Neighborhoods Undressed

Are You A Social Media Expert?

Larry Cragun — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:31:54 +0000

If yes, we need you.

If no, you need us.

Experts and non experts alike take note: Our mission is to provide a specific level of coaching and training to businesses and professionals. Our approach is to bring our customers to an effective level where social media marketing is doing its jom without it being a waste of time or intimidating.

If this sounds good to you email me, Larry Cragun, at support@CiUn.com

What An Undressed Blog And Network Is – Isn’t

Larry Cragun — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:22:25 +0000

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

Hood Canal Living At It’s Best

Larry Cragun — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:32:19 +0000

I am helping Tom Wolter look at the power of our network in getting exposure to his undressed network blog. So many times we come up on page one. Yet there are times that it needs an extra boost to get there. Writing often is a big thing. Being a part of the network is another. Using the strategies we teach have a simple but big impact.

Tom writes about Hood Canal and Snoqualmie Pass, he has homes at both locations as well as Bellevu, Wa. The three articles below were clips of posts that showed up on page 6 of Google. Adding clips here and on Real Estate Undressed will bring the topic to page 1.

One of the most beautiful places in the world to Kayak is on Hood Canal, and now you can receive introductory lessons at the Seabech Marina. For more click here.

or How abut all those clame in Hood Canal, click here Get the boiling pot of water ready for some clams in Hood Canal. I like to steam my clams in little beer, with diced onions and tomatoes. Clam populations are doing just fine,” according to the State Fish and Wildlife center in Brinnon.

and even Hood Canal Fishing – Summer Chum Salmon The inventory of Chum Salmon is on the rise, due to the help of several temporary hatcheries, and assistance from the hatchery employees

or better yet, Here Comes The Crab in Hood Canal! There is nothing like some fresh, succulent crab with your favorite libation to complete an awesome day of recreating in the Hood Canal area. I like to melt some butter, add garlic and a splash of tabasco to my dip; my wife likes it a little bit milder.

Did You Know?

Larry Cragun — Fri, 08 May 2009 04:40:00 +0000

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

Larry Cragun — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:02:47 +0000

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.