Assuming the readers of this website are all my friends, I’m fairly comfortable posting (some of) my New Year’s resolutions in the public domain. Sure it’s a little risky, but there’s that accountability that comes with declaring our goals to people we care about.

A quick side note: My first paragraph of the year has already begged the question, Are you my friend? If so, please do me a couple of favors.

1. Subscribe to this blog, allowing us to stay in contact and providing me with the motivation to keep sharing.

2. Leave comments on your favorite posts. This is supposed to be interactive, back-and-forth, a community and so on. Please participate.

If you’re not a friend of mine yet, give me a call and I’ll buy you a cup of coffee - let’s get to know each other.

Back to the resolutions.

1. Shed those Holiday pounds. This has become an annual thing, as reliable as Mom’s spritz cookies at Christmas, or the homemade Fudge that my sister has now perfected. The good news is that by this point I know how to lose the weight almost as quickly as I put it on. I can usually get within spitting-distance of my goal before a new season of American Idol begins. The trick is maintaining those healthy habits. This year, I’m going to maintain a weight at or under 180lbs.

2. Blog regularly. That means about twice a week, save for any vacation time that I might take. How about 100 posts for 2008? Seems like a reasonable goal. The real purpose of these posts goes back to that friendship piece - what better way to keep you (my friends) up to speed with my life, my family and my business? How about YOU make a resolution to check-in regularly?

3. Create a whole new experience for people buying and selling real estate. We’ve all made quantitative goals around our business, and those are both positive and necessary. But this goal is different. 2008 is the year we go paperless! And it doesn’t end there. I’m talking about embedded video tours, viral internet marketing, constant web-based communication - the whole shootin’ match. I’ve got all the pieces coming together to create a convenient, secure, eco-friendly real estate transaction that takes advantage of today’s technology. Like everything else, better-faster-cheaper. I’m so excited about this one!

4. Be a better Husband, Father, Son, Uncle, Brother and Friend. Real Estate markets will ebb-and-flow, technology will continue to evolve, and some day 49ers may even be good again. But it’s our relationships and the lives we touch that really matter. So I’ll be working on that this year as well.

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So here we go - this is my third attempt at a blog this year. I’ve been to all the training sessions, hired the consultant, spent countless hours reading the real estate tomato and copyblogger and every-other article in the CAR magazine (California Association of Realtors - not Car and Drive, but I’ve read those too). Blogging is all the rage, especially in real estate, and I’m determined to jump on this train no matter how many times I fall off in the process.

I don’t know that I’ve actually figured out how this blog thing is going to work, but I’ve definitely formed an opinion, and it’s got to be as valid as anyone else’s.

The blog is about allowing my readers to get to know me. I think I can handle that. I can write frequently about myself and my life and my thoughts on the world. And who knows, I may become an entertaining writer and develop a following. Hey, it could happen.

The blog is about business development. This is the hard part. I’m supposed to write about real estate and the tri-valley and demonstrate my expertise, all the while working-in my keywords so that I come up in Google searches. Seems so phony… Read the rest of this entry »

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