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07

Did You Know?

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Did You Know: that one of our bloggers recently picked off 4 different buyers off their undressed blog? aS OF LAST FRIDAY 2 WERE UNDER CONTRACT.
Did You Know: that Kathleen and I have been using our blog as a way to meet local business people – and that the marketing director of one just asked me to list her condo and sell her a home with a yard her dog can run around in?
Did you know: That thanks to being a part of our network, even if you haven’t been writing lately your blog gets more Google powerful everyday anyway? Mark Clawson of Summerlin Undressed just proved that. After many months of not writing he started up again. I went in and wrote a mystery post and found it on page one for 2 searches and page 2 for two more just 30 minutes after posting the article.
Did you know: that a new popular book “Realty Blogging” will help you get it, even though you thought you already got it, and maybe bought it but didn’t get it? Buy it – the book that is. The book was written by executives of a company that came out the same time we did – charging $500.00 a month for their blog plus training. Buy it anyway…..
But for those of you who like to see and learn we are going to start a series of webinars: The first will be next Wednesday May 13th and 11AM and the Friday after that May 15th at 1PM. Several of our super stars have offered to train you on items from basic blogging, to Flickr, to how to use your blog to make real estate sales, and I will pop in with how to blog for Google. I will be forwarding the links to these sessions a few days before they go live.
We look forwarding to helping you step it up. Don’t miss out on these as your blogging colleagues care about your success.
PS: Issaquah Undressed is nearing its 3rd complete year and do we dominate our local market online. You can too.
PSS: If you dropped out, perhaps its time to drop back in.

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04

An Era Of Easy Blogging

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You may have heard. When the going gets tough the tough gets going. You also may have heard that Seth Godin told real estate agents to get out or get very local.

This is about you and our network to help you get going, get hyper local, and participate in the best marketing tool available.

Visit our slide shows website and see the following and more:

An Era Of Easy Blogging

10 Reasons Real Estate Agents Should Blog In The Neighborhoods Undressed.com Network.

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20

Top Real Estate Blogs

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It is about writing great content and being part of a network and brand. The longer you write the more you knock out the competition. Our Issaquah Undressed.com blog and Issaquah Highlands Undressed.com are the Kings of our area in Google and Yahoo, probably MSN we don’t check on it. These are not only the top real estate blogs in the community, they are the top real estate sites, with the best local content – written with real estate accumen. With our support, training, and coaching, you can be dominant in your market too. They are the ultimate long term solution: local real estate blogs written by a local real estate agent.

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06

What Is A Blog Anyway? And Our Version?

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Photos are an important part of our blogs.

Probably most of you that drop in could answer this question. For you we add our twist. Kathleen started this article in response to a question by one of the owners of our real estate office.

What is a blog? A blog is a word derived from web log. It is like a website but the content is continuous and can be added upon easily and often, as often as the blog writer wishes. The most recent article (post) is at the top and each additional post pushes the other further down. All posts can be put into categories (which you can title). The categories can be clicked on to retrieve all posts written in the category.

A blog is very 2.0, meaning it isn’t just you writing to others but it allows others to make comments and you can even ask guest writers to post if you choose.

Links are a common component. You can link to whatever website you choose; schools, traffic cams, chamber of commerce, etc.

All articles you write are always there. The content of a blog can quickly become huge. There are many ways to send people into your blog, which is part of our training. Needless to say, the more often you write, the better.

Our blogs have a local focus. We host sites written by local agents that know their communities as well as real estate. We have a most effective way to show a community. It is a public service. Our agents provide an MLS search and access to mortgage lenders we have had experience with.

Blogs can have a very powerful search engine result. Search engines are notified when new content arrives, done right you will move to the front of the line in Google. That too is part of our strategy.

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30

Inman News Just Named The 25 Top Real Estate Bloggers of 2007

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And guess who was at the top of the list:: Our Coach Teresa Boardman WAY TO GO T
25 Most Influential Real Estate Bloggers: 2007
Inman News has compiled a list of the 25 Most Influential Real Estate Bloggers of 2007, reflecting bloggers who are well-known, well-read and have a knack for stirring up debate on important industry or local topics.There are hundreds of real estate-focused blogs online today, which made choosing only 25 bloggers difficult. The 2007 list includes bloggers who showed influence on issues, consistently attracted eyeballs, stimulated conversation and added a fun voice to gnarly real estate issues.
   
Broker and Agent Blogs
Teresa Boardman
Founder, St. Paul Real Estate Blog
Realtor, Keller Williams Integrity Realty Teresa Boardman is a Realtor and licensed broker with Keller Williams in St. Paul, Minn. She started The St. Paul Real Estate Blog as an experiment in 2005 and quickly gained national and local attention. Her blog focuses exclusively on the city of St. Paul, and contains hundreds of individual posts and more than a 1,000 photos of the city. She claims the majority of her real estate business comes from people who meet her on the blog. Constantly innovating, Boardman just launched a neighborhood wiki at stpaulneighborhoods.com.