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Village Voice Media Breaks Into Top Ten Most Popular Newspaper Websites in U.S.

New York, NY (PRWEB) December 18, 2007

For the first time in its company’s history, Village Voice Media becomes one of the most visited newspaper websites in the country by cracking the top 10 list according to the November 2007 Nielsen / Netratings.

Village Voice Media’s online traffic rose just over 127 percent over the past year (November 2006 to November 2007) according to Nielsen, with total minutes spent on the site rising by 89 percent. Unlike other newspapers, Village Voice Media does not include its classified listings in its overall traffic numbers.

“In 2007, Village Voice Media made a critical transformation,” said Bill Jensen, Director of New Media. “Where it was once a collection of 16 weekly papers with web sites, it is now a collection of true daily web publications with fresh content and robust, usable listings.”

Additionally, Village Voice Media is now ranked second among free classified sites with its Backpage.com. Backpage.com receives a million postings per month and is second only to Craigslist for most page views among free classified sites in the U.S. according to Comscore Media Metrix (November 2007).

Top 10 Newspaper Websites, November 2007

Site / Unique Audience (000) / % Change, Uniques

NYTimes.com / 18,930 / 51.5%

USATODAY.com / 9,563 / -6.0%

Washingtonpost.com / 9,516 / 16.8%

Wall Street Journal Online / 5,630 / 57.4%

Newsday / 5,350 / 182.1%

Boston.com / 4,839 / 10.1%

LA Times / 4,590 / 5.9%

SFGate.com / San Francisco Chronicle / 3,635 / -5.6%

New York Post / 3,390 / 21.5%

Village Voice Media / 2,774 / 127.9%

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003685071

About Village Voice Media

In January 2006, the alternative newsweeklies of Village Voice Media merged with the papers of New Times, creating the new Village Voice Media, the nation’s largest publisher of alternative newsweeklies. With 16 papers in some of the most vibrant markets with combined circulation of over 1.7 million our papers include, Phoenix New Times, Denver Westword, Miami New Times, Dallas Observer, Houston Press, SF Weekly, New Times BPB, Cleveland Scene, Riverfront Times (St. Louis), Kansas City Pitch, Village Voice (New York), Seattle Weekly, Nashville Scene, OC Weekly, City Pages (Minneapolis), and LA Weekly.

For More Information Please Contact:

Julie Lichtenstein / The Village Voice

212-475-3300 x12252

juliel @ villagevoice.com

www.villagevoicemedia.com

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Licensed Real Estate Investors?

Licensed Real Estate Investors?

Realty Resource of KC is a Real Estate Brokerage for Real Estate Investors, by Real Estate Investors.  A small but growing brokerage of Real Estate Agents who are either Real Estate Invstors themsleves and / or who cater to the Real Estate Investor.

We will be a part of the webinar / teleseminar MAREI is holding at the end of October discussing the pros and cons of getting a real estate license, the steps to obtaining a licenses and finally some questions to ask potential brokers. 

This article is a preview.

The cons of being a licensed real estate agent and investor at the same time?  This has to be the hardest part of this post.  Being a Real Estate Broker for about 3 years and a licensed real estate agent and investor since 2000, I can’t come up with much in the way of con’s.  The worst thing I have had to deal with is that when I sell for sale by owner I have to put on my marketing the terms “owner / agent,” which in the scheme of things is not too bad and at it’s worst cost me an extra to run an ad in the Kansas City Star for the extra line.  But hey, advertise on Craigslist, get better traffic, and it does not cost you a thing.

The pros . . . we will cover more indepth on the webinar, but in brief:

Access to MLS to run your own comparables
Access to MLS and a Realtor key to go look at your competition.
Access to MLS and Realtor key to go look at REOs and make offers on your own time.
If you choose to be your own realtor in listing properties, you can with the right broker, get by with a minimum transaction fee on your side and a 3% commission for the other agent in the transaction.

You will have to tune in to the webinar to find out more about how to get your license.  If you are eager to figure this out in advance, please visit some of the following web sites:

http://www.kcrar.com
http://www.KansasRealtor.com
http://www.MissouriRealtor.org
CESKS.com – a local school for training

Last, you need to keep in mind that if you are a new realtor, meaning you just passed your exam, in most cases you have to hold your license and practice real estate for a minimum of 2 years in both Kansas and Missouri before you can hold your own license like I do.  Until then you need to find a broker, like Realty Resource to hold your license.

So what should you look for in a broker.  In a word, training.  If you know nothing about real estate or being a realtor I would strongly recommend a company that offers training.  There are a lot of good companies out there and if you want my favorites, well, you have to contact me.

Next you want to ask how much business the broker is going to expect from you.  Some companies expect you to perform and hit a quota and others don’t care.  Some don’t want you doing anything with out your licenses, so for sale by owner is out, so be sure to ask.

Next you want to see what services are offered by the company and what their fees and commission split. 

For example one company here in Kansas City claims to be a 100% commission company, but your monthly fee can be anywhere between 0 and 0.  And for your first 15 to 20 transactions you need to pay another 0 to 0 fee.  Need forms, there’s a fee.  Want to use the copier, another fee.  Completed the minimum number of transactions to not have a the 0 to 0 fee, there’s still a fee for Errors and Ommission.  Great plan if you do a huge number of transactions, but if you don’t you might do better with a company with a smaller monthly fee – in the range, no fees for E & O and a commission split of say 30% to the broker and 70% to you. 

Be sure to watch for the webinar on the calendar.

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