Real Estate is Local, Staging May Not be Local... but spamming me is not going to get me to reBlog you..

Maureen,

I thought the title was the post there for a minute.  I haven't tried the reblogging as yet but I may give it a try here soon.  Thanks

I completely "don't get" reblogging, as in understand it.

I will comment, however, that in relocating to the east coast from the mid-west, hands down the mid west was more current on all things real estate- while no reflection WHATSOEVER on real estate agents on the northeast coast, it does say something about the quality of local associations, and broker/owners in the mid west! So much more (brilliantly) simple there.

Maureen,  I just re-bloged Cindy Jones, and then put her post up on my original blog that I have on Wordpress.  The traffic to that blog had a huge spike.  I'm a little nervous about it because I wonder if everyone will do it like I did - ask first then publish.  But her article would be very useful to my readers.

Seems to me they made it pretty clear and I don't know what all the discussion is about. If you don't want your posts reblogged, we just un-check the box in our settings. I, too, wish more local experts (stagers, bankers, etc) in my area were posting, but we in the midwest are slow to catch on, that seems to be true and I take no offense, as I am way ahead of my local competion as far as a search goes for Akron homes. I would love to reBlog a good article for consumers on my outside blog and my neighborhood. I would also love it if someone thought one of my posts were worthy enough to be reBlogged. The back linking will certainly help me.

I got a google alert the other day, on Akron Ohio Homes, and one of my posts was picked up on a website in NC that had nothing to do with real estate???? I like it as it was linked back to me on AR and my own website. I feel anything I post on the internet is gone from me anyway. No one needs my permission as I have checked the box.

Reblog?... I've been on vacation and very out of touch (except for Twitter). Guess I need to look into it.  Is it an AR thing?

I have found that Changeis good on Activerain. All the new changes and all the resulting discussions by upset people all disappeared once the change was made "and we saw that it was good".

These guys apparently know a lot more than me about this business and the results we Realtors can receive by these changes. Like Jon or Rich said yesterday, look at where we were one year ago. Google had no idea what was coming and I would not be on the first page and getting business if I had not found and used AR! It's not about my posts for me, it is about the resulting business which I believe AR wants for us most of all. Blogging=success.

My understanding is that reblogging does show on our outside AR blogs.

I think we get your point.  I never thought about staging being local and am not sure I get that, was the stagers response to dark oak cabinets a regional thing or a question of that working for the particular property or that one stagers suggestion is her opinion vs another stager who might like dark oak.  Something to think about.  I didn't know that sending an email through Active Rain would be considered SPAM either.  Would think that is a communication between two ARer's.  Is it always considered SPAM?  If so what is the purpose of that feature?

Maureen thanks for the explaination.  Not a moment goes by it seems that I don't learn something about AR or Real Estate or life or whatever.  Love your posts BTW, read them all the time. 

You certainly write in a provoking way....no sitting on the fence with you.

That's it, I'm subscribing.  I like your style. 

Hey lady! :) Thanks, I am glad fake food reminds you of me ;) That's pretty darn cool.

Anyway, I do agree staging is local. Even within San Francisco bay area, styles can differ dramatically and buyers are very different even within the county. So it's definitely local!

Cheers,

Cindy