My Seattle Blogs: How Generating Leads Is Like a Great Catch in Football

A Great Catch is Often the Result of a Bad Pass!

Even if you’re not a fan of Football, you should understand that most if not all the spectacular receptions throughout the history of the game of Football where the result of a poorly thrown pass.
For the more avid fans like myself, glued to Sportscenter watching the days highlights, the emphasis of these memorable moments are on the skill and ability of the receiver to take an under or over thrown pass and make the catch. What we don’t often see in these highlights are the dozens if not hundreds of times that same receiver has ran a route and not had the ball thrown to him at all.

REAL ESTATE LEADS AND LEAD GENERATION ARE EXACTLY LIKE THAT!

Football receivers run all those routes because if they don’t…they don’t get the ball thrown their way! And when they do get a pass sent in their direction…even if that ball is poorly thrown, they exert all their effort to take that pass…be it good or bad…and turn it into an opportunity to score!

Moral of the story: There are no bad leads, just bad attempts to get them!

My Seattle Blogs: Top 5 Ideas to Avoid Bloggers Block. [Repost]

You think…you write…you blog! Sometimes it ain’t that simple.

Even though we are sentient and often times filled to the brim with knowledge and ideas, posting an intelligible blog can be an undertaking.

Taking a birds-eye view of all this, you can begin to break down what your blog should and could look like and how you can garner a community of viewers with your information.

Let’s take a look at some ideas on avoiding bloggers block:

1. Be Clear On Your Brand-In the real estate profession, I’ve figured out there are really only 3 avenues here…Your brand is either your Name, Your Specific Location or Neighborhood you Work or Your Service Provided i.e., Short Sales, Foreclosure or Luxury Homes. Concentrate on focusing your blog on one of these 3 areas for best results. HINT: Don’t always blog about real estate specifically! Expand on ideas around your brand…i.e., Architecture, Specific neighborhood events or the History of a particular property.

2. Be Willing to Educate-It’s clear to me some of the more popular blogs and bloggers out there do little else but offer great information. Many of the post you see here are intended to teach and educate with the hopes you will take this and use it for your own success.

3. Talk WITH your community-Ask questions that spark a response! The whole idea here is engagement so make it a point to have a conversation.

4. Subscribe to other Blogs-Just like me, I’m certain many of the bloggers out there are very happy to share their information. Thusly, why not edify and recognize those who think and act the way you do and use that as content for your blog. I’m not advocating stealing…what I’m saying is “Blogging makes you smarter” by forcing you to know what you previously didn’t! Read others blogs and then offer what you learned to your community…AND ALWAYS LET THEM KNOW WHERE YOU LEARNED IT!

5. Share, Repost and Retweet-There are extreme cases where your Bloggers Block is so bad that you may not want to blog that day. In this instance, finding an article or two and simply recycling it may be your only option. I don’t think your community is going to jump ship if you don’t have something original every single day. Hell, there are millions of bloggers out there who have posted multiple articles that must be shared…so do it and give your brain a day off!