When you first start blogging, chances are you'll blog about ANYTHING just to get a post completed! Unless you've got prior experience blogging before arriving here in the Rain, I liken beginning blogging to being a kid with training wheels on your bike. You're moving along, maybe not too quick
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03/12/2024
I'm going to talk about something advisers say NEVER to talk about: politics.Don't run away, because this isn't really about politics!It's election season and our mailbox and texts are getting flooded with mail about an Ohio state representative race. For whatever reason, a Northern Virginia PA
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03/05/2024
Our area can get a bit drab during the Winter months when there isn't snowy decorations, so I enjoy seeing the early shoots of daffodils appearing and then our first flowers to bloom, our snowdrops.Snowdrops aren't big flowers, just a handful of inches tall, but they can handle the cold, so snow
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02/27/2024
This summer will make 20 years since I started in real estate, and while a lot has changed, a lot of the fundamentals haven't.It's a people business.It's a numbers game.And there's absolutely no reason to reinvent the wheel for much of what we do. That doesn't mean continuous improvement shouldn
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02/20/2024
If you're a beekeeper in a place that has a true Winter, you know sparse times are coming. The blooms don't last forever and the bees know that. Busy bees isn't just a cliche, it's how they live and work. They build comb, fill the cells with honey, pollen and the queen lays the eggs that incre
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02/13/2024
I wrote our first ActiveRain post back in 2010. Since then, I've added over 4,000 more. A lot of those early ones were written with blogging training wheels, they didn't accomplish much! Maybe too close to a rant, no reason for a consumer to reach out to us, not a lot (if any) eye candy. Ther
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02/06/2024
While this could be about the more expensive veggies at the grocer, it's not.It's not even about an option of how you might grow your own veggies in your back yard.In this case, the organic I'm referencing is a type of SEO.Organic SEO is ranking WITHOUT paying for ads or hired ranking in the sear
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01/30/2024
The very short answer: of course not, you can now continue about your day :)But, "it depends" is also a correct answer.One of the primary questions for any blogger to ask and answer is "Who is your target market?"Group 1: People that already know you are a real estate agent and already trust yo
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01/23/2024
Once upon a time in the early days of ActiveRain you could post and find yourself on page 1 of Google in short order.Now, not just any old blog post is going to get you found. Has ActiveRain totally lost it's mojo?I'm not some SEO guru, but I don't believe any drop off in SEO results is strictly
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01/16/2024
Why are you in real estate?Why are you here in the Rain?Why do you blog?Why, why, why??And if you're like me, the whys can change over the years.Why am I in real estate? I'm in real estate because 22 years ago Liz became an agent and after a couple of years working on a team she wanted some help
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01/09/2024