June 25, 2009
We’ve trained hundreds of real estate agents to make the blog an effective marketing tool. We run them through a dozen hours of personal training classes, aiming to keep them on track to success. The following represent the most common issues that we help them recognize in or to keep them focused. […]
June 11, 2009
We all know that Teresa Boardman posts to her real estate blog every day. But most aren’t so inspired, thus making the effort seem unrealistic. The base formula for blogging success is obvious: More relevant content = More of everything you expect (traffic, search engine exposure, subscribers, leads, reach). So, […]
June 5, 2009
Blogging is a big commitment. By starting a real estate blog you are embarking on what could be a never ending writing adventure. If you are going to go forward with it, shouldn’t you ask yourself “Why Do I Want To Blog?” Blogging is a strategy. Yet, in order for […]
June 3, 2009
For most, the most challenging element of blogging is clearly finding time and the act of pounding out an article. Even our clients, whom we train, and train and train some more on the best approaches to blogging find that keeping a consistent blogging pace is difficult to maintain. So […]
June 1, 2009
We recently had a Tomato Radio episode on the same subject, and this article is the collective opinion and insight from the contributors on our internal Matrix Blog. My question to our audience was What is the Impact of Video in your Real Estate Blogging? Below is my best effort […]
May 8, 2009
Success in Real Estate is largely due to who you know. The more Whos, the more opportunity you create for yourself. Creating a database of regular contacts has always been a sound strategy for real estate marketing. Mailing Lists Rolodex Walking Farm Past Clients Friends/Family Business Contacts Email Database Blog […]
March 31, 2009
Don’t Get Caught On Your Knees Sifting For Gold When You Could Be On Stage, Making A Lasting Impression. I am so proud of the real estate industry. You’ve come so far! In the latter half of the 90’s decade, as the Internet promised to be a modern gold rush, […]
March 19, 2009
This edition of the Tomato Collaborative Blog Article is an effort to tackle the topic of *gasp* Quitting Blogging. Do you foresee an end to your regular blogging? How does the story end? Blasphemous, right? I mean, are we not RE.net’s biggest proponent of, and cheerleader for maintaining a thriving […]
February 12, 2009
My pitch to the gang was, “Now that you have been blogging for a while, describe how your thinking/behavior has changed.” 9 Tomato Bloggers hashed out our topic on the Tomato Matrix, and the result of my patch-work follows: Changing One’s Lifestyle Daniel Bates points out: “Blogging isn’t a job or a […]