By the way Jonelle, I love your link to "fin free Sidney"...I just liked their fb page.
First I thought it was going to be a site about maybe having a shark net across Sidney Harbour so people could swim in safety but then I saw it was actually against the "shark's fin soup" sort of industry and that's excellent.
Good stuff
Mark

G'day Jonelle, I think Mark has it pretty well summed up. From my point of view, Just a few graphics and more colour, you seem to be going a whole page with nothing to break it but WA banners. If you want excellent graphics on any subject try fotolia.com costs approx. $1.00 /graphic. it only takes a little to make a good site into a great one.
Lindon.

Hi Jonelle

Well done for getting your first blog post together with your 3 local marketing ideas...... although I can't comment on the usefulness of the ideas it's put together very nicely.

1 - I'm aware that your site is new and therefore will naturally lack a certain depth to it but I would agree with Roger about some images (including a header image), after all, real estate is about presenting properties in their best light so that they appeal to a wide spectrum of viewers.

2 - Your domain lands on your blog roll which is good and in accordance with Kyle's training....have you made this one a sticky or will it naturally be superseded by new posts? Well done for making a snippet of it as it then means you can have comments allowed beneath each blog post as they're opened.

3 - I'd recommend you break up your paragraphs as a few look a little too long....limit them to a couple of/few sentences and maybe use a couple of H2/H3/H4 headings in between them.

4 - You've got a question as a CTA for your comments which is good but I'd also word it so that you ask your viewers for their thoughts on YOUR ideas as well in order to get them to comment as they may not have ideas of their own.

With the rest of your site, on your Sales Agents page I'd do #3 on there as well. I like that your two links open in a new tab so viewers keep your site open....no Call To Action for your comments at the bottom though, you should create one for this page too.
I like that your Privacy Page is on a drop down, means it's there for Mr G but not taking up space on your top menu line.

Overall, a good start Jonelle....your ongoing task is to keep at it but the few little things above shouldn't take long to do if you feel you want to take note of them.

Good luck
Mark

I usually struggle with writing too. I'm going to post a new method I've started using to make it easier.

I hope you don't mind me commenting as I am relatively new here. I have just taken a look at your website and the first thing that hit me was that there are no header pictures of Real Estate etc.

I have just done a search for you and found it possible to get some free picture which you might want to use? Unfortunately, I am unable to add any links here.

I am building a site about 'Juicing', so if you take a look at it you can see the pictures I have been able to add. http://www.juicing4us.com

I hope this helps?

Roger