Comments on: Your Blog Is Bait – How To Use Blogging To Generate Leads

By: Lead Generation Companies

Lead Generation Companies — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 23:06:00 +0000

One thing is very clear that content is still king and it is very important that if you are going to post some good blogs on your business site than make sure that content is great and also original.

By: Daryl

Daryl — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:25:53 +0000

Like your site, and all the great tips that are mentioned on it, it has really helped out. Thanks!

By: Hawaii MLS

Hawaii MLS — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:08:12 +0000

Thanks for this great post , you list some good point , also the visitors list some other good point , I think these point can lead us to our target , but we agree that you can get more visitors to your web site using blogging.

By: Hawaii Real Estate

Hawaii Real Estate — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:06:57 +0000

My Hawaii real estate site gets about 1500 visitors a day. We do pretty well with conversion, but there is always room for improvement. We just started our blog in hopes of increasing our conversion rate. Our content is limited so far, but we hope to build that over time. You’ve put some great info together in this blog. I look forward to continuing my reading here and learning more. After reading this post, my job tonight will be to think of things I can offer to our visitors. I need some bait!

By: Joe Virnig

Joe Virnig — Thu, 01 May 2008 04:30:47 +0000

While I realize this post was written some time ago, well, I wasn’t blogging then. I’ve enjoyed your insights and hope to put them to use as my barely two month old blog gets traction.

By: Jim Cronin

Jim Cronin — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 01:36:17 +0000

Barrett,
Regarding the IM and Skype, I have tried the IM. And chose to not continue using it. We seem to be a very popular and yet, well oiled machine at this point, and need to work on an appointment basis with inquiries and clients. Trying to be available to answer questions via IM seemed a bit difficult to manage…
RE: Skype… that is a good idea, and I may just look into trying it out. Thanks.

By: Barrett Niehus

Barrett Niehus — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:52:51 +0000

Jim,
I had not read this post before, but like always it was great. It points to the most fundamentally overlooked aspect of marketing. Have a call to action and an actionable method for prospects to contact you on impulse.
Along those lines, have you thought about addiding a Skype or IM tool to the Tomato for better access from prospective clients?
-4MySales

By: Jim Cronin

Jim Cronin — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:50:18 +0000

Vincent,
I welcome comments any time; no one is ever late to the party. By the looks of your list, I’d say you are on the right path, we are all learning as we go.
Regarding the “stealing” concern: certainly not. The present was for all of us to use, as a way to promote the Yankee Blog Swap.
If you do purchase a Tomato T, please send a photo so I can add it to the fan collage I have been putting together.

By: Bill French

Bill French — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:28:53 +0000

Jim:
Great post … you and I are like-minded. 😉
Victor made some good points – let me pile on by responding to your comments with additional observations and data. 😉
“Yes, most blogs today are not incorporated into their domain…”
With our clients 99.9% of them *are* incorporated into their primary domain. We approach blogsites as a brand-intensive proposition and we recommend that our clients allow us to skin their blogsite to look and feel like the domain it is incorporated into. We do the same for companies that use our Enterprise RSS services (e.g., http://rss.intel.com).
“I like your idea about the office having a blog that the ‘up’ agents are to contribute to.”
Imagine a brokerage with 100 agents in 6 localities. At a physical level you have contributors scattered everywhere in the organization. However, at a logical level, the brokerage must have the agility to display what amounts to virtual blogsites at the local and brokerage level. But the broker wants to control the content scope and the brand reputation/image.
In our world, we achieve this through filter associations, an architecture not present in typical blog tools (none that I’m aware of anyway), but may also be achieved through custom development.
The benefit of bringing “associations” to the picture make it possible (through configuration) to help our real estate customers leverage articles contributed from localities serviced by the agent as well as more general posts intended to serve the brokerage. Content can come from anywhere in the organization, but how it’s presented is arbitrary and easily managed at a higher level.
We specifically designed the MyST Platform (the foundation of Real Estate Blogsites BTW) to suppport the idea that business blogs require some degree of “roll-up” functionality. One aspect of this is the use of another capability known as “system keywords” – ostensibly name-value pairs that allow users to control internal finctions.
With this architecture, roll-up agility can be used to provide many types of solutions –
– status report roll up to managers that need one blog post from each office per week that’s private (i.e., blogging inward).
– declaring the target publishing scope of a post based on name-values (i.e., dallas:mortgage).
– declaring types of posts (i.e., vacationhome:vail/beavercreek).
bf

By: Jim Cronin

Jim Cronin — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:59:06 +0000

SixPack –
Thanks… I did mean “Your”
I was wondering what the typo others were referring to was….