After pounding my head against the Barnes & Noble wall for far too long, the links in the booklist have been fixed. The links now take you to the page on BarnesandNoble.com where one can purchase the book. If you haven’t looked at the booklist for a while, take a look around. There are some real gems there.

By now you have seen many post on many blogs about New Year’s resolutions. I’ve never been a fan of resolutions — part of the point of making resolutions seems to be breaking them in mid-February. Instead, I have a list of goals I want to achieve during 2010. Here are some of them that apply to either the website or my real estate career;

1. Be more active on the blog: If you look at the archives list, you’ll see that I posted about two articles a week during 2009. That is nowhere near enough. In 2010, I’d like to get that up to posting about every other day. I won’t be able to do that from the starting line [although I'm doing pretty well in January so far], but by the end of the year, I’d like to be making about 15 posts per month.
2. Improve my Facebook Page: I finally got with the 21st Century and built a Facebook page. I now have a main page, plus a page for my current listing. In 2010 I want to continue to develop those.
3. Learn to use Twitter: I admit it — I didn’t get Twitter. I couldn’t figure out why people would care what I had for breakfast. slowly I’m starting to see that Twitter can be much more than that. In 2010 I want to be better at using Twitter to communicate with people.
4. Start a Networking Group: I’ve been reading Trust Agents over the holidays, and it talks about the value of building a group of people from different professions who meet regularly to share ideas and connections. That’s not the first time I’ve read about the idea, and it’s something I want to work on this year. If you think you might be interested, email me.

Four goals . . . that should keep me busy for most of the year, right?

From all of us at Bull City Real Estate, may you have a very Merry Christmas, or whichever holiday you choose to celebrate. We’ll be back after we open and play with our presents.

In a bit of long overdue maintenance, the booklist has been updated. There are some great real estate books there, so go take a look.

If you have a favorite real estate book you think I should read, please leave a comment. I’ll be the first to admit I haven’t read every book available.

As you can see, Bull City Real Estate has a new look! The recent server move revealed all the problems that had crept into the old website, so we decided to redo everything from scratch. We certainly hope you find the new look easier on the eyes, and more useful to boot.

There are still some areas that need to be fleshed out. In particular, the posts from the old site didn’t make it over, so I’m reentering them manually over the next few days. That links section looks pretty thin too.

Thanks to CHCS and WordPress for the new look. Where have you guys been all my life?

Please feel free to leave your comments and impressions! [the comment section finally works too!]