Do you need a blog for real estate?

The simple answer is: Yes!

It’s not often that an answer in real estate is a definitive YES! But in this case… it’s cut and dry… it’s simple.

When I got started marketing properties online, there was no such “tool”. It was cumbersome, time consuming and mildly effective at best. But, with blogs, it’s become so simple to get up and running FAST.

Here are a few pointers to get you going with your own RE blog fast:

• Buy a domain name (www.YourDomainName.com)
  You can do this at GoDaddy.com and or 1and1.com.
• Set up a hosting account that has “cpanel with fantastico”
  Any hosting company should know what you’re talking about if they have it. The companies we recommend are either Hostgator.com and LiquidWeb.com (We personally use LiquidWeb.com and you can get a shared hosting package for around $24.95 per month.
• Install WordPress on your website
  This shouldn’t take you more than 5 clicks and less than 2 minutes from start to finish. You will not have to spend hundreds – even thousands – to get your website up and running (We cover this in our Internet Marketing for Real Estate Training)
• Go through a WordPress Tutorial
  Check out Instant WordPress Traffic for the definitive guide to installing and setting up WordPress AND using it to get LOADS of free traffic to your website – INSTANTLY!
• Post to your blog 3X per week
  You can write articles yourself, hire them out to a freelancer, buy private label content (and tweak) or bring on guest authors and writers to contribute content to your blog.

In a future post, I will discuss the strategy on how to write the content to optimize for search engines and some strategies to generate loads of free traffic from the search engines. But for now… get your blog up and running and just get it started.

Once your blog is up and running, you can add an ‘opt in box’, upload property photos, customize the look and feel with thousands of layouts and themes that won’t cost you a nickel, and so much more. And we’ll go through each of these – step by step – in additional posts.

The best part… It won’t cost you Thousands to get up and running AND you’ll be in business in just a few minutes.