Comments on: The Real Reason Your Agent Should be Blogging http://sandiegohomeblog.com/2007/11/27/the-real-reason-your-agent-should-be-blogging/ A San Diego Real Estate Web Log Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:27:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Kris Berg http://sandiegohomeblog.com/2007/11/27/the-real-reason-your-agent-should-be-blogging/#comment-142598 Kris Berg Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:46:33 +0000 http://sandiegohomeblog.com/2007/11/27/the-real-reason-your-agent-should-be-blogging/#comment-142598 Michelle, Blog binging! Now, that is funny! Guilty as well, I'm afraid. Monika, I hear that all the time. Snap! It's that easy! (Yeah, right. Kind of like childbirth, unless you are actually involved.) Michelle,

Blog binging! Now, that is funny! Guilty as well, I’m afraid.

Monika,

I hear that all the time. Snap! It’s that easy! (Yeah, right. Kind of like childbirth, unless you are actually involved.)

]]> By: Michelle DeRepentigny http://sandiegohomeblog.com/2007/11/27/the-real-reason-your-agent-should-be-blogging/#comment-142597 Michelle DeRepentigny Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:02:46 +0000 http://sandiegohomeblog.com/2007/11/27/the-real-reason-your-agent-should-be-blogging/#comment-142597 Kris, the number of abandoned blogs online continues to grow. I agree that the agent who commits to a well developed blog that serves the community and potential clients will be the ones who survive and thrive. It takes a special agent to be that devoted. I am guilty of blog bingeing - I skip a week and then might post 3 times in a day. Congrats on an excellent and well presented post! Kris, the number of abandoned blogs online continues to grow. I agree that the agent who commits to a well developed blog that serves the community and potential clients will be the ones who survive and thrive. It takes a special agent to be that devoted. I am guilty of blog bingeing - I skip a week and then might post 3 times in a day. Congrats on an excellent and well presented post!

]]> By: monika http://sandiegohomeblog.com/2007/11/27/the-real-reason-your-agent-should-be-blogging/#comment-142596 monika Tue, 04 Dec 2007 01:18:25 +0000 http://sandiegohomeblog.com/2007/11/27/the-real-reason-your-agent-should-be-blogging/#comment-142596 Excellent post Kris. I sat through several conversations about blogging at the convention in Vegas and they guys in the Bloggers lounge really made it sound so simple. I felt bad for the people there who were thinking about blogging knowing that it requires much more work and passion than they were lead to believe. Excellent post Kris. I sat through several conversations about blogging at the convention in Vegas and they guys in the Bloggers lounge really made it sound so simple. I felt bad for the people there who were thinking about blogging knowing that it requires much more work and passion than they were lead to believe.

]]> By: Kris Berg http://sandiegohomeblog.com/2007/11/27/the-real-reason-your-agent-should-be-blogging/#comment-142594 Kris Berg Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:07:44 +0000 http://sandiegohomeblog.com/2007/11/27/the-real-reason-your-agent-should-be-blogging/#comment-142594 Brian - Isn't that the truth? Sharon - Crazy talk. :) Brian - Isn’t that the truth?

Sharon - Crazy talk. :)

]]> By: Sharon Simms http://sandiegohomeblog.com/2007/11/27/the-real-reason-your-agent-should-be-blogging/#comment-142593 Sharon Simms Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:55:09 +0000 http://sandiegohomeblog.com/2007/11/27/the-real-reason-your-agent-should-be-blogging/#comment-142593 Excellent, perceptive analysis, Kris. What a disservice to agents to lead them to think a few posts now and then will make them a blogger and bring them clients. Excellent, perceptive analysis, Kris. What a disservice to agents to lead them to think a few posts now and then will make them a blogger and bring them clients.

]]> By: Brian Brady http://sandiegohomeblog.com/2007/11/27/the-real-reason-your-agent-should-be-blogging/#comment-142592 Brian Brady Sun, 02 Dec 2007 20:09:27 +0000 http://sandiegohomeblog.com/2007/11/27/the-real-reason-your-agent-should-be-blogging/#comment-142592 Poignant thoughts about networking, Kris. Whodathunk we'd know agents in Kansas (and know them really well) 18 months ago? Poignant thoughts about networking, Kris. Whodathunk we’d know agents in Kansas (and know them really well) 18 months ago?

]]> By: Kris Berg http://sandiegohomeblog.com/2007/11/27/the-real-reason-your-agent-should-be-blogging/#comment-142586 Kris Berg Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:45:24 +0000 http://sandiegohomeblog.com/2007/11/27/the-real-reason-your-agent-should-be-blogging/#comment-142586 Smithers - Agreed that Jim's place and mine our quite different. Your guess could be correct - I honestly don't know who we attract or to what extent in either category. Very rare is it that someone says, "I read your blog. List my home." Most often it is more, "I see your signs, I see your name, I've been to your website, and I read your blog." It's just a cog in the wheel. Glad you have you here, in any event. I'm okay if you let Jim help you buy a home and allow me to help you sell it when you are ready to move. (insert dreaded smiley emoticon) Smithers - Agreed that Jim’s place and mine our quite different. Your guess could be correct - I honestly don’t know who we attract or to what extent in either category. Very rare is it that someone says, “I read your blog. List my home.” Most often it is more, “I see your signs, I see your name, I’ve been to your website, and I read your blog.” It’s just a cog in the wheel.

Glad you have you here, in any event. I’m okay if you let Jim help you buy a home and allow me to help you sell it when you are ready to move. (insert dreaded smiley emoticon)

]]> By: Smithers http://sandiegohomeblog.com/2007/11/27/the-real-reason-your-agent-should-be-blogging/#comment-142584 Smithers Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:50:13 +0000 http://sandiegohomeblog.com/2007/11/27/the-real-reason-your-agent-should-be-blogging/#comment-142584 I regularly read both your and Jim The Realtor's blogs. They couldn't be more different, and yet they are both (usually) about SD area residential real estate. I wonder which blog generates more actual "paying customers" (sorry: "clients"). My guess is that JtR's blog would attract more buyers, and your blog would attract more sellers. Just a guess.... I regularly read both your and Jim The Realtor’s blogs. They couldn’t be more different, and yet they are both (usually) about SD area residential real estate.

I wonder which blog generates more actual “paying customers” (sorry: “clients”). My guess is that JtR’s blog would attract more buyers, and your blog would attract more sellers. Just a guess….

]]> By: Jay Thompson http://sandiegohomeblog.com/2007/11/27/the-real-reason-your-agent-should-be-blogging/#comment-142583 Jay Thompson Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:04:05 +0000 http://sandiegohomeblog.com/2007/11/27/the-real-reason-your-agent-should-be-blogging/#comment-142583 Well I was going to comment on the brilliance of this post. But then I read the comment about the UT/a&m game. So fugit about it! Well I was going to comment on the brilliance of this post.

But then I read the comment about the UT/a&m game.

So fugit about it!

]]> By: Vicki Lloyd http://sandiegohomeblog.com/2007/11/27/the-real-reason-your-agent-should-be-blogging/#comment-142574 Vicki Lloyd Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:29:58 +0000 http://sandiegohomeblog.com/2007/11/27/the-real-reason-your-agent-should-be-blogging/#comment-142574 Kris - As usual, you hit the nail on the head. Blogging isn't for everybody, but if you work at it, it can give your potential clients some insight into your attitudes, knowledge, experience, ethics, personality and everything else that doesn't seem to be on the list of "How to Choose a Realtor." I just started blogging a few months ago, but can already tell that it benefits both my clients and me to start out knowing a little bit more about each other due to the conversations that started with a blog post. Companies that offer ghost writers to write your blog will probably replace many of the "I can get you ranked #1 on Google" telemarketers over the next few years. And the same agents that pay for those ranking services will be paying for canned blogs! Kris -

As usual, you hit the nail on the head. Blogging isn’t for everybody, but if you work at it, it can give your potential clients some insight into your attitudes, knowledge, experience, ethics, personality and everything else that doesn’t seem to be on the list of “How to Choose a Realtor.”

I just started blogging a few months ago, but can already tell that it benefits both my clients and me to start out knowing a little bit more about each other due to the conversations that started with a blog post.

Companies that offer ghost writers to write your blog will probably replace many of the “I can get you ranked #1 on Google” telemarketers over the next few years. And the same agents that pay for those ranking services will be paying for canned blogs!

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