No wonder so many people are getting licensed as real estate agents. And why not? You can make a lot of money selling real estate. But being licensed is only first step, as more and more people are getting licensed to cash in on opportunities.

The Second Step.

The most successful real estate agents have lots of listings. Although getting them is easier said than done, you can do it if you have a good real estate listing system. With listings you triple your chances of earning commissions and bonuses. When listings sell you'll be paid a listing fee, a sales fee, or both. Conversely, if you don't have listings you'll only get paid when you sell a property.

A system that some work to near perfection focuses on Expired Real Estate Listings, which are a great source of leads. You don’t have to spend a lot of time or money prospecting for them, as they're always just a couple of keystrokes away.

Go ahead, let’s try it right now! Log onto your Multiple Listing System service, print out an update report and wah, lah! In seconds you'll have a complete update of all expired listings for any time frame you want.

The MLS update report will provide you with just about everything you need to know to relist expired real estate listings. You can get seller's name, mailing address, property address, phone number, type of property, current asking price, price reductions during listing period, how much taxes are and anything else that you even think you might want to know about these properties.

One of things that introduction of blogs has done is to cause an exodus of sorts from email newsletters or ezines to online publishers simply publishing information on their blogs.

It is not too difficult to realize why online publishers embraced blogs so quickly and enthusiastically. Actually SPAM monster appeared to be slowly squeezing life out of their online business. To meet SPAM challenge most ISPs have set up SPAM filters that are so powerful that they quite often filter out mail that has been requested, especially mail of massive opt-in kind. This has meant an increasing number of bounces and undeliverable mail.

With arrival of blogs there was an easy way out of all this anxiety. Ezines could easily be posted on blogs and no ISP SPAM filter would touch it. And what is more email aspect of feedback was not lost because readers could easily post a comment at blog. The huge advantage over email here was that one could see another readers comment and quickly support or disagree with it. Blogs have actually revolutionized publishing way no other tool has in history of mankind.

So have blogs made email newsletters and opt-in email lists obsolete? The answer is a firm “NO”. Nothing would be further from truth. Even when an online publisher delivers their weekly or daily content at a blog, what is best way of sustaining and growing traffic to blog?