“I wonder who was your intended audience?”<\/p>\n
A question from my inbox, and one I hear occasionally. I’m always pulled up short by questions like this, or this<\/a>, because they tend to come unexpectedly and in this case, it greeted me first thing in the morning, and the writer, who shall remain nameless but\u00a0knows who he is (and is, I’m sure, laughing right now) was by his own admission, a bit grumpy when he asked this question. So Good Morning to you too!<\/p>\n Actually, this question, or variations of it, has been on my mind lately because I forgot this intended audience for awhile, and the post to which this writer was referring<\/a> was my way of going back to the beginning of my blogging days, when I was writing to the very same people to whom\u00a0I wrote this post- local bloggers.\u00a0How did I lose my way? Quite honestly, I think it was Twitter<\/a>, but that’s another story for another time. Let’s return to my blogging roots.<\/p>\n Possibly the first piece of advice Greg gave me when I started blogging on The Brick Ranch was to find other local blogs and connect with them. Notice he didn’t say other real estate blogs, but local blogs. A Google search, and Google alerts, turned up only a handful of blogs back then- March 2007. Seriously, I think there were about five non-political blogs, and most had only been at it for a few months, which is a cool thing as I’ll explain shortly.\u00a0At first I simply left comments on their blogs\u00a0without a return blog url, because I wanted to be there as a participant, not as a spamming Realtor- there is an implied accusation<\/a> when visiting local blogs, am I really there to sell them a house? Um, no. I’m really there because I like talking with people<\/a>, throwing ideas back and forth, and I know that most bloggers like comments, so leaving a thoughtful comment, using my name, not “TimbuktuHomesForYou” in that tiny little blogiverse where everything was shiny and new, was an easy way to say “Hello! Nice to meet you.” It was about Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “I wonder who was your intended audience?” A question from my inbox, and one I hear occasionally. I’m always pulled up short by questions like this, or this, because they tend to come unexpectedly and in this case, it greeted me first thing in the morning, and the writer, who shall remain nameless but\u00a0knows who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,175,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-project-blooodhound","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3308,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3308\/project-bloodhound-picture-this-a-big-wall-of-text\/","url_meta":{"origin":4202,"position":0},"title":"Project Bloodhound: Picture this: A big wall of text.","author":"Teri Lussier","date":"July 1, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes folks, it's the question that never goes away: Why don't you post more images? 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