The Real Estate Tomato: Maureen Francis Captures Top Spot For The Inman Real Estate Blog Makeover

Maureen-francis This week hundreds of real estate agents will gather in New York City for Inman Connect, a bi-annual conference where the real estate industry comes together to discuss new ideas, technologies, niches, and trends.

Our role in this year’s conference is to help one real estate blogger take their efforts to the highest level with a complete makeover.

Fortunately, we won’t have to carry the burden of determining what the “highest level” is, all on our own. In addition to our two cents, we will be leveraging the wisdom and pocket change of Dustin Luther, Jeff Turner, Joel Burslem, Benn Rosales, Jay Thompson, Gahlord Dewald, and Daniel Rothamel. And, to make things that much more interesting, we will also open the discussion to the audience, who will be able to Twitter their thoughts on the project.

We (the collection of names above) selected the winner of the Blog Makeover Contest from nearly 30 very deserving submissions. The voting was done Heisman-style where every judge submitted their top 3 choices. A first-place vote was worth 3 points, second-place worth 2 points, and third-place 1 point. When all the votes were in, and all the points tallied, Maureen came out on top, in a very close race, winning by 1 point.

Below is Maureen’s winning entry.

(I do have to admit that my vote was swayed by the plea made by of one of Detroit’s best known rockers.)

Rockers aside, Maureen’s blog is going to be a perfect specimen for our Makeover Project. Maureen has been blogging about real estate in Oakland County, MI since March 5^th, 2005. She has posted over 600 articles, and boasts that this year has been her best for business generated by her internet presence.

So why would someone who has been blogging for nearly 4 years need a makeover?

The answer is simple: She wants to focus less on the management of the site, the design of the site, the updates of the site, the upgrades of the site, and the functionality of the site. It all has gotten in the way of allowing her to FOCUS ON BLOGGING. In her words, she finds herself frustrated and bored.

Reconnect-nyc Well Maureen, we’re all here to help.

If you are planning at being at Inman NYC this week, and you’ve got blogging on the mind, you will not want to miss this event with some of the best minds in Real Estate Online Marketing. We will be on stage at 1pm, on Wednesday the 7^th – See you there!

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