Comments on: Blogging’s expectations (it’s local) http://www.realcentralva.com/2006/10/15/bloggings-expectations/ Tracking Charlottesville's Real Estate Market since 2005 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Real Central VA - Tracking the Charlottesville and Central VA real estate market and more » Poll results http://www.realcentralva.com/2006/10/15/bloggings-expectations/#comment-1603 Real Central VA - Tracking the Charlottesville and Central VA real estate market and more » Poll results Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:42:16 +0000 http://www.realcentralva.com/2006/10/15/bloggings-expectations/#comment-1603 [...] Why blog? Blogging’s expectations (it’s local) [...] [...] Why blog? Blogging’s expectations (it’s local) [...]

]]> By: Real Estate (Blogging) Is Local at livium-the blog http://www.realcentralva.com/2006/10/15/bloggings-expectations/#comment-1209 Real Estate (Blogging) Is Local at livium-the blog Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:38:14 +0000 http://www.realcentralva.com/2006/10/15/bloggings-expectations/#comment-1209 [...] Jim Duncan thinks so. [...] [...] Jim Duncan thinks so. [...]

]]> By: Jim Duncan http://www.realcentralva.com/2006/10/15/bloggings-expectations/#comment-1204 Jim Duncan Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:56:59 +0000 http://www.realcentralva.com/2006/10/15/bloggings-expectations/#comment-1204 I find national trends fascinating as well; the discussions that are and can be had at a national level with national bloggers are where I learn much of what I apply to my daily business. Local news and trends, and the analysis of those national trends that impact local ones (how's that for a convoluted sentence structure) are where I believe most real estate consumers' eyeballs and attention spans are. I find national trends fascinating as well; the discussions that are and can be had at a national level with national bloggers are where I learn much of what I apply to my daily business.

Local news and trends, and the analysis of those national trends that impact local ones (how’s that for a convoluted sentence structure) are where I believe most real estate consumers’ eyeballs and attention spans are.

]]> By: Maureen Francis http://www.realcentralva.com/2006/10/15/bloggings-expectations/#comment-1202 Maureen Francis Tue, 17 Oct 2006 02:58:21 +0000 http://www.realcentralva.com/2006/10/15/bloggings-expectations/#comment-1202 Having started my local real estate blog about a year and a half ago, I think I know why local is not so popular and "big trends" are, well, trendy. We have the big issues in common with our fellow real estate bloggers. When I started my local blog, I had no idea if anyone was actually reading it, other than my mom. She wasn't even reading it. It wasn't really that bad. I recently gussied up an old piece after I took the blog off of blogger and it got some recognition in the Carnival of Real Estate. I knew when I wrote it it was pretty good, but I never managed to find the audience on blogspot. ActiveRain helped me to find more like minded bloggers, and that helped me to revitalize that withering blog and move it onto its own domain. The kind support of other RE bloggers who frequently stop in to visit keeps me feeling like at least a few humans read my work while it sits out its time in the google sandbox. I don't think that trend is uncommon with Realtors who blog to a local market. I know of less than a half dozen real estate related bloggers in metro Detroit. I'll continue to blog. I like the challenge. But I have to say that the national chatter on the themes we all can discuss are the ones that fascinate me the most. Having started my local real estate blog about a year and a half ago, I think I know why local is not so popular and “big trends” are, well, trendy. We have the big issues in common with our fellow real estate bloggers.

When I started my local blog, I had no idea if anyone was actually reading it, other than my mom. She wasn’t even reading it. It wasn’t really that bad. I recently gussied up an old piece after I took the blog off of blogger and it got some recognition in the Carnival of Real Estate. I knew when I wrote it it was pretty good, but I never managed to find the audience on blogspot.

ActiveRain helped me to find more like minded bloggers, and that helped me to revitalize that withering blog and move it onto its own domain. The kind support of other RE bloggers who frequently stop in to visit keeps me feeling like at least a few humans read my work while it sits out its time in the google sandbox.

I don’t think that trend is uncommon with Realtors who blog to a local market. I know of less than a half dozen real estate related bloggers in metro Detroit.

I’ll continue to blog. I like the challenge. But I have to say that the national chatter on the themes we all can discuss are the ones that fascinate me the most.

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