Tribute to Blogging
I'm only allowing myself one post per blue moon these days to display the psychic and social benefits of blogging (because most bloggers already get it). I was inspired to read how tech blogger Jeremiah Owyang is starting a new job at Forrester Research doing what he likes to do - research tech and write about it
The ROI of Blogging? Intangible -
My future colleague, luminary Charlene Li, has already proven the value of ROI, but for me, it’s not needed, I could do an ROI report, convert to time spent, opportunities gained, and business won, but I think I’d be missing some of the point. Why? I already see an ROI in blogging, I don’t need to measure, it’s brought me so many friends, so many contacts, it would be silly to measure.Rembex Blog Fiesta! - Todd Carpenter's celebration of the real estate bloggers.
Before I started my blog, I was a competent mortgage professional, just like thousands of others. After, I’ve been interviewed for books, quoted in the media, and lobbied by PR groups who want to get their message out. If you are an RE professional who has yet to start a blog, this is the type of credibility you are missing out on. I made myself an expert on the mortgage industry, you can do the same for your market.Morgan Brown's Blown Mortgage has become the blog-du-jour covering the current mortgage and credit crises. He's also produced a series of podcasts of real estate bloggers and entrepreneurs that audio-parallels BlogFiesta's interviews. A snippet from his interview at BlogFiesta:
Finally, Todd supplies a very complete list of articles about blogging.Do you have any tips or advice for a fellow real estate professional that’s looking to get into blogging?
Most important thing - get to know other bloggers. I’ve achieved my biggest successes online by knowing other bloggers.
Here's a kid whose head is spinning abut blogging
http://www.theharperteam.com/blog/our-team/teen-real-estate-blogger-getting-national-attention/
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Within the last 4 hours my comments on another local non-RE blog have:
1) started an offline discussion of how to organize and generate business for an entire neglected region of Dayton OH and;
2) another blogger asked me to post photos and description of a listing that I'm holding open, on their non-RE blog.
3) The property I'm holding open neighbors one of these bloggers, so of course, we will be meeting.
No, I've never met either blogger in person. We know each other only through blogs, but mostly through our comments on other blogs. I have to wonder how long would it take for any of things to happen without blogging? It's remarkable.
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Anecdotal evidence of the power of blogging was huge at Inman Connect... it was as if the secret that agent bloggers kept from their local competitors all came out...
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