John Jones

Hello everyone,

My name is John and I've been working within the real estate industry for three years now. If you count vacation rentals and long term property management type businesses then I've really been in the industry for seven years and not three.

My journey into the real estate industry started in the vacation rental business where I was employed originally as the in house webmaster. It wasn't long before the company owner wanted to invest his time and money into internet marketing. So we set out on an adventure that shaped and changed my career goals forever.

I now work directly with real estate professionals around the United States to help bring clarity and understanding to their online marketing strategies and development. I've been known as a motivator for my customers, a soundboard to bounce concepts off of and a spam filter since I'll review any marketing related solicitation for a client and provide an honest opinion of the solicitation.

I've joined Trulia Voices to demonstrate the value behind the Q & A features and to show clients how to further promote and brand their own reputation online as experts within their areas. Additionally I have a few real estate related questions of my own I want to ask for personal and professional purposes so this is business and pleasure both for me.

I am never sure if I should answer this in paragraph format or in bullets. To keep things simple I think I'll simply list off a few of my interests and maybe add on to this as time goes along.

Internet Marketing - My wife and many people in my life cannot figure out why I spend eight hours in an office doing Internet Marketing and then when I get home, in order to wind down and relax, I hop right back on a computer and do more marketing related work. I'm a marketing junkie.

Road Trips - I logged 1,500 miles over a 9 day period of this last Thanksgiving (2008). Sacramento to Tahoe, Tahoe to Sacramento, Sacramento to Chico, Chico to Sacramento, Sacramento to Chico, Chico to Redding, Redding to Chico, Chico to Sacramento, Sacramento to Chico, Chico to Sacramento to Tahoe, Tahoe to Sacramento. I'd do it all over again if I had the opportunity and the finances to. Thank goodness for rental cars!

Books of Fiction - I'm a rather big fan of John Grisham, Frank Peretti, James Patterson and other mystery, legal, cop type novels. The Alex Cross series by James Patterson are probably by far my favorite set of books and I'm still waiting and hoping for another round of books in that series.

Church / Religion / Spirituality - I've been a born again Christian for 10 years now and haven't turned back every since. Like everyone though I've had my valleys and trials but I've remained strong in my faith and God is always faithful. For those that know me they would say that I am not quick to cram my beliefs down others throats but do require a fair amount of common courtesy when in the room; one such example is I don't like Christian bashing jokes or the use of the God's name in vain.

Family - I'm highly devoted to my wife and baby boy who, at the time of this writing is seven months old. I am John F. Jones III, my son is John F. Jones IV and you can guess I'm hoping the name passes down from generation to generation. Family is second most important to me in my life and I'll do just about anything for any one of them so long as it is morally right, legally right and within my own abilities.