Florida Mortgage | How to Launch a Website successfully by accident...

Sometimes, dumb luck just works best... that's how I felt when I was checking my mail the other day just to find that a journalist had found my answer on Trulia Voices and wanted to use some quotes from my answer and my blog to help substantiate her position in an article....

I'm excited about it and more than that I'm just enjoying the great press and validation of what I am doing and saying out there in the real world.

You can see the image of the article... and click on the link to read it.

Inquiring minds
Six consumer questions about how mortgage-market issues affect them
By Amy Hoak, MarketWatch

Wow... I was very happy... until I realized that I really didn't want her to link to the wrong blog site... I didn't want to look like a total amateur - only partially amateurish is the worst I'll do...

So I scrambled. I phoned a few people like Colleen Kulikowski ... emailed a few more like Jeff Turner and Jeff Corbett... then I even got on Facebook and contacted a high powered Blog Theme designer!!

Everyone had great advice and I appreciate it all...

So here's what I did. I got my hosting package with Linux Apache Server... and installed Wordpress. I then got back on Facebook and got the blessing to use one of my designer-friend's themes called Cutline!

I then spent some time adding content, tweaking and getting my new site up and running complete with the new post that Amy Hoak was interesed in quoting...

After all that work, my new site was born!!

http://www.themortgagegotoguy.com

That's what it looks like! Check it out and let me know what you think... heck, leave a comment, digg it, whatever...

So... before the first 24 hours of this new site's existence.... it was exploding with hits from all over the globe... thanks to the lucky timing of a MarketWatch article!