I am in the process of reading the book "Realty Blogging" by Richard Nacht and Paul Chaney.  The overall premise of this book is to "build your brand and outsmart your competition."

A really terrific feature of a blog is that it allows for a dialog between you and a client or prospect to increase your opportunities to build long-term relationships.  "Blogs provide a low-cost, high results to for community building competitive differentiation marketing, sales, customer relations management, media contacts and corporate collaboration."  In effect, a blog is like sending out an email to everyone!

A topic that caught my eye was the concept of "niche" blogs.  As I understand it, niche blogs are "well suited to creating your own market.  These blogs enable you to reach that target market more 's effectively."

I will report more when I get further into the book.

I'd love to hear from anyone who has read the book and learned from it (or not) and of course and comments.

Have a great day!

Laurie

 

 

 
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Laurie, you are right that is a great book. here's a link to one of the ActiveRain book clubs. The did extensive reviews of this book just recently, that you might enjoy.

http://activerain.com/groups/roar

 

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Hi, Laurie!  I am currently reading this book too, because of the reviews I read here at Active Rain.  I was surprised to see a guy in the book (Ralph Roberts) that called me last week after seeing me on AR.  He told me he was a famous agent, I just didn't quite believe him after all the phone calls we agents get trying to hit us up for money for this or that wonderful thing.  So far I'm seeing a lot of advice that I've already learned here on AR, but it's good to have it right there in one book as a reference.  I also bought "The Weblog Handbook" and I'll be reading it immediately after I finish this one.  Good stuff!
4:39pm • #2

 Laurie I am new to Active Rain and new to blogging I build my own websites, do 99% of my business online, use drip email, etc. etc. but never blogged. To be perfectly honest I don't know what to talk about or what is correct to talk about. Can you give a novice a few pointers?

Sally in South Carolina

7:17pm • #3
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OK, I have to get the book, thanks for sharing.
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Hi Laurie - several of us took part in doing reviews of the various chapters of "Realty Blogging".  Here is a link to the final review, and in it, you'll find the reviews for each chapter.

We also just finished reviewing "The Weblog Handbook", and here's a link to that last review, with each of the chapter reviews listed in it.

These are both terrific books, and we all learned ALOT from both of them.

Enjoy your reading!
                      AnnCummings.com

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xoxox Ann, thanks so much,
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