Last Train to Clarksville

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One day while I was doing a “long-tail” search for Military Spouse prayer groups, I came across an article that was by a Realtor.  I was kind of shocked that out of all my searches for a prayer group I get a Real Estate website. “What the world” I am a Realtor, that wasn’t what I was looking for, but as I looked at this site I found something that I never ventured into….BLOGGING!

I thought this was the coolest thing ever, being so personal, and I hadn’t seen anything like it before.  I love things that are different, being out of the box, and here in my area all the websites are the same.  They are either through Agent Point 2, which don’t get me wrong, is a wonderful site for Real Estate Professionals.  (I had 2 sites through Point2. I just wasn’t using them and they seemed to put us all in the same design.) Then you have your Real Estate Companies that provide a website with their fee.  Lastly you have websites that you can pay to have made. I paid over $700 to have mine made for Team Agnew.  I got a lot of compliments on this site for my team and others decided to do the same thing. (I am sure that is what will happen with my RET site.)

A blogging site?

Never heard of it but thought, what a genius idea!  Instead of having something that doesn’t let you interact with the customers coming to it, why not have something that you can share your voice and show them who you are. This blogger is creative and fun and tries to come up with out of the box ideas to make reading entertaining, maybe even get the blood pressure up for some who disagree.  But then you have the bloggers who don’t want to come across with a more personal feel but a more expert appeal.  There are a lot of things that I am an expert on, so I won’t pretend and blog about something I don’t know about.  If I am blogging about something new to me, you will know it and I will give you plenty of links to the experts. (At least I shared something of interest that might help you.)  On a lot of websites, you read information that sound so professional and doing a little deep research I found that most sites have the same content. So what makes Joe different from Sally?

I decided to email RET.

These guys didn’t see me coming! I know that I was a pain in the rear.  I am a little bit of a perfectionist and I changed my design concept almost half way through the set up process.  Chris D. was patient with me and didn’t seem bothered at all.  I was told the best sites seem to be the ones that are more of a pain. (My words). Chris D is very creative in his ideas, along with the rest of the Team.  They are very busy, so if they don’t get right with you, be patient.  It will be worth your wait.

I won’t try and give you the sales pitch, I would probably not do it justice but Chris D. sold my husband and I!  It has been worth every penny. It was the smartest move I could ever have done for my business.

When we were doing our initial interview Chris wanted to know what I was thinking about for a theme, a design.  I let him know that I was in a military town and did a lot of transactions with them. I had no idea what I could do. The blog was new to me.  He first mentioned “Last Train To Clarksville” but I wasn’t sold on that. Then he thought about a General Store and I thought it would probably work. Bring the “General” into it for the military. We started working on that concept but it just didn’t mesh well.  So I searched Clarksville to see how this city came to be and what were the stepping stones. I saw, “Last Train To Clarksville” and found all the pictures for the site and monkeys and drew the design of how I wanted it within a day! I knew that this was it when I went to GoDaddy to see if the domain was taken.

To what did my wondering eyes appear?

Both lasttraintoclarksville.com and thelasttraintoclarksville.com were available (bought them both). The blog came to life and took off! I shared my design with a Realtor friend in my office and he (Roland) said, “Genius! The Agnew Express.” Wow! I said, “Yes, We’re blogging on the Agnew Express.” So, it just might help to share an idea with someone and see what their feedback is. It might ignite the spark and then… BAM!! … the ideas will start taking off!

If you are interested in learning more about RET by talking to Chris D., please fill out the information below and he will be giving you a call, hopefully within a week.

If you would like to speak to me about my site or about your ideas, I am available.  I love being creative! I might be opening up a can of worms here! I will do what I can but my clients comes first.

But more importantly, try and be out of the box. The more you are set apart from the rest, the more you will stick out and people will take notice!  I also decided to go through their RET University where their pros teach about blogging, SOI’s, RSS’s, etc… There is so much information that I am still realing from it all. Just be sure to write down everything that is said because you will be going back to it.  Oh, they also have tutorials and more ideas that are available to RET clients. It is all worth it and the best part is…I won’t be paying someone else over $38/mo for a website that is just promoting the company I am with and causing the company’s name to soar in google, not mine. I am promoting my business and I will be paying less than $10/mo for hosting!

So in the long run, I will be making a huge savings!  If this post makes you fill out the email information, please let Chris D. know you heard it from me! Last Train To Clarksville’s, Thea Agnew.

Many Blessings to you and your business~

Thea

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1. Roland said at January 7th, 2009 at 2:03 am

   Thea,

   The site is looking great. I see you are doing well blogging on the Agnew Express !

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