In the last few weeks I’ve been the punching bag more than once on this site. I’ve had my ethics questioned, had my words twisted around and then been called out on other websites. All by people that get to hide behind the anonymous veil of the Internet. I’m thinking to myself that I didn’t sign up for this. But I did and in retrospect, even the negative, is probably doing good. It has clearly weeded out some people that will not seek my services and I am sure I will be happier because of it. I am one Realtor out of 1.3M so painting me as the industry is what it is. I have never been so righteous as to say my opinion is right and I have modified my opinion when it has been constructively shown that I’m wrong.
Anybody that tells you that there isn’t a marketing component to a Realtor’s real estate blog is full of it. Of course there is and to say there wasn’t would be a lie and to believe otherwise would be (this space left blank to those that might be offended). If I was an auto mechanic, I wouldn’t host this blog. That being said marketing is not the sole point of this blog. I don’t advertize my listings here, I have a website for that but I have added some links and tools here to direct you there if that is what you are looking for.
The other component is education; mine and yours. Whether it is last week’s biodiesel post where Ralph enlightened us on B20 as heating fuel or me writing what we have learned through a transaction we all end up better. Our personal experience is what allows me to write this. If it wasn’t you might as well subscribe to a real estate news feed. (more…)
