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Harvesting Your Blog Posts

By Dr. Paula McDonald

Real Estate Broker/Owner with Beam & Branch Realty TREC #547752

January 15, 2020 09:04 AM

Journal

I heard an excellent talk recently regarding the process of going back and reviewing your journal entries. The speaker called this, "Harvesting Your Journal". As I listened to him, he pointed out several reasons it is a good practice in going back to read earlier entries.

The purposes of taking the time to review and re-visit your journal or in this case, our blog posts, are many. Take a look at a few of the reasons for harvesting:

1. Taking time to review past entries and posts allows us to see where we've been and are can do some assessment of where we want to go in the future.
2. Reviewing earlier blog posts can provide us with a great evaluation tool for how we are doing and if we need any tweaking or improvements on our posts.

3. Reflection is an excellent exercise to take the time to enjoy the great moments while facing those things that were difficult. We can only move forward when we reflect for a moment on the past. The important thing is to reflect, then move on.

4. Finally, we are able to assess our blog posts and decide if we need to re-write popular posts, determine which posts are getting the most traction and likewise, which posts appear to be performing poorly.

Here in the ActiveRain format, it is easy to pull up our old blog posts and review them. I have found in reviewing my oldest posts, I can see I have come a long way in the blogging world. Take a moment to harvest your blog posts and see if you learn a little nugget or two along the way.

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Liz and Bill Spear

Transaction Alliance 513.520.5305 www.LizTour.com - Mason, OH

Transaction Alliance Cincinnati & Dayton suburbs

My old subdivision posts became the foundation content for many IDX pages on our WP site. Some tinkering here and there, but the facts were still the facts.

Jan 16, 2020 07:26 AM

Brenda J. Andrew

Willis, TX

Ricki Eichler McCallum

CastNet Realty - Corpus Christi, TX

Broker,GRI,ABR, e-Pro, TAHS

Hi Paula, Good advice. It is always good to go back and review. So much we forget. :)

Jan 16, 2020 12:39 PM

Brenda J. Andrew

Willis, TX

Laura Filip

Laura Filip Broker , Opening doors for All Seasons of Life - Whitesboro, TX

What can we do for you today?

Thank you so much for reminding us to take a look aback.

Great advice for sure. Thank you have a blessed day.

Jan 16, 2020 01:03 PM

Brenda J. Andrew

Willis, TX

Lanre-"THE REAL ESTATE FARMER" Folayan

Samson Properties - Bowie, MD

I don't make promises.I deliver results.SOLD HOMES

This would be a good exercise for me. I am still working readjusting to life here again on Active Rain.

Jan 16, 2020 01:37 PM

Brenda J. Andrew

Willis, TX

Richie Alan Naggar

people first...then business Ran Right Realty - Riverside, CA

agent & author

Paula knows things...

Jan 16, 2020 01:48 PM

Andrew Mooers | 207.53...

Houlton, ME
Brenda J. Andrew

Willis, TX

Bob Crane

Woodland Management Service / Woodland Real Estate, KW Diversified - Stevens Point, WI

Forestland Experts! 715-204-9671

Excellent post Paula, taking time to review our lives and activities is so important.

Jan 16, 2020 02:35 PM

Andrew Mooers | 207.53...

Houlton, ME
Brenda J. Andrew

Willis, TX

Wayne Zuhl

Remax First Realty II - Cranford, NJ

The Last Name You'll Ever Need in Real Estate

This is such great advice - I'm going to set some time aside this weekend to go through some past posts.

Jan 17, 2020 03:29 AM

Brenda J. Andrew

Willis, TX

Brenda J. Andrew

ULTIMA REAL ESTATE - Willis, TX

Professional Realtor in Conroe/Willis, TX

This is a great idea Paula and I have done it in the past. It has been a little while though - thanks for the reminder! The timing of it is perfect also!

Jan 17, 2020 04:10 AM

Lise Howe

Keller Williams Capital Properties - Washington, DC

Assoc. Broker in DC, MD, VA and attorney in DC

This is a great idea that is clearly resonating with the folks here. Thanks for sharing. My most popular post ever was on compost tea. Go figure

Jan 17, 2020 04:22 AM

Bruce Hicks

Best Homes Hawaii - Honolulu, HI

Your Best Hawaii Realtor!

Thank you Paula McDonald ~ GRI this is an insigtful article and I will go back through old blogs.

Jan 17, 2020 04:41 AM

Don Baker

Lane Realty - Eatonton, GA

Lake Sinclair Specialist

All my posts are old posts. But until the public can read them I'm not posting more. Just making comments. Besides, I'm support staff for my broker, I just do what she says... I don't try to "get" clients.

Jan 17, 2020 07:33 AM

Dorie Dillard Austin TX

Coldwell Banker Realty ~ 512.750.6899 - Austin, TX

NW Austin ~ Canyon Creek and Spicewood/Balcones

Good afternoon Paula McDonald ~ GRI ,

What a wonderful post! So glad to see it featured. You are absolutely right..great advice for everyone!

Jan 17, 2020 10:11 AM

Scott Godzyk

Godzyk Real Estate Services - Manchester, NH

One of the Manchester NH's area Leading Agents

I like to use past blog posts and the comments for inspiration for new posts

Jan 18, 2020 05:55 AM

Sharon Tara

Sharon Tara Transformations - Portsmouth, NH

Retired New Hampshire Home Stager

This is something I've been doing for years. Although I haven't been blogging lately, I was regularly going back and tweaking and rewriting old blogs. I hope to start up again.

Also, it's important to update links and add updates to localism posts if businesses you wrote about have closed or moved.

Jan 18, 2020 07:28 AM

Sheri Sperry - MCNE®

Coldwell Banker Realty - Sedona, AZ

(928) 274-7355 ~ YOUR Solutions REALTOR®

Hi Paula McDonald ~ GRI - This is something I need to do more of. Also, I have to look at blogs that no longer fit a need.

Jan 18, 2020 08:11 AM

Sheldon Haywood

McGraw Realtors - Tulsa, OK

Your Realtor For Life!

Hi Paula - This is an awesome idea. I only started journal this year and have made a commitment to blog more. Thank you!

Jan 18, 2020 12:44 PM

Jeff Dowler, CRS

eXp Realty of California, Inc. - Carlsbad, CA

The Southern California Relocation Dude

Hi Paula:

There is some great advice here. I do look back from time to time but could do more. Part of looking back is fixing broker links and information that has changed. And it often provides fodder for a new post or two.

Jeff

Jan 18, 2020 03:18 PM

Margaret Rome Baltimor...

Pikesville, MD

Margaret Rome Baltimore 410-530-2400

HomeRome Realty 410-530-2400 - Pikesville, MD

Sell Your Home With Margaret Rome

Like Jeff Dowler, CRS looking back is a way of fixing the older posts. For those who have been blogging for more than a dozen years, that's a lot a posts to review. Congratulations on the well-deserved feature.

Jan 21, 2020 07:26 PM

Jan Green - Scottsdale, AZ

Value Added Service, 602-620-2699 - Scottsdale, AZ

HomeSmart Elite Group, REALTOR®, EcoBroker, GREEN

Very smart advice. I did that a while back and unfortunately the links were different since purchase of AR. Ugh!

Jan 23, 2020 03:14 PM

Georgie Hunter R(S) 58089

Hawai'i Life Real Estate Brokers - Haiku, HI

Maui Real Estate sales and lifestyle info

I like that term... harvesting. I need to go back and do a lot of harvesting and repurposing onto my own blog.

Jan 26, 2020 07:55 PM