Top Women Bloggers in Real Estate Speak Out!
omuoto @ 12:01 am  |
Last week Inman New released a list of the 25 Most Influential Real Estate Bloggers. Our good friends at Sellsius Real Estate, the thought leaders that they are, have put out an equally important list of top bloggers - 12 Top Women bloggers in Real Estate! (They did one in 2006 as well). |
I was very pleasantly surprised that I recognized at least half of the folks on the list as being as vFlyer “all star” users, including Missy Caulk, Ines Hegedus-Garcia, Kristal Kraft, Teresa Boardman, Laurie Manny and Maureen Francis. As I started speaking with some of them and listening to their great insight, I decided to turn my conversations into a podcast and to reach out to everyone on the list.
The result is 12 podcast interviews in which the 12 Top Women bloggers in Real Estate share their backgrounds, their intro to blogging, and their advice to fellow bloggers! All of these interviews were unrehearsed and most happened “on the spot”, some while busy agents where driving from a closing, or at a conference - so please excuse any inconsistency in sound quality and understand that some of the interviewees had time and other constraints working against them.
I will confess that I had a blast speaking with all of them and they all share great insight and advice in their interviews so I would strongly recommend listening to as many of them as possible!
Podcast Interviews:
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Diane Cohn (Chase International) Play: or  Diane has developed a great business slant on blogging after she discovered the lead generation potential of the Internet. Diane talks about valuable learning resources for bloggers, the need to develop focus, and other cornerstones of real estate blogging. Links: Blog | ActiveRain |
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Frances Flynn-Thorsen (RealTown/Realty World) Play: or I was impressed that Frances is currently involved with over four different blogs and is quite the blogoholic. Frances talks about the need to take a risk and really connect when having a conversation and worry less about SEO. Links: Blog | ActiveRain |
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Ines Hegedus-Garcia (Coldwell Banker) Play: or Ines got involved in blogging a little over a year ago after hearing about blogging from a professional photographer. She then joined ActiveRain before launching her own blog. Ines also recently did a great post on real estate blogging and stresses the importance of persistence and reading other people’s blogs. Links: Blog |  vFlyer Gallery | ActiveRain |
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Kris Berg (Prudential California Realty) Play: or Kris and her husband got involved in blogging after seeing the success of Rain City Guide, which according to Kris is the “gold standard” of real estate blogs! She was also determined not to be “left behind”. Kris shares a lot about the less tangible benefits of real estate blogging and the need to be “true to yourself”. She is also a contributor to the BlogHoundBlog. Links: Blog |
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Kristal Kraft (The Berkshire Group) Play: or I talked to Kristal as she drove around the city and she shared with me how she developed her blogging skills over the last 4 years. Kristal also makes a couple of great suggestions on being hyperlocal and keeping a journal of your blog ideas! Links: Blog | vFlyer Gallery | ActiveRain |
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Laurie Manny (Prudential California Realty) Play: or After playing a little phone tag, I was glad I got a hold of Laurie. Laurie has some great advice on getting started, the role social networks can play in blogging, the importance of SEO as well as the need to go local! Links: Blog | vFlyer Gallery | ActiveRain |
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Maureen Francis (SKB Sotheby’s International) Play: or Maureen has been blogging over two years and got first involved in blogging about 4 years ago when trying to create for her daughter’s baby book and got hooked! Maureen makes a great point about “finding your own voice” and using blogging as a social networking too. Maureen was one of our early users. Links: Blog | vFlyer Gallery | ActiveRain |
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Missy Caulk (RE/MAX Platinum) Play: or Missy shares her background and tells us now she got started in blogging. Like many others, Missy talks about the important role ActiveRain has playing in her blogging as well as her plans to add a local real estate blog to her list of blogs. Links: Blog | vFlyer Gallery |
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Rhonda Porter (Mortgage Master Service) Play: or Rhonda was almost “forced to blog” less than a year ago and suggests “not thinking about it” too much and being committed to the process. Links: Blog | ActiveRain |
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Roberta Murphy (Murphy Group) Play: or Roberta got into blogging on ActiveRain but soon with the help of Jim Cronin of Real Estate Tomato expanded into additional online properties and is now blogging on 3 platforms - wow! Roberta stresses the need for commitment and finding a honest voice - after all, blogging is about “having a conversation” with your audience. Links: Blog | ActiveRain |
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Sharon Simms (RE/MAX Metro) Play: or I spoke with Sharon late Friday (both of us where on our cellphones) about how she got started in blogging. Sharon learned about the success of blogging from one of the organizations she was involved in. Among other things, Sharon recommends getting involved in ActiveRain and Localism as part of the learning process. Links: Blog | ActiveRain |
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Teresa Boardman (Keller Williams Integrity Realty) Play: or Teresa has the additional distinction of being selected as one of Inman’s Top 25 Bloggers in Real Estate. Her blog is known for its tangible results and Teresa explains how she got involved in blogging as an experiment and gives some good advice to prospective bloggers. Links: Blog | vFlyer Gallery | ActiveRain |
Click here for page 2 of this post that contains a summary of some of the great insight these bloggers where able to share with me about real estate blogging.
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Nice job, Oliver! This post is a textbook lesson in how to present a podcast series! And I just LOVE your colors and design … will have to study this blog a bit … it offers some great fundamental “must have’s” for real estate bloggers. Thanks for the chat … and the post … have a glorious day in the Blogosphere!!!
Comment by Frances Flynn Thorsen — October 16, 2007 @ 6:55 am
These women are terrific examples of the ways a real estate blog can effectively meet the consumer requests for information.. Joe and Rudy make excellent choices..
Comment by Kaye Thomas — October 16, 2007 @ 10:49 am
Kaye, I have to agree, Joe and Rudy did a fantastic job - any kind of selection process is extremely hard!
Comment by omuoto — October 16, 2007 @ 10:58 am
I am impressed with the amount of work Oliver - this is great. And nice to put a voice to the faces. Everyone’s take on blogging is different and at the same time very similar. Thanks for putting this together.
Comment by Ines — October 16, 2007 @ 1:17 pm
…this is truly historic - and I am not kidding! Sellsius leads the way, and V FLyer takes it to the max. Why?
1.) Women are the majority of Realtors.
2.) Women make most of the decisions regarding household spending and, ultimately, where the family should live.
3.) Women are obviously running the world. The rest of us should listen very, very carefully.
Comment by Obeoman — October 16, 2007 @ 6:24 pm
Great interviews.
And Obeoman is a smart man
Comment by jf.sellsius — October 16, 2007 @ 6:55 pm
What a super effort. And all these women are so great to take the time to share their experiences on blogging. I think they all understand that the more you help others get where they are going, the more successful you will be in your endeavors. Sweet post! Thank you.
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