Project Blogger - Meet the coaches

Teresa Boardman, StPaulRealEstateBlog 

Author of the origional, St. Paul Real Estate Blog, started in November of 2005. Teresa is recognized as a top real estate blogger. She now generates most of her personal real estate business as a result of her blogging efforts. She has a loyal following on a variety of blog sites. Her internet marketing classes taught in cooperation with Keller Williams are hugely popular with St Paul real estate agents from all brands.

Joel Burslem, FutureOfRealEstateMarketing

Fairly new to the real estate space, Joel has quickly secured his position as a progressive thinking real estate marketing expert through his widely read blog, FutureOfRealEstateMarketing. He recently joined Oregon’s largest independantly owned real estate company, where he oversee much of their traditional offline and online marketing efforts. 

Jim Cronin, RealEstateTomato

Raised in a "real estate family', Jim has been a emarketing consultant to real estate agents since 2000. During this time he has helped over 1,000 Realtors develop their online presense.  He is best known in his role as the Author of the Real Estate Tomato blog. 

Ardell DellaLoggia, SearchingSeattleBlog

Ardell was first widely recognized for her blogging efforts through the Seattle real estate blog, RainCityGuide.  She is now one of just a handful of real estate sales agents who derive a majority of their business through blogging. She started her career in real estate in 1990 and has been licensed to sell in five states.

Joe Ferrara & Rudy Bachraty, SellsiusBlog 

"We are the Founders of Sellsius Real Estate, an enhanced real estate classifieds community aimed at helping promote real estate professionals and their business.  Our backgrounds are in real estate brokerage and law.      We run a little blog party which some people seem to like.  We try to inform and entertain.  Some may want to label us blogging experts, but we're not---we're just like you.  We have been fortunate to be recognized by our peers and that's enough for us."

Pat Kitano, TransparentRealEstate 

Pat is a regular speaker and commentator on real estate industry and technology issues and is considered a Transparency Advocate.
Since graduating from Cal Berkeley (Geophysics) and Columbia University (MBA), he's been involved in four competitive industries - films, investment banking, internet technology and real estate. I live with my nuclear family in the best American city after New York, San Francisco.

Dustin Luther, RainCityGuide

As Director of Interactive Marketing at Move, the company behind such real estate websites as REALTOR.com and Move.com, Dustin works to both build tools and drive implementation of tools that better enable community to be built up around real estate topics.

Frances Flynn Thorsen, theRealtyGram

Frances is Managing Editor of RealTown.com. Fran has been a REALTOR for 22 years; she has been blogging since January 2005 and presently publishes 10 blogs, including The REALTYgram Blogger. Prior to becoming a REALTOR she was a magazine editor in New York City and worked at several publications including The Ladies’ Home Journal, where she was Production Editor. She is a member of the National Assn. of Real Estate Editors and the National Assn. of REALTORS and a founding member of the Web Women Giving Cicle. 

Jeff Turner, RealEstateShows

Jeff Turner is the President and Founder of RealEstateShows.com. Over the past twenty years, he has been both a successful entrepreneur and a senior executive in a large corporation. He lead his last entrepreneurial effort, J.J. Grace, Inc., to the Inc. 500 fastest growing companies list. Jeff earned his bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Grace College (Indiana) and a Master’s degree in Educational Psychology from Ball State University (Indiana). Jeff is married to Racquel (Rocky) and they have six children. (That is not a typo.)

Greg Swan, BloodhoundBlog

A Realtor and the Designated Broker for BloodhoundRealty.com. He is an Accredited Buyer's Representative, a Certified Buyer's Representative, a Certified Residential Specialist, an E-Pro Internet Certified Realtor and a Graduate of the Realtor Institute. He speaks frequently on real estate issues and writes a weekly column for West Valley sections of the Arizona Republic. Greg spent many years in hi-tech print and direct-mail advertising production and web-site development before becoming a Realtor. He is a mumbling Latinist, a stumbling applications programmer and a bumbling poet.

At a mere 28 years of age, Jonathan has distinguished himself as a new media entrepreneur. An industry veteran with over 10 years of real estate sales and management experience, he was an early pioneer in the online real estate arena, founding WhyNotOwn Real Estate, one of the first internet brokerages. After selling the business in early 2004, he simultaneously founded Brio Realty and cofounded ActiveRain. Jonathan is married to Serenela (Sara), his high school sweetheart.

Drew Meyers, Zillow

Drew works on a wide range of projects and recently celebrated his year anniversary at the company. Among them were creating Zillow's neighborhood search database and organizing the Carnival of Real Estate. In addition to being part of Zillow's blog team, he actively writes about business and technology on his personal blog.

Paul Chaney,  Blogging Systems Group

Paul has been a business blog consultant for the past three years and is widely known and respected in that field. He understands at a granular level how blogs can be used as a tool for marketing communications and has worked with a number of clients assisting them in deploying a blog marketing strategy. Paul also coauthored the real estate blogging book phenomenon Realty Blogging.