Comments on: 9 Lessons You Can Learn about Blogging By Watching Me Sell My House

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:32:55 +0000

“As a result – advertising in our very local papers was a waste of time and our ad dollars would go a lot further by advertising in papers from the inner city suburbs.”

You may also increase the size of potential buyers by listing on a National website such as homebuyer.

By: Carmen / The Decorating Diva

Carmen / The Decorating Diva — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:11:37 +0000

Darren,

This was an excellent post. I love how you approached home selling from an internet marketing / blogging perspective. You found creative new methods (specially point #2 – add emotion to marketing material) that I honestly can’t say I thought of or had heard from any of the realtors or design professionals I know.

Great job.
Carmen Natschke

By: Nha Cho Thue

Nha Cho Thue — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 11:31:58 +0000

thanks a lot. i have learned something from this

By: sheena24

sheena24 — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:39:43 +0000

Hi,
Congrats Darren.
Great blog and very informative too.
keep it up:)

By: jamytan

jamytan — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 02:27:33 +0000

Congratulation Darren,

Wow, did I read it right that you live in Australia ? I always thought you lived in the US. I must be living in a blog cave :).
I lived in Sydney for about 15 years. I have lots of connections with Australia. My mom’s 2nd brother’s wife is an Australian lady; so is my only brother’s wife :). I have a 1/2 Australian and 1/2 Chinese nephew.

Jamy Tan from FL, USA.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 02:12:47 +0000

result is in the update at the end of the post – but it was a successful day all around with us achieving a pretty nice price – not spectacular, but comfortably above what we set as our minimum.

By: Canvas Grey

Canvas Grey — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 02:09:21 +0000

Hope you had success!

THANK YOU for your blog and sharing your experiences!

By: Mr.Gadget Australia - aka Arnold

Mr.Gadget Australia - aka Arnold — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 02:04:21 +0000

Darren how’d the auction go?

I like the new web layout too!

By: AskaX :: Get Smart Blog

AskaX :: Get Smart Blog — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 14:51:18 +0000

Nice way to apply the lesson, from selling house and blogging :D . Congrats for your achievement…

By: MONEY BLUE BOOK

MONEY BLUE BOOK — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 23:49:53 +0000

Well they say it’s all about curb appeal. Dress it up well and people will be able to envision themselves living there! Good luck! :)

– Raymond (MONEY BLUE BOOK)

By: CatherineL

CatherineL — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 22:30:55 +0000

Well done Darren – I was wondering how you got on. I love the idea of the personalised brochures you made by the way, and I’ll definitely be sharing the idea with friends who are selling their houses.

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 16:16:41 +0000

Congratz at selling your house Darren.
I hope sometime I can buy myself a house in Spain :)

By: Coldie

Coldie — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 11:09:00 +0000

Impressive… I have learn somethin new here… a very GOOD article… Thanks

Cheers & Have a awesome weekends…

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 11:00:10 +0000

LOL – if blogging fails maybe I’ll give it a go ;-)

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 07:57:12 +0000

Considering a career change in RE?

By: Andrew Boyd

Andrew Boyd — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:30:02 +0000

Hey Darren,

good luck with it :) I attended my first ever house auction last weekend and it was stressful for everyone concerned – best wishes for a successful and speedy conclusion to the process.

Thank you for the reminder that decluttering is important and that the small stuff does matter.

Best regards, Andrew Boyd

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:59:02 +0000

Trent – well it’s not an upgrade just because we can, we’re moving closer to grandparents (who care for our little one a couple of days a week) and to get a bigger home (working at home means I’m in a bedroom and we don’t have much room to grow). Having said that – blogging has helped us to enable the upgrade (so has my wife’s job and the mortgage the bank is giving us!).

Simonne – good tip.

Jerome – blog editor – do you mean a person who edits the blog or a blog editor as in the tool to edit it (like these)?

Kathleen – cinnamon hey – hmmmm. Might be a little late for that now but thanks for the tip. In terms of auctions – here in Melbourne Auctions are pretty normal, depending on what part of the city you live in. Closer to the city they are very normal but on the outlying burbs private sales are more normal.

CatherineL – not sold yet (5 hours til auction now… and counting). See above for the auction stuff.

Tito – welcome to ProBlogger, thanks for your first comment. Thanks for your best wishes.

Terra – we’re in a mini housing boom here in Australia. While interest rates have just been raised there are a lot of big prices still being achieved. I suspect things will slow slightly in the coming months with football finals on and an election coming up – but in the middle and upper ends of the market it seems to be still growing.

Maria – good tip on the giveaways!

By: Mikey from www.WhichWebsite.com

Mikey from www.WhichWebsite.com — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:47:51 +0000

Nice post, I am working on my house I am hoping the proceeds of my website http://www.WhichWebsite.com will pay for that.

By: Maria Palma

Maria Palma — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:58:14 +0000

Good post, Darren! When I was a real estate agent I used to bring refreshments to the open houses. I’ve even seen real estate agents have full-on BBQs during an open house!

As with blogging, you may want to give away a free ebook to your readers every now and then as a small gesture for visiting your blog ;)

By: Terra Andersen

Terra Andersen — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:20:43 +0000

I wonder what housing prices are like in Australia now? My area of the U.S. is one of the worst hit by the “foreclosure crisis”. It’s pretty bad… everywhere you go, there is a $800,000 home for sale!

Anyhow, congrats on selling… you seem to have done your research and covered all of your bases.. I’m sure you’ll do well!