What is the name of your Blog?Marin Real Estate Blog
What is your name?
Mark Danforth Lomas
Where are you from? (include country, state and/or city)
Tiburon, California
What is your current age or age range?
56
Please describe your blog
The most definitive Marin County Real Estate Blog!
Describe the main purpose of your blogging, what are you trying to accomplish?
Provide information that supports consumers. If your thinking of buying, selling, or just have questions regarding the Marin County Real Estate market, you'll find this a very helpful tool.
What blogging platform do you do and why?
Converting from GoDaddy to Wordpress. I believe Wordpress will be a better platform.
What do you blog the most about?
The Marin County Real Estate Market. Also working on a Marin County Directory for consumers. Live links at: www.marincountydirectory.com
What kind of blogs make you angry?
Untruthful blogs that try and manipulate consumers
Give five of your best blogging tips.
1.Be polite to everyone 2.For every post send 3 comments to other bloggers 3.Links 4.More Links 5.Post in the morning
What are some things you would NEVER blog about?
Other companies and other agents...unless of course, they've put themselves out there with conflicting information...keeping the consumers back protected is very important here. Honesty and integrity are basics in blogging
Did you start blogging for the purpose of making money and if so, are you making enough money?
I'm just now developing relationships through my blogs
How long have you been blogging?
2004
About how many hours per day do you spend blogging?
2
Do you track RSS feeds and if so, how many do you usually track daily?
Some, but not enough
Do you use Digg, and why or why not?
Familiar with Digg...will use it more in the future
Do you use Stumbleupon, and why or why not?
stumbleupon?
What promotional techniques work best for you and why?
internet and conventional advertising...to cast the net out further
If you could post a blog on any blog in the world, which one would it be and why?
my real estate blog: www.marinrealestateblog.com because I love living in Marin!
What mistakes have you made that you could warn others about?
I was not happy with GoDaddy.com, their tech support or lack of expertise, and their inflexibility to make changes to improve their product in regards to blogging
What are your top five blogging site picks and why?
www.tridentrestaurant.com very kewl site www.bayarearealestateblog.com great real estate site www.huffingtonpost.com great blog www.marinrealestateblog.com have to give myself a plug www.MarinCountyDirectory.com every link you need in Marin County
Have you met anyone offline as a result of your blog?
Yes, the Kingston Trio linked to one of my blogs and came to Marin County and bought me lunch!
Why blog?
a great methodology for communicating with!
What is the url of your blog?
Marin Real Estate Blog
