BloodhoundBlog’s Brian Brady hosts Phoenix-area webloggers forum
By: Greg Swann,
Phoenix Real Estate,
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RSS FeedPosted: Friday, January 5th, 2007, 3:55 pm MST
Category: Blogging, Marketing, Real Estate
About twenty Phoenix-area webloggers, many of them Active Rain participants, attended a real estate weblogging forum hosted today by BloodhoundBlog weblogger Brian Brady at the Phoenix Public Library in Downtown Phoenix.
Today’s event was a sort of get-acquainted meeting, with the attending bloggers introducing themselves and talking about their weblogging experiences and marketing goals. Brady anticipates coordinating events like this on a quarterly basis.
Cathleen Collins and I were there, along with Jay Thompson, The Phoenix Real Estate Guy and Jonathan Dalton. In a perfect expression of the weblogging ideal, Jonathan already has an excellent post up on the event.
One of the things I spoke about, and promised to elaborate on in a post, is the push toward local content, local interest, and, especially, local inbound links. I’ll write that up over the weekend.
Afterward, Brian, Cathleen and I spoke at length about Big Picture issues relating to real estate weblogging. One thought we had was to emulate the Bloginars held in Seattle and other cities by Dustin Luther and Russ Cofano of Rain City Guide. No promises — life is short — but a turnout of twenty people today was impressive — in a city that is home to thousands of Realtors…
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1- Thank you Cathleen and Greg for your participation.
2- I wish that Joseph Rago of the Wall Street Journal could have heard the articulate “fools” that gathered this morning.
3- What happened today? The world got even smaller as experienced real estate weblog authors and eager, aspiring authors gathered.
4- Aspiring real estate webloggers, take heed of the advice we heard today. Write, write, write, and just keep writing. You’ll find your voice and develop your identity before Spring Training starts.
I’ll post and link to Active Rain tomorrow after I’ve had time to reflect. It truly is morning in the online real estate weblog world.
I like the bloginar idea though I’m wondering how truly effective it may be. Accepting it could be a flaw in the teacher, my attempts to educate the folks in my office about blogging has been akin to teaching an 18-month-old to catch a baseball. Lots of blows to the forehead and little real progress.
> akin to teaching an 18-month-old to catch a baseball
Charge tuition. Heinlein said it takes an advanced mind to be able to accept valuable information for free.
JD, I’ve attempted to educate agents in my office about blogging. My words were met with the glazed look I thought only my teenagers had mastered.
It was nice to finally meet you and Cathleen in person Greg. As Cathleen commented to me, “I felt like I already knew you.”
Looking forward to your localish post.
[...] Last Friday, many Phoenix area real estate bloggers came together for a face-to-face meeting. I’m late to the posting party, as several attendees have already chronicled the meeting. I won’t review the details as these folks have already done it, better than I could. Special thanks to Brian “I’ll never buy donuts for Realtors” Brady for setting it all up. [...]
[...] Brian cites a post of mine from the first of this year, Think globally, blog locally: If you want local leads from your real estate weblog, pursue local interests. I wrote about this because I had mentioned it in the first-ever Phoenix-area weblogging salon that Brian had organized the day before. The ideas discussed in that post formed the skeleton for Real Estate Weblogging 101. [...]
[...] thereafter, I played my typical “bridge the Digital Divide” game and bought a bunch of REALTORs donuts. Again, I was the only mortgage guy in the room and I started getting used to that old game. [...]