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St. Paul Real Estate Blog  The first, the original, written by Teresa Boardman "T" a Realtor®, and a life long resident of St. Paul, Minnesota

Note:  Many of the links on this page had to be removed either because the web site that they linked to moved or because the content moved or the content or web site no longer exists.   I am rethinking linking.  

2009 - Speaker a ReTech South in Atlanta Georgia, The St. Paul area association of Realtors Spring forum, Denver ReBar camp

2008 - Speaker at the Inman Connect Conference is New York, speaker at the Minnesota Residential Real Estate Summit, the Pennsylvania Board of Realtors annual meeting, the Twin Cities real estate Expo, Bloggers Connect in San Francisco. Will be spoke at Re-blog world, and the National association of Realtors annual conference.

The St. Paul Pioneer Press "Twitter Means Business"

Named on the the top 25 most influencial bloggers in the real estate industry by Inman news in 2007 and 2008.

_{Sites: not just for personal connections anymore}

- Twin cities Business Journal Sept 2008

A Small Business Marketing Success Story: Teresa Boardman, Real ...

The St. Paul Real Estate Blog, in Realtor Magazine, March 2008

St. Paul Real Estate Blog in the the LA times February 10, 2008

Named Sellsius Top 12 - 2007   and  Inman News Top 25 Most Influential

Blogging Success with Teresa Boardman

An interview with Joel Burslem of Inman News. Teresa Boardman is a REALTOR® and licensed broker with Keller Williams Integrity Realty in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the author of The St. Paul Real Estate Blog a “hyper local” blog that focuses on St. Paul and on real estate with hundreds of articles and more than a 1000 photos.

On the blogging super stars panel at the Inman Connect Conference in San Fransisco August 2007

Quotes and clippings from blogs around the country - Bloglines

"St Paul Real Estate Blog – Teresa Boardman is a Realtor in St Paul, Minnesota, whose writing has been praised on many national sites. There’s something about the way she writes – great humor mixed with soft stories mixed with hard data – that I really enjoy reading. She makes me want to become a better writer, a better realtor, and to stop and smell the roses along the way." Chris Butterworth

Top 20 Real Estate blogs by Technorati rating. 

Carnival of Real Estate for Consumer Content winner The Truth about Real Estate companies

St. Paul Real Estate Blog Friday Fun post, Customer Service?, makes the grade in the 6th carnival of customer service, Hosted by the CRM Lowdown Blog News and commentary on customer relationship management topics. --By Sagar Satapathy

Inman News Blogger Connect Steering committee member July 31 -August 1 2007

Project Blogger Coach

The Boston Globe - April 2007

Brokers in Blogsville

Agents are going online to get knowledge and information -- and their opinions -- out

Metro Magazine: Real Estatement - How to choose the right Realtor®

Community Reporter:  Local Blogger Finds Fame

This is an interview with the dynamic and hilarious Teresa Boardman. She's a Realtor living in St. Paul, MN. Her blog www.stpaulrealestateblog.com has not only attracted thousands of loyal followers, but also the attention of the Chicago Tribune and other media outlets. What's her secret? Listen and you'll discover to be like Teresa is to be your own recipe for success.This interview is just one part of an entire show called the Realty Report. Stay tuned for more Real Estate News and information delivered in a lively and entertaining format.The Interview is a Pod cast and can be found here

Winner of a Magnificent 7 award for consumer content - Real Estate Undressed
 

Interview With A Real Estate Blogging Goddess - On the Real Estate Tomato

Our regular readers and seasoned real estate blogosphere readers all know Teresa Boardman.  Recently she has gained some broader exposure in national publications as an example of a locally focused real estate blogger that is firstly generating business from her efforts and secondly gaining respect from her peers nationally.  Along with this success has also come some misinterpretation of who she is, why she does it and how it's done.  We have enjoyed having Teresa here on the Tomato Soapbox, and felt that her articles have brought some much needed clarity to our voice, so in turn, we would like to return the favor and bring some clarity to hers.

Below is an interview we held with Teresa that focus on the reasons why she blogs, why it works for her and her outlook on the phenomenon of the real estate blog itself.

Leading our parade is the Queen of Consumer-Oriented content Teresa Boardman and her St. Paul Real Estate Blog. In Sellers, May We Talk? Boardman highlights the importance of making it as easy as possible for the potential buyers to find your house  especially in winter when it gets dark earlier.

Other Articles By Teresa Boardman on the Real Estate Tomato

Inman News - Get the inside track on the real estate industry

Lessons Learned While Watching American Idol
By Jeff Turner - Bloodhound blog

Now, here's where Teresa Boardman comes in. Teresa invited me to her blog today. It was a gracious invitation. If you come on over to my blog we could have a nice cup of tea and talk about the world of real estate she said. Since I had never been, I went. And I enjoyed.

She could just as easily have said, Hey, Jeff, come take a look at my blog. It's great. I am clearly doing something right, because I had over 1000 visitors today and we were mentioned in Realty Times. But she didn't. She didn't have to.

It wasn't until later this evening that it hit me - Teresa is actually singing. She doesn't have to tell me she can sing. She knows I can judge that for myself, and will. She has a beautiful voice. And in an audition room full of wannabees, she really stands out. Her Friday Fun posts like Potato Chips and Fruit Cake allow the reader to know her, to hear her speak in her own unique way. And posts like Protect Your Credit Rating And Your Privacy give her readers valuable knowledge, but don't feel like they were copied and pasted from some template. She auditions really well. As a result, her readers can predict, with a great deal of accuracy, that this is someone they're going to like to work with. Someone who will help them. Someone they can trust.

Realty Times online magazine Visits St. Paul RE
Do Real Estate Blogs Really Build Business?
Is a blog today's must-have in the real estate business? Some proponents say yes.

The Chicago Tribune

Real estate agents hang blogging signs
Though practitioners remain few, experts see industry on the cusp of a blogging revolution.  We shared this honor with Chicago's top blog writers:

Fran Bailey of Chicago Metro Real Estate , Dan Green of The Mortgage Reports  Joe Zekas of Yo! Chicago, Jeff Kerr of ChitownLiving. The reporter found me through the Real Estate Tomato blog.

"St. Paul agent Teresa Boardman, who recently was dubbed a "real estate blogging goddess" by The Real Estate Tomato

A post I wrote for the Real Estate Tomato, an advice blog, for Realtors on real estate blog writing, was a winner in the weekly carnival of real estate., hosted by Aaron Dickinson's  The Minneapolis Real Estate Update   Keeping Local Real Estate  . . . Well Local

John Lockwood   Elite Properties Sacramento California

I wanted to officially welcome Teresa Boardman  St. Paul Real Estate Blog to our blogroll.

I found out about Teresa through her posts on The Real Estate Tomtato, which is far and away the best blog about real estate technology out there (and I see recently that REBA agrees with me  congratulations, Jim, well earned [and probably well publicized, too, but I won't hold that against you ]

This especially brilliant Theresa Boardman article recently struck me as the only post I have read recently by a real estate blogger that made any business sense, and when I visited Theresa's blog, it further struck me that she's bucking the trend in the real estate blogging community in a big way, because her blog is about (wait for it) REAL ESTATE.

It's not about the future of search or IPhones or Zunes or how much my real estate license isn't worth, by golly, it's about Real Estate in St. Paul, and there are a bunch of pictures of what we in the business call houses.

Heck, I bet if you called her she'd even help you buy one.

Professionalism. What a concept.

Home of the Ten Good Men Blog  Award, honoring blogs with consumer content that are low in ego.

 

St. Paul Blog Love -

Alex Stenbeck - Behind the Mortage

We've been seriously remiss in not linking to Teresa Boardman's most excellent Saint Paul Real Estate Blog more often (her image at right, natch.)"

Winner in the 20th Carnival of Real estate
Teresa Boardman’s Common Walls, Common air? gives some good suggestions for residents of townhomes and other properties for dealing with smokers

"Again, we are thrilled to announce that we have another great article by the our own real estate blogging goddess, Teresa Boardman.  Earlier this month she presented her strategy for 2007 with: Business Plan 2007: Blog For Leads. This week she spits in the tiger's eye:"
Jim Cronin
Your Broker/Manager Hates your blog
Jim Cronin of the Real Estate Tomato Blog

 
Participant in the first Yankee Blog Swap

Teresa Thanks for your comment on our blog post about blogging. 
I actually was so impressed with your blog,
that I wrote a post devoted soley to your blog.  Have a look:
Great work and good luck!
Joshua Dorkin
President / CEO
BiggerPockets, Inc.
BiggerPockets.com Real Estate Investing Community
BiggerPockets.com Real Estate Investing Forums
 
Top Minnesota Real Estate Blogs
#1
A review from An Afair With Urban Policy 10/30/2006   
"Teresa Boardman is a realtor in St. Paul and writes on an excellent website
called the "St Paul Real Estate Blog". Her site provides a fantastic read on the
pulse of the real estate market in St. Paul, and she is very knowledgable on the
real estate industry in general.

• Resource: St. Paul Real Estate Blo

For example, some of her recent posts have examined Galtier Plaza, reviewed the
strength of the condo market in downtown St. Paul, and
discussed the importance of neighborhood hardware stores.

One of my favorite posts on the Teresa's site was her
"Parade of Triangle Buildings" on West 7th Street in St. Paul.

West 7th Street runs diagonally with many streets, creating
opportunities for triangle-shaped buildings, like the Flatiron Building."

Zach Korb

You do such a great job with your websites Teresa...truly a top notch agent
that knows how to harness technology to help herself and her clients. Well done!
Linsa Dunn Edina Realty [Link]

Home of the origional, and the first annual virtual Pumkin Carving Contest







"Darn you anyway...you got me spending a whole bunch of time on the computer
checking out all of your cool stuff.  Seriously--you have a bunch of really good links there. 
The St. Paul one that explains the districts and provides community council info and the
ExploreMN.com links were the ones I spent the most time exploring.  Thanks for sending!"
Kim - Home buyer and St. Paulite

I read your post about blogs on eTalk and am impressed with your blogsite! Nicely done.
Joe Finnerty, REALTOR, ePRO

Property Flipping
Article nominated for the Magnificent 7, the 7 best real estate blog entries in 2006
On July 7th Teresa Wrote a terrific article covering property flipping.
What is the big deal about flipping? Read this article.
Teresa assembled informative links. It is the best article on flipping
ha ve found and by following all the links you are very informed.
Very transparent info here. Larry Cragun

The carnival of Real estate blogging - the 10 best posts were chosen Hosted by The Real Estate Tomato
Blogging success
The carnival was about blogging success.

Recognized on a nation wide list of the top 500 Real Estate Blogs to watch, by the Pittsburgh Homes Daily
Teresa Boardman has a great St. Paul RE blog that we were remiss in not mentioning in the post itself -
head on over and check it out!  Alex Stenback behind the mortgage

 

nYour site is very well written and I hope we have chances to bounce ideas off each other.

--Pat Kitano

 

 

Bye!
 

 

Teresa Boardman ©2007 St.Paul Real Estate Blog