I had the pleasure of "interviewing" the gentlemen and founders of SellsiusRealEstate. There are alot of blogs that I read daily but there is one that continiously steps outside of the box. They are responsible for the Top Ten Female Bloggers (which by the way was an honor), the 101 Blogging Challenge and inventing the word "UnZillowable". I suspect that there will be more to come because they have alot of imagination between the two of them.
So... without further ado.. (Drum roll please...)
Joseph G. Ferrara and Rudolph D. Bachraty III, The Founders of Sellsius°
We are flattered. We have been fortunate that people like something about us or our writing. We don't know what it is, though we'd love to know.
We started blogging in January after the Inman NYC Connect where we were Silver Sponsors and received a very warm welcome in anticipation of our upcoming idea for a community website. The theme of the show was upcoming innovations in real estate and blogging was one of them. We had been reading blogs for sometime---Property Grunt, Inman, Matrix, Curbed and Rain City Guide. In fact, all these blogs had given us valuable press. (Glenn Roberts at Inman News did a piece on Sellsius back in November of last year.) All this inspired us to start a blog of our own. We had no expectations. It was an outlet to express our love of real estate while we were waiting for our website to be built. Over time we learned the ropes, we met some influential bloggers, caught a couple of breaks, and luckily some of our posts got good airplay. What has been the most rewarding though is meeting new bloggers. We remember how hard it was, and still is, to get noticed, to get visitors, comments & links. The property grunt, an A-list blogger, wrote about us often and gave us so much positive press, even though we were complete unknowns. It was his generosity of spirit which encouraged us to reach out to new bloggers and get them some needed attention. It is something we will continue when we start our own community.
- Top 10 Women Real Estate Bloggers--because we were able to help other bloggers get noticed. This has been our most rewarding post.
- Sellsius° 101 Blog Post Challenge--for the same reason -we could help other bloggers. Also, it was great fun and a unique community event
- All our Bell Lab posts---because we we able to participate in blog proactivism. We also got the opportunity to know Ryan Block of Engadget.
- Unzillowable, To Coin a Phrase: we got to invent a word and it got into the mainstream. Unzillowable is now googleable. We get to leave a small mark
- Mary Kay Gallagher Story: we felt like reporters interviewing a living legend in Brooklyn real estate. She is known as the Queen of Victorians. An 86 year old delight.
- Sellsius° Dialogue with Craigslist: NYC Real Estate---how often do you get a chance to dialogue with Craig Newmark.
- Craiglist Videos: NYC agents want me to charge them---it got alot of comments which felt really good
- Redfin does not own Registered Trademark Real Estate 2.0---because we we're able to help a new blogger in a time of need. It was also news.
- How to Overthrow a Tyrant: Fighting a Co-op Borad Rejection---as NYC brokers we had to deal with co-op Boards.
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