{"id":969,"date":"2008-02-12T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ubertor.com\/2008\/02\/12\/la-times-realtor-blogs-help-reel-in-clients-boost-sales\/"},"modified":"2008-02-12T10:00:31","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T18:00:31","slug":"la-times-realtor-blogs-help-reel-in-clients-boost-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/12\/la-times-realtor-blogs-help-reel-in-clients-boost-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Times: &#8220;Realtor blogs help reel in clients, boost sales&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The LA Times wrote an interesting article talking about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/classified\/realestate\/printedition\/la-re-blog10feb10,0,3630133.story?track=rss\">success that Realtor Bloggers are having<\/a> in this ever changing real estate market.  Take a moment to check out the article.<\/p>\n<p>Many agents think that locking down the MLS data, password protecting it and requiring visitors to login is a great way to gain leads.  I don&#8217;t agree. <\/p>\n<p>I agree with what Larry Cragun said in the above article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There is a new wave growing. Agents that blog. We believe you will eventually only use an agent that blogs. Why? Because . . . if they blog about a community they must know it. . . . You also learn more about them as they blog.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Agents will get leads by putting their thoughts and opinions out there on the internet.  If you write about the areas you work in, talk about the changes, your thoughts on the market, etc people will come to you for your opinion and in turn give you their contact information.  That is a LEAD!<\/p>\n<div data-counters='1' data-style='square' data-size='regular' data-url='https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/12\/la-times-realtor-blogs-help-reel-in-clients-boost-sales\/' data-title='LA Times: &#8220;Realtor blogs help reel in clients, boost sales&#8221;' 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\/2008\/02\/12\/la-times-realtor-blogs-help-reel-in-clients-boost-sales\/' data-title='LA Times: &#8220;Realtor blogs help reel in clients, boost sales&#8221;' 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>The LA Times wrote an interesting article talking about the success that Realtor Bloggers are having in this ever changing real estate market. Take a moment to check out the article. Many agents think that locking down the MLS data, password protecting it and requiring visitors to login is a great way to gain leads. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}