One of Remax's finest real estate professional and Crofton Maryland's own Margaret Woda, Maryland REALTOR wrote a very good post last week How to Blog for Leads on ActiveRain . She gave seven great tips on generating real estate leads through blogging. Number five on Margaret's list was "Create an appealing and information packed profile or "about me" page to work in tandem with your blog.(My What Makes These ActiveRain Profiles Winners?)
After reading her blog,she reminded me of something I kept saying I was going to do but never got around to doing. So today I decided to set aside some hours to finally to do it. After many hours (It was too many hours I lost count) of working on my page,I now have a new page Lanre Folayan "Buy a home in Washington,DC". Now it is missing some pictures but I am going to add that later. I even changed one of my websites Washington DC,Maryland and Virginia Houses for Sale. Hopefully with my new page,it will help me get leads. And if you have any suggestions,comments or ideas on what I can do to make it better,please let me know. Thank you.
And if you are in the market to buy and/or sale a house,please visit Houses for sale in Washington,DC and register to receive your free list of "Houses for sale in Washington DC". I can also be reached online at Lanre Folayan "Buy Washington DC Real Estate" (EXIT PREMIER REALTY ... and Washington DC,Maryland and Virginia Houses for Sale. And I can be reached at (202) 378-0283 (Direct) or (301) 560-6700 x1154 (Office). Thank you very much. Looking forward to working with you and helping you make your home purchase or sale a stress free and very happy one. Have a great day. Lanre Folayan-Real Estate Professional with Exit Premier Realty."Buy a home in Washington DC"
I'll run off to look at your profile from here! I was thankful one of the Makeover2Takeover assignments was to revisit and revamp the profiles - mine needed it - but I never took the time to. Good job for taking over the task!
Wow, Lanre, thank you for the mention and the link! 'Just checked out your new page, and it is really content-packed. I can see a lot of work went into that, and it will pay off. I believe, from client contacts, that they read your profile after they read an interesting blog post or two, and an agent who doesn't have a "good" profile will lose that possible lead.
Lanre-you've started in the right direction. Just remember that what you say about yourself needs to be about you and your service. Watch out for generic language that could be found on any template website. It won't gain you any SEO with Google. Interject information on the neighborhoods your serve in DC and VA. Put links to any posts that you have written on those neighborhoods. Margaret knows her stuff so check out her profile closely and you will see what I mean.
I needed to spruce up our main page. Great info! Thanks!
Lanre, your profile looks good. I hope it brings you a lot of business.
Lanre, I need to freshen up my blog and my page. I have been trying to sit down and get my head around what I want to say. I started to read Margaret's post and need to get back to it. We are so lucky to have such good advice from such professional people.
Audrey- Definitely luck to have people like Margaret Woda who write such great blogs. Found your assistant yet? Maybe you should turn your search for an assistant into a Reality TV show called "I want to work for Audrey?"LOL. Thanks for your comments.
Brenda-Thank you Brenda. I really appreciate that. I am definitely adding you as a associate. I am making another comment on your blog today. Thanks.
Michael- Thanks. I hope so. Lord knows that I need it-LOL.
Mark and Wendy- I am sure once you do it is going to look great. Thanks for your comments.
Liz- I am thinking of putting testimonals. A lot of people here have testimonals on their site. Great always hearing from you as usual. Take care.
Cindy-Thank you very much. I didnt know about generic language. I will go back and re-edit it again. And I am going to provide more information on my neighborhood market reports. Thank you very much for your comments.
Margaret- Thank you Margaret. Hearing that from you makes me feel good and confident that some leads are coming soon. But I am going to tweak the website a little bit more and add some pictures. Thanks for your comments.
Kim- Thanks Kim. And congratulations on the Makeover2Takeover challenge. You need to teach me everything that you learned from it so that I can be as smart,creative and good like you.
Lanre, your new profile looks good! I'm inspired, I will have to take a look and revamp mine.
love the profile, don't change a thing
Frank- Thanks Frank. I really appreciate it.
Tatyana- If you say so,I am definitely not going to change anything to it. Have a great weekend.