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You're welcome!

Maybe next week :)

Knowing the audience needs can really alter the direction we take our blog.

Go Long...

Michael Jacobs , interference depends on whether you or playing FOR or AGAINST the KC Chiefs :)

Michael Jacobs , whatever we do blogging, we don't want to incur the wrath of the Swifties!

Bill Liz and Bill Spear - now you seem to be prompting me to ponder more sports and put emphasis on spinning a Taylor Swift-like maneuver. Definitely not my field of expertise.  

Bill Liz and Bill Spear - 🤣

Michael Jacobs Good for you for using a sports reference, even though it was a little off. LOL

google likes spaces.

The dreaded wall of words, even when I want the information in the post, can be very tough to wade through.  Some days the morning eyes can be a bit fuzzy on the focus.

Lol!  The implementation matrix assessment completed on that word choice??!

You just never know how strict someone considering you might be, so why give them an excuse to scratch you off the list?

How I write to the public and how I write to other Rainers is a bit different.  To the public, I'll be much more Sgt. Friday than humorous.  Give them the info they need, and good things can happen.

The topics and aesthetics may change a bit, but overall what I did 10 years ago is still what I'd do now.

We take care of the fundamentals and we can add the more advanced methods to get blogging to work as we go.

I think it was about a year before I got my first call.  And looking back at what I initially wrote, it's no wonder I didn't get quick results.

The early years of the Rain taught us much useful information.  Whether or not we used it was another story :)

Easy on the eyes matters, and will continue to matter.

And in my life, I need to be efficient.

I'm a Cowboys fan too, and this year has been pretty painful.  I expected better from them.

Lew, it's the engineer in me.  Break down the complex to the smaller building blocks, practice and adapt.  My thought is the more successful other agents are with their blogging, the better for this community's longevity.

Then time to play :)

Patricia Feager, ABR,CRS,GRI,MRP , you wouldn't expect a hurricane in Florida to knock out power in Cincinnati, but the remnants knocked out power Friday for over 100,000 homes in Greater Cincinnati, including us.  We were out from Friday at 4 until just a few minutes ago.  Time to shut down the portable generator and get things back to normal :)

Liz and Bill Spear - I wrote a post about Hurricane Helene and it is because of Sham Reddy CRS that I found out about 60K residents were without power in Ohio and thought I better check to see how you're doing. 

No. I never would have guessed Cincinnati to get slammed with a knock out power punch so swift it would affect so many people! That was a long time to be without power. I hope the days ahead will be bright, dry, and beautiful. 

Glad to know you're alright.

Patricia Feager, ABR,CRS,GRI,MRP , The 2nd time in our 30+ years here a hurricane has come through with enough remaining wind to cause damage.  It has been a while, but Ike knocked out power for the better part of a week.  Fortunately we were on vacation with Liz's family at a beach house in North Carolina.  The dog sitter let us know when power was back on.  I did have a big locust tree that needed removed from our driveway, and of course the food in the refrigerator/freezer was not in good shape!  Now, we're pretty equipped for it.  We have battery packs for our phones, a mobile generator, and a couple of portable battery packs that can run 120 AC for a few hours to any essential gear.  All in all, it wasn't too bad.  We really needed the rain we've had the last few days, and once it dries up, it looks like I'll need to mow the yard :)