon have launched a new website forum. It's a bit like Trulia but has a local flavor for homes in the Virginia, Washington DC area and Maryland. It's just now getting launched at GreetingsRealty.com
2.) Buy Google AdSense Ads. Facebook Ads, too.
Google likes to see your website NOT as Google Centric, but more well rounded. Are you using Google AdSense ads? Are you buying Facebook ads? Do you rank about the same level on Yahoo or Bing? How many incoming links do you have from ActiveRain or Localism.com?
Exercise: Take $250 a month and spread the love. $100 a month on Google. $150 a month on Facebook. The tiny 125 X 125 box / text ads on the right side are important to do. If you'd like some help on this, I am always doing "Open Mike phone calls ,"on Fridays at 866-902-3600. Call me and get free questions to this important step above.
3.) Text-Link-Ads.com, Spark Labs Pay-Per-Post.com have to get fired.
These are just two of the companies you need to fire if you are using them. Fiverr.com is another. If the website SELLS you links with contextual kew words (KWs) in the link and they point to your site, and they point to Alice the Agent and Bob the Broker at Amazing Realty... then you are just asking for trouble.
Buying cheap links to point to your website is just not a good idea. It's building a house made from a deck of cards. There's no stability in doing this.
Fire them now and you will greatly reduce the risk to Google placing your website on their radar screen for violating their Google Webmaster Guidelines and banishing you from a high natural page rank visibility.
The right way to build links is to simply roll up your sleeves and get to work by posting relevant content on Facebook, ActiveRain.com, Localism.com, Curbed.com and let's not forget LinkedIn.com.
Have you created or joined a Real Estate group on LinkedIn.com? No? Wow. Get started tomorrow. If you need pragmatic ideas on where else to go, remember my Open Mike Fridays. 866-902-3600. Call me or email and I'll send you a handful of ideas on what to do and where to go to help you start building up GREAT contacts and GOOD relevant links to point to your website or real estate blog.
4.) PRWeb.com / PRNewswire.com -- Feed the Press
Press releases might seem a bit old fashioned, but they still work. I like PRWeb.com and for $149 - $199 you can create and launch a nice PR of your own.
Here's the joint PR we released for our ABC Shark Tank client and VPiX - the company I work at.
The PR was shown 30,337 times and was opened / read 929 times. Stats are below:
Did it work?: You be the judge. Last week we jumped from 309 uniques a day to over 511 for three days when the PR ran. I closed on $15,190 more in new sales.
There's no argument that a PR blast won't work. It worked like a charm.
5.) Website + IDX + WordPress Blog + an HTML 5 Mobile Website = MORE LEADS.
The formula for success for today's Modern Real Estate Warrior is not hard to understand. The writing's been on the wall for two years now.
You need a clean, SEO friendly website that is usable. Steve Krug has a book called Don't Make Me Think. Get the 2nd edition from Amazon. Read it and follow it.
IDX. You have to have one. If you cannot afford a custom one, then get one from iHomeFinders.com. It's $99 set up and as low as $59 a month with a Mobile IDX website, too. Call me and I'll get you set up.
The other issue is the lack of a LIVE account management team. Hosting with a managed service level with Rackspace is just $100 a month tacked onto nearly any plan.
Real estate websites are a bit complicated today. We have your website, your IDX, and a WordPress blog. In addition, you need another separate website just for your mobile users.
If you don't have $250,000 to build a Real Estate APP like Realtor.com, Zillow or Trulia -- then you really need to create a mobile website so people can use your website on a tiny, 4-inch screen. For les then $500 bucks, you can create one and have it linked to your IDX. If you are not sure how to do this, call me or email me.
Geet a managed service level with a complete team ready to help 24/7. You're a REALTOR and might not be a rocket scientist in XML, AJAX, PHP or WordPress. Most REALTOR's don't know their AJAX from a blue can of the powdered cleaning stuff. This is okay.
Once the websites are set up and humming along, thigns will break from time to time and you can either;
(a) spend a fortune yelling at an expensive $75 an hour local Web guy or girl,
(b) trying to get the Indian service desk team to understand your problem and fix it or
(c) hire a U.S. account management, IT and server hosting team for $100 bucks a month.
Trust me, I've seen grown men and women kick and throw things across the room because of technology headaches. $100 a month added to any hosting service plan is a really cheap way to get 100% peace of mind. So when things go wrong, you call a toll free number. 7 days a week, 24-hours a day including holidays. Things get fixed instantly so you can go back to being a REALTOR.
I recommend the 40-gig cloud server and the $100 monthly managed service plan.
If anyone has questions on any of this, where to go on getting these, email me or call me.
This blog post was originally posted at Integrity Real Estate Services Blog.
Looking for a home for sale in Idabel, Oklahoma? Let me Google that for you.
Judi Barrett, B.S. Edu.,
Broker, Integrity Real Estate Services, Office Address: RR 5 BOX 126, IDABEL, OK 74745 580-212-5946
Our Name Says It All.
Real Estate Services You Can Trust.
If you enjoyed this post, why not connect with me elsewhere?
5 comments • Judi Barrett~Broker/Owner Integrity Real Estate Services~IDABEL,OK 580-212-5946 • May 13 2012 11:43AMThe Home You Buy Will Hopefully be the Setting for Many Good Memories.
No one buys a home thinking that it will be a disappointment. Buying a home is a new beginning, looking to the future, planning. Yet we know that the future is not always bright and beautiful. Sometimes there are rough spots in our lives.
This is one way to think about what's important when you're shopping for a home. So with that in mind, let's make a list of possible things to think about while shopping for a home. Let's do everything we can to have only good memories made in that new home!
This blog post was originally posted at Integrity Real Estate Services Blog.
Looking for a home for sale in Idabel, Oklahoma? Let me Google that for you.
Judi Barrett, B.S. Edu.,
Broker, Integrity Real Estate Services, Office Address: RR 5 BOX 126, IDABEL, OK 74745 580-212-5946
Our Name Says It All.
Real Estate Services You Can Trust.
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28 comments • Judi Barrett~Broker/Owner Integrity Real Estate Services~IDABEL,OK 580-212-5946 • May 10 2012 10:18AM
I alway make sure that I have plenty of HOT SAUCE on hand! I happened across this gallon the other day at one of my favorite good stores and of course had to bring it home.
Hot sauce is actually used in a lot of recipes in varying amounts around my house. YOu just never know for sure whether it's got it in there or not... can't always tell by tasting. It's like a lot of other ingredients we cook with, it adds interest to the final outcome.
Happy Cooking!
This blog post was originally posted at Integrity Real Estate Services Blog.
Looking for a home for sale in Idabel, Oklahoma? Let me Google that for you.
Judi Barrett, B.S. Edu.,
Broker, Integrity Real Estate Services, Office Address: RR 5 BOX 126, IDABEL, OK 74745 580-212-5946
Our Name Says It All.
Real Estate Services You Can Trust.
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14 comments • Judi Barrett~Broker/Owner Integrity Real Estate Services~IDABEL,OK 580-212-5946 • May 09 2012 06:42PM
I Do Not Want My Seeds Replaced.. I Want Plants! I Do Not Want More Bad Promises.. I Want My House To Sell!!
Life becomes analogous to being a real estate broker. I’ve sometimes wondered why but the truth is that it’s quite evident. We deal with people’s lives. There is no way around it and whatever happens in the everyday substance of peoples’ lives happens in real estate.
Life. day to day.. Our buyer clients do have lives outside of trying to buy a home....Our seller clients have also do have lives outside of trying to sell their home. A good real estate agent recognizes and salutes that.
But sometimes we, as agents, do not get the same courtesy from our clients. SO if you’re a client of mine and haven’t thought about this, let me share it with you. Not only am I a real estate broker but these other things factor into my life:
Ooooops.. almost forgot... I won’t make promises that I cannot deliver. You don’t need that. I cannot promise that your house will sell if you’re a seller. I cannot promise that I’ll find you a home that you’re going to love at a price that you’ll love even more if you’re a buyer. I can promise you that I’ll do my part to make those things happen IF I take you as a client.
So where did that title come from? I have been looking for seeds for TAM Jalapenos (Texas A & M) They were developed to be a bit milder so you get to experience the flavor more than the HOT GIVE ME WATER. experience with jalapenos.
I finally found them. Planted them. Nada.. Zilch. Nothing came up. SO I had saved some of the seeds and went through a soaking process to see if the little guys would stick their heads out of the seeds. ZERO. Seeds are no good. Went to the company website. THEY GUARANTEE THAT THEIR SEEDS WILL GROW OR MONEY BACK.
Woop - de - Doo. I don’t want more seeds (more promises from a company that sold me bad seed). I’ve wasted the best time to get those seeds going on bad seeds (just like the best time is when a house FIRST comes on the market). I don’t want more promises and don’t want to waste my time on something that doesn’t deliver. I would have paid more for seeds that sprouted.
I WANT RESULTS. I WANT PLANTS. This made me think about real estate (as everything does). Our clients (you) don’t want to waste time or have promises given to you that don’t mean anything. You want results. So let’s get together and talk about what results you want/need and how to make them happen.
This blog post was originally posted at Integrity Real Estate Services Blog.
Looking for a home for sale in Idabel, Oklahoma? Let me Google that for you.
Judi Barrett, B.S. Edu.,
Broker, Integrity Real Estate Services, Office Address: RR 5 BOX 126, IDABEL, OK 74745 580-212-5946
Our Name Says It All.
Real Estate Services You Can Trust.
If you enjoyed this post, why not connect with me elsewhere?
7 comments • Judi Barrett~Broker/Owner Integrity Real Estate Services~IDABEL,OK 580-212-5946 • May 08 2012 10:50AM
I attended a GREAT RODEO last night AND it’s still going on! You can attend and have a GREAT TIME TOO! The Paris Rodeo and Horse Club is having their annual rodeo RIGHT NOW at the Red River Valley Fairgrounds, 570 East Center Street, Paris, Texas.
I’m a country gal and one of our sons, DV Fennell is a cowboy, a REAL cowboy! He has rodeoed for several years, placed well enough to make two trips to compete in the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas.
Now here’s a secret..
shhhh..
I do NOT like rodeos.
Well... that's not entirely accurate! Let me restate that in a more accurate way.. I do not like MOST rodeos. I ABSOLUTELY LOVED the NFR..Would go back every year to watch it if I could afford it! WHAT A SHOW! ….......AND........ every once in a while I attend one that I enjoy.
Now DV, he seems to love them all.
He has RODEO running through his veins
but
trust me,
he did not get that from his mama.. :)
We drove from Idabel to Paris last night to watch him ride. He had driven down from Porum to
ride in the Thursday night event of the Paris Rodeo and Horse Club last night at the Red River Valley Fairgrounds, 570 East Center Street, Paris, Texas so he would be riding close enough that we could make the drive and watch him ride. I have not
had the opportunity to watch him since the NFR in 2010.
Usualy when DV rides, it’s like a quick fast dance. The rhythm, smoothness, the flow of the ride.. it’s like someone choreographed it.
Don't know why some of these photos turned out so blurry, but you can get the general idea of what fun the event was!
ANYWAY... back on topic here..
I thoroughly enjoyed the rodeo at the Paris Rodeo and Horse Club last night at the Red River Valley Fairgrounds, 570 East Center Street, Paris, Texas. Everyone was having a good time.. they had several events f
or children going on. The clown jokes were ACTUALLY FUNNY and clean... didn’t insult me as a lady or insult my intelligence.
IF you are looking for an interesting activity to attend this week-end and want some good clean fun for the whole family, I highly recommend the Paris Rodeo and Horse Club last night at the Red River Valley Fairgrounds, 570 East Center Street, Paris, Texas.
Parking was easy and FREE. The grounds were clean and everything was well organized. They even had CLEAN restrooms! There was a large inflated slide house set up for little ones.. & the little ones competed in the mutton scramble.. there were also events for high schoolers. PLUS all of the regular events.
I usually only attend rodeos that DV is competing in.. but I’ll be back to watch the Paris Rodeo and Horse Club last night at the Red River Valley Fairgrounds, 570 East Center Street, Paris, Texas another time even if DV is not competing. It’s not that far a drive from Idabel or Hugo, or anywhere in-between for such a well organized great event!
This blog post was originally posted at Integrity Real Estate Services Blog.
Looking for a home for sale in Idabel, Oklahoma? Let me Google that for you.
Judi Barrett, B.S. Edu.,
Broker, Integrity Real Estate Services, Office Address: RR 5 BOX 126, IDABEL, OK 74745 580-212-5946
Our Name Says It All.
Real Estate Services You Can Trust.
If you enjoyed this post, why not connect with me elsewhere?
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