The AgentMapIt Blog

You’ve probably heard that you should consider starting a blog. The purpose of a blog is to create interesting content to build a following of regular readers.

Real Estate Agents can use a blog to create an identity, reinforce their expertise and stay in touch with clients and prospects.

But the truth is, most blogs do not work. No matter how good the content is, if it isn’t promoted properly it is basically a waste of time and energy.

This report offers tips on how to come up with interesting things to write about. But much more importantly it provides a common sense way to get targeted traffic to your blog.

Without traffic a blog is pointless. This report describes how to create a blog that your most important people will read.

AgentMapIt members can download Blogs That Work from the members area.

Non-members can sign up for the report here.

Green Tips for Homeowners is another service available only to AgentMapIt members. Green Tips is a series of short articles about “hot” green topics that agents can use for publishing in newsletters, blogs and other promotional materials.

Subscribers to Green Tips will immediately receive 5 original articles at absolutely no cost. New articles in this series are sent to subscribers every month.

Future monthly installments will also be sent to you free of charge as long as you remain a member of AgentMapIt.

The package also includes suggestions on using these articles in email promotions, reprinting them in your own blog, or incorporating them into our own special Blog and Email program.

Members can get these articles right now by logging into the Members Area.

Non-members can subscribe to Green Tips for Homeowners. This subscription includes a free (Silver) Agentmapit membership.

Every agent knows how important it is to keep in touch with their clients, contacts and prospects – their “list” – on a regular basis.

Blog and Mail Contact Marketing is the perfect way to keep in touch with your list.

This system takes the old “newsletter” idea to the next level.

Instead of a printed newsletter, Blog and Mail uses a BLOG as the place where you communicate information about your real estate service.

Instead of expensive printing and postal mailing, Blog and Mail uses Email to reach your list.

The Benefits of Blog and Mail Contact Marketing?

1. Gives you a very inexpensive way to contact your list on a regular basis (monthly is recommended).
2. Lets you build your profile gradually and consistently.
3. Gives you a vehicle for special promotions or offers.
4. Develops and expands your internet presence to build more traffic.

What do I have to do to make it work?

Once you sign up we go to work creating your blog and putting your email system into place.

The most difficult thing you will have to do is pull your list together so it can be entered into the email system. If it already exists in another program it can probably be exported from your system to ours. If not, we can provide an entry system that makes it easy to enter your contacts one by one or from one file. We give you complete instructions on how to do it.

Once your initial list is compiled we will provide a simple system for new subscribers to sign up and uninterested ones to un-subscribe.

Get more information about Blog and Mail.

The other day I was listening to a radio phone in show about landscaping and gardening. Many callers wanted to know how to deal with dandelions, weeds and grubs in their lawns now that many municipalities in our region have banned chemical pesticides and herbicides.

The guru suggested turning the grass under, raking out the weeds, and planting clover instead of grass. The advantages of clover, he said, are that it smothers out the weeds, takes much less water to grow, doesn’t have to be cut more than two or three times in a season. And on top of that, white grubs don’t like it.

Now that’s a “green” solution if I’ve ever heard one.

A few days ago I was sent a link to an article about tankless water heaters. If you’ve ever listened to the hype surrounding these things you know a lot is made of the energy lost while the hot water sits in the tank between uses.

But this article referred to a number of studies that show these tankless units require more maintenance, and cause delays in the actual delivery of hot water to your tap. Also, if you have a second story bathroom or live in a cold climate you will probably spend more on wasted water than you save on energy. That is because the water in the pipes cools down much more than in a conventional system and you have to run that cold water out of the pipes before you have warm water again.

This kind of “green” information is everywhere out there, and people are hungry to hear it. So why not make a point of focusing on green advice for homeowners? It is perfect content if you send a regular newsletter to your clients or publish a blog.

Interesting tidbits of helpful “green” advice are easy to find, and will be welcomed by your readers.