Welcome to SoundBiteBlog.com. This website focuses mainly on providing Real Estate, Mortgage, and Local Area information for consumers and residents in Western Puget Sound, we also share our passions, expertise, and practical insights on Internet marketing and technology, including social media/networking, SEO, website design, and custom web applications. SoundBiteBlog is an award-winning joint venture between Mark Flanders of Pastik Design and Rich Jacobson of Keller William West Sound.
Within the pages of SoundBite is an eclectic collection of articles covering a wide variety of topics we hope you'll find interesting, engaging, and helpful. Rich is committed to relentlessly representing his client's best interests and empowering them to make informed decisions. Mark finally decided what he wanted to do when he grew up and gets excited when the code he's written solves a customer's problem with blinding efficiency!
Rich Jacobson is a licensed real estate professional providing knowledgeable empowerment and relentless representation for his clients of residential properties and vacant land throughout all of Kitsap County WA and portions of Pierce, Mason, and Jefferson Counties. You can also find him at KitsapLife.com, ActiveRain, Crabbing in the Hood, Facebook, Twitter, or e-mail: kitsapagent@gmail.com
Have you been wondering how the use of Social Media (blogging, video, podcasting, social networks, etc.) can be effectively implemented into your business model?
Every Thursday morning at 8am, the dynamic blogging duo of Sparky & Buckwheat meet at The Global Bean in Silverdale WA for great coffee and conversation relating to all things social media-wise.
By day, Buckwheat (Mark Flanders) is a Loan Officer with Olympic Northwest Mortgage, and by night, an exceptionally skilled WebMaster and SEO expert. His most recent project has been developing a completely new web/blog site for our local community theatre, C-STOCK.
Sparky (Rich Jacobson) is a licensed real estate professional here in the West Sound, and is also on staff with The ActiveRain Network, an online community of nearly 125,000 real estate professionals throughout the US and Canada. Rich was a speaker this past summer at BlogWorld & Expo in Las Vegas, and is developing a clock-hour course on Social Media/Blogging for WAR (Washington Assoc. of Realtors).
Almost every business can benefit from making social media a part of their overall marketing strategy.
Contributing writer, Rodika Tollefson, had contacted me a few weeks ago, and was doing an article on local business blogs. She had found me through the well-known national real estate platform, Activerain.com, and through here at SBB.
It’s exciting to see more and more local business professionals here in Kitsap County WA recognizing the marketing shifts of Web 2.0, and realizing how blogging can be an effective means of connecting with potential consumer clients.
Buckwheat and I get together for coffee every Thursday morning at 8AM up at the new Global Bean Coffee House here in Silverdale WA. We gladly extend the invitation for anyone to join us for a cup ‘o’ Joe and some great conversation.
Sparky (aka Yours Truly) and Buckwheat (aka Mark Flanders), the duo caped crusaders of SOUNDBITEBLOG, have both received the prestigious Magnificent 7 Award from Larry Cragun of RealEstateUndressed!
Every year, Larry scours the Blogosphere, looking for the best of the best in consumer-oriented real estate articles. Each month he selects 7 articles from among the hundreds that he reads. At the end of the year, he goes back and selects 7 winning articles from among the 84 that were selected throughout the year.
Yours Truly was interviewed and quoted at length in the March 2008 issue of the 
Every year, Larry scours the Blogosphere, looking for the best of the best in consumer-oriented real estate articles. Each month he selects 7 articles from among the hundreds that he reads. At the end of the year, he goes back and selects 7 winning articles from among the 84 that were selected throughout the year.
