Blogging is quickly increasing into a device whose main purpose is to create an online visibility, to create a sense of communion with the same interests, to be able to continuously talk and update clients and other prospects in which you can offer each other helpful information – all of such are established in an  unsorted way.
With that alone, blogging has a big prospect for real estate agents. It’s only unusual that more often than not, real estate agents or websites I went to do not have a blog and is missing out on such an effective medium which can be included to their marketing tools.
This is one way to present an exceptional business prospect for someone or a company which can help progress and utilize their property agent skills to produce more prospects and close more sales. Still, there are people who are experienced in blogging, internet marketing and property sales but simply does not have time with all that they are handling.
Let us go down and discuss the 5 main reasons agents should have a blog.
1.      Straight forward interaction – One of the good points about blogging is that it gives opportunities for realtors to communicate straight with prospect clients openly. Visitors on your blog can immediately post a message and comment on your posts which create an open-wide community type of online blogging.
2.      You the Expert – Blogs or in a form of writing creates a pathway to voice out your opinions, present your capacity of what you are writing about and all other issues concerning your field. If you are one of only a few agents in your area that blogs, a prospective clients who views your website most likely sees you as an expert.
3.      More Prospect Leads – Blogging is low price tag technique of the highly visible property marketing. It can give you a regular flow of prospects, at no cost. When they visit your blog, always ask for their names and their basic information. By offering free updates or newsletter, adding to your list of prospective clients will only be a breeze.
4.      Useful Segregation of Information – Blogging puts you in a direction, above the rest by identifying of how is your business or services differs from the couple of other real estate agents in your neighborhood. Making a prospective client understand that you have a much better deal to offer or being able to see your process of buying and selling is much easier and can add up to their financial benefit. Having a blog gives your website guests ideas on your background as an agent and what services can you offer them.
5.      Marketing Relationship Tool – When you create your blog you assemble an individual connection with your readers and clients that later builds trust. Blogging lets you form a strong market of prospective clients whom you can send information or updates on a regular basis.
These reasons alone should suffice to justify to you the value of starting your own blog. Setup your blog and start writing tomorrow.
How do you start? Will it cost you anything? Since blogging is everywhere these days, most blogging software is free and depending technical expertise, easy to set up. Â For starters, I would suggest wordpress.com, typepad.com or blogger.com. They have simple to use templates to help you start your blog.
If that just won’t work for you, you can always start out by being a “Contributing Writer” here on the Being BOB Blog. You can have your own page and name in the header, start writing and build a following. Once you have the hang of it, start your own blog.