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Real Estate Broker/Owner with Signature Real Estate TREC# 516948
When I first entered the blogging world of no return, Blogger was my first. It was Google-ish, easy to use, easy interface, all free. Unfortunately though, I felt like that scream in the far away forest that nobody hears. No comments  whatsoever. After all, it is hard to get the power to blog your heart out into a post and then have absolutely nothing happen.

Then I joined Active Rain - a network of active real estate professionals blogging about a multitude of topics from real estate specific topics to search engine optimization to the environment. And there the experience was completely different. People were reading my blog, they were commenting, disagreeing, complimenting, encouraging, cautioning. That my friends makes for a completely different blogging experience. In a way, you feel like you've got your own column where you can share what you feel is important for people to know or stay away from. It even changes your entire inspiration as all of a sudden you've got a multitude of topics that you WANT to talk about and give your two cents about.

I told you that story to tell you this story. Because of Active Rain, I learned about TypePad - A professional blogging interface to take your experience to that next level. Like AR, TypePad immediately notifies a slew of blog sites like Technorati and the big G itself, every time you make a post. Three days ago, I started my end all be all blog called  In my View on Typepad and slowly but surely, I am getting comments on my posts. Comments I never got on Blogger for whatever reason. 

Please understand that I am not putting down Blogger in any way! All I am saying is that when blogging, the experience that you get from INTERACTION is what makes blogging fun and effective and if you want to blog like a champion, consider TypePad in conjuction with Active Rain and you will get a readership of real estate professionals and other readers out there waiting to hear what you have to say.
Nick M.
Certified Residential Appraiser- West Palm Beach Real Estate - West Palm Beach, FL
Realtor-Appraiser in West Palm-South Florida Real Estate Appraiser
 Good points Erion, and accurate i must say. if google crawls it, then i blog it :)) thanks for sharing!
Jun 09, 2007 03:22 AM
New Jersey Real Estate James Boyer Morris, Essex & Union County NJ Realtor
RE/MAX Properties Unlimited, Real Estate - Morristown, NJ

Nice Post Erion,

Check out www.realestatewebmasters.com  they have a really nice forum for all kinds of questions, as well as a blog platform which sits directly behind the realestatewebmasters name so it is highly real estate relevant.  I have written 12 blogs over there for 3 different markets and I can find every one of them by searching google Real Estate .....  most are in the first 4 pages of a given search, but at least 4 of them are first page for their search.

 

Jim

Jun 09, 2007 03:25 AM
Mesa, Arizona Real Estate Mesa Arizona Realtor
Homes Arizona Real Estate LLC - Mesa, AZ
AzLadyInRed

Thanks for your post Erion. I haven't gotten to TypePad yet. Cheryl wrote in detail about how to do it. I just need to find the time to add widgets, learn Type Pad, etc.

Jim, thanks for the tip. I'll check out your suggested blog forum also.

Jun 09, 2007 03:51 AM
Joan Whitebook
BHG The Masiello Group - Nashua, NH
Consumer Focused Real Estate Services
I just checked out type pad and it looks very good.  Thanks for bringing this to our attention.  It looks very user friendly as well.  AR is a great community and it is great to see the support of the members in commenting on blogs! 
Jun 09, 2007 04:28 AM
Erion Shehaj
Signature Real Estate - Houston, TX
Houston Real Estate Broker
Jim thanks for the tip. I have seen some of their work and it ranks pretty high.
Jun 09, 2007 05:04 AM
Jim Little
Ken Meade Realty - Sun City, AZ
Your Sun City Arizona Realtor

Erion;

Which level of Typepad do you use? Why?

Can you trransfer from Blogger? Easily?

Jun 09, 2007 07:27 AM
Erion Shehaj
Signature Real Estate - Houston, TX
Houston Real Estate Broker

Jim

Right now I'm on the pro level 8.99/mo or if you pay for the whole year you get two months off. The pro level gives you enough tools to do everything most people do with their blog, in my opinion. Transferring from Blogger is easy but it takes copy and pasting post by post. 

Jun 09, 2007 07:31 AM
Frank Rubi
Frank Rubi Real Estate, LLC - Metairie, LA
FrankRubiRealEstate.com
Great tip. I will have to check out TypePad.Thanks
Jun 09, 2007 10:51 AM
Gita Bantwal
RE/MAX Centre Realtors - Warwick, PA
REALTOR,ABR,CRS,SRES,GRI - Bucks County & Philadel
I am going to check it out as well as realestate webmaster.Thank you.
Jun 14, 2007 11:49 PM
Darrel Quebedeaux
Evergreen Realty & Associates Inc. - Newport Coast, CA

Thanks for the tips.  I just posted for the first time on AR this week.  I am a foot dragger.  I have wanted to for ages but kept waiting for the perfect day to do it.  I am also wanting to do a blog on an unrelated subject and have been looking at type-pad for that service.  Now will tomorrow be the right day to get my type-pad account open?? I will tell you tomorrow.

Thanks

Jun 15, 2007 09:16 AM
Connie Ragen Green
Small Business UnMarketing - Santa Barbara, CA
Online Marketing Strategist
I love Typepad. I have used it since August of 2006 and I currently maintain 9 blogs there on various topics. With the new feature "Pages" just released, Typepad now rivals Wordpress as the blogging platform of choice. I agree with you about Blogger - it just won't do for serious business blogging.
Jun 29, 2007 06:13 PM