A Primer for Blogging

Guest Contributor
Published: 06/14/2012
Posted by: RE Technology

Guest contributor Chris Brogan brings us this post:

If you would like to get further into blogging, here is a brief primer:

1) Get a blog. (Easy: tumblr.com, wordpress.com, blogger.com.) *RE Technology note: see more real estate blogging tools in our product directory.*

2) Pick an area of focus, but one that has broad sides. (Mine: helping people do digital business in a human way.)

3) Start writing.

4) Start by planning to publish 1 post a week. (RE Technology note: Need help with this? Read our June Blogging Plan)

5) Get daring and try for 2 posts a week (eventually).

6) Make the posts more than 100 words and less than 1000 words most days.

7) Spell-check.

8) Delete the sentences that don’t matter.

9) Realize that posts that are helpful to others get shared more than posts that are merely interesting.

10) Never write a “sorry I haven’t written” post. Ever.