Gasp...shame and after being hardily warned by both Dustin Luther and Matthew Rathbun, much as I respect these guys opinions, I've spent much time in the last couple of days blogging about my listings both here on Active Rain and my other blog at All About Athens GA!
Why? Because it works for me! I have both buyers and sellers who feel like they know me from the posts on my blogs and the NEXT thing they mention is "I love the way you market your listings on your blog"!
Now Dustin, at least tempers his message, by asking you to tell a story if you blog your listing, but Matthew, bless his heart, actually removes agents from his ? (this orginally said "blog roll" but after review of the thread he just says removed 6 - I now believe this to be his feed reader - see his comment for more clairification of his point of view).
As a scared little new blogger, many of my first post were about my listings, because Gena Riede & Inez impressed me with their's over at the Listings by Address group on Active Rain. It was an easy way to learn to write about something I actually knew about - houses - go figure! I wouldn't want a blog filled with nothing but listings, but it all comes down to balance, you know, sprinkle your blog with equal parts:
- community news
- market reports
- information & advice
- cool things that may be happening &
- listings!
"Consumers want to see houses and mortgage rates." Thank goodness someone is willing to validate my crazed need to blog about my listings, see what else Brian Brady has to say about it all over at Bloodhound Blog!
I think for now I'll just continue to be a REALTOR® who happens to blog, instead of a "blogger" - thanks Laurie Manny, you made me feel better about my decision. What I've learned is that I can really respect someone, learn from them, and still not agree with them about everything!
Now, who else is ready to join me me and admit that they like blogging about their listings and more importantly - that they can make money from blogging about their listings?
Update: At a reasonable time on the morning after:
I got carried away with this post last night and forgot to mention that I have had 4 sales this year directly attributed to people reading my blog - I guess that was a pretty important thing that got left out of the story. :) How many sales and/or listings have you had from blogging so far this year?
Update #2 on 6/25/08 at 12:12am eastern - after being swamped in AR love: Just to clarify, neither of these guys were mean or nasty just strongly opinionated, which is their right. This was just meat of a conversation quicky on twitter, a post of Dustin's, and my unresolved feelings at that time.
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