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19

Come On, You Have A Business, Stop Thinking Expert Blogger

I started my blogging journey May of 2006. I started my real estate technology journey many years earlier. I am what my son calls an early adapter. We laugh, I bought my first Apple Computer before they had any real programs. It had a game, Breakout, that was it. Then they added a space game… Hey where were the programs I would ask? Coming soon they would say. Well they arrived and we are on our merry journey.

So what about you?

Technology should increase your business, not take over instead of your business.

That applies to blogs.

So far, almost all bloggers, and for sure the blogging vendors pitch technology. They hold classes, stress SEO, and make it intimidating.

This is wrong, wrong, wrong - and we feel a major reason blogging for business is still limited and even not successful.

OUR SIMPLE APPROACH CAN WORK FOR YOU!

1- Learn how to post an article Click here to see how easy..

2- Learn how to add a photo. It’s the same, easy. It is easy, it is easy, it is easy.

3- Write articles with photos. Write almost daily. Be brief. Get 10 articles live.

4- Send people to your blog, meet people and tell them about your blog. It works.

You have a business don’t get sidetracked. Don’t be intimidated. Local targeted blogs are Google power. Keep it simple and you can enhance your business. It works.

Here are some examples for REALTORS: Issaquah Undressed.com and Gig Harbor Undressed.com

And new examples of how to go beyond real estate. Ashlar Undressed and Healthy Chocolate Undressed. Watch them grow.

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08

We Were Written About In The L A Times

One interesting things about a blog, is that what one writes it is forever to be found on the internet.

As we began to write our Issaquah Undressed blog, I made a claim.

Read about it in the L A TImes.

BACK in 2006, which in the real estate blogo- sphere is pretty much akin to the dawn of creation, Real Estate Undressed blogger Larry Cragun had this to say to the American home-buying public:”There is a new wave growing. Agents that blog. We believe you will eventually only use an agent that blogs. Why? Because . . . if they blog about a community they must know it. . . . You also learn more about them as they blog.”

Cragun’s advice must have been heeded, since it seems that every agent and their brother now has a blog. And if anecdotal evidence is to be believed — nobody actually tracks this — agents who are still selling today are agents who blog.