Grasshopper Snatch The Pebble From My Hand or Do You Have The Patience To Wait For The Consumer?

Steve, You of all people saying that is like Brer Rabbit saying don't throw me in the briar patch :)

Cindy, Did a double take at the new profile pic!  Part of the reason I wrote the post was to address those that take a short stab at it and quit.  It's going to take persistence, but they can cut months off the time to return their investment if they focus locally much faster than we did.  Ironic in a way to use a non Local post to say write Local :)  Cincinnati won't be our key...too big an area, lots of embedded agents and a bit of a drive for us. Warren County has been our focus so far, but I think we're going to have be even more specific and just go after two or three of the major towns in our county to get the desired response.  We'll get there, and thanks for the vote of confidence!

Cinnamon, I think you and BL have been on the mark...it's we that have not stayed properly focused :)  Your posts have been either very Local oriented, or open letters to buyers and sellers as to how you can help.  They will come to you two!  And then someday, Zoe can inherit the real estate kingdom that you will have established :)

Tish, You're supposed to be recovering from your strep throat, not on AR.  Follow the engineer's orders :)

CA, Sounds like Rachel will have her license before she gets out of high school :) 

Anita, I didn't know you were having that kind of success, but totally NOT surprised considering the quality and frequency of your postings!  Congratulations in a MAJOR way :)

Ssssssynthia, We're learning as we go, and we still want to have the fun, but the extra business is critical if we want to keep having fun.  That said, we learn enough here every month to more than justify the monthly fee even if we never got a closing out of this!

Nancy, We're still looking for that first actual client as a result of this work.  We're getting some consumer contacts, but it's about our posts, NOT about actually selling or buying a house.

Donne, We've recognized for some time many of our posts are of no use to the consumer, just for our own fun and that of fellow AR members, e.g. any Miss Bad Manners Members Only posts.  We'll still want to do some level of those just for fun or to support the AR Community overall.  We're still going to want to be competitive with ourselves and others here (we hit 4 of our 5 Called Shots yesterday) and keep moving up the point totals, but those are primarily just evidence that we are blogging daily, etc.  The biggest obstacle right now if having adequate pictures/graphics that fit the theme of the posts.

Debbie, I'd have thought your posts were already locally focused enough to find the consumer.  I'd be doubtful that many (if any) of your competitors are blogging to the same extent as you.

BDAMB, If you look at our postings since this one, we've shifted hard to the Local posts.  We'll continue to adjust the mix as we need to, and we still want to do some Active Rain Members Only type stuff, but a more local focus to get business was needed.  We'll continue to evolve :)