Real Estate Blogger Helping Real Estate Agents Blog

Published by Joseph Ferrara May 20th, 2007 in Sellsius Real Estate Blog.

Erik Hersman of Realty Thoughts and Eppraisal.com in conjunction with Orra, has successfully completed a real estate blogging workshop down in Orlando, Florida. He is one of the many progressive real estate bloggers who are sharing their knowledge and experience with real estate agents. Others include Dustin Luther of Move, Inc, Pat Kitano of Transparent RE and John Harper of the Harper team, and Steve Jagger from Ubertor.

If you have done a real estate blogging or technology workshop or seminar, please let us know about it.

Update:

Jim Duncan of RealCentralVa has also done a seminar for real estate blogging = Bloginar

12 Responses to “Real Estate Blogger Helping Real Estate Agents Blog”

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1 Anthony Longo May 20th, 2007 at 10:50 am

The White African. Eric…awesome job! We hung out at SHVO’ Armani Casa down at Inman NYC in January. Everyone cool was there but Sellsius! Keep it up Eric. TL
2 Jim Duncan May 20th, 2007 at 11:18 am

I did one of these last year with another Realtor. By most accounts and the feedback, it was a success. However, I haven’t heard from any of the attendees whether they have started to blog yet.

Either way, it was great fun.
3 Shaun McLane May 21st, 2007 at 7:51 am

Nice work Erik. Gotta say, ORRA never looked so nice. It’s funny, after meeting with you and hearing about this discussion, I got a huge laugh out of watching the hands go up, and then almost all of them go down in the intro. Good stuff.
4 Forsalebylocals May 21st, 2007 at 8:49 am

http://vidlisting.com will host a series of real estate video seminars that will run in August 2007 in Miami, Tampa, Fairfax, Charlottesville, Raleigh, Houston, and Orlando. More information is available at http://activerain.com/blogsview/94198/Learn-More-About-Real

There will be a seminar focused on the business case around real estate video as well as hands-on video training for anyone interested. We’ll also be filming properties within 25 miles of each city for a flat rate that is all inclusive from filming to posting (including professional narration in English/Spanish/Portuguese).
5 sellsius May 21st, 2007 at 11:25 am

Thanks for the info. Real estate videos will now be indexed by Google.
6 Forsalebylocals May 21st, 2007 at 12:08 pm

Real estate videos have been indexed by Google for some time now. Isn’t the difference just that YouTube videos will be presented and viewable in line with search results? If so, this change wasn’t too hard to see coming after the purchase of YouTube.

I think that the biggest issue around this change though will be the impact on business models for real estate video companies (and any online video companies for that matter) that are focused primarily in the presentation mechanism rather than content generation.

Love your blog!
7 Erik Hersman May 21st, 2007 at 2:56 pm

Hey, what am I doing up on Sellsius!?

The event was a big success. One of the things I’ve done, beyond just the education of attendees, has been to meet with and email with people afterwards. So, agents who really want to get into blogging, I don’t mind spending an hour helping them get up and going.

So far 4 new real estate blogs are up in Orlando (that I know of) from this event. Whether or not the new authors keep up with it and create a successful blog, that’s still to be seen.

Obviously, the idea of doing a blogging workshop wasn’t mine. I noticed others like Dustin Luther, Pat Kitano and others doing it in their areas. I wanted to make sure Orlando wasn’t left behind. You’ve got to watch out for your own neighborhood!
8 sellsius May 21st, 2007 at 4:32 pm

We loved it Erik. You’re a natural.

Thanks FSBL. Google’s new Universal Search will increase the importance of video.
9 Maureen Francis May 22nd, 2007 at 9:37 pm

I know that Teresa Boardman of St Paul Real Estate Blog, Linda Davis of Eastern CT Real Estate and Kristal Kraft of The Denver Blogs (Denver Real Estate & Relocations) have all done RE blogging seminars on more than one occasion. They would be great additions to your list.
10 sellsius May 22nd, 2007 at 9:47 pm

Thanks Maureen for adding to the list.
11 Michael Price May 23rd, 2007 at 12:04 pm

We’ve been doing a series of free workshops for clients and prospects on web 2.0 and because blogging is such a hot topic we are breaking it out into it’s own session. Right now we’re serving the Houston, Austin and Dallas markets with it.

If there are any brokers in those areas interested please let me know mprice at mlpodcast.com.

I’d love to hear any advice and suggestions from other blogging workshop presenters.

cheers,

MP
12 sellsius May 23rd, 2007 at 1:09 pm

That’s great Michael. With your expertise in podcasting, that’s a plus.