Rain City Guide

Rain City Guide Year In Review

Dustin on 12 20, 2006

The most popular articles on RCG from this past year as measured in total hits:

• February 27: 8 Common Mistakes Made by Real Estate Bloggers
• March 22: Why Google Base Matters
• October 24: Popcorn Ceiling Removal
• February 13: Real Estate Photography — Camera Choice
• February 8: Zillow’s Impact on Day 1
• February 24: A Closing Date Without a Closing
• March 1: Is Your Earnest Money Protect by the Finance Contingency?
• February 8: How Well Does Zillow Zestimate Your Home?
• October 9: Love Thy Neighbor
• March 7: 10 Things You Should Know Before Moving to Seattle

There are definitely some gems in the list, so if you're new to Rain City Guide, or real estate blogging in general, please consider checking out the list...

Without looking at the dates, I could have told you that we really hit are stride back in February or March of this past year... However, when looking at the published dates, it seems obvious that we haven't been up to our usual snuff as of late (with the exception of some great Ardell articles in October...). Please feel free to share your constructive criticism on how we might improve the content of Rain City Guide!

While I was all ready to end the post with the above list, I realized that it would also be fun to point out some of the articles I found most interesting to write, but didn't make the list. (I encourage all RCG contributors to do something similar):

• 10 Great Conversations. This was the first of my “list” posts and was a lot of fun to put together…
• The Best Online Real Estate Marketing Time Can Buy. Getting people to return to your site day in and day out is simple (but not easy)… Be interesting!
• Improving Online Home Valuations? I like this article mainly because it jump-started a bunch of internal discussions at Move about real estate blogging.
• Plus How to Link. I include this one because I’m often shocked at how many real estate agents think they can blog without linking…
• Paying for the Privilege of Marginalization. I don’t think the real estate community at large has really come to grips with what it means to take part in some of these online classified sites and the tech-savvy agents seem to have given into their fatalistic instincts in terms of their industry as a whole. Fascinating stuff that borders on the “can’t tread there anymore” territory for me…

And finally, I found it particularly fun to read the slew of interviews I did at the beginning of last year. Lots of stuff has changed in a year in real estate blogging, but not as much as you might think!

• Jonathan Miller of Matrix
• Jim Duncan of the Real Central VA blog
• Noah Rosenblatt of UrbanDigs
• Andy Kaufman of MyEastBayAgent
• Property Grunt of the Property Grunt blog
• Tim O’Keefe of the Real Estate Marketing Blog
• David Smith of the Affordable Housing Institute
• Merv Forney of the Northern Virginia Real Estate Guide
• Todd Carpenter of Lenderama
• Alex Stenbeck of Behind the Mortgage
• Fraser Beach of Toronto at Home
• John Mudd of Inside Real Estate (deceased)
• Fran of The Real Estate Blog



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As the founder of Seattle's Rain City Real Estate Guide, I love to talk, discuss and implement social media strategies that drives business in real estate. In following this passion, I founded 4realz.net Social Media Strategy and regularly speak about social media strategy to real estate audiences. You can connect with me on LinkedIn, become a fan on Facebook and follow me on twitter at @tyr.