Getting Soci@l for a tech challenged agent. Patience may have a bit to do with my being tech challenged, but I worked to carve out time to read Soci@l. I found it to be very enlightening. I was intrigued by the chapter titled 'Effective blogging-Writing content that ranks and gets read." I really liked some of the history it filled me in on, but I found real Meat and Potatoes on page 78..."Why Blog"? It then went on to give the answers...Six Reasons Top Agents Blog Improve your ranking in search engines
1. Improve your ranking in search engines
2. Position yourself as an expert in a field or geographic area
3. Advertise and market a listing
4. Drive traffic and create links to your website
5. Expand your social media conversations
6. Educate future Buyers and Sellers
Mariana Wagner was quoted as stating..."SEO is actually technobabble for consistently writing about what you want to found for in the search engines, in the language used by the community of people you want to do business with- coupled with a good linking strategy. Blogging is the easiest way to do this"
As an agent that has labored to try to bring myself up to speed...to try to take advantage of tools available in this techno world of ours...I appreciate the help offered by this web book. I don't believe in re-inventing the wheel...I do however want to make the most of my business and the use of my time.
The book goes on to state..."Buyers and Sellers aren't looking for award=winning journalism- they will happily settle for the basic facts delivered clearly with a minimum of grammatical train wrecks. " We are advised to "Write first for the buyers and sellers and second for the search engines."
I appreciate the AR staff having the contest...I probably would not have read this fine web book without the contest
Here is what you need to do:
- Download Soci@l by going to the RainCamp Page (It's on there, just look a
little) - Read Soci@l and choose the one chapter you liked the best.
- Write a blog post summarizing that chapter and sharing something you
learned from the chapter. - Come back to this blog post and leave a link to your post in the
comment section here. - In the body of your blog post, at the end of the post, please
include the following image and text:
This blog post is a review of Soci@l: Attract Friends, Followers and
Connections to Your Business. Soci@l is a free download written by Ben
Kinney in conjunction with ActiveRain and Jay Papasan. In exchange for
downloading the free copy of Soci@l and writing this review, I have a
chance to win a free iPad and I'm getting 2000 ActiveRain points.
Download a free copy of Social here and find
out how
you can have a chance to win an iPad and be guaranteed 2000 ActiveRain points.
- Every blog post you write will get you one entry into the drawing to
win the iPad. You can do more than one entry. 4 entries maximum per
person - Only the first post you do will be eligible for the 2000 points.
(you will only be awarded 2000 points once) - Blog posts must be a minimum of 300 words and must have some type of
redeeming value (to be judged by the staff.....but the idea is write
something of which you will be proud) - posts must be submitted before July 4th 2010 at Midnight Eastern
Time. By submitted, I mean the link needs to be left here by that time
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