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Tom Brokaw said Washington Post Print will be Dead by 2017

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Real Estate Agent with Taylor-Made Deep Creek Vacations & Sales

One more reason with a timeline for to get yourself established on the internet. Keeping up with the latest gadgets and email is not the way to keep up with technology. If your VCR is flashing 12:00 right now, how will you be able to stand out in ten years?

Brokaw added that, “there will never not be a need for professional people to take a complicated information, put it into a form that viewers and readers will need to know and want to understand.”

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Read the above link to see what prompted this blog.

How will you get your information out? I am sure in ten years there will be plenty of companies to charge you a large amount boat load of money to get your content and your face out in front of people.  (Hopefully I am one of them.)

I have notice a trend in blogging. Lately, I have been concerned with web traffic. Every time I come across a website I check the traffic on it. Compete.com has become my friend. What I have been seeing is that most blogs have really started to grow around the spring of this year. Which is about the same time mine grew legs. According to NAR there are only 4% of us doing this in the Rank and file. What will that mean when all the “old school” marketers pull out of print and are forced to the web?

Blogging Trends

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Now these sites are by no means the “blue chip” stocks of the blogosphere, but it is the same trend I have seen on quite a few blogs. Don’t believe me check it yourself. We are only on the tip of the iceberg. It is up to you to stay above water.

I know one thing, I will have my feet firmly planted on the web. I am not going to relinquish my spot to anyone…of course unless there is a price tag attached to it.

See this and more over at BobsBrainDump.com

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Comments (31)

Bob Carney
Taylor-Made Deep Creek Vacations & Sales - Mc Henry, MD
Licensed MD/PA Real Estate Agent

T, you get it.  The blog is the point (or the buzzword) for today.  Just as you have to be out in front of the market pricing your homes correctly, you have to be out in front of technology.  I have no doubt you will be there... cuz you is my flickr facebook twit! We tight!  :) 

Ines,  LOL keeping the information to yourself.  If the price is right you can share...look at this way.  Out of 100 students only 4 will get it.

 

Nov 21, 2007 11:47 AM
Carole Cohen
Howard Hanna Cleveland City Office - Cleveland, OH
Realtor, ePRO

Bob 2017 is the year I technically can retire (yeah right) so now you telling me I will have no newspaper to read with coffee every day; i may as well keep working lol

 

Nov 21, 2007 11:59 AM
Bob Carney
Taylor-Made Deep Creek Vacations & Sales - Mc Henry, MD
Licensed MD/PA Real Estate Agent
Carole, You can read it on the Kindle. :)
Nov 21, 2007 12:12 PM
Carole Cohen
Howard Hanna Cleveland City Office - Cleveland, OH
Realtor, ePRO
:-) yes, after work
Nov 21, 2007 12:20 PM
Cheryl Johnson
Highland Park, CA

I wasn't aware of Compete.com.  Very interesting.  Thanks. 

Hey, I'm jealous of TB.  Can we be tight, too?

PS -- Did you order a Kindle yet? I am soooo tempted.

Nov 22, 2007 12:31 AM
Bob Carney
Taylor-Made Deep Creek Vacations & Sales - Mc Henry, MD
Licensed MD/PA Real Estate Agent

Cheryl, didn't you get my twitter?  I haven't (most likely won't) get one.  Scoble has one and review it on Techcrunch.  Why would I want to carry that and my laptop and my pda.  I can read blogs and books just as well on my laptop and pda.

we tight too.  You the Wordpress, f-stop, aperture, PSE Nerd Queen.

Nov 22, 2007 01:00 AM
Cheryl Johnson
Highland Park, CA

Bob if you Gobble in a Tweet is it still a Tweet?  Or is it a ...uuhmm,,,, Gobble?  Gweetle?

http://www.nwtf.org/audio/Gobbling.mp3

Nov 22, 2007 06:53 AM
Deb Brooks
Brooks Prime Properties Wichita Falls Texas - Wichita Falls, TX
Hey Bob, I'm enjoying your posts. Question: Do you think the major SE's will begin to identify blogs from company websites and categorize them within the engines? I am finding my blogs along with my website on Google and others. If we are the first 4% do you think we will inundate the web and cause the listing sites to drop? Or, will we go to different places on the web to read a blog than we will when looking for company sites? Just wondering what you might feel about this??? Thanks for listening. Deb
Nov 24, 2007 02:58 AM
Carole Cohen
Howard Hanna Cleveland City Office - Cleveland, OH
Realtor, ePRO

Hi Bob, okay a couple of things.  I re-read the post you link to in the body of this post. I agree with one thing they say, that the Wall Street Journal is a fantastic read on line. I was a member. Now of course the other side of the issue is, I am no longer a member because I put my dollars elsewhere for the moment...so I can no longer read it. But It's true that even the Wash Post, which is free and is my home page, has irritating pop ups from time to time, at least once a day -  and the post you link to suggests that will be the route WSJ has to take once it goes free. I don't necessarily like that, but then again I didn't like Murdoch buying it either lol

Secondly, Kindle.  No one can keep it in stock, according to the press LOL

:-)

Nov 24, 2007 05:29 AM
Tina Merritt
Nest Realty - Blacksburg, VA
Virginia Real Estate

The newspaper industry made a HUGE mistake by not embracing the internet and we will see the same results with regards to sink or swim in the real estate industry.  The newspapers had the ability to market for free to a huge readership and create craigslist-like online classifieds - but they chose not to affiliate the print and online segments in most cases.  I don't know of anyone under the age of 35 who subscribes to the local paper.

Along the same lines....do we see the "big 3" television networks losing their control too???  I haven't watched a prime-time newscast in about 2 years!

Nov 24, 2007 10:50 AM
Thesa Chambers
West + Main - Bend, OR
Principal Broker - Licensed in Oregon

Bob - yesterday as I was sitting an open house - FOX news actually had a segment on political blogging and the power or lack of power - it was very interesting to hear them - some of the panel had no clue of the power and others had a great concept.. although I doubt we loose the printed word completely - I think it will be less in the future

Nov 25, 2007 06:09 AM
Chris Griffith
Downing-Frye Realty, Bonita Springs, FL - Bonita Springs, FL
Bonita Springs Listing Specialist - Agent
Put this in your pipe and smoke it: http://www.history.com/minisites/bandofbloggers 
Nov 25, 2007 06:13 AM
Bob Carney
Taylor-Made Deep Creek Vacations & Sales - Mc Henry, MD
Licensed MD/PA Real Estate Agent

CJ, gwitter.com or 

Debra, as with all technology...you have to stay in front of it.  Yes companies are beginning to do this. REALTOR.com, MOVE.com and an actual real estate company EWM has a company blog that all the agent participate with... At first their traffic didn't increase, but it has now.  SE love older websites...so keep on blogging and you will be out the fair weather fans who jump on later.

Carole, As I read the Long Tail, it becomes more evident that the little people are making more of an impact.  Look at this way you are now a staff writer, publisher and photographer of your news media website.  This gives you access to places just like a newspaper reporter.  Young musicians are publishing music without major labels to back them. More people are gravitating to the little guys...

Tina, If we stop paying for useless ad space in the print media...they will be forced to do something.  Look how many TV news channels plug their websites during their news cast... they are already aware of the paradigm shift.

Thesa, I think they will need to leverage both in order to be successful.  The power of the internet is amazing..I can be at an event with my cell phone and get you information as it happens... ie. UConn vs WVU game 

Chris, that is an awesome blog...and that is part of my point also.  I can get the news as it happens and when I want it.  If I miss the 6 Oclock news, I can still get it on a blog or podcast at my convenience.  And that is what average under 35 year old is doing!!!

Nov 26, 2007 12:40 PM
Carole Cohen
Howard Hanna Cleveland City Office - Cleveland, OH
Realtor, ePRO
Yes, true, I've been enjoying prowlilng MySpace and listening to all sorts of good new bands.  Punk lives :-)
Nov 26, 2007 02:24 PM
Bob Carney
Taylor-Made Deep Creek Vacations & Sales - Mc Henry, MD
Licensed MD/PA Real Estate Agent
Never pictured you as a punk rocker!!!  I had been know to listen to some old punk rock... sex pistols, deadmilkmen, big pig...etc.
Nov 27, 2007 03:09 AM
Carole Cohen
Howard Hanna Cleveland City Office - Cleveland, OH
Realtor, ePRO
I know the first two never checked out big pig but love the name LOL    You might want to check out this british group (newer) called Gallows.  Very cool. 
Nov 27, 2007 07:29 AM
Cynthia Tilghman, RealtorĀ® Onslow County NC Home Specialist
Kingsbridge Realty, Inc - Hubert, NC
Hi Bob,
I hope and think what this means is that we who are already blogging will definitely be ahead of the curve.  We are mastering the skills now. 
The younger generation (of which I consider myself a member) wants news, music and information via an electronic device.
Dec 02, 2007 06:50 AM
Bob Carney
Taylor-Made Deep Creek Vacations & Sales - Mc Henry, MD
Licensed MD/PA Real Estate Agent
BINGO...you got it.  Stay ahead of the curve.  The younger generation want information when they want it.  Podcast and TIVO come to mind also.  I'll watch my favorite TV show when I am ready.  (without commercials)
Dec 03, 2007 03:00 AM
Charlie Dennis
Real Estate Book - Brooklyn, NY
Newspapers may be dead but tell me how is it that I produce 90,000 copies of The Real Estate Book in Brooklyn, Ny and the Bronx, realtors get calls from the book, sell homes from the book and when I go around to drop off the new book there are none remaining in the store that I left them in.  I have some vendors, who let us leave the books, actually call me to tell me to bring more.
Jan 23, 2008 02:13 PM
Bob Carney
Taylor-Made Deep Creek Vacations & Sales - Mc Henry, MD
Licensed MD/PA Real Estate Agent
Chuck, The Real Estate Book works for some people and obviously well in your area.  I have a $3200 T-shirt that says "My Property is advertised in The Real Estate Book."  Our newspapers are crying about ad space and the rest of the Home Magazines are getting thinner.  Just a trend I am seeing in our area.  Ride that wave while you can.  
Jan 23, 2008 02:42 PM
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