An Unchained expostulation: Guess who is not coming to Inman?

We made a ton of video clips at BloodhoundBlog Unchained. BrokerIPTV.com made a bunch more, and theirs feature strange and esoteric production elements like good lighting and audible sound. The difference is, ours were on YouTube right away, and theirs took a while to gestate. One that I’ve been waiting for finally hatched today, yours truly on the subject of being Unchained:

If you watch that clip, this should be obvious, but I’ll say it anyway: I don’t tell people what to do. There are no rules for BloodhoundBlog contributors. I don’t like rules, but I also don’t like working with people who need to be told what to do — and I really don’t like working with people who try to tell other people what to do.

That paragraph is predicate to this one: Since there is no Official BloodhoundBlog Policy on anything, it should be obvious that there is no Official BloodhoundBlog Policy on Inman Connect. Bloodhounds have been invited to speak at the last couple of events, and I, personally, have no feelings about this one way or another.

But, oddly enough, for this summer’s event, only one Bloodhound has been invited to speak, Estately.com’s Galen Ward. That’s not completely true. Just after Unchained, Brian Brady was approached, perhaps as a ham-handed divide-and-conquer strategy. But Cheryl Johnson was not invited to teach PhotoShop, Eric Blackwell and Eric Bramlett weren’t invited to teach SEO, Geno Petro wasn’t invited to teach the art of mesmerizing an audience. Mike Farmer, Sean Purcell and Jeff Brown are, each in his own way, reinventing the real estate brokerage, but this is not a topic of interest at Inman Connect.

In other words, there does seem to be an Official BloodhoundBlog Policy on Inman Connect, but it doesn’t originate here.

So be it. We care a lot. As is discussed in the clip, BloodhoundBlog Unchained set a new standard for training events in the wired world of real estate in our first swing at the ball. We dropped the ball completely on the drinking and partying and killing time in the hallways categories, but I know we traded a ton of first-class information, and I can tell from my mail that a lot of people are implementing the ideas they learned at BloodhoundBlog Unchained.

And we’re just getting started. When we come to Orlando on November 7th, we’re going to set the bar even higher. We’re constantly working on new ideas, and we’re constantly working to share them with as many people as we can.

If you’re going to Inman Connect, more power to you. I won’t be there, nor will most of the the Bloodhounds, but I hope you learn as much as there is to be learned.

But if you’ve been wishing you had gone to Unchained, you might want to buy the DVDs instead, and then save your money for Orlando or for next year in Phoenix. I can’t promise that we’ll get any better at drinking, partying or killing time in the hallways, but we’ll keep adding new ideas every chance we get.

Some time next week, I have to decide how many sets of DVDs to press. There’s eleven-plus hours of material, so we’ll be on four DVD-9s — with a year’s worth of homework. If you want to latch on to the best of BloodhoundBlog Unchained, Phoenix 2008, click on the button conveniently situated immediately below.

The BloodhoundBlog Unchained Phoenix 2008 DVD Set – $199

There’s room in the world for everything. But what I want in my world is the best I can find, the best I can learn, the best I can teach, the best I can do. We kicked out all the stops for the first iteration of Unchained — Brian Brady teaching you how to be a ubiquitous as he is, me teaching how to put your listings Beyond Competition, Glenn Kelman going through the math of start-ups, plus a host of brilliant minds coming together to share what they know. If you follow along here, you’ll see where we are headed next. But our objective is always the same, to be the best we can be at everything we do. If that’s your goal, too, come and run with us. No rules. No Official Policies. No chains. The Inmanosphere is free to do whatever it wants. This is what we do.

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