Archive for February, 2009

Whats up with the blogs?

Friday, February 27th, 2009

I was slinking around the internet today and ran across a huge list of websites. This one was listed in it as well. I also noticed another domain name with the words ‘Boise’ and ‘blog’ in it. Not fearing competition I decided to do a search of all the domains listed with those two words in them. Their were quite a few. 23 in this list to be exact. I decided to look at most of them to see what they were writing about. The majority covered real estate.

Why are there so many real estate blogs? I know the internet is a good way to get the word out but it seems to me that the real estate marketers are kinda saturating the blog aspect of real estate marketing. Those sites were just the ones with the two words I mentioned earlier. How many other real estate blogs are out there?

A bit of a boring subject, I know. Get over it.

Oh, wanted to throw a shout out to my 3 faithful readers out there… Thanks Mom, Dad, and that crazy person who keeps sending me e-mails, raving about my literary skills.

It’s the economy, Stupid.

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

So. I had been walking around recently with my head screwed on straight. My future looking bright. I had always thought that in my line of work, I would always be needed and I wouldn’t have to worry about the economy having an effect on me. It has had an effect on me but not to the extent I thought it would until yesterday morning.

I found out Monday morning that the company I work for is losing one of its contracts. We still have another, but the one we are losing accounts for about 3/4ths of my income. This isn’t a good sign. However, I’m not one of those whiney SOB’s that think I deserve a job or that I deserve anything but the opportunity to do well.

I’m really kinda playing it by ear and seeing what is going to happen in the next week or two before I start making any plans on whether to stay and hope all works out, or to get out there and start finding another job.

I’ll probably go back to what I had been doing a few years ago to supplement my income. That would be buying junk and turning it around and selling it on ebay. I always made a few extra bucks doing that.

I’ll keep you up to date on what happens.