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Top 10...Business Generating...Things to Post on Your Blog

This is my list of the best things to post on your blog for business-generation. As always, I base my observations on my own experiences and what interests me when looking at other blogs.

1) Your Listings. The best real estate content and information remains real estate listings.

2) A New Testimonial (include photo of happy client(s). It always feels great when someone else sings your praises.

3) Examples of your marketing, let people see that you market to the areas where they are looking to buy or sell.

4) News about your Customer Appreciation events, with photos and additional fun info. about the event

5) Market Conditions, especially during the current market where buyers require more information and guidance when making a decision. Include monthly regional statistics from your Realtor Association.

6) Photos of your favorite farm community during the different seasons.

7) A positive review of a contractor that you personally use and/or that a client has commented about the contractor. It is a great way to keep your networking moving forward and rewarding good work.

8) News about a charity event that you participated in, with some photos and info about how others can contribute to the charity.

9) Press releases, ie., news about your real estate company, introducing new employees, and so forth.

10) Your yearly vacation photos and details about the trip. What you liked and didn't like. Keep the vacation postings to once a year though, or people may start to wonder what you are doing with your time...

Go forward and blog with these ideas...I hope they help you generate more business.

Did I miss something that you personally thinks needs to be added to the list, or do you have an idea that works for you?

Posted by Christopher Sartorius on 03/03/2007 10:20 PM

Comments (16)

16 Comments on Top 10...Business Generating...Things to Post on Your Blog

MAR

2007

Christopher, thanks for the tips. I think adding local events and functions has value too, especially if you get enough locals reading it and going to it as the source of info. My guess it would take a lot of time to get a blog to the "go to" point.

Darn, I was on vacation a lot last year! I loved your ideas Christopher, you got the wheels spinning. I've printed the list and I'm going to implement a few of them right away. Thanks!

MAR

2007

Thanks for the comment Timothy. Regarding getting locals to read your blog...of course the place to start is to post a link to your blog on your web site. Also, you can post on CraigsList (see http://geo.craigslist.org/iso/us/nj) an ad for your real estate listing(s) and include a link to your blog in the CL posting. Those steps alone will generate some traffic. Getting traffic to a blog is the same as getting traffic to a web site. The advantage of a blog as I see it, is that it should be faster to post (requires less tech skills) and information can be more casual and possibly locally-oriented, and may show up better in the search engines.

Thanks for the comment Debbie. I'm familiar with the beautifual area around Lynchburg. Please let me know if you find anything else that works on your blog. Personally I am more familiar with web site developmnet, although the advantage of having a blog as I see it, is that it should be faster to post (requires less tech skills) and information can be more casual and possibly locally-oriented, and may show up better in the search engines.

Thanks for the tips. Sue Argue suggested a site, 106 Content Ideas for Real Estate Blogging that complements your info. Thanks. (I hope that linking works. It was my first attempt.)

MAR

2007

Great comments, Wayne....the idea was to get more focused on business generation...and if it generates SEO links even better.

MAR

2007

Thank you for these ideas. I have been really thinking about what to post. You have given me some ideas and validated some other ideas I have.

Again Thanks.

Dave

MAR

2007

This post has been bookmarked for later use... :)

Dave, thanks for your support...I must admit blogging is new to me, so I'm trying to find a business purpose to perhaps justify the time spent.

Thanks to everybody for their feedback...any additional ideas or discussion appreciated.

JUL

2007

Love IT!!! Love IT!!! What a great way to get those creative juices flowing. Thanks for sharing, I will be sure to incorporate some of these ideas into my future marketing materials.

AUG

2007

Hi - I wanted to stop by and say I enjoyed this post and I think it has some great ideas. I wrote a post recently about ideas for blogging and I included a link to this post. Just thought you might like to know that it was referred to in another post. If you would like to see, it is here.

SEP

2007

Thank you. I've bookmarked as a reminder!

MAR

2008

Thanks Christopher! The tips are great to give me ideas for what to write about...I think that is the hardest thing when you are just starting. Would you post a testimonial in your actual blog or just in the testimonial section?

I bookmarked your article as well, there are some good ideas on here, thanks----Bart

MAR

Thank you for the ideas! I am a new blogger and finding it hard to come up with things to blog about so really appreciate those 'seasoned' bloggers sharing.

Deborah Richter in Weddington NC

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