Daniel Rothamel the realestatezebra puts social media concepts to work for his blog

BrokerIPTV: We are on the vendor floor here at Real Estate Connect in San Francisco 2008 and I am here with... the only way I know you is the realestatezebra. How are you doing?

Daniel Rothamel: I am hanging in there. It's been a long day, but I am hanging in there.

BrokerIPTV: Excellent. I guess you were one of the panelists speaking this morning.

Daniel Rothamel: Correct. I spoke at Bloggers Connect on the panel, Take your blog to the next level. That was the topic we were charged with this morning.

BrokerIPTV: Well, I am just curious because I am involved... I had some social media interest myself, but how can a person take their blog to the next level and not drag[phonetic] their life with it?

Daniel Rothamel: To me, it is about integrating it into your life in a way. I am a practicing Realtor also. So, one of the things that is important to me about taking your blog to the next level is it means taking it off the Internet sometimes. I think we have a tendency to concentrate so much on what goes online that we forget that we are still in a relationship business. It is still about meeting people. It is still about engaging people. That is what we do and the Internet only blogging, [inaudible] everything it only helps us facilitate that process. It doesn't replace it, it only helps us facilitate it.

BrokerIPTV: Yeah. I think I always try to remind my brokers, this is still very much a contact sport.

Daniel Rothamel: Right. Exactly. It totally is. It is. You are exactly right. It is a contact sport and that is how you create more contacts and doing that, it is a two way street. There is double benefit there; making those contacts increases the SEO and all those things for your blog and as that happens, it enables you to do more things like contact more people.

BrokerIPTV: I picked up I must say numerous little tips and tricks for websites and software and ideas and concepts from Twitter.

Daniel Rothamel: Oh, yeah, totally. It is amazing to me how much stuff you can pick up and it is amazing to me how much people pick up from me that I didn't... you know whatever. I didn't think you can be that popular, but I get people like, "Hey, thanks for sharing that link" or you know "I am really glad you shared that story" and it happens all the time and that kind of stuff leads to other conversations.

BrokerIPTV: Right. Well, I really appreciate you talking about this Dan. Once again, your Twitter name is realestatezebra?

Daniel Rothamel: That's right. If you ever wonder if I am somewhere, go to realestatezebra. If it's not there, then I am not there.

BrokerIPTV: How about your blog?

Daniel Rothamel: realestatezebra.com.

BrokerIPTV: Talk about great branding. This is what social media is about. Realestatezebra... I know him by that versus Dan... I can't remember his last name, but...

Daniel Rothamel: Rothamel.

BrokerIPTV: Rothamel... but I certainly got realestatezebra down. So, thanks Dan.

Daniel Rothamel: No problem.

Posted on October 12, 2008 11:10:49 by Blog Author