Web Site Design and Development

I’ve put up new blog rolls both here and on my Sacramento blog. Going forward I would like to add a great deal more sites — not only real estate sites, but also favorite local sites. So please add a comment if you have sites you’d like listed yourself or know of a site for the East Bay region that I should be linking to.

Thanks!

I just did a new community profile page for Fremont.

Please feel free to add comments if there are good sites to which I should be linking from that page, or other good Fremont resources I should be blogging about. Contributors welcome.

Find something good to read at Berkeley Blogs.

Dang, I could have gotten in there if I hadn’t been an Oakland Blog.

So close, so close and yet so far.

I didn’t get to every link, of course, but of those I did I particularly enjoyed Urbification

Bigger Pockets has a blog tied to their nicely done site. I thought they did a good job from what poking around I did with their investment calculators. I was thinking about doing something like that ever since I picked up Frank Gallinelli’s Book on real estate investing financial measures.

But you can’t take on every project, and one would think that with two blogs and ten real estate sites or so I’d consider myself well project-ized already

Of course, one would also think that if I’m going to be linking to books, I should also go set up an Amazon affiliate account so twenty-eight years from now I can claim the $100 I got coming to me.

I need to give one a call later and find out how he’s doing.

We’ve just added a new article, Why Start a Real Estate Blog, our opening article in what will become “Real Estate Blogging 101″.

Before we got into the how-to of using a blog to improve your real estate business, promoting your blog, and the like, we thought it was a good idea to get to the heart of the matter by trying to answer the most basic question: why bother? And it’s a fair question indeed, if you’re a Realtor® who’s strapped for time and wondering why you should devote a half hour or more per day to sitting down at a keyboard. We give you two of the best reasons in the article — and we didn’t even get into the whole business of establishing yourself as an expert in a local area. Somehow that whole “market positioning” angle seems a bit theoretical to us, whereas traffic is a more tangible benefit.

Now maybe it’s just me, but having such a nice Las Vegas Real Estate Blog and not titling it Viva Las Vegas is a bit of a missed opportunity.

Everybody loves Elvis.

But anyway, Michelle Sterling does a nice job otherwise. Too bad about the IRS and poor Wayne Newton.

I’d love to see more detailed market information. I’ve become a bit of a detailed market information junkie. Of course, the critical reader will note that I’ve yet to join the MLS and publish any detailed real estate information in this market, though I do alright for Elk Grove and Roseville.

Normally I jump in with both feet a lot faster than this, but lately I just want to free up some capital.