582,106
For a couple of reasons, I tend to take a dim view of folks who aren't writing their own posts.
I read bloggers on AR who express the opinion that they prefer to send referrals to a "fellow Rainer". But if the fellow blogger isn't even posting their own material, what reason would there be for sending them a referral?
When AR starts to become a dumping ground for canned, ghostwritten material, the site will become devalued.
Remember elementary school? Whatever happened to the idea of doing your own work??
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Mimi Foster
Colorado Springs, CO
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Eric Kodner
Minnetonka, MN
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Candice A. Donofrio
Fort Mohave, AZ
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
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Jill Murty, Realtor - ...
Laguna Niguel, CA
1,452,869
It is a great feeling to meet a new client who says I'm exactly like what they expected after reading my blog! No one can be a better me than me
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
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Mimi Foster
Colorado Springs, CO
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
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Susan Emo
Kingston, ON
3,345,091
Yes, I write all of my own content. Why? Because it is me. My voice. My personality. No one else can capture that. People hire me ... not a ghost writer. I do know some people here in the Rain do not write their own content ... because they told me so. I also know some who are not writing their own because you can totally tell it is not their voice.
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Mimi Foster
Colorado Springs, CO
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
5,772,575
Wanda,
We write our own always. We have been offered big $$$ to let someone write on our blog, as well as advertorials, and have declined! It would be incongruent with who we are and what we do! A
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
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Susan Emo
Kingston, ON
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Eric Kodner
La Pointe, WI
1,052,211
All me. No one else can afford me. ;)
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Candice A. Donofrio
Fort Mohave, AZ
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Mimi Foster
Colorado Springs, CO
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
2,817,671
I write them myself, of course.
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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JoAnn Moore
Georgetown, DE
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
1,513,143
If I have something to write it will be mine. just like the movie.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (11/12) Movie CLIP - Three-Way
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
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Susan Emo
Kingston, ON
2,178,603
I write my own and I ghostwrite local content blogs for other agents, but not here on AR.
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
1,622,432
I create my posts myself. I actually like blogging and interacting via social medias.
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
2,220,654
I write my own post.
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Anthony Acosta - ALLAT...
Atlanta, GA
2,061,864
If I were paying a service to write my blog, I think I would have to request a refund. I'm surprised that my readers haven't requested refunds.
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Mimi Foster
Colorado Springs, CO
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
6,393,609
Yes I do write my own, nobody else would want to write this stuff.
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
1,844,301
I think that you can tell if peoples posts are hired out just by the content. Haven't you seen all the 'sales pitch' posts in the Daily Drop over the last year?
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
5,049,450
No one can do it like me - whether that's good or bad I'm not sure. But at least you know it's me!
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
516,437
I write my own, but would love for someone to do it for me!
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
5,104,931
I write my own... you can tell someone else is writing for you and how do you know it's not being repeated elsewhere?
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John Pusa
Glendale, CA
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
823,579
I write my own because I like to write. Can't imagine having someone else write for me, especially for my website. That is how the clients learn about you and hopefully choose you to represent them.
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
7,836,164
I write my own blogs.
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
989,652
I've done it both ways - but mostly my staff does it for me
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Jessie Cochran
Panama City, FL
4,434,127
I write my own.
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
1,157,785
I write my own. It is much easier to do than outsourcing.
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
763,883
I write my own blog posts for the same reason I personally answer these questions. It fun and it's me.
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
4,319,419
Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - I do write my own posts - shows my own personality in blogs, comments and answers....
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
3,727,873
Mine are home grown. And I've never even caught anybody plagerizing them!
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
3,043,274
It depends on where you are talking about. On ActiveRain I write all my own content except our listing posts. I created a template of our listing post format and I have my executive assistant for our brokerage write those posts. I created a market report template and wrote the content but the monthly revisions are sent to our assistant who then finishes the entries of the changes and posts them. That is a no brainer kind of task and is not the highest and best use of my time. Now, when it comes to SEO content, like the buffer sites and content, that is done by my SEO team. I don't have time to do all those sites and steps. But most of that as well, is what I originally wrote and the team takes snippets of it and does our steps with that.
I don't have anything against ghostwriters as I have broker clients who are very busy running offices with 85+ agents. I train their assistants to write in the broker's voice. That is a skill that can be learned. Because the brokers have never been online there is also no way to tell that it is not them doing the writing. One broker has an amazing executive assistant who writes way better than the broker ever could and knows the broker well so she can really connect on that level. Katerina
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
3,986,258
I all own writing
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
679,404
I write my own posts. I have never paid someone to write blogs or posts for me. No one knows me better than me.
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
2,161,048
When I write, I write my own. That way I know what's in my blog!
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
3,988,007
I write all my own as I want my voice to come through. That can't be done if someone else does the writing.
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
1,771,867
I write them. It is from the heart.
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
4,160,899
Wanda Kubat-Nerdin I write my own posts.
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
846,475
WHAAAAAAAT???? Of course I write my own obnoxious posts!
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
1,502,998
I write my own. When I was doing blogs 4 times a day across the social web, I reused NAR & CAR content.
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
1,026,993
So glad to see the answers here. No one else has my voice. Services are sterile and people are attracted to people.
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
1,725,996
Always original, never a repeat, or commercially generated.
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
4,800,082
I write my own. Not interested in having someone else do what I can.
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
69,794
I've written my own. Not sure you will get much SEO link juice off of paid syndicated articles that 5,000 other agents are printing online word for word in their own blogs. I don't think search engines like duplicate content.
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
400,356
I write my own. I can't imagine farming it out to a service. The writer may write something inconsistent with my point of view or the blog may be riddled with misspelled words, which would drive me crazy.
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
5,868,554
Have written all my own posts.
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
921,504
I paste all my blogs into Active Rain myself.
I have written blogs for others.
I have been tempted to have my blogs ghost written. Upon reviewing the pablum these companies offered to put my name on, it knew it would be a betrayal of those who would read what I write.
I believe, at this time, most who post blogs on Active Rain are posting original or largely original content. However, at the helm now is one who follows the KW philosophy of life. Things could change to become a tabloid type depository for real estate agents news fresh from RIS Media.
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
50,698
617,935
Wanda,
If a service wrote as poorly as I do, I would fire them.
My blogs are my own feeble attempts.
4,936,705
I write my own, you can tell at some of the comments I get like, What do you mean!