The “Demystifying Real Estate Blogging” seminar held today at The University of Phoenix was a success. At least I think it was a success. Thanks to the 45 (give or take) that attended, and for your participation and the wonderful feedback you provided. Hopefully everyone walked away with a little more knowledge about the power of real estate blogging.
As promised, here is the presentation material. You can view the slides below, or download them to your own computer here. (PowerPoint Show – you do not need PowerPoint to view)
Here are the two videos from the presentation. Sorry we had to skip the one on RSS. It explains RSS readers well and is the only way I can keep up with reading 630 — now 631 — blogs. (Don’t try that at home.)
Blogs in Plain English
RSS in Plain English
A very special thanks go to First American Title for sponsoring this seminar!! Remember, Think First American!
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jamie Geiger 06.12.08 at 8:58 pm
Very nice presentation- I really like the part about meeting very nice fellow bloggers/realtors, since I have really started I have met some great people and like you said, very willing to share their knowledge- a great group of people
Justin McHood 06.12.08 at 10:47 pm
Nice work! Great presentation. The topic of conversation over dinner tonight at my house was how to knock you off of the #1 google ranking for “sexy phoenix realtor”. I wonder who is going to take that title away from you and at what point it will happen…
Jay - The Phoenix Real Estate Guy 06.12.08 at 11:04 pm
@Jamie - indeed, most bloggers are remarkably willing to share and help. It’s pretty cool.
@Justin - it was nice to meet you and Tammy today. As for taking that title, it’s just not gonna happen!
Ben Martin, Va Assn of REALTORS 06.13.08 at 5:47 am
Yes, the similarity is — like, Friday the 13th scary. And on the same day, even!
Dru Bloomfield 06.13.08 at 6:04 am
Jay, Thanks for sharing your PowerPoint presentation. Great content. Even though I wasn’t at your seminar, I was meeting with an agent, sharing Internet and blogging info, so it’s really timely to be able to refer him here for a really concise overview!
Sara Bonert 06.13.08 at 6:06 am
Did you think four years ago that you be teaching a class on blogging?
I bet it was a great class.
On your presentation, you display your traffic numbers. From Dec 07 to Jan 08 you show a significant growth in numbers. Is this just seasonal, or did you do something to cause this happen?
Dental Websites 06.13.08 at 8:44 am
Very nice presentation. Nice idea, well balanced and structured, will try to adapt some of your ideas for my future presentation. thanxx! will let you know about my presentation.
Candace Robinson 06.13.08 at 10:04 am
Jay - I see you found an avenue to get your Powerpoint presentation up online. Great job! Perhaps you can share it on the AZREBN and link back here if you like, is that the way that works best? Rookie Blogger here! I attended the class and it was F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C!! This is what I learned:
Francy does exist and she is not a virtual perosn, Jay gets doesn’t sleep well (gee go figure), Jay is the ’sexiest realtor in phoenix”, there is a great desire to learn about blogging, the rest is a secret, if you want to know you have to attend one of Jay’s classes! Oh– and Jay Thompson knows what he is talking about! Awesome class!
Jay - The Phoenix Real Estate Guy 06.13.08 at 12:29 pm
@Ben - yeah, kinda creepy
@Dru - share away! Glad you found it of some use.
@Sara - fabulous question! It’s not a seasonal thing. I can attribute some of the traffic increase in Dec 07 to a series of articles about a management shakeup at Point2 agent. Some, but nowhere near all of the increase in Jan 2008 was due to one post on Superbowl parties. For whatever reason it ranked very well for searches related to “what time does the Superbowl start?” traffic doubled for a few days around that. But of course no one looked at or cared about that post afterwards.
Since Day 1, the blog traffic has always seemed to grow steadily, and then just surge occasionally. The interesting thing is when it surges, it seems to sustain that level, then grow some, then surge again. I really don’t know exactly why….
@Dental - adapt at will. Good luck with it!
@Candace - you’re nuts. Thanks for the kind words! I’ll get something over on azrealestateblogs.com as soon as I can!
Juliet Taylor 06.13.08 at 5:01 pm
Thanks for teaching the class Jay! I really enjoyed it and we appreciate you taking time out of your very busy schedule. I can’t imagine all the posts that went un-responded-to during classtime!
Curtis Reddehase 06.14.08 at 2:45 pm
Wow great job, I guess I am not the first to say that. I do want to say thanks, I was trying to put together a presentation for my office. You just saved me a lot time and trouble. you can sure expect to be noted at our presentation. thanks again for doing doing such a good job, and then sharring it!
Jay - The Phoenix Real Estate Guy 06.15.08 at 12:31 am
Thank YOU Juliet, and thanks to First American for sponsoring. I love talking about blogging (can ya tell?) and would be glad to do it again. (Social Networking too)
Curtis - glad it helped. Especially if it helps out folks in my adopted home town of Austin! (I lived there for 20 years)
Breckenridge Real Estate Agent 06.16.08 at 3:27 pm
Thanks for posting the presentation- great information and well worth the watch! Even though I am not in the area I enjoy reading your posts. Keep up the great work.
tv bracket 06.17.08 at 8:19 am
Great post! I do computer work for a couple of realtors in a couple of different areas and this will help me do a better job for them.