How do you decide what to write in a blog?
Recently, Residential Mortgage of SC brought to South Carolina a speaker to address Social Networking for the AgentOwned Realty sales associates and staff. The speaker was none other than the one and only Rebecca Levinson. She was fantastic. She has many of our agents excited about getting into the Social Networking World.
http://activerain.com/rebeccalev
Rebecca gave us a great idea --- take a note pad around with you and when you think of an idea, just jot it down. I have some of my best ideas while in the shower and driving alone.
Today, I was coming up short, so decided to write on how to decide what to write in a blog.
As Rebecca taught us, you need to involve yourself in your blogs --- don't write as a 3rd person. Make the blogs personal.
Also, you need to be careful what you put in a blog or put on line as a status update ---- you must remember that the world reads these things.
I learned this lessaon the hard way. We recently hired at AgentOwned Realty a Broker-in-charge who had been a broker-in-charge with a competitor in the marketplace. We were so excited that I put on Facebook that he would be our new Broker-in-charge at a particular AgentOwned office. Problem was that his license had not officially been transferred. Needless to say, someone saw this on Facebook and forwarded it to the President of his former company and within hours of my posting, he was called on the carpet. Now, to be fair, his former company already knew that he was leaving --- they just didnt know where he was going until my Facebook announcement. As it turned out, no harm done, but it made me realize that you must be very careful what we post for the world.
So, how do you decide what to write in a blog? Whatever is on your mind.
Momma Liz
Liz Loadholt
Recently, Residential Mortgage of SC brought to South Carolina a speaker to address Social Networking for the AgentOwned Realty sales associates and staff. The speaker was none other than the one and only Rebecca Levinson. She was fantastic. She has many of our agents excited about getting into the Social Networking World.
http://activerain.com/rebeccalevRebecca gave us a great idea --- take a note pad around with you and when you think of an idea, just jot it down. I have some of my best ideas while in the shower and driving alone.
Today, I was coming up short, so decided to write on how to decide what to write in a blog.
As Rebecca taught us, you need to involve yourself in your blogs --- don't write as a 3rd person. Make the blogs personal.
Also, you need to be careful what you put in a blog or put on line as a status update ---- you must remember that the world reads these things.
I learned this lessaon the hard way. We recently hired at AgentOwned Realty a Broker-in-charge who had been a broker-in-charge with a competitor in the marketplace. We were so excited that I put on Facebook that he would be our new Broker-in-charge at a particular AgentOwned office. Problem was that his license had not officially been transferred. Needless to say, someone saw this on Facebook and forwarded it to the President of his former company and within hours of my posting, he was called on the carpet. Now, to be fair, his former company already knew that he was leaving --- they just didnt know where he was going until my Facebook announcement. As it turned out, no harm done, but it made me realize that you must be very careful what we post for the world.
So, how do you decide what to write in a blog? Whatever is on your mind.
Momma Liz
Liz Loadholt
Liz~
It always comes back to this; "Think twice, type once"
Here, we can almost always delete a comment, a post ... but sometimes it's too late to turn back time. I've decided to blog about new listings in hopes of getting my owners the maximum exposure.
I do enjoy reading varied blogs about everything EXCEPT listings!
Fun stuff, experiences, observations, trials and tribulations.
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good advice!
Very good information on the expert!
You arn't kidding, I do google alerts..and my comments are coming up now in them, so you have to be careful of what you even comment. :)
Liz, my old company got bought by a local Goliath, and I wrote a highly irreverent blog post about the man after they made the official announcement - and I knew that I had to get out of Dodge fast! It was hilarious when he actually read my post a couple of months later. By that time I was gone, and I didn't say anything libelous. But yeah. You gotta watch it!
This is great stuff, Liz-
I do carry a note pad with me...lately I'll wake up in the middle of the night (usually around 4:30am) to jot something down.
Great! Now I'm up....thinking and can't fall back to sleep. So, I get up and brew a cup of tea. (*too early for the coffee pot). If I DON'T get on the computer, I can fall back to sleep without waking the house up. If, I just can't help myself, I'll get onto my laptop for JUST ONE MINUTE to see if I have anything earth shattering to look at.....SURE...one minute turns into several hours if I'm NOT careful.
Liz,
It has been so exciting to see Agent Owned Realty engage in social media and blogging. Your organization is embracing the conversation and I have no doubt will see additional success as a result of your efforts.
One thing for sure, I cannot believe I am still sitting at my computer trying to gain AR points. I am up to my fanny in alligators and out there looking for crocodiles.