What is the purpose of your blog?

Sondra-What a wonderful blog. I sincerely believe it fulfilled your purpose. One day I will visit Colorado and the Garden of the Gods as I have seen many pics of this place. When I do I hope we can meet. I loved that video it is soothing to the soul.

I like to share my ideas, thoughts and passions in my blogs. One of my passions is birds another is flowers and beautiful scenery pics among other things. Congrats on the feature. Something for your feature.

Sondra:  I decided a long time ago that my purpose was to educate.  That might include several topics and also several directions as to who I'm educating at the time.  Being a Lender, I think that's my highest obligation.  It starts at first contact and continues beyond the Closing table.  The better my clients are educated (and my referral partners), the easier the process and more successful.  I think I lose sight of my mission once in awhile.  Get caught-up in the act of blogging.  Your post reminds me that it's necessary to focus and remember my mission ...

Gene

Nice post, Sondra.  Lately I feel like I'm writing just to write, and that's difficult.

Different purposes for different blogs.  Like most my consumer pointed blogs are to increase business.  And yes, sometimes that means sharing a vacation experience.  I've connected with people by something as silly as post about walking my dogs.  They were dog people.  They found my post, they called me, we had a consulation, they hired me, they bought a house.  Ironically THE house I mentioned I walked by for sale when walking my dogs.

Other posts, like this one perhaps in "talking to the AR community" I made friends here, friends I can maybe help, friends I can learn from, people who would not hesitate to refer a client to me.  People I know would take care of a client I refered to them.  (I generally make those kinds of posts members only) as I feel the consumer doesn't really need to know what I am saying to the AR community.

I sometimes blog about other businesses in my area, it's becoming a partnership with others.  Remembering purpose is important, great post!

I like your blog theme of sharing the Colorado experience.  I guess, in some ways, I am sharing the experience of living in Maryland.  

I always enjoy your photographs.  Best wishes for continued success.

People are busy and if it is not an easy photolog, video, something that saves them time and money in a helpful blog post with links, well, why should they follow it? And why bother hunting, pecking it. There is enough of that machined, blah blah blah on line, in life. You live in a neat state, son in last semester, a senior at Colorado College in C Springs. Other older son works at A Basin winters and skis his brains out when he is not at work. Neat state, friendly people. Image driving out with jeep to leave with son a few years ago and then flying back to Maine.

My blog posts are about communities, or a specific listing. Sometimes I will blog about a realtor habit or something we should do. 

Steven

Great informative post.  And, congrats on the feature.  This is something I will save!

I have yet to participate in a 30 day blog challenge for the exact reason you mentioned - my quality would surely suffer. It would be hard for me to come up with that much content and while some random thoughts are definitely well tolerated and even enjoyed, I'm not sure that would work for me.

Love the photo, Sondra. Since our blogs are to promote our business, blogs that put down customers or make others look bad aren't productive at all. Everyone needs to vent now and then, but I hope professionals know that ranting in public isn't good business!

Congrats on the feature Sondra! I like to share southern Utah with people, every day life and to be relatable. My blog is definitely a multi-purpose one!

Sondra- love the photo's. You asked a great question, what is the purpose of your blog. My blog is hyper focused blog to help home buyers and homeowners in the Lake Ridge Virginia area.Lake Ridge is a small bedroom community about twenty miles south of Washington DC. This is where I live, play and work. I am passionate about the home values you here, and I want every seller to know...I will do my very, very best to help them sell for the most amount of money the market will bare. I learned long ago on Active Rain, if you can't compete with the big guys (humongous websites with deep pockets) farm on the internet. Share what you know, market updates on the communities where you like to sell. Consumers are searching and trolling for information about their neighborhood and values. Since I've done that business it outstanding!

Sondra - Questioning the purpose of our blogs is something we probably should do.  I have different purposes and probably need to consider it more.

Sondra-I agree with your point of avoiding rants and demeaning clients or even other agents. That serves no useful purpose. That was a great challenge to find the climber.

Sondra, great blog and some very good advice for anyone new to blogging, or  even for those that have been doing it for a while. I think it can be easy to lose sight of the reason you are writing

Obviously, I want my blog to drive traffic to my website. But, I write about a variety of things because you never know why a person might connect with you.

We focus on being positive towards us and all that read our blogs.  There is so much negativity in the world that if we can lift up on person with our writings then we have succeeded. 

Very good post.  Ultimately my blog is to generate business and connect with people that want to work with me.  Sometmes I forget about that and blog for comments and features, but those don't really bring in business.  

Sandra,my main post of blogging is to keep my clients informed. My blog's primary target readers are my clients and other realtors that could benefit from what I posted.