Blogoff Post #82: Weblog Review: The Phoenix Real Estate Guy . . .
By: Greg Swann,
Phoenix Real Estate,
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Category: Blogging, Marketing, Real Estate
Hey, wait. I’m the Phoenix real estate guy. Jay Thompson is an East Valley Realtor who publishes The Phoenix Real Estate Guy weblog. All gussied up in a brand new weblog template, this blog is fun reading. Well-researched, deeply-linked and yet still great fun to read.
Jay is the Arizona points leader at ActiveRain, but he manages to punch out a ton of content at both places.
What real estate school teaches you is how to pass the state licensing exam. They don’t teach you how to sell real estate, how to deal with clients, other agents, title companies, loan officers, inspectors, whiny kids, buyers, sellers, or brokers. Oh you may occasionally get a war story about real estate from the instructor-I learned more REAL real estate talking to my instructors during break that I did in the classroom. The schools churn out future professionals by the score every single day. And they do a damn fine job preparing you for the state exam. They do nothing to prepare you for selling real estate.Hopefully the new agent aligns himself with the kind of broker that will take them under their wing and truly help them. Sounds simple, but finding a broker that does that these days isn’t easy. Too many brokerages just bring in agents by the truckload. Some have HUNDREDS of agents working for them. It’s just a numbers game to them. The more agents they have, the more desk fees they collect. If they run a commission split office, they figure if they hire a few hundred agents then dumb luck means some of them will turn out to be successful. Those that quit (and 80% do in the first year) are simply replaced by new sheep.
Jay is running Wordpress — beautifully. The site just sings…
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[...] 2:54 p.m. - Greg #82 Greg reviewsThe Phoenix Real Estate Guy [...]
Yeah, Jay. He has fans in Michigan!
Aww shucks. I am deeply humbled by both Greg’s review and the comment from my fan in Michigan. (And I’m pretty sure it’s “fan” as in singular.)
Jay is also the first real estate broker to use the word “unzillowable” in a listing, which we will post about tomorrow.
He also did a wonderful tribute to Harry Ramos,a 9/11 victim.
http://www.buygilberthomes.com/128/
[...] I’ve always tried to link where possible. And a few have commented positively about some deeply linked posts here, for which I am grateful. But today, I found the Mother of Deeply Linked blog posts. Tino Buntic has a blog entry with 2,215 anchor text links in it. That’s Tino’s count, and I’ll take his word for it. [...]