Comments on: Starting A Real Estate Blog? Grab That Email Database, Let’s Get You Read

By: Haddoxerik

Haddoxerik — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:34:00 +0000

Good idea.Also Great information.This can be very useful. _________ Miami Title Company

By: Geordie Romer

Geordie Romer — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:03:30 +0000

Jim-
I tried signing up for Zookoda, but no email to me ever showed up allowing me to actually use the product. A little research on the web shows that they were bought out and now have a reputation of poor to non-existant service. Feedblitz it is!
I think there is an easy way to make the emails look like they come from you, not Feedblitz. It’s under templates or something like that.

By: Nicolai Kolding

Nicolai Kolding — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:16:37 +0000

Very helpful step-by-step advice – thank you. We launched a blog this week and feel a bit like we’re standing on a soapbox shouting out from inside the Grand Canyon. Yesterday I blasted messages through my LinkedIn contacts and hope that captures a targeted audience (and one that’s willing to participate). I’m hesitant to do the same through Faceboook or I’ll find one and only one comment on my posts – from my mother….

By: Alliance Science

Alliance Science — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:00:19 +0000

Will an Email Database get you More Appointments?
Announcement: If I have your email address and I know you are a Realtor, small business owner, entrepreneur, salesperson, independent agent or marketer, you will soon be subscribed to my bi-weekly email of the articles I publish about the subject

By: Jim Rake

Jim Rake — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:03:19 +0000

Jim – thanks for the info – good and useful! Will make sure to do that once the my new Tomato blog is up and running!

By: Gretchen Faber

Gretchen Faber — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:27:42 +0000

Jim,
Thanks for the idea. My blog is only a few weeks in cyberspace and I did have the idea to send an email to everyone in my address book (past clients, friends and family). I didn’t think to follow that up with a subscription though. One thing I’m finding is that they email me back and say, “great job!” but they don’t seem to comment on the site or go back much (yet). I think that maybe they’re too new to blogging to understand about comments, or even that the content is frequently updated. I guess I need to educate a bit.

By: Jim Cronin

Jim Cronin — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:10:13 +0000

You could simply copy and paste the titles from the front page (theoakvillebuzz.com) of your site. This makes it easy to maintain the URL coupled with the Title in the HTML automatically.
I do that when I am adding the Related Must Read lists at the end of my posts.
Or – Something like Zookoda above will do this automatically for you. All you need to do is set it up and then let it do its magic.

By: Lori Turoff

Lori Turoff — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:29:09 +0000

Hi Jim,
Feedblitz is OK but as I understand it, the emails “come from” feedblitz. Also, it’s not free if you want the ad-free version. I used a so-so program, Constant Contact, which is reasonably cheap, to send out an email blast to my customer base announcing my new blog. The fun part is that I designed the email blast to look just like my blog. The click through rate has been great.
In the past I’d tried Mail Dog, another email program, but found it not very user friendly although they have some attractive templates. I also use My Emma and it’s just so-so. I think the problem with all of that they don’t use true HTML since they are designed for email. So you have to either get them to custom design a template but then you’re stuck with that one format. Or you can use one of their canned templates, which aren’t very creative. Or, if you know a tiny bit about html, you can do as I do and try to tweak their templates to look more custom. Since emails should probably be short and to the point, it’s not to hard if you keep it simple.

By: Jim Cronin

Jim Cronin — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:34:04 +0000

I originally used Zookoda.
Now as I get them, I have them put to Feedblitz.
So, I am using both, still.
That original database is still in Zookoda. And all new email requests end up in Feedblitz.

By: Bo Kauffmann

Bo Kauffmann — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:28:48 +0000

Another excellent post. If possible, could you tell me whether you used Zookoda or Feedblitz for your campaign? I signed into Feedblitz, and find that I will have to add each of my e-mail addresses (from my database) individually. Is there a better way?