Real Estate Information Archive

Ideas for Blog Posts

You are the expert in your neighborhood. Share this with your community. Let them know what is going on around them. If you live a particular area with a great school system, share that information. If one side of town has pitfalls or upsides, you can comment on that too. Make it personal, as if you are talking to friend, you can give advice, voice your opinion, or ask a question.

Blog topics can be whatever you choose, but here are some ideas.

Local Development Projects

City/Local government Planning Projects

Funds/Programs for first time home buyers in your community

Legislation that effects the community

Understanding Property Taxed and Terminology in (your state)

Favorite Weekend Jaunts

1031 Exchange - Save Tax Dollars

Realty Blogging, written by online marketing leaders Richard Nacht and Paul Chaney, is now the best-selling weblogs book on Amazon.com.

“Nacht and Chaney are the first ones to specifically address the huge potential blogging holds for real estate professionals. The authors go beyond the hype and explain in detail the tangible benefits of real-estate industry blogging when used as a strategic marketing medium,” said John E. Featherstone, Publisher of Real Estate Magazine.

Realty Blogging shows Realtors how to utilize blogs as a direct-communication marketing tool giving the reader the know-how to capture the interest and business of local homeowners, buyers and sellers.

Nacht and Chaney have leveraged their extensive blogging, real estate and online marketing experience to help Realtors:

-Develop an effective Internet Marketing Strategy
-Generate leads consistently at almost no cost
-Establish long-term relationships with your customers
-Create content that attracts major search engines
-Create buzz about his/her Blog in local media

Charlee,

Things are going well.  I started August 1^st and I have 65 people receiving my email from the pay per click program.  I am primarily a lender but and looking to do some real estate deals.  I had my first showing yesterday and most likely will do the loan as well.  It will net me about $12k.  I love the site and service.

 Thanks,

Darren Wassell

This is a wonderful article with Star Power, Star, Sam Miller. With a small team of 6, in a  town of approximately 50,000 people, Sam's team closes hundreds of transactions per year by implementing technology in his business. As Sam says, " It's cheaper to invest in technology and systems than people. Technology requires less overhead, it's less expensive, it doesn't take time off, and it takes up less space."  Click here to read about his strategy for success.

3/24/2006...Lets start from the beginning, I have been active in real estate since 1996. I have had three other websites before I started with Real Pro Systems. Each website I have paid for they all told me I should get leads if I stay in there long enough and direct traffic towards my sites which I was doing through newspaper ads, google adds, links, flyers, voice mail messages and still not receiving what I call enough leads to pay for the advertising. Then I heard about Real Pro Systems while attending a GRI course. Of course I called Real Pro Systems to hear there story.

This is my testimonial for activating a website thru Real Pro Systems. I activated my new website thru Real Pro Systems with skepticism 11/07/2005. I listened to Garland Haas teleconferences and even listened to one that was live. Garland says with the automatic drip mail Real Pro system has that from your leads you should start seeing activity in 4 to 6 months. I said yeh have I heard this before, but he is another agent so I really listened.

From day one I started with ProLeads advertising at $250/month. I have tried the google ads myself with lots of clicks and no customers. You have the choice to do your own pro-clicks or have pro-clicks with Real Pro Systems do it for you. Since in the past I was not getting the leads I decided to let ProLeads do my set up and advertise for me within my $250 range. I started getting emails leads immediately. Almost all the leads you receive will be from buyers looking to buy. I treat all my leads as if they were already clients. In other words when they sign up for Automatic email search, I try to make sure they will receive automatic emails within there search criteria even if I have to do a second automatic search for building lots only. Most of your emails will come with first names only with their criteria and a email address. All of a sudden with the drip mail system and you sending automatic emails you are in front of that person probably twice a week. Some of the customers write back to the automatically generated emails and eventually get real comfortable with you and what you are doing for them and all of a sudden they start giving you their last names phone #'s ect.

Anyway it is now 3/24/2006, I have closed 4 transactions, I have 2 pending and numerous leads that are coming my way in the next few months. I increased my ProLeads to $350 and I can't tell you how happy I am.

Monday Morning Coffee  is  great way to keep your contacts looking forward to hearing from you. Each Monday you can send your database a brief summary of what is happening in your local market. Real Pro Systems will update your website so your readers will be able to enjoy the current week's inspirational message.

This is an example to what you market summary might say:

It was another gorgeous Summer weekend here in the Eugene and Springfield area! The good news is that there are many more to come. There has not been much change with residential Real Estate. Home sales continue to be sluggish. The number of home buyers seems to be considerably less than at this same time a year ago. The good news is that mortgage rates have stopped their upward trend and should stabilize. The conditions for home buyers continues to be excellent with a very good inventory of homes to choose from and softer pricing.

And here is your Monday Morning Coffee

The term "Blog" comes from the combination of two words, “web” and “log” Simply stated, it is a is a type of website where entries are made just like a personal journal or diary. The “log” is displayed in a reverse chronological order.  blogs are all over the World Wide Web these days and cover a myriad of topics that range from personal hobbies to political ideas. Not only is the information displayed in text, but it is possible to add graphical images as well as links to other blogs or pages on other websites.

When arriving in New York, where else do I land but at Yankee Stadium the home of the "king of swat." The Mariners were winning 4-2, but the Yankees tied it up in the bottom of the 9th. With thunder and lightening all around, we could not endure waiting out the 102 degree tropical down pour. However, I did hear that the Yankee's won on the morning news.

When arriving in New York, where else do I land but at Yankee Stadium the home of the "king of swat." The Mariners were winning 4-2, but the Yankees tied it up in the bottom of the 9th. With thunder and lightening all around, we could not endure waiting out the 102 degree tropical down pour. However, I did hear that the Yankee's won on the morning news.