Real Estate Website
& Blogging Advice

The Real Juice

Real Estate Website & Blogging Advice

The Real Juice


The Real Estate Tomato Blog covers topics such as WordPress Real Estate Blogging, Blogging SEO Advice, Real Estate Website Design, Story Branding, Homepage Design, Content Marketing, Lead Generation, and Company Announcements. The best Realtor blogs are those that are publishing regulary.

March 8, 2007
Who Took The Fun Out Of Blogging?

Who Took The Fun Out Of Blogging?

Who Took The Fun Out Of Blogging? By Teresa Boardman In my last Tomato post, Jim counted my questions and there were 21 of them. He answered them in 9 words. “Find your focus, Write your articles, Go to bed” Not a bad answer but he left out an idea […]
March 5, 2007
7 Crucial Tips To Developing Real Estate Blog Copy That Gets Read

7 Crucial Tips To Developing Real Estate Blog Copy That Gets Read

The biggest challenge for a new blogger is readership, not visitorship.  Most who have the fervor to embrace the blog as a real estate marketing tool have no problem developing the content.  Dropping a post on ActiveRain or Digg will generate an instant audience.  It’s enticing that audience to actually read […]
March 2, 2007
Beam Me Up Jimmy – A Look At Tomorrow’s 1st Time Home Buyer

Beam Me Up Jimmy – A Look At Tomorrow’s 1st Time Home Buyer

Jason Benesch, our resident twenty-something, distracted by something he stumbled across online, looks to paint the picture for what Realtors’ future clients are bound to ‘look’ like. The message is clear, this maturing generation of First Time Home Buyer’s is not enticed by the “Old School.” Beam Me Up, Jimmy By […]
February 28, 2007
96% Of All Real Estate Blogs Will Fail

96% Of All Real Estate Blogs Will Fail

Photo by Muffet – Liz West. Recently Global Research Center published findings that 68% of real estate agents are going to be focusing on blogging as a marketing tool in 2007.  I find that number hard to believe. In essence that stat is claiming that there will be the emergence […]
February 22, 2007
Stop Acting Like Blogging Is Rocket Science

Stop Acting Like Blogging Is Rocket Science

(Bear with me.) The avant-garde trend of Blogging Evangelism in real estate blogs has ironically turned quite blase in their ubiquity.  What? Let me try that again. It seems that the giving of advice, and the posture of expert, has become so fashionable that its impact is lost.  What? Let […]
February 19, 2007
Local Blog Traffic, The Old Fashioned Way

Local Blog Traffic, The Old Fashioned Way

I didn’t coin it (Burke Smith did), but I love to use it: Technology won’t replace agents; agents with technology will replace agents. There’s a ton of talk about the next generation of Realtors and their unique approach to the business.  The most common theme is that their use of […]
February 14, 2007
Let’s Talk About Your Face

Let’s Talk About Your Face

These days introductions are hardly needed for Teresa Boardman here in the Real Estate Blogosphere.  She’s sassy, honest, insightful and clear.  We love her contribution, calling it as she sees it each week.  This week the real estate blogging goddess knows it’s not her face that has you recognizing her […]
February 13, 2007
You Need To Lose 25 Pounds, And Your Blog Is Dead

You Need To Lose 25 Pounds, And Your Blog Is Dead

The 6 Reasons You’ll Never Make It. The holidays passed months ago, and so did your New Year’s resolution.  It’s getting harder to lose the weight you used to need to throw around. How many of us know that we will lose this weight that we find no comfort in? […]
February 9, 2007
7 Myths About Real Estate Blogging

7 Myths About Real Estate Blogging

Given John’s general disposition, I expect this piece to generate some discussion, so don’t let me down. =) 7 Myths About Real Estate Blogging By John Lockwood I’ve been thinking of submitting an article to the Real Estate Tomato for some time. The Tomato is probably the only real estate blogging […]