Camels And How To Attract People

10/7/09

The most common question I’m asked with regard to blogging is “What should I blog about?”

If you find yourself asking this question, remember this one simple thing to help keep you focused with your blog:

Your blog is how people will get to know you when you’re not around.

You want professional information up there, for sure.  Information about your local market, mortgage rates, helpful hints for sellers and buyers…all of that is good stuff.  However, you want to humanize yourself in your blog with a dose or two of personal anecdotes and relatables.

The following post is one I did on January 24, 2008.  It had nothing at all to do with real estate, yet it attracted my first 4 blog subscribers.

Why?

Because all of a sudden they saw me as a human being, just like them:

My sister and her husband, who is a Methodist minister, just returned from a visit to the Holy Land today.  They’ve been there for the last week and a half and I’m still cracking up from what she just told me:

While at the market there, a man offered my brother-in-law 6,000 camels, his business and his own home in return for my sister.

I just had to post this because it’s one of the most bizarre things I’ve ever heard.

I’m immediately skeptical, though…were they ONE hump or TWO hump camels?  This IS my sister we’re talking about. Don’t be cheap with the humps…my humps…my lovely camel humps.

I love my sister.  She’s worth more than all the camels in the world put together:)