{"id":137,"date":"2009-10-31T02:36:54","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T02:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/what-to-use-the-blog-for\/"},"modified":"2009-10-31T02:36:54","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T02:36:54","slug":"what-to-use-the-blog-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/what-to-use-the-blog-for\/","title":{"rendered":"What to use the blog for&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/activerain.com\/blogs\/arbob\" target=\"_blank\">Bob presented a bonus challenge<\/a> which I just found. It is too late to get the bonus points, but it did get me to thinking about how I use my blog and website.&nbsp; I am the first one to tout the benefits of blogs and websites.&nbsp; I have always floundered a bit on what to put in my Active Rain blog because it felt like it should be geared more to agents than to the clients I work with everyday. It&nbsp; seemed senseless to place a list of sellers tips for selling their home on this blog, because everyone in the community has relatively the same advise to give.&nbsp; So I have stuck to advertising my listings or write about something that might help a fellow agent.<\/p>\n<p>Like all of us I get presented with questions about our area. When someone asks me about Clark Fork Idaho I send them <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lakeandhomes.com\/clarkfork.shtml \" target=\"_blank\">to this page about Clark Fork<\/a>. If someone asks me what a 1031 exchange is, I send them to my <a href=\"http:\/\/northidahohomeandland.com\/1031.html\" target=\"_blank\">1031 page<\/a>&nbsp; Or if someone asks me for tips on selling their home I usually send them to one of my <a href=\"http:\/\/sandpointdirectory.com\/blog\/?cat=5\" target=\"_blank\">blog articles<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All of these pages make it into my farm and relocation packages and even my listing presentations.&nbsp; I also post upcoming events and a best deals and send my clients to these posts all the time.&nbsp; What a wonderful idea though to put them all on the Active Rain blog and tie them into the localism group.<\/p>\n<p>I was rather suprised earlier today.&nbsp; I recently made a post in my blog with links to the Sandpoint Bypass project aerial photos.&nbsp; Today I went to Google to see if anything new had been posted and was presented with my picture at the top of the results.&nbsp; Shocked yes, but always happy to see the power of blogs at work.<\/p>\n<p>So if you get tired of hearing about what I consider the prettiest place on earth, blame it on Bob!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob presented a bonus challenge which I just found. It is too late to get the bonus points, but it did get me to thinking about how I use my blog and website.&nbsp; I am the first one to tout the benefits of blogs and websites.&nbsp; I have always floundered a bit on what to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-active-rain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}