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Top FIVE Reasons Why Blog Scrapers Suck

This blog is the intellectual property of Lesley Lambert.  If you are not viewing this on either www.westernmahomes.net or www.lesleylambert.com this content has been stolen/plagiarized.

I write this for home owners and home buyers in Western MA to help them with their real estate decisions. I work hard at this effort and deserve attribution and credit for what I deliver.

Tonight I discovered that someone has been using an RSS feed of my blog to pretty much build his own website.  This kind of dirty pool makes me really PO’ed.  You like what I write?  You want to use it?  That is great, just give credit where it is due.

This tool is taking everything I work so hard on and poising it as his own content with no attribution or back linking to my site.

So you may ask yourself, why is Lesley writing this blog post?  WELL….

It is going to show up on his site, too.  SO…

TOP FIVE REASONS WHY BLOG SCRAPERS SUCK

#1- they are robbers.  Just ask:  nickmrandal@gmail.com

#2- they are bottom feeders.  See also: nickmrandal@gmail.com
#3- they reduce the value of original content.  Like: nickmrandal@gmail.com
#4- they survive because some of us are ignorant.  I am sure that nickmrandal@gmail.com is counting on me ignoring him.  Nick Randal is wrong.
#5- Nick M. Randal and his ilk are a nasty plagiaristic  bunch that need to be stopped.
Dear Nick M. Randal aka Mr. DOOSH, the next time you hear from me, it will be on my attorney’s letterhead.
Love,
the creator of much of your content (but not for long)
Lesley Lambert

FIVE Favorite Western MA Blogs

western ma blogsSo, outside of my own blogs (which you are already reading, right? I have this one, my distressed homeowner one and one about musical theater for kids), I love exploring the posts of other Western Massachusetts residents.

Today I want to share my favorites with you and I hope you will peruse their posts and enjoy as much as I do.

#1- Exploring Western Massachusetts.
This blog is an everything Western MA site with wonderful posts about events, places and history of this great part of the world.

#2- The Jump, WriterJax
The musings of the eclectic and entertaining Jaclyn Stevenson. You just never know what you will find when you visit this blog, but it is always fun!

#3- Holyoke Home
from their about section: One couple. One dog. One garden. One achingly lovely historic brick row house in Holyoke, Massachusetts. One very cool city. One VERY LONG renovation ‘wish list.’ One project at a time? We’ll see. I love antique homes and can appreciate what they are sharing through their process. Also a very positive view of the city of Holyoke.

#4- Berkshire Country Homes
Even though my town of Westfield is just at the foothills of the Berkshires, every time I visit those lovely mountains I feel that I am a world away. Marlene’s posts take me there when I don’t have time to drive.

#5- Cooper Green Design
While I don’t know this designer personally, I enjoy learning about Green living architecture and find this blog to be a great resource and food for thought.

BONUS

#6- Wooing Your TQ
This one is really #1 for me, but since it is ABOUT me, I thought I should share it as a bonus. Morriss has created this lovely homage to our romance and I find it very sweet and inspirational!

I am always on the lookout for new local blogs to peruse…what do you recommend?

Real Estate Geek Girl

Many of you know that I am not only a real estate agent at Park Square Realty in Westfield, MA, but a total geek girl and that I love using social media for developing friendships in real life. I have been blessed with so many wonderful new friends and clients and even an amazing boyfriend because of my use of social media that I can’t help but share my success stories and encourage others to try using social media to grow their business and personal lives, too.

Recently I wrote a post for my column at Agent Genius Magazine that shared the truth, that most of my closed real estate transactions in 2010 came to me through social media in one form or another. The post got some attention within real estate circles, but I was floored last week when out of the blue Mike Myatt of N2Growth sent this tweet:

The link provided led to a blog post about people who have social media influence and included the likes of Chris Brogan, Gary Vaynerchuck and Dell Computers. Within the post was a video which included a highlighted quote from the Agent Genius post mentioned above. Watch this short and entertaining video which highlights Social Media Influence and includes yours truly:

This week I was featured in another blog about QR (quick read) Codes. The post was describing the multitude of applications for using a QR Code and featured this video about my use of QR Codes for marketing real estate in Western MA made for me by my talented and wonderful boyfriend, Morriss Partee. I learned about QR code technology at PodCamp Western MA and have been incorporating it into the marketing of my homes for sale in Westfield, Ma and the surrounding Pioneer Valley towns. This video crafted by Morriss explains what a QR code is and how I am using it to help my homes for sale stand out and get homes sold.

I am proud, excited and thrilled to see that my use of social media isn’t just improving my life, but I am able to share some of my hard earned knowledge to help other people working to use these tools.

If you are a fellow real estate agent looking to use social media as a tool in your marketing and prospecting you can read my contributions to Agent Genius Magazine.

If you are a consumer looking for real estate news and advice you can visit:

My personal blog
My real estate blog
My Masslive blog

I am your proud, grateful and very TIRED Realtor in Western MA!



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Wow, what a year 2010 has been in Western Massachusetts real estate!


Not long into January I started to meet a lot of new first time buyers who found me mostly on the internet. Some were friends that I stay in touch with on Facebook, others I met through social media events and the rest found me through my blog posts and videos. I was soon working with over eight sets of first time home buyers who were trying to take advantage of the tax credit, low interest rates and low purchase prices.

That’s A LOT of showings!

I wish I kept track of how many houses I showed these buyers in total, but I am going to have to guess that it was well over 150 houses between all of them. Five months later six of these buyers are closed or will close this month on their new homes and the others continue to look even with the expiration of the tax credit.

While at the office yesterday my manager handed me a printout with the office standings and was I ever floored! I was listed as the #1 real estate agent at Park Square Realty’s Westfield office for the year to date!



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Too Busy to Notice!


I have been so busy taking care of all of these buyers that I didn’t pay attention to my sales statistics and hadn’t realized exactly where I stood.

Real estate is my career, but I don’t work this hard for the paycheck. I work like this because I want to help my home buyers and sellers realize their real estate dreams and goals. I work this hard because I know that each of these transactions deeply affects their lives and is one of the most important decisions of their life.

That is what makes me so proud…that I have helped so many amazing first time buyers realize their dream of home ownership. The rest is just gravy. Really good, yummy gravy, but still just the top dressing.

Thank you to my clients and customers for your faith in me. Thank you for your trust and for your business. I appreciate you more than you know!



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Now all that door opening has tuckered me out, but I after a little restorative cat nap I will be ready for the next bit of business. Who wants to move?