I’m now in my 13th year of selling real estate, and my 3rd year of writing on this blog. Truthfully, the blog has really only been a viable educational and marketing tool for the past 12 months, increasingly so over the past 6 months, and it’s been at an even higher level since the November site redesign. Traffic on my site is pretty solid, and I’m seeing the numbers increase on a month over month basis. In the past 3 months, I’ve had about 10,000 page views of the blog alone. High traffic days have registered as many as 280 page views, and unique user numbers are increasing as well. Some of my anti-spam measures are working, so a very small percentage of my daily views are of the robot variety. Unlike some “competing” blogs, my traffic is consumer dominated, and the traffic numbers are not peer driven. If you read this blog regularly, I sincerely appreciate that, and hope that you’ll send this site along to any friends or family that may also be interested in the Lake Geneva market. In addition to the blog writing, I’m really working on broadening my horizons with the goal of my exposure benefiting my sellers and leading me to find more buyers. I really would like to be a little more opinionated, and comment a little more on specific properties that I feel are wildly overpriced, and some that are raging values, but alas, my free speech is limited by my career choice.
I’ve been asked to write for Realty Times, a real estate website at the forefront of the industry. My first post appeared this week, and I’ll be running every couple weeks from here on out. Oddly enough, I’m writing now for a website based in Australia, a company who was looking for a real estate writer based in the US. I’ve been quoted on Inman recently, and look forward to contributing some content to their site as well. Most recently, I’m contributing to the Luxury Property Blog, a site featuring high end real estate from around the globe. I’m hoping to be able to use that format to not only espouse my opinions and theories on the real estate business, but to be able to market my upper bracket listings globally. I have a serious problem with the way the real estate business is run, and point to the NAR and the WRA as the primary reasons for some of the major snafu’s in the industry. I don’t quite want to Erin Brockovich it all, because I thoroughly enjoy selling real estate. We’ll see where it all takes me. In the mean time, I needed to clear up a little misconception that you may have after reading all of the outlets that I’m writing for- this doesn’t take me that long. I don’t spend my days writing. I spend my days trying to help consumers buy and sell real estate, and write to fill in the gaps as well as provide an outlet for my thoughts and ideas that pertain to the real estate business. Oh, and I write about cheese and trout too. I understand some Realtors might have to rack their brains to turn out some buy-anywhere-buy-now drivel, but if you’ve ever spoken to me on the telephone, you know that of my many shortfalls, one is not being short for words. I type at around 100 words per minute, so this fluffy filler post really only took me about 5 minutes to write. My sophomore year high school typing teacher would be proud. Thanks for reading.