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30 real estate blog posts in 30 days

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Real Estate Agent with Realty ONE Group Sterling

30 real estate blog posts in 30 days: challenge accepted!

 

I belong to a fantastic online community for real estate professionals called Active Rain.  It truly is a great place for people in the real estate industry to write blog posts to share knowledge (with each other and the public), and even blow off some steam by sharing stories 'from the trenches' of what we do each day.

 

I joined the site earlier this year with the full intent of blogging regularly as an avenue to promote my real estate business online, connect with future clients, and to learn from other Realtors around the country. Active Rain attaches a point system to blog writing, which I had thought was a perfect motivator for me! I was so excited and wrote several posts! One was even a featured post!

 

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So, how have my blogging intentions panned out the rest of the year? Not as well as I had hoped unfortunately.  I could make a thousand excuses for why I didn't continue blogging after my first three posts - and believe me, in my head I've made all the guilt ridden excuses!  The truth is that it's my first year in real estate sales, I've had some success, got pretty busy, and ..... I just didn't blog.....  But hey, you can have excuses or you can have results, but you can't have both, right?!

 

Here comes the Active Rain Blogging Challenge to rescue my lagging motivation!  For the month of November I'm challenging myself to write a blog a day.  That's it, sounds like a piece of cake.  Hopefully by exercising my blogging muscles I will develop a healthy habit and continue blogging for the long haul.

 

So what do I get for completing the challenge, you ask?  EXTRA points of course!!!  Post one, done!  I'm looking forward to the rest of the month and beyond!

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Bruce Walter
Keller Williams Realty Lafayette/West Lafayette, Indiana - West Lafayette, IN

Well done, Christi!  Only 29 more to go.  We did the challenge a year ago and it was very good for establishing some blogging discipline!  Stay with it!

Nov 01, 2014 09:37 AM
Christi Hacker
Realty ONE Group Sterling - Omaha, NE
Your Omaha Area Real Estate Specialist

Thanks Bruce Walter

Nov 01, 2014 09:46 AM
Michele Cadogan 917-861-9166
Fillmore Real Estate 2990 Av U, Bklyn , NY 11229 - Brooklyn, NY
Licensed Real Estate Associate Broker -

Congrats on your decision to join the challenge- im sure that you'll garner more than the extra points in the end.  Looking forward to reading your future posts.

Nov 01, 2014 09:52 AM
Kathleen Daniels, Probate & Trust Specialist
KD Realty - 408.972.1822 - San Jose, CA
Probate Real Estate Services

Christi,  If you blog here long enough and consistently enough you won't need to make excuses about not blogging. It truly is addictive. You will begin to blog because you can't not blog!  Here's to you next 29 posts!

Nov 01, 2014 11:49 AM
Dagny Eason
Dagny's Real Estate - Wilton, CT
Fairfield County CT, CDPE Homes For Sale and Condo

Christi - the "point" - LOL - of this challenge is to get you points and get you used to it, if you have been off the wagon - you are the perfect candidate!    Good luck!  Stay with it!

Nov 01, 2014 08:55 PM
Christi Hacker
Realty ONE Group Sterling - Omaha, NE
Your Omaha Area Real Estate Specialist

Michele Cadogan , Kathleen Daniels and Dagny Eason thanks so much for your encouragement!

Nov 02, 2014 09:28 AM
Roy Kelley
Retired - Gaithersburg, MD

It is good to see that you have accepted the November challenge.

Best wishes for great success with your blogging.

Nov 02, 2014 10:16 PM
Sharon Tara
Sharon Tara Transformations - Portsmouth, NH
Retired New Hampshire Home Stager

Good for you!  I've only ever done it once...a 30 day challenge is not easy.  I'm sure you will feel great knowing you did it, and it should get you trained to blog more often once the challenge is over.

Nov 04, 2014 01:30 AM
Grant Schneider
Performance Development Strategies - Armonk, NY
Your Coach Helping You Create Successful Outcomes

Christi - congratulations on your goal to blog.  I am sure you will begin to see increasing results as I did.

Nov 04, 2014 03:58 AM
Lou Ludwig
Ludwig & Associates - Boca Raton, FL
Designations Earned CRB, CRS, CIPS, GRI, SRES, TRC

Chisti

Very informative and well written post.

Chisti Hacker great job in writing the post.

Good luck and success

Nov 04, 2014 12:14 PM
Dagny Eason
Dagny's Real Estate - Wilton, CT
Fairfield County CT, CDPE Homes For Sale and Condo

Well done informative post, Christi - congratulations on your setting the blogging goals

Nov 04, 2014 12:18 PM