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Fishhawk Lake Real Estate You Just Never Know Where Your Blog Posts Will Come in Handy

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Real Estate Agent with John L Scott Market Center 700512026

You Just Never Know Where Your Blog Posts Will Come in Handy

 

In the last two months, I have had two different people find someone they deeply cared for, hadn’t seen in years and were trying to reconnect with them, finding both of them because of posts I had written.

 

One is a dear friend of mine, Father Rock Sassano,

 

Fr Rock Sassano-Gayle Rich-Boxman

 a retired priest who lives at Fishhawk Lake and is a solid member of our small community. I had written a post about things to do when you’re fifty or sixty (Fr. Rock is 80, but he acts much younger), and when I googled his name, my post came up fifth on the first page.  A woman who’d worked with him 20+ years ago was trying to find him. She googled/researched and found this post with a photo of his in it! She and her husband ended up driving out to Fishhawk Lake to find him and say hello. It happened that they found me after trying to locate his home. I let them know that he was visiting family in Montana for the summer and to leave him a note. It turns out that as a result of driving around Fishhawk Lake, they fell in love with this area and want to eventually move out here!

 

The other is an old friend of past sellers of mine, trying to reconnect with that couple whose historical Victorian home I had tried to sell about two years ago.

Victorian home Mist Oregon-Gayle Rich-Boxman

 Because the market was slow, they decided to rent to a large family instead and had moved to Arizona. This man, Ron, found the owners from my blogs about the home and contacted me through ActiveRain. I called the owners and the wife was so excited to find out that Ron was trying to reach them. (When I googled this, it was at the top of Google...not bad for a piece I did well over a year ago).

 

You have no idea how far-reaching your ActiveRain or Wordpress posts can be and at least in one case, the people who found who they were looking for, will use me as their buyer’s agent when they come back to buy in the next couple of years.

Comments (9)

Sharon Lee
Sharon Lee's Virtual Assistance - Jonesborough, TN
Retired and loving life

That my friend is what is called the power of the RAIN not to mention when you do local posts you get lots of google juice, but I don't have to tell you that. How's Kasa?

Jul 29, 2012 11:16 AM
Dick Greenberg
New Paradigm Partners LLC - Fort Collins, CO
Northern Colorado Residential Real Estate

Hi Gayle - Those are two great examples of how much Google like us when we play in the Rain - there are hundreds more, and it's a powerful tool we all need to be using.

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Jul 29, 2012 11:30 AM
Brenda Mullen
RE/MAX Associates - San Antonio, TX
Your San Antonio TX Real Estate Agent!!

It's awesome that your blog helped reconnect folks!  What else to say but how cool :)!

Jul 29, 2012 11:50 AM
Dorie Dillard Austin TX
Coldwell Banker Realty ~ 512.750.6899 - Austin, TX
NW Austin ~ Canyon Creek and Spicewood/Balcones

Hi Gayle,

Wow..how fantastic..I'm sure you made these folks day.....feels good doesn't it:).

Jul 29, 2012 12:03 PM
Andrea Bedard
Thompson Company, REALTORS® 240.593.2860 - Silver Spring, MD
Fluent in Real Estate & German, M.A. ABR ASP CIPS

Hi Gayle, oh, how I love this blog! We need to add this to the list of Benefits of Blogging: Reconnecting People!

Jul 29, 2012 12:57 PM
Kathy Streib
Cypress, TX
Home Stager/Redesign

Gayle- another great testimony as to the powers of Active Rain and writing local posts.  I love the Internet and what it has done for people trying to connect with friends from the past. 

Jul 29, 2012 01:15 PM
Dale Baker
Baker Energy Audits and Commercial Properties Inspections - Claremont, NH
New Hampshire Relocation Real Estate Information

Howdy and evening Gayle

Gayle my friend, it sure does pay off to blog, and our blog posts that we take the time to write and post sure do help folks in many different ways.

Have a good one

Dale in New Hampshire

Jul 29, 2012 02:53 PM
Gary Woltal
Keller Williams Realty - Flower Mound, TX
Assoc. Broker Realtor SFR Dallas Ft. Worth

This sounds like one of my stories meeting a lady that recognized me on the Cocoa Beach pier having read my blog wanting to contact my sister. It is eerie sometimes Gayle.

Jul 29, 2012 10:44 PM
John Mosier
Realty ONE Group Mountain Desert - Prescott, AZ
Prescott's Patriot Agent 928 533-8142

We once talked of Google Juice on Active Rain. I'm not sure if it still works but we DO know that our Blog posts have POWER.  Thanks for your post. I suggested it. Some beautiful pictures you have in this post!

Jul 30, 2012 03:05 PM