If you haven’t heard, the “Canary Pages” are almost dead as a method for businesses to reach a consumer who is MAKING A PURCHASING DECISION!

Think about it…when you are looking for something – whether it’s a coffee shop, a doctor,  or a bankruptcy lawyer -  where do you start looking first?

If you’re like 85% of the rest of North America, you go to google.com!  What shows up on the FIRST PAGE of Google’s results DOMINATES the market for the search phrase that was entered.

For example, you’re looking for a cosmetic dentist in King County.  You go to Google and type in ‘king county cosmetic dentist’ (pretty simple, right?).

Click HERE to see that actual search.  Notice that one of the unpaid listings is from www.kingcountydirectory.com!

That could be YOUR PAGE if you were a cosmetic dentist!

We have dozens and dozens of FIRST PAGE rankings in business categories that can be used to drive hundreds of people to your website, and to your business.

Email us to find out how to get yourself literally ‘on the map’ of internet searches!  Click HERE.

After hunting around for a decent portal to showcase the businesses that could use it the most, it was time for Seattle – King County & Bellevue businesses to DIY — Do It Yourself. In the spirit of “don’t worry, be fast and get something up there NOW”, you can see the first draft of the King County Front Door Portal at: King County Front Door Portal

This portal will be very exclusive. It will be for particular niches or sub-niches that have a top spot available in the search engine results. These particular niches typically spend heavily to promote their businesses or professions, but clearly haven’t gotten their websites (if they have them) indexed for their main keywords.

Several base categories are live at this point. Within a very short period of time, you will be able to put almost any category into the search engine and see the “placeholder” page for that niche. If you are just dying to see what a plain vanilla placeholder page looks like, go to Seattle Business Examples.  Imagine your own business or service with a great spot in that search engine I mentioned.

Now imagine that same spot in the results leads to your website.  Using sophisticated technology, a kind of “call forwarding” can make that happen! Best of all, once yours truly either fixes your current page to rank well in search engines or has an exclusive team of Web page builders craft a website for you that will present the right face to your prospects and clients, you’ll be able to stand on your own!

For information on how to get your website on the FIRST PAGE OF GOOGLE LISTINGS for your business category, Click HERE to email us for details.

The word “mortgage” literally means “dead hand”. Figuratively, it means a pledge unto death. Old-fashioned mortgages were never paid off. They didn’t amortize, or liquidate the debt itself. Instead, they gave the right to build and use the property for life, with the understanding that the ownership of the property remained with one who originally owned it.

Old English property laws were intended to protect the holdings of the elite. Mortgages were a way to “monetize” their land without surrendering control of it. Nowadays, the idea that someone could “mortgage” land without eventually surrendering it to the one paying the mortgage is unthinkable.

There are still forms of this archaic method of long-term leasing:

• Ground rent
• 99 year leases of property

There is also a type of non-amortizing loan called a “balloon loan” or interest-only loan. Typically, the loan payments are as if one had a 25 or 30 year amortizing loan, but no payments are credited to paying off the principal. Instead, in only 5 to 7 years, the principal becomes due and payable as a lump sum.

Today’s mortgage market has seen a troublesome use of so-called ARM (Adjustable Rate Mortgage) loans. While these loans are not in and of themselves bad, giving them to those who will not be able to make the payments when the loan “adjusts” upward has created a crisis in the Real Estate market and the world economy as a whole!

Rather than dissect this problem here, consider well which type of loan you choose for your own home purchase or Real Estate investment property. It is up to you to do your own due diligence when it comes to borrowing a substantial amount of money. It is imperative that you do so when that money represents your life savings and your future net worth.

In Tacoma, there are a huge number of mortgage brokers to choose from. The key is to find one that will take into account your total financial plan and fiscal “fitness”. Do your research and find the Mortgage Brokers in King County that will best serve your needs and select the best of the best.