{"id":1758,"date":"2007-08-08T14:40:32","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T21:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2007-08-08T14:40:32","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T21:40:32","slug":"real-estate-bloggers-why-are-you-blogging-what-currency-does-your-banker-accept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1758\/real-estate-bloggers-why-are-you-blogging-what-currency-does-your-banker-accept\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Estate Bloggers — Why Are You Blogging? What Currency Does Your Banker Accept?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since BloodhoundBlog isn’t about blogging for its owner’s business — the following doesn’t apply. In fact, Greg seems to abhor even the suggestion this blog might be construed as financially beneficial to him. He wants Bloodhound to be the best place to go when you want real estate information or expertise. His mission is to inform and educate — period. I’m sure there are other blogs who also exist only to distribute valuable information to their readers. This isn’t aimed at them either. <\/p>\n

\"11th<\/p>\n

Let’s begin with what everyone who knows me realizes pretty quickly — I’m not a tech guy, and surely not<\/strong> a blogging expert. However, after blogging for a year now, I’ve noticed a few things in the so called blogging world. Wanna be a blogging expert? Just call yourself one.<\/em> No kiddin’, that’s just about all you need to do. <\/p>\n

In my first few months these so-called experts would write blogging commandments as if they’d found them on the third tablet Moses lost on his way down the mountain. You would have thought the 11th commandment was for blogging experts only — hidden in a secret place known only to them. At first I took them seriously. My mistake. My audience started to ask me what was up. What was up? I was listening to the experts, that’s what.<\/p>\n

Kris Berg’s post on this subject<\/a> was spectacularly on point. She then followed it up with the perfect satirical application<\/a> of what she learned from the experts in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

\"small<\/p>\n

Since I’m not in the house side of the business my subjects are……..different. They’re like a full dinner. They involve, at least much of the time, some relatively complex principles and concepts. They can’t be half a small bowl of broth. Uh, usually it’s the principles adding up that make a concept. Duh<\/em>. Yet, I was constantly feeling like I was being criticized by the experts because my posts were too long. They said I needed to be short and snappy. As Kris quoted the experts: “Readers are scanners…….five paragraphs……max.”<\/p>\n

Here’s some exaggerated examples of what they wished I would adhere to. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since BloodhoundBlog isn’t about blogging for its owner’s business — the following doesn’t apply. In fact, Greg seems to abhor even the suggestion this blog might be construed as financially beneficial to him. He wants Bloodhound to be the best place to go when you want real estate information or expertise. 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