NeighborhoodsUndressed.com is a conglomeration of links to new articles from almost all the neighborhood blogs in the Undressed Network. If you want to see what is happening in BurienUndressed, KenmooreUndressed, GigHarborUndressed, PuyallupUndressed, even HonoluluUndressed, IssaquahUndressed, IssaquahGrangeSupplyUndressed, IssaquahHighlandsUndressed (and many, many more, too many to list) scroll down the list, click and you will be taken to that article. Advertising is available on these blogs or you can have your own Undressed Blog about a community, a business or even a hobby, contact the sponsor of that blog which is readily available on each site, OR leave a comment. It is easy to do!
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder!!! - I apologize to my loyal readers for my absence from my blog……..I have been slacking on my blog writing. It is not a very good excuse, but my only excuse is: Homes are on Sale!!! I have been
Burien Real Estate, Quick look at sold/pending/available - So what’s going on in the Burien Real Estate market? As always, there are a variety of homes and prices available and on the market today. Homes priced in the 100k range all the way up to 2.5m.
BBQ on The Border! - Time: July 18, 2009 at 10am to July 19, 2009 at 6pm Location: The Market at Birch Bay Organized By: The Markets LLC and Sound Beverage Event Description: Do you love barbecue? Does the thought of smoky,
Come visit my open house today–Waterfront condo! - I’ll be holding an open house today (Friday July 17) at our downtown Gig Harbor waterfront condo. Come by from 2-5pm to see the possibilities in this amazing find. This is a 2bd, 2ba, 1654sf condo
The Banks Need To Give Those Suffering Their Due - From click here Remember that infamous meeting last October at the Treasury Department, the one where then-Secretary Henry Paulson locked the chief executives of the nation’s nine largest financial
Kenmore Washington Now Has a “Wise Locksmith” - Wise Locksmith - Keys, Locks, Safes 7018 NE Bothell Way Kenmore, WA 98028 425.877.1729 www.wiselocks.com Chris Weissman, the owner of Kenmore’s new locksmith shop, Wise Locksmith, made me want to
Did Your Town Receive A Visit From The Coast To Coast Model T Race? - Issaquah Did and it was cool. More On Issaquah Undressed: Model T Fords, all 1909-1927 originals, landed in Issaquah for a stop at Issaquah’s History Museum and the Train Depot Museum. The History
Issaquah Mortgage Update - Larry Cragun, Manager - Lender Rates finally did a turn around, headed back down. The bond market has opened well in positive territory aqnd stayed there, recovering most of yesterday’s losses. The
Restaurants in Summerlin - There are many restaurants in Summerlin; a very special one is Vintner Grill. Vintner Grill was developed by noted Las Vegas restaurateurs, Michael and Sean Corrigan, and designed by renowned interior
June Home Sales Statistics for area 520 - Residential Current Active Inventory 179 homes currently on the market in area 520 average sq feet 3,469 ; average price $1,631,996 median sq feet 2,986 ; median Price $1,125,000 June Residential
This Weeks Featured Home of the Week - Click on the picture to see a virtual tour. For more information contact Susan Moore at 206.947.3694 or
Health Care Reform Debate - The health care reform debate is very much in the headlines these days; as it very much should be. I was reading a post from Jim Lupori at KenmoreUndressed; and I spend almost 40 minutes viewing Bill
Semiahmoo pro is making news again! - Coston Returns to Defend Title: He’s Only Golfer to Win Rosauers Open 3
Required Listening - Bill Moyers Interviews Wendell Potter about Health Care - Profits Before Patients We should all be involved in the discussion regarding health care in America. It’s a complex and controversial subject that we all feel strongly about. Recently, Bill Moyers
Bothell’s Student of the Month for July - Greater Bothell Chamber Luncheon The Greater Bothell Chamber of Commerce had another interesting luncheon last Wednesday, July 8th at the Courtyard Hall in Country Village. We had a great group of
Crossroads Mall, Bellevue WA - The roads that cross are 156th and NE 8th. This is a cozy, neighborhood kind of mall. Not as posh and upscale as Bellevue Sq Mall, but that is one of its strengths. One of the best magazine and news
Help Promote Newcastle’s “Best Places To Live” - CNN/Money Magazine ranks Newcastle #17 in the nation for Best Places to Live 2009 . Newcastle is one of only five Washington cities that has made the top 100. This is an excellent opportunity to entice
Green Homes Las Vegas - This is the beginning of the Green Homes Las Vegas series that I have been promising. I have interspersed this post with photos of past work done by Signature Custom Homes. In subsequent posts I will
My Wife Was Thinking We Should Buy A Different Condo - She was thinking of a High Rise. One for people over 55. So she did a Google Search for “high rise condo for over 55″ of course. And here was what she found: Club Marina can accomodate yachts
College of Southern Nevada Charleston Campus - I was driving by the College of Southern Nevada (Charleston Campus) this morning; with camera in hand I explored the campus. The end result is that I have some photos to show you. The two-year community

What An Undressed Blog And Network Is - Isn’t

July 2nd, 2009
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Click here to learn more about the undressed network and to register for your favorite neighborhood, town, or topic.

It isn’t myspace, trendy or silly.

We are focused, interesting, and relevant.

We are not about us, are about you.

Are not an SEO game or gimmic.

Are masters of what works for our clients.

It is about exposure to good things and transparancy.

It is a blog for sure, not a website in limitation.

It is easy to post and should be added upon at least 3 times a week.

It isn’t in your face advertising. It is subtle with an advertising merchants page.

It wasn’t about lead generation - but now is.

We are not a network of great writers.

We are experts and passionate about our topic.

We don’t count hits, we count content.

We don’t track impressions, just make good ones.

Our blog is our resume.

We are Google friendly, but focus on the viewer.

We build the best content on the web about our topic.

We are not about us, but about you.

We are focused and enduring. We hope to be endearing.

We are loyal and consistent.

We are a catchy brand that stays G rated.

We are effective, we are powerful.

Our bloggers become smarter.

Our bloggers become more professional

Our bloggers become more involved.

CiUn stands for Consumer Information Undressed Network.

We don’t make our clients SEO experts, we keep them focused on their real business.

CiUn focuses on helping our clients be more Visible, more Profitable, and more Professional.

It’s about LEADS CONNECTIONS EASY EFFECTIVE

Gig Harbor/South Puget Sound Event Photographer

June 30th, 2009
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Posted by Matt Thomson on www.GigHarborUndressed.com

If you are planning an event to take advantage of the great weather we’re having in the South Puget Sound region this summer, don’t forget the professional photographer.  Event photography can make or break your event, so if you have a wedding, anniversary, senior pictures, or any other need for a professional event photographer in or around Gig Harbor, give Stacy Wagoner a call.  She’ll preserve the memories of your event for a lifetime!  Read more about her and see more of her work at GigHarborUndressed.com.

Red Rock Canyon Homes

June 26th, 2009
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June 26th, 2009

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I ventured out to Red Rock Country Club yesterday to meet with a client and was able to get a few photos that I wanted to pass along.

This Howard Hughes community in Summerlin is one of the most prestigious in the Las Vegas Valley. There are many communities built around golf courses in Las Vegas. However, Red Rock Country Club is true country club living. You’ll find two Arnold Palmer designed golf courses; one is private and the other is public. Members also have access to their sister golf course, Sienna Golf Club.

The Red Rock Country Club offers a number of different memberships to suit your tastes. If you are thinking tennis, they have Court Think. Court Think is the owner of the Vic Braden Tennis College; one of the finest tennis teaching organizations in the world. Pool and Spa facilities are available as well.

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Did You Know?

May 7th, 2009
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Did You Know: that one of our bloggers recently picked off 4 different buyers off their undressed blog? aS OF LAST FRIDAY 2 WERE UNDER CONTRACT.
Did You Know: that Kathleen and I have been using our blog as a way to meet local business people - and that the marketing director of one just asked me to list her condo and sell her a home with a yard her dog can run around in?
Did you know: That thanks to being a part of our network, even if you haven’t been writing lately your blog gets more Google powerful everyday anyway? Mark Clawson of Summerlin Undressed just proved that. After many months of not writing he started up again. I went in and wrote a mystery post and found it on page one for 2 searches and page 2 for two more just 30 minutes after posting the article.
Did you know: that a new popular book “Realty Blogging” will help you get it, even though you thought you already got it, and maybe bought it but didn’t get it? Buy it - the book that is. The book was written by executives of a company that came out the same time we did - charging $500.00 a month for their blog plus training. Buy it anyway…..
But for those of you who like to see and learn we are going to start a series of webinars: The first will be next Wednesday May 13th and 11AM and the Friday after that May 15th at 1PM. Several of our super stars have offered to train you on items from basic blogging, to Flickr, to how to use your blog to make real estate sales, and I will pop in with how to blog for Google. I will be forwarding the links to these sessions a few days before they go live.
We look forwarding to helping you step it up. Don’t miss out on these as your blogging colleagues care about your success.
PS: Issaquah Undressed is nearing its 3rd complete year and do we dominate our local market online. You can too.
PSS: If you dropped out, perhaps its time to drop back in.

Blog Vs Website

December 23rd, 2008
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Many want to know what the big differences are in our blog/network approach to a website. Here is my take on it.

No worrying about SEO costs to a blog: There is SEO (Search Engine Optimization) but in our network we are thankful for the technology and the fact Google likes good content. The tecnology and our template builders were considering SEO. We don’t worry about tricks, phantom sites, and other things just to out think Google.

As the bulk of search engines value what you write, how often you write, what you tag and categorize, the content in your site just writing normal interesting topic has a long term power for the search engines. We are finding that as Issaquah Undressed has about 500 articles written over 2.75 years, almost every topic we now write about puts that topic on page one of Google. This gives us the confidence that our writing on most topics will help us be found by searchers.

Easy of adding articles: Webmasters go away. We don’t need you. It is important to write new content often and regularly. Some of our posts are inspired by a great photo. In minutes a photo and a 100 plus word article can be up in minutes.

Sticky: Websites tend to be self serving and therefore boring. We teach be interesting and relevant. Blogs are sticky. People stay and visit different pages. At least that happens on our network blogs. For example, yesterdays stats show that the average viewer visited 27 pages. That is not going to happen on a website.

Consistency: Using Issaquah Undressed as an example again: The more you write on a blog, the longer you write the more power you have with the search engines.

The network: Part of the network is the brand. Each article, each new blogger getting exposure, each time a new visitor hits the network the message of our model and brand is planted. In other words, the future brings even stronger benefits to each of us. Last week we added 5 blogs. Thank you from all of us new bloggers. Also, you are welcome. Each of us has prepared the way for you to have a stronger start than we did.

We help fellow network members: For example, Matt Thomson of Gig Harbor Undressed quickly added this point on Interactive..

Interactive: Customers can leave testimonials, ask questions, give new ideas, etc. Also, the flexibility of a blog is endless. You can advertise using coupons, special deals, photos, videos, stories about your top employee, community involvement that you or your emplees do. It is ever changing and limitless as to what you can do.