{"id":345,"date":"2006-09-16T18:30:40","date_gmt":"2006-09-17T02:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ubertor.com\/?p=345"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:01:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T01:01:56","slug":"saturday-night-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/16\/saturday-night-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Swann over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/\">Blood Hound Realty<\/a> in <strong>Phoenix<\/strong> writes about his experiences blogging and if he thinks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/\">his blog<\/a> is a lead generator.  He also mentions that he and his son are working to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=340\">build content that will look like an Ubertor site<\/a>&#8220;.  His opinion of blogging sounds like it is what we preach in <a href=\"http:\/\/upcoming.org\/group\/502\/\">our training and coaching sessions<\/a>.  Blog, blog, blog, but write the blog for your readers and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\">search engines<\/a> will come.  It is ok to do a mild &#8220;touch up&#8221; for the search engines but it should be written for your readers.  I think the true importance of having a blog is to add a human side to your website.  Your average real estate site is pretty basic, listings, biography and contact information.  Having a blog allows you to personalize your website.  Have a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/\">Greg&#8217;s blog<\/a>&#8230; without knowing him or having ever met him you get a great idea of who he is, what he thinks and why he does what he does.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegocastles.com\/\">Kris and Steve Berg<\/a>, new clients of ours in <strong>San Diego<\/strong> have a great <a href=\"http:\/\/sandiegohomeblog.com\/2006\/09\/13\/meet-the-neighbors\/\">picture of a moving truck getting a little carried away<\/a>.   Imagine coming home to that.<\/p>\n<p>Stacy over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\">vOpenHouse.ca<\/a> mentions our training sessions in his blog as well as his experience when he attended one a few months back.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realcentralvarealestate.com\/\">Jim Duncan<\/a>, a client of ours and fellow blogger from <strong>Charlottesville<\/strong> talks about being &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.realcentralva.com\/2006\/09\/10\/on-call\/\">on call<\/a>&#8221; as a real estate agent.  I think all entrepreneurs are always &#8220;on call&#8221; as I know that myself and my business partner defiantly are.<\/p>\n<p>Interested in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ubertor.com\/?p=344\">mystery feature<\/a> that we have coming out next week?  Watch this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewhasman.com\/\">Vancouver Realtor<\/a>&#8216;s website next week.<\/p>\n<div data-counters='1' data-style='square' data-size='regular' data-url='https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/16\/saturday-night-links\/' data-title='Saturday Night Links' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_3'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div><div data-position='' data-url='https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/16\/saturday-night-links\/' data-title='Saturday Night Links' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_7'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Swann over at Blood Hound Realty in Phoenix writes about his experiences blogging and if he thinks his blog is a lead generator. He also mentions that he and his son are working to &#8220;build content that will look like an Ubertor site&#8220;. 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