"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness."Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities Blogging is a tool, and like any tool, sometimes it's right for the job, and sometimes it's not. It's a blogger's choice of when to use a post vs. a
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08/02/2022
I've noticed a trend lately in email and text solicitations to me.Before, there would typically be a one and done approach.Solicit me to be #1 on Google, or promise me a bazillion new listings or buyers, or offers for guest posting on some great website (that is totally unrelated to real estate).
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07/26/2022
This evening on Facebook I saw a builder's ad for a local condo community. It's one of my favorite places to do business, it's practically in our own backyard, and offers single family homes, condos and patio homes.Now a couple of lessons to be learned from this ad.If you're going to advertise o
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07/19/2022
You want to find some information so you head to the Internet.How often do you ever go to Page 2 or 3 of the results?Ever?So why would our blog audience be much different when they want information about homes for sale? The diagram above illustrates a bell curve. If a given population has a norm
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07/12/2022
Max power!!! Go!!!Until we can't go any more?? Our personal battery completely drained? I had a recent conversation with a builder rep as she finished her final days prior to retirement. She was my go-to rep for one of the biggest local builders and I knew she'd take great care of my clients and
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07/05/2022
I'm a professional juggler.No balls, bowling pins or chainsaws or any other flaming objects up in the air with me, but I'm juggling just the same.What I'm juggling is determining highest and best use of my time throughout the day and week.I wear a variety of hats. Husband. Engineer. Real estat
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06/28/2022
This morning I was working on an Ask An Ambassador post. I was 400 words in but it just didn't feel right. Factually accurate, yes. Valid opinions.But it just seemed a bit off. Something about tone wasn't quite what I wanted to I clicked Save to draft and closed the post. Maybe I'll come back
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06/21/2022
Blogging offers many different options to achieve success. What works for me may not work for you and vice versa since we all bring different skill sets to the table.I'm analytical by nature (what else would you expect for an engineer/real estate agent?). I'm also an introvert. Give me any per
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06/14/2022
I've been "cyberstalking" our future home area for some time, learning a bit about how things work on the mountain and local information (where to get farm-grown meat, best places for pizza, and that it might be worthwhile to keep a chainsaw in your trunk for downed trees on the only road that le
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06/07/2022
Our flower gardens have needed some attention for a long time.I knew what to do, but getting to the implementation phase was the challenge. A long weekend was the answer to finding the time to get a lot of the work done (or at least started!).One of the great things about the ActiveRain communit
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05/31/2022
