{"id":474,"date":"2006-09-26T18:19:34","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T01:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=474"},"modified":"2006-09-26T18:23:38","modified_gmt":"2006-09-27T01:23:38","slug":"blogoff-post-97-weblog-review-ardells-seattle-area-real-estate-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/474\/blogoff-post-97-weblog-review-ardells-seattle-area-real-estate-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogoff Post #97: Weblog Review: ARDELL’s Seattle Area Real Estate Blog . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

Although probably more people know her from Rain City Guide<\/a>, ARDELL’s Seattle Area Real Estate Blog<\/a> is the home weblog of my intrepid oppenent in the Sellsius° 101 Blogoff Challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The site runs on the Realtown blogging system, owned by InternetCrusade, which gamely manages to make Blogger.com look good. It’s a travesty that such a large-calibre weblogger is shooting with such a small-calibre weapon.<\/p>\n

But Ardell is so good that she couldn’t miss with a pea-shooter. She’s been one of my favorite writers in the real estate blogosphere since I knew there was<\/i> a real estate blogosphere.<\/p>\n

I entered this contest with a hard game plan. If you track my posts, you’ll see they run in regular cycles of five posts each, 20 laps of circuit-training.<\/p>\n

I think I’m ahead right now, but I want to cross the finish line with Ardell. To that end, I have two notions.<\/p>\n

One is that she do as Dustin suggests and pile up a few dozens one-liners<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And the other is that I will hold off on Blogoff Post #101 until nearly midnight.<\/p>\n

I want to finish this race — and I intend to be an Insufferable Bastard on my Victory Lap. But I know already that we’re both winners in this contest, so I have no need to beat anyone.<\/p>\n

Godspeed, Ardell. You’ve always been way ahead of me in every way that matters — and it’s all downhill from here…
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Technorati Tags: blogging<\/a>, sellsius 101<\/a>, real estate<\/a>, real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n

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Although probably more people know her from Rain City Guide, ARDELL’s Seattle Area Real Estate Blog is the home weblog of my intrepid oppenent in the Sellsius° 101 Blogoff Challenge. The site runs on the Realtown blogging system, owned by InternetCrusade, which gamely manages to make Blogger.com look good. 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