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Do Blogs REALLY Capture Customers?

By Mike Carraway

Real Estate Agent with WEICHERT, REALTORS - Access Realty

March 24, 2009 12:15 AM

Just in....

Surgeon relocating to our city finds his dream home on agent's Blog.

Not only that, they are sitting down today to write the contract.

Rod, one of our agent's that decided to put up a FREE blog a couple of months ago has gotten his first big result - a $350,000 sale. Not bad for a totally free website/blog.

Here's why Rod says it's successful - he does the things that Google and the other search enignes like. He posts at least a short paragraph every day, providing new content for the search engines almost daily.

Search engines like fresh content - even better if it appears daily.

How long does it take him? Rod says he spends maybe 2 minutes a day posting a short blurb or a link back to a new listing. That's all it takes.

His particular blog is targeted to a very competitive part of our city and he has about a million competing websites. It took some time (a couple of months) but he is currently on page 2 of Google.

Now he is beginning to reap the rewards.

Blogs are just one of the 21st Century tools to market your business with. I have posted another 14 of them at http://www.realestaterocketfuel.com/26/rocket-fuel-agents-toolkit-coming-soon/

Enjoy!

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Chuck Carstensen

RE/MAX Results - Elk River, MN

Minnesota/Wisconsin Real Estate Expert

Not bad at all. I have captured a couple buyers too. And I believe many more to come.

Mar 24, 2009 12:21 AM

Andrea Swiedler

Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices New England Properties - New Milford, CT

Realtor, Southern Litchfield County CT

Mike, thank you for that information. I love to read success stories!

Charlie Ragonesi

AllMountainRealty.com - Big Canoe, GA

Homes - Big Canoe, Jasper, North Georgia Pros

Blogging is the electronic way of chatting at a cyber party. At "real "parties you can talk about what you do and get a customer. Same with blogging. So Your post is on the money

Mar 24, 2009 12:24 AM

Amanda Christiansen

Christiansen Group Realty (260)704-0843 - Fort Wayne, IN

Christiansen Group Realty

I have picked up a couple of buyers from my blog. I don't blog everyday but I think I will get back to that after reading this. Thanks!

Mar 24, 2009 12:29 AM

Michael Setunsky

Woodbridge, VA

Your Commercial Real Estate Link to Northern VA

Mike I agree, blogging has become the number one source for Google Juice. My web site is submitted to Google every month with minimal success, but all I have to do is write a post and within minutes it is on page one. Blogging works. Thanks.

Mar 24, 2009 12:55 AM

Ralph Post , Realtor

Suntree, FL

Melbourne Florida - Post Real Estate Group

Awesome new to this so I do not have any personal results yet. I have been learning a lot though.

Mar 24, 2009 12:59 AM

John Nyiszter

RE/MAX First Realty - East Brunswick, NJ

Hi Mike

I agree. Blogging is a great way to expose your listings to buyers. Let's face it, everyone uses the internet to look for properties. Less and less looks at print advertisements. I'm getting more leads from my blogs and postings.

Thanks

Mar 24, 2009 01:16 AM

Linda Greco Rich, ABR, SRES

Exit Preferred Realty - Bel Air, MD

Harford County Specialist

Mike,

I have several blogs for my niches. However, I don't know how to get the boxes that allow the person to submit his name and email. How do you access this?
Thanks!

Mar 24, 2009 04:28 AM

Michael Lee

Frog Realty - Tallahassee, FL

Nice post. It is great to hear such a great story. I hope to have one to share soon!

Mar 24, 2009 01:59 PM

Bob Miller

Keller Williams Cornerstone Realty - Ocala, FL

The Ocala Dream Team

Hi Mike, great success story! That is why we keep at it every day.

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