Charleston Real Estate Blog

Some say the blog is dead. But 5 years ago today I hit the publish button for the first time and at just a couple of posts short of 1600, today is the celebration of the 5 year blogiversary of the Charleston real estate blog. I had no idea what I was going to do when I first started writing and like many other bloggers, it took some ...

Back in the day before social media sites like Facebook and Twitter and even before real estate blogs became the rage, it was important for a real estate agent to get a website. And back then, most real estate websites were template sites and Point2 had some of the best available. Now some agents might have just left all the pre written ...

Four years ago today, I hit the publish key for the first time and started writing the Charleston real estate blog and approximately 1300 posts later, while some of the so called gurus and experts say that the RE blog is dead, I'm still posting. Back in the day, blogs moved to the forefront of real estate because it changed websites ...

... seems to be what's happening in the real estate net. Three or four years ago, it seemed that everyone in real estate was buzzing about blogging and there was a ton of great stuff in the re net. I've noticed many fine real estate blogs that I have always read no longer seem to be very active. Of course it's possible that many ...

There are now lots of different ways for you to read the Charleston real estate blog. Of course, you can just stop by here almost every day and read today's post or you can subscribe via RSS feed and use your favorite feed reader. For several years, I've kept a database of everyone who has contacted me with interest of some sort about ...

Longtime Charleston real estate blog reader Jimmy (not his real name but his screen alias) closed on the sale of a home yesterday. I've had several clients who told me that they decided to hire me as their Charleston Realtor because they enjoyed meeting me through my blog but Jimmy was the rare exception who frequently commented on the blog. ...

It gets annoying to find your content on other websites that exist only to make money off of the efforts of others. One such example is illustrated below and my apologies but I had to shrink the page to fit it in the allowable space. Here is what you'll find, a recent post written by me and yes, it does link to my original post which is ...

A few weeks ago, I celebrated the 1000th post to the Charleston real estate blog and today is the 3 year blogiversary of the very first post. It's been fun and thanks for stopping by and reading. But of all days, technology sometimes fails because I just noticed some of the pictures and images weren't showing up this morning on ...

1000 is a big round number and who would have thought when I started writing the Charleston real estate blog almost 3 years ago that I would be celebrating the writing of my 1000th post. So what should I write about? Maybe I should write about writing a blog. A few years ago, many people heard writing a blog was a good way to "get ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will be regulating bloggers and new social media users on Twitter and other sites beginning December 1, 2009. According to Carl Franzen writing in The Atlantic Wire, paid product endorsements and material connections to product sellers must be disclosed and anyone endorsing a product or service may be ...