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Luxury Real Estate Branding: Canned Content = Canned Brands

3 February 2010 by Ron & Alexandra Seigel 200 views 6 Comments
Luxury Real Estate Branding: Canned Content = Canned Brands

Are people following your luxury real estate marketing blog? Are they watching your videos? If you do it right, you can build an entire personal brand and a large audience around your blog and videos. However, if your content is canned, meaning unoriginal or generic, you will not stand out as a distinct brand nor will you be follow-worthy. Canned content equals canned brands.

Have you heard the expression “Content is King” in reference to the internet and social media in particular? Content refers to articles, web copy (text on web pages and blog posts), videos, podcasts and photos. When you distribute content on the internet and include a link to your blog and or website you are basically inviting readers and viewers to find out more about you and your business.

If your video, your blog post or your article is shared with others, who in turn share it with their friends, the exposure that your content receives can expand exponentially.  This is what is meant by the term “viral” which comes from the concept that a virus can be spread in the same manner. It can be like word-of-mouth advertising on steroids!

The more places you distribute your content the more potential traffic you can generate. Click-throughs on your content can account for over 90% of your web traffic and completely dwarf click-throughs that come from Google or other search engines, even if you are naturally ranked at the top of the first page of search results.  That is the power of content to drive web traffic and that is why ORIGINAL content is king.

If your content is boring, unoriginal or generic your chances of people clicking on your links diminishes accordingly. If you publish recycled, unoriginal material you simply will not be followed, which is the entire point of building an audience of subscribers. Recycling may be good for cans but not for blog posts.

Unoriginal or generic real estate information is a turn-off in luxury real estate in particular. Imagine a Rolls Royce blogger explaining to a potential customer that they are looking at a car with four doors instead of telling them where to find the door mounted umbrella. Generic luxury real estate blog content indicates that the blogger lacks imagination and therefore lacks the marketing savvy required to win listings or sell expensive homes.

Be original! Canned content equals canned personal brands.

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  • George said:

    If content is king then this site is mecca

    http://jetsetresidences.com/devs/Austria_Schooren.html

  • Ron & Alexandra Seigel
    Ron & Alexandra Seigel (author) said:

    George,

    We agree, and you don’t need a special dispensation from the King to get in, or be of the appropriate gender. LOL. Thanks for the comment.

  • Top 10 real estate posts of the day for 2/4/2010 : Tempe real estate and free home search said:

    [...] Luxury Real Estate Branding: Canned Content = Canned Brands – Just having a blog is not enough, people have to actually read [...]

  • Ron & Alexandra Seigel
    Ron & Alexandra Seigel (author) said:

    Tempe real estate

    Point well taken, that is why you have to be “follow-worthy”, interesting and have something to say, that someone would be interested in. Between the two of us we read approximately 20-30 blogs a day on many subjects. We keep looking for new ones to read, and the majority are not interesting. Someone who just bought a house from you, is not interested in mortgage rates, or short sales discussions. They would be interested in finding out who the best vet in Tempe is for their beloved pet…you have to engage people. Think of it as being a fabulous guest at a cocktail party!

  • James Mcnault Mcnault said:

    Blogging is the best way to build a business reputation. Through blogging, we can actually attract potential customers. You are right that uniqueness is really important. The content should be readable, brief but informative, and relevant. There are different techniques that you can use to use the benefits of social media to its fullest potential. In our Luxury Real Estate business, we use this and we are really surprised of the results. Our Clients are actually calling us because they need our service. Thanks for this article. God bless!

  • Ron & Alexandra Seigel
    Ron & Alexandra Seigel (author) said:

    James,

    Thanks for the comment, and we are delighted that your are succeeding with your blog posts. Congratulations and continued success in all your endeavors.

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