St. Paul Real Estate: Honors come to St. Paul RE

It has been an exciting, and unusual week! If I had known that almost 1000 people were coming to visit my blog yesterday I would have tidied up a bit, I spent most of the day with clients and did not know what was going on until I got a phone call from a Realtor in Orlando.

Yesterday we were mentioned in Realty Times online magazine:

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"

Later in the day 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

I received the greatest honor I could receive last week from a peer in the Real Estate industry and am remiss for not mentioning it sooner. John Lockwood, a Broker from Sacramento CA, reviewed St. Paul Real Estate Blog last week. John's blog is one of the best in the industry: Sacramento-Home.com John is my favorite heckler, he leaves comments on the posts I write for the Real Estate Tomato and keeps me in line. He is kind of my own cyber stalker and I never know where he will show up next. Some how we became friends, but he still lets me know what he thinks when I write something that he does not agree with.

I hope I can live up to my new title of real estate blogging goddess. I love what I do and writing a blog about it is more fun than work. When I first started I worried about what both of my readers would think. Now that I have more than two readers I feel a little pressure to write good consumer and real estate related content, because I know that people are reading it. Stop by tomorrow and read about foreclosures and see my invitation to lenders, lawyers and Real estate agents to join the conversation.

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Comments

Christine said at January 23, 2007 at 07:59 AM

Teresa - Oh good - I get to be the first to congratulate you over here!
teresa boardman said at January 23, 2007 at 08:32 AM

Christine - You are the first on this post but some of the mad real estate bloggers wrote comments on previous posts which is why I wrote today's post. Thanks much, I am honored!
Doug Quance said at January 23, 2007 at 08:44 AM

Wow... a thousand people...

Your server seems slow right now, so you might have a repeat performance...

Mark me down for "one". :)
Norm Fisher said at January 23, 2007 at 09:46 AM

You certainly deserve that attention. Now that you're a "goddess," have you thought about starting your own church? :)
Bonnie Erickson said at January 23, 2007 at 10:14 AM

You should have worn your tiara. We crowned you long before the world knew! If I could add the picture of Queen Teresa to my comments, I would. Congrats!
rudolph d. bachraty III said at January 23, 2007 at 11:14 AM

teresa - congrats! please accept a standing ovation from sellsius°.

we have always been huge fans of yours and truly feel that you represent the best of the best. you are a great inspiration for any agent who is thinking about starting a real estate blog.

we wish you continued success.

blog on!

rudy.sellsius°
Larry Cragun said at January 23, 2007 at 12:17 PM

Goddess? Goodness Teresa what next? Hillary is looking for a running mate - how about that? Or perhaps you could be the first to blog live while jogging from St Paul to Seattle. Lar
MNJake said at January 23, 2007 at 12:48 PM

Congratulations Teresa! I knew you were good, but Wow! MNJake
jf.sellsius said at January 23, 2007 at 01:54 PM

I recommended you to Maggie Knowles. I told her you had mastered the place blog.
teresa boardman said at January 23, 2007 at 02:36 PM

Thanks everyone.
JF - I am happy that I mastered something. :)
Lar - be nice!
Bonnie - keep you pictures to yourself, oh queen of Minnesota!
Doug - I am no the only blog here. It could be the tomato who is causing the slowdown.
Maureen McCabe said at January 23, 2007 at 03:00 PM

Congratulations! You are a blog goddess and a bag of chips.
Mickey Booz said at January 23, 2007 at 04:34 PM

Teresa you go girl! Hey 1000 hits is worthy of great praise! Congrats :)
Maureen Francis said at January 23, 2007 at 09:36 PM

Just another fan stopping in to say congratulations!
Jeff Turner said at January 23, 2007 at 09:55 PM

Teresa, I just stopped by for some tea and conversation, but when I saw how big the party was, I figured I'd ask for a Jack Daniels instead. 1000 people is an awfully full house!

:)
The Lovely Wife said at January 24, 2007 at 01:10 AM

I'll take a shot of that Jack Daniels. Chips would be nice too. Hubba! Hubba! Congratulations Teresa. Got dip? :) TLW...ROAR!
Marty Van Diest said at January 24, 2007 at 01:15 AM

OK Theresa, you hooked me. I'll be back tomorrow. I've seen you on the realestate tomato and on active rain but this is the first time here.
teresa boardman said at January 24, 2007 at 07:11 AM

Jeff 1019 people stopped by. I think I need to put some of that Jack Danials in my tea!
TLW - I am honored to have you roar on St. Paul re, but I would like to say that we try to use our indoor voices here.

Thanks so much to all of you for stopping by and leaving such wonderful comments. :)
Craig Mische said at January 24, 2007 at 10:57 AM

Pretty cool Teresa. Did you get a big jump in traffic the day of the article?
Pat Kitano said at January 24, 2007 at 10:11 PM

A Rose for you! (hope your comment box does html...) Congrats Teresa!
Zach said at January 24, 2007 at 10:51 PM

Congratulations. I know you must put in a lot of time learning / researching / writing, so all of the attention is very much deserved!