The marketing experts over at MarketingSherpa published a case study on how I use blogs to sell real estate. Blogs sell property quick, for top dollar! Especially when you have a Realtor who happens to be a blog guru. I closed over $2 million in sales last year simply from blogging, and I'm the only Realtor in Florida's Tampa Bay area who uses a blog to connect with you, my clients, buyers, sellers and interested readers. Here are some more links to the case study and here's a snippet from it:
RESULTS: Of the average 3,000 visitors who click to Mudd's blog each month, roughly 1% turn into qualified leads who contact him. The majority of these are baby boomers from Northern states.
"Virtually anything I write about, I get phone calls or emails from people interested in buying that kind of property. I posted something about a condo conversion just recently and got three phone calls from investors who want to do condo conversions."
He adds, "When I posted my exclusive about Trump Tower Tampa, my email box blew up with inquiries about it." One of those inquirers went through Mudd to plunk down a hefty deposit on a $1.2 million condo.
Mudd has also landed guest blogging gigs with three sites, including the respected realty publication Inman News. His more than 3,000 hotlinks from these have helped push his main home site higher in search engine rankings and resulted in roughly 12,000 visitors per month.
Stay tuned. I'm working with some investor-developers on condo conversions, and when it's time to market the condos you can be sure that a custom blog will be a part of the campaign to market them and the projects. Some agents create webpages for listings, but what they really need to do is create a custom blog for each one.
Oh, and by the way, I've launched two new links to my website. Here they are:
Article comments
1 - Dave Nalle
Ah, so you're the guy whose annoying real estate blogs clog up all the blog listing engines and make them basically useless. Gee, thanks.
Dave
2 - Temple Stark
Ok these posts are getting old. Your marketing ways seems to include posting as much as possible about your site on blogcritcs.org.
Congrats and all but back to regularly scheduled programmng please.
3 - Mr. Real Estate
I've been contributing to Blogcritics since 2002. This is part of the regular programming. If you don't like it, don't read it.
On a side note, I should remind you that even flaming, or negative commenting, increases my PageRank. Most of my pages have a PR of 5,6 and 7. Don't worry, you will never have to worry about your PR increasing due to my linking to you, as I don't typically link to flamers.
Thanks, guys! Keep those great flames coming! ;)
Oh, and one more thing - my marketing brings a lot more traffic to Blogcritics than the two of you combined, so you're very welcome, even though you're not saying thank you, because those readers I bring are more likely to read your blogs and your posts.
Cheers.
4 - Dave Nalle
Well, I give him points for arrogance, anyway, especially considering he only gets 3000 hits on his main site a month. My business blog logs just about 10 times that many unique hits and it's not even hooked into Blogcritics.
Dave
5 - Mr. Real Estate
Dave,
I got more than 35,000 hits on my main site (www.HomeInTampaBay.com) last month. Before that it averaged around 12,000. I attribte the increased hits to the Business Blogging Awards and al the publicity I got as a result.
My blog (http://insiderealestatejournal.blogspot.com) received less hits than yours, yet, I still have received more media attention for it and I closed more than $2 million in sales from my blog's leads, alone. I don't update much, and I spend $0 to publicize it, and I rarely trade links. Not bad.
You have a right to your opinion, and I have a right to not care what it is, so call me names, flame me, bash me, please. When you do, all it does is drive my PR up, which allows me to get more leads and close more sales.
I have brought traffic to Blogcritics via numerous media mentions and posts to other blogs, and even from posts here at Blogcritics. The people I bring read your posts, too, so why people criticize makes no sense, because they benefit from my being here.
Perhaps I should write editorial columns on my critics' blogs. People will read them, and from what I've seen my critics' blogs are rather dull.
I hear they have Jealous-Away ointment on sale now at Walgreens. Oh, and I hear they also have Envy-Off on sale, too. You guys may want to look into that. Maybe it'll help you eliminate the jealous itches you have that won't seem to go away.
Cheers.
6 - Steve S
Congrats to all who find success in blogs, but this comment section does kind of read like "My blog is bigger than your blog".
7 - Eric Olsen
it's all relative, isn't it?
8 - alienboy
MR Real Estate: have you considered that people might possibly be slightly irritated by the fact that your post, and your subsequent comments, do nothing more than provide you a platform for public boasting?
If you had actually written something interesting in the first place you wouldn't be having this stupid argument...
9 - Mr. Real Estate
If it wasn't interesting several newspapers and trade publications wouldn't have interviewed me about it, but they did, so your point is rather baseless, as are many of the criticisms to this post.
If you have followed my postings here on Blogcriticis for the past three years, you may have realized by now that I post for my audience, which you and all of the other flamers are oviously not a part of. That being said, what you think really doesn't matter to me. After all, I'm not writing for you, I'm riting for my audience, which you're not a part of, obviously. Sports fans don't read home design magazines expecting to read about sports, so why are you reading about me, expecting anything more than a post about my life, my trade and some tips on how you can succeed using many of the same methods I do?
This post is within the editorial guidelines given to me long, long ago.
If you do not like what I write, don't read it. If you're so self-righteous that you absolutely feel you must give me your two-cents worth of advice, e-mail me. Flaming doesn't prove your point, nor does it discourage me. In fact, since it drives my PageRank higher, you defeat your own purpose whenever you waste your time doing it, and you help me market myself without me even doing anything. I don't even have to post another post, your comments bring me new readers for months, and new potential customers. I have had people e-mail me after reading flamers' comments, similar to these, and tell me what dolts they thought the flamers were, then wished me continued success in my posts and in my business. I save the e-mails. Want me to post about them? i'd really be boasting then, wouldn't I, and that's what you want, isn't it?
Sometimes I post controvesial items on purpose, knowing that it will boost my PR. What makes you so sure this post wasn't one of those?
That one Paris Hilton post is working wonders for my PR, but this one certainly isn't bad with all the comments it's getting for people who obviously have nothing to do than flame me for a post I wrote for my audience.
These people probably hunt for people to flame and criticize because they have absolutely nothing better to do. Here's a hint on how to better-spend your time: Volunteer for a local charity. Many need your help right now.
Cheers.
10 - Mr. Real Estate
Oh, one more thing: you also boost MarketingSherpa's PR when you criticize this post, so thanks for saving all of us money on our SEO marketing costs.
I bet SEO folks really love you guys.
11 - Aaman
MrRealEstate, while you are well-within the norms for this group journal, and I've seen worse. Nut I would say these comments are on point, given that your post is about blogclicks volume and realestate blogs. I suggest a more measured tone to explicate your reader-base.
12 - Dave Nalle
>> hear they have Jealous-Away ointment on sale now at Walgreens. Oh, and I hear they also have Envy-Off on sale, too. You guys may want to look into that. Maybe it'll help you eliminate the jealous itches you have that won't seem to go away<<
I'm a bit mystified by this comment. What exactly am I supposed to be jealous of? And why is it such a vital concern to you taht people be jealous of you in the first place. I'm detecting a serious personality disorder here.
Dave
13 - Aaman
personality disorders and real estate dudes go together - look at the Trump
14 - Dave Nalle
What I find bizarre is that he thinks that we will be traumatized that our comments are bringing him more attention. He's one of these people who thinks that everyone succeeds only at the expense of others, and that if we aren't him then we surely want his business to fail, so ought to be tryng to ignore him so he'll vanish into obscurity. When the truth is that we just don't care.
Dave
15 - Mr. Real Estate
Now I have a personality disorder. Funny.
Believe me, I don't need to post here to bolster my business. If you're that offended by my posts, I'll post elsewhere.
Why are most commenters here so insecure about me posting what I post? You must be insecure about what I post, otherwise you would not attack me for posting what I post. I didn't think my success would be that intimidating to Blogcritics readers, but I guess some aren't able to handle it.
Oh no, I wrote about how I use blogs to market myself! OMG! The world's coming to an end! God save the blogosphere!
:::winks::: ;)
If you don't care so much, why do you continue to comment? Perhaps you'd really like to show us how much you really don't care and write a true-life novel about it. Then everyone would really know just how much you don't care. You could even call it I Don't Care About Mr. Real Estate's Posts. Dont write about the book here, though, because that would be marketing (not that all those Guy Kawasaki posts weren't or that most review posts are, but I digress), and marketing makes some bloggers very insecure.
Really, though, all of your blogs are better than mine. That being said, I just don't get the attempts to try and tear me down.
16 - Aaman
"I'm OK, You're Not OK" and "I'm Not OK, You're OK":)
17 - Mr. Real Estate
Whatever floats your boat.
18 - alienboy
the point is that the size of your statistic isn't important, it's what you do with it.
stop telling us how great you are and do something great...
19 - DrPat
this comment section does kind of read like "My blog is bigger than your blog".
the point is that the size of your statistic isn't important, it's what you do with it.
That's what I keep telling my spouse...
20 - Temple Stark
Post somewhere else. Obliged.