{"id":1583,"date":"2007-06-25T10:25:19","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T17:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2007-06-25T11:14:11","modified_gmt":"2007-06-25T18:14:11","slug":"blending-criticism-real-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1583\/blending-criticism-real-estate\/","title":{"rendered":"Blending Criticism & Real Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of great questions from Ronnie Coleman of Gulf Coast Real Estate Services, Inc has prompted my response, and may prompt yours also. Very cool ideas here…<\/p>\n

Allen,<\/p>\n

A partner and I are hopefully about to launch a real estate blog here in Destin, Florida in the Florida Panhandle. Our market is upscale with about 4 million visitors per year and lots of second and third homes on the coast. My vision and slight slant is to put in play my avocation which is restaurant reviews. I was the restaurant critic here for the newspaper, judged our local wine festivals and have written a small book about our Top 40 Neighborhood Restaurants.<\/p>\n

I have two questions — how do you feel about mixing opinioned restaurant reviews (with pictures) with a real estate blog and secondly (and maybe most importantly) should I buy an existing real estate blog template (I’m looking at something from RSS Pieces or should we start it from scratch by ourselves (we have some capability) or hire a local web\/blog design firm?<\/p>\n

And lastly I notice you have both a website and blog. Because I’m starting anew, I was thinking I would only go with a blog — do you think I need both?<\/p>\n

Kindest regards,<\/p>\n

Ronnie Coleman<\/p>\n

Broker\/Owner<\/p>\n

Gulf Coast Real Estate Services, Inc.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My Response:<\/p>\n

Hello Ronnie.<\/p>\n

Excellent to hear from you. I think that your idea of integrating a restaurant review is a fabulous idea from a couple of standpoints. First, if you just started blogging like crazy about restaurants, you’re pretty quickly going to get noticed. But maybe not for what you’d like: real estate.<\/p>\n

As I see it, there are a few ways around this. You could target the blog to out of towners who are looking for great places to dine. Featured prominently on the blog landing page would be large ads and hooks that draw people to look at your real estate web site. This has the benefit of adding dual credibility. One is linking to the other. Submit the blog to like minded sites in other cities and become part of a social network of food critics. Again, somewhat restricted real Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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