Blogging

Blogging has gotten away from me this week.  Life and real estate have gotten in the way.  In a span of 5 days, we’ve taken on 6 new listings, written a couple of offers and picked up a few new buyers.  We are excited by the activity. Today I am holding open our listing on [...]

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This week we started a new Blog Carnival over on our ActiveRain blog. Blog carnivals are contests where bloggers submit their favorite posts and the host choses one to feature. For those of you who have not heard of ActiveRain yet, it is a blogging site for real estate professionals and others from affiliated industries [...]

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Yesterday morning we put up a post about Jack White’s house. I almost just wrote Jack Black. I wonder if a lot other un-hip people confuse the two? Hanan Levin, from Grow-A-Brain, is like a rock star in the world of real estate blogging. Stop in on just about any real estate blogger’s blog roll [...]

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A few months ago we organized a tour of SKBK Sotheby’s Beverly Hills listings. It was a big success. One of the things that we did was map out all the listings for our web site and flyers. At the time, the maps were a bit of a pain to do well without buying mapping [...]

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Your blog gets 31 spam comments overnight. Yes, I know that is nothing compared to the BIG real estate bloggers, who probably get 31 spam comments in a minute, but, in a way, it makes me happy. I won’t be saying that a few months from now most likely. And the comments range from the [...]

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Go Tigers! No, I don’t usually follow sportst too closely, but the Tigers have created an infectiously exciting buzz in Detroit this season. It’s been fun (most of the time) to watch them. I’m headed out today to get my Magglio Ordonez wig! It’s the day after before (thanks Columbus Best Blog for the correction) [...]

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This is old news now, but this week’s Carnival of Real Estate was hosted by YoChicago. Last week all eyes in the real estate blogosphere were turned on Sellsius 101 Blog Post Challenge, which took home well deserved top honors in the carnival. Congratulations to Sellsius, Greg Swann and Ardell. We were fortunate enough to [...]

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Certainly others of you out there in the blogosphere will have the answers to my questions. Today I was googleing something, and I landed on Googlebase. It looks like ActiveRain has managed to send our ActiveRain blogs there. Thanks, Matt, Caleb and Ben! This certainly is another ActiveRain benefit. If you are a real estate [...]

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I wrote this a few weeks ago on my ActiveRain blog. I am reposting it here because it speaks to my hopes for this blog. As we continue our move over here from blogger.com, my hopes are high that I will create something here that doesn’t die on the vine. This morning I was musing [...]

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I know I am getting older. My eyes might be starting to go a bit. My mom started wearing reading glasses when she was my age, and I am sure it’s inevitable for me too. I just wanted to say how frustrated I get with those little scrambled authorization codes that I have to type [...]

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Well, it’s as bad as I had feared. After 3 years on blogger.com, we are making a big change and moving to our own web host. In the last week, I’ve been perplexed and overwhelmed trying to figure this out. We want a professional looking blog with more visibility. Things don’t quite look right here [...]

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