Eric Blackwell's Blog: Personal Thoughts

On the wall in the offices of RE/MAX Properties East in Louisville Kentucky hangs a sign:

"The strength of the pack is the wolf and the strength of the wolf is the pack."

For 20 years, they have thrived on the notion that the basic economic unit of the real estate sales industry is the brokerage. A patriarchal broker built a caring staff and helped agents develop thriving businesses of their own, and yet all hunted together by buying space as a group in newspapers and other marketing ventures, sharing office expenses in lieu of the agent getting an ever increasing share of the commissions. It has worked and worked well.

As brokers in general are aging and looking toward retirement, franchise chains are looking to grow, agents are looking to increase…

Is it possible to be posted out?  (grin)

After a ton of well thought out posts (at least that's what I attempted!), I am suffering from being posted out. It is kind of like fatigue of the creativity muscle in the brain. We no longer get writer's block. We don't have time.

In today's world of post. publish. post. publish. research. post . publish, it is VERY difficult to be prolific all of the time. Sooner or later the juices run dry and you have to stop and let your body have some rest and your head and heart get some perspective.

Maybe if I take a day or two off, the crativity will return --or maybe just a little bit of reading and relaxation will help.

Nah. I think I can work through it (grin).

OK guys...unvarnished opinion time. (Warning long post ahead!)

Here are some things to consider BEFORE going down the "let's SPAM the hell out of other forums and blogs and sites road" (Which we already seem to be well on the onramp of in the SEO world today for those who haven't been reading the road signs )

Consideration 1: Q.Why does SPAM exist?  A. Because it does (or at least DID) work at one time. (We likely all agree on that) What was at one time mainstream is now considered bad form in many cases.

Consideration 2: And then there is the consideration for HOW long it will work --which DIRECTLY relates to the longevity of my site STAYING at the top.

Consideration 3: Does it still generate the value it once did? MANY older tactics (now… Read Full Post

Yesterday, I received an email from a friend. It told me of a local girl scout here in Louisville who was taking on raising awareness of autism in a unique way. They had seen an article in the paper about her. For one of her girl scout projects, she built a website, had a Kentucky license plate designed and was going on a publicity campaign to get the 900 needed license plates purcjhased to get them to make the Autism specialty license plate an official specialty license plate option. Take a look at the webpage here.

This kind of effort from a 16 year old was pretty cool to see in my book.

I have never been a girl scout.... but If this is the kind of character that they build into kids, then I am all for it.

For those who may not know it about me, my…