Why do I blog?

I guess I’m needy (or maybe nerdy).
It all depends on that specific post. Sometimes it’s a question that I’m asked over and over again in the process…so I’ll answer it with a post.

Maybe I need to vent about an aspect of my business…a form of therapy!

My blogging has been very rewarding not just financially but moreso by attracting the type of clients that I enjoy working with. My life is easier. I’m not courting real estate agents, clients (including agents) are coming to me.

I believe blogging has made me a better mortgage professional. You are forced to stay at the top of your game. Readers will ask questions, or I want to learn about the very latest guidelines and what impacts our business. I’m not “waiting” for things to happen before I learn about them.

There is a social aspect to blogging that is amazing to me. In school, I had many friends from all sorts of groups…but I was NEVER in “clique” (sp). I see the bloggosphere as a bit “high school” socially at times AND I will also say that I have made some incredible industry friends whom I greatly respect.

Even if and when RE blogging loses it’s appeal…perhaps some new web invention will be created that pushes our blogs out of google site much like our old websites have become obsolete…I can’t imagine not doing it.

if this comment was important, please repost so I can read i. I like people to post twice whenever a comment is supposed to be read.

Thanks for the welcome. And don’t worry about only saying half of what you said. I only read half of it anyway.

I always try to keep the reading down to a minimum before I start flapping my mouth about me. It saves time, since that’s where I know I’ll end up. :)

Well, welcome to the blog. And, like Yogi Berra–I didn’t say half the stuff that I said.

1) Refreshing.
2) Confusing.
3) Erotic.
4) Hyperbolic.
and
5) Magically Delicious.

The answer one of your questions: I don’t make cash doing what everyone else is doing. I make cash doing what I’m doing.

I do appreciate your question about why it should be so important to have approval from everyone who’s doing what everyone is doing.

The wankathon by the way wasn’t between everyone in the world and Greg Swann. There were a few of us who were free agents.

As for what I’m here to give, I think the typical response is “others a headache.”

I’ve made money through prospecting as well…just not as much.