Comments on: Business Plan 2007: Blog For Leads

By: Talha

Talha — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:46:58 +0000

Hi,
Nice post i must say, blog really acts as huge lead generator, all you need to do is to focus on your content to meet popular search requirements.
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Talha
Business Plan Writers

By: Jim Cronin

Jim Cronin — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:27:49 +0000

Sheila, we will have someone contact you right away. I know that we can help you as we have helped 100’s of real estate bloggers.

By: Mabe Gaborone

Mabe Gaborone — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:23:45 +0000

hELLO,
I need information on tmato production for commercial purposes. I am just about to venture into this business in 2008.

By: Rev Bilal

Rev Bilal — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 16:54:08 +0000

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By: Terrill...ific!

Terrill...ific! — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 19:42:07 +0000

I’ve been picking a few leads this year off my blog. Mostly people contacting me for info and they go into my database for future marketing and contact. I started posting about the condo projects in downtown austin and I started getting inquiries from people interested in it. I’ve one had one sale from it and many more in the pipeline. It costs no out of pocket money with WordPress, just my time. I find blogging fits my nature of how I like to collect info and put my own spin on it.
I think I’m going to hire Jim to help me revamp my blog and take it to the next level.

By: John C

John C — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:50:12 +0000

And do any of you think that keeping it inside blogspot / blogger will help with Google and / or blogger searches? Should that be a concern?

By: John C

John C — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:44:17 +0000

Jim and Evan-
Thank you so much for your comments. I am very new to this and am still trying to figure out what to do. Currently my blog sits on http://lakemartinal.blogspot.com/
and as you can see I started it as a sort of witty anonymous blogger situation to try and establish the blog as “THE” blog of the area, and then have my personal RE site – http://www.coleyre.com – as the sole advertiser. I am still trying to find my voice and post more frequently.
After finding the tomato and all linked and related sites, I have decided to come out of the closet and not be anonymous, and not apologize for being a realtor. I hope to provide enough content that people won’t mind the soft sell here or there. No realtor in the area has a signifigant online presence beyond the typical “local links” information and “search the mls” tool. I hope to establish myself online. Recently a Wall Street Journal named Lake Martin, AL (specifically the town of Dadeville) as one of the Top 12 places in the nation to own a vacation home (go to wsj.com and search articles for Dadeville AL). I can’t help but think that the author of the article searched RE blogs for local experts before writing the article. I am kicking myself for procrastinating and not having a better blog sooner.
Thanks for the great articles. I now subscribe to 5 or 6 RSS feeds and am learning a lot every day.
One last question – currently yahoo hosts my http://www.coleyre.com site, and I have to hire folks to update it. How would you suggest that I handle my new blog domain? Currently yahoo hosts it. Should I keep it that way, but just learn how to post to it with the free software you mentioned? I am in a small town area and we really don’t have any good local providers.
Thanks again for all of the help.
John Coley

By: Jim Cronin

Jim Cronin — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:35:03 +0000

John,
If you are looking for the formula on how to gain that ‘large following’ make sure to check our Success Sessions (http://www.tomatoblogs.com/success-sessions/)
We can help with those that already have a blog, or are just getting started.

By: Evan Gould, Redondo Beach, CA

Evan Gould, Redondo Beach, CA — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:20:24 +0000

Hey John, the blogging software from WordPress is free to download and use. It looks like you can build some great looking blogs. So really, your monthly costs are the hosting service fee, your time, and the lattes from your local coffee shop. Follow the link
http://wordpress.org/

By: Jim Cronin

Jim Cronin — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:11:58 +0000

John,
If there was one mistake I made in the beginning that I wish I could have avoided, then it was the fact that I set up the Tomato on the TypePad domain: realestatetomato.typepad.com. So to answer your question, it is time to move your blog on to its own domain before you even begin.
Moving the blog to a standalone domain “realestatetomato.com” would wreak havoc on my current level of success. The search engines have spidered the hundreds of articles that I have written, and people have linked to and bookmarked the PERMALINK that is based on the realestatetomato.typepad.com root address. If I go and change the address to all the archived articles, then I will have essentially removed those articles from being found as they were. Not a good strategy once you already have a ‘large following’.
Most of my traffic comes from the search engines now, and the moment I oull those addresses (permalinks) down, I can kiss it all goodbye.
Now, there are ways to reindex all the content, to insure that it is spidered again… but this is not for the faint of heart.