Comments on: To Blog or Not To Blog

By: Daniels Team

Daniels Team — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:43:13 +0000

Blogging can be a chore or hobby, but after seeing the results it is a must do. Coming up with different topics allows me to be more loaded with info than the average agent.

By: Diana

Diana — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:49:47 +0000

I am new at this -curious to see if I will get hooked – already enjoying reading all the information and comments -Thanks

By: Las Vegas real estate

Las Vegas real estate — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:40:05 +0000

Blogging is the way of the future. I’m sure we’ll see a lot more agents incorporate a blog into their site.

By: Sharon Simms

Sharon Simms — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:18:14 +0000

Ah, yes. Consistency is the King. You have to keep trying until you find a way to get it into your schedule and do it regularly – just like exercise, you can’t wait until there’s time, you have to find a place where it’s automatic.

By: Jim Cronin

Jim Cronin — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:00:08 +0000

Sandy,
Sure, “blogging” can take many forms – I’m not here to dispute that. Blogging as hobby or journal or what-have-you is certainly acceptable, and potentially profitable. However, what we focus on here is the real estate blogging community, and the advice we present is to be read with that focus in mind. My aim is very niche, and if it doesn’t work as a perspective on the topic of blogging as a whole, that’s fine with me. Helping real estate agents embrace the blog as a marketing tool to generate real estate leads is the strategy. The audience that we reach outside of that goal is nice, but not crucial. Thanks for your readership and suggestions.

By: sandy

sandy — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:49:33 +0000

It’s funny everyone is trying to define “blogging” when the tried and true techies who have been around since web 1.0 don’t have a central definition for it. Read Rebecca Blood’book The Weblog Handbook. Why read it? because you’ll learn there are many classification of “blogs” if you will: which includes journals and notebooks. Furthermore you’ll learn that your “blog” is what you want it to be and your traffic may not be who you think it is. I’m finding the real estate community to be quite judgemental about “blogging” and going so far as to define what they think is good or bad. In reality out of the thousands of blogs I see I maybe read only 3 blogs. Most real estate blogs are not real blogs to me, but seems to be an effort to express themselves to other realtors. If your “blog” works for you so be it. If my “blog”, “notebook” or “journal” works for me that’s all that matters.

By: Toby

Toby — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:44:33 +0000

Isn’t it funny that we are doing an article about blog needing committment when it is being done about a field where 2/3 of the agents in Ohio will not have their license in two years?
But, you are right. Blogging takes an energy. While my real estate blog is only a week old, I’ve been blogging about baseball for nearly two years. And it is amazing how many other blogs have come and gone during that time frame.

By: Larry Cragun

Larry Cragun — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 05:43:26 +0000

You have it right. But it can be a passion that feels worth while. Lar

By: Jim Cronin

Jim Cronin — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 01:47:57 +0000

The following are comments from ActiveRain members. A link from my ActiveRain blog (http://activerain.com/blogs/jimmyz57) to here gives them the opportunity to read the article, and more commonly than not (points baby, points) post comments on the AR blog:
Well Tomato,
you’re right! And, it’s going to be interesting to see all those old, dead blogs curl up and blow away.
I find that having a ‘voice’, my ‘voice’ adds to the informative value of my blog. And, yes, there are several of us RTers writing Naperville Blogs…but, wow, are we ever different!
So, even if we took the same topic we’d end up with different conclusions. And, that’s ok. In fact, I’m almost bet on that.
Eileen Move UP to Naperville Blog
09/20/2006 by Eileen Landau, ABR, CRS, e-PRO
Thanks for the encouragement Jim!! LOL Once I went to the original article it made more sense.
The number of blogs that are around these days blows my mind. And it’s only going to get worse. That is one of the reasons I really love AR. If your blog posts stink, then you won’t get many readers, but if they are decent, people will take notice.
So I’ll ad a 5th the list: Content… without it your blog will “curl up and blow away” as Eileen so eloquently put it.
09/20/2006 by Christian Real Estate Network
For me….To Blog!
I think blogging is a great way of getting my “train of thought” out there for potential clients to learn who I am and what my opinions are…Keep on Blogging 🙂
Scott
09/20/2006 by Scott Gormley
I agree with the premise of the article. Blogs will become as common as individual agent sites in the next year or so. How many quality blogs will be out there is a diffrerent consideration. My question is where are they evolving toward? Will we shift to uploading videotaped blogs, responses and monlogues as quickly as IM’ing?
I don’t fully agree with the above comment about only the good blogs will get read. It seems that a lot of people who are trying to get their 10 comments points, look for the shortest blogs to read and then provide a one-liner, while some of the longer blogs that have taken a lot of effort, go unread, probably because someone is going to have to stop and think about what they read and provide a cogent response.
I don’t have an answer as to what’s the best thing to do. I hope to continue seeing as much substance, like your post(s), as there is humor, inane and cryptic.
09/20/2006 by Dave Rosenmarkle
I think a lot of it boils down to time management. -Charles
09/20/2006 by Jacqulyn Richey
Excellent blog! It captures it all. At night, once in my PJ’s and while watching TV, I surf the net looking at agent blogs. (Ok, I have no life.) One of the things I have seen is that many agents are treating their blog more like a website with little more than property offerings and kudo’s about themselves. Blogging once a month isn’t going to cut it. Having a blog interesting enough for others to read is hard work. It is not surprising that many have failed.
09/20/2006 by Linda Davis

By: John Schneider

John Schneider — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 01:27:51 +0000

Jim,
Thanks for telling it like it is. Bloggings’just not for everyone. I’m new to to it(though I’ve passed the one month break-in period and am merrily on the road to addiction) and browse the Tomato regularly for help, advice and inspiration. Currently working on improving the 3rd C on your list.
I agree with Todd about loving real estate more and being a better agent for the blogging. Blogging makes me do more research, reading, be more involved and ask more questions about what’s happening in real estate, so I’m more informed. And it forces me to think more about those issues instead of just passing them off with a huh!-interesting.