Has anyone noticed how much easier it is to spend time on AR before the listing deluge begins this time of year? Well, we certainly have.

It's one of those 2-places-at-once kinda things. One of those things we'd like to master, but haven't done so yet.

One thing we've noticed so far this year is we're either getting better at getting more realistic pricing, or our sellers are better at listening. Think the jury is still out on this one.

Mostly now we're dealing with blog people... clients who have read our blog for some time. Yep, this is called the blog lead.

Like most all of us here, we've been blogging for friends and success for a little more than a year now. It's a swell thing, we've figured out, and by that we mean a gradual buildup of interest and activity over time. Right now our swell is close to a roar.

Our blog lead is the best, most informed customer we've ever had. It makes a walk-in seem like something off the wagon with Lewis and Clark. As opposed to the suspicious traits of the walk-in, like someone out in the Oregon trail without a compass, who gets paranoically paralyzed over wheather to give us their email address or not, we would much rather talk with someonw who trusts us already because of what they read on our blogs anyday.

It also seems... we're still working on that 2-places-at-once-thing, that the blog brings a pretty sophisticated customer as well. Ours recently have been real professional types, you know, the kind who likes speadsheets, and seems to appreciate what's on them.

Perhaps this is part of the observation we're seeing about getting better pricing. Is the blog lead a more realistic seller or buyer?

Anyway, thanks for listen... reading, and am wondering what you're seeing. Now we're off to see if we can be here and there at the same time.