{"id":10173,"date":"2009-10-26T04:31:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T11:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=10173"},"modified":"2009-10-26T04:31:25","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T11:31:25","slug":"estately-running-in-the-black-congrats-galen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10173\/estately-running-in-the-black-congrats-galen\/","title":{"rendered":"Estately &#8211; Running in the black. Congrats Galen."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do not get around to as many blogs as I would like in the real estate space. (Seriously &#8211; I am busy with EricOnSearch and the brokerage), but it did not escape my notice that my friend and fellow dog, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.estately.com\/2009\/10\/22\/profitable\/\">Galen Ward and Estately are running in the black.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>EricOnSearch (my little teeny tiny enterprise) runs in the black. We celebrate others who do as well. Just like when I toasted Glenn Kelman and RedFin turning a profit, my hat is off to Estately. Good job guys!<\/p>\n<p>In each of these cases, profitability has come from hard work, tough decisions and focused effort. That is how you stay out of a dot com bust or any other kind of bust for that matter.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do not get around to as many blogs as I would like in the real estate space. (Seriously &#8211; I am busy with EricOnSearch and the brokerage), but it did not escape my notice that my friend and fellow dog, Galen Ward and Estately are running in the black. EricOnSearch (my little teeny tiny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3008,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3008\/estatelycom-gets-450k-angel-round-funding-and-it-is-barreling-right-down-californias-throat\/","url_meta":{"origin":10173,"position":0},"title":"Estately.com gets $450K angel round funding, and it is barreling right down California&#8217;s throat","author":"Greg Swann","date":"April 23, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Looking for the ultimate status symbol in Scottsdale? 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Here's the news, which I sat on to get Estately out of Zillow's glare:Estately.com is expanding into\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Disintermediation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Disintermediation","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/disintermediation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12128,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/12128\/calorie-free-purple-cows\/","url_meta":{"origin":10173,"position":2},"title":"Calorie-free Purple Cows","author":"Galen Ward","date":"June 2, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I am speaking at BuzzRE in Portland tomorrow. Why? I\u2019m not exactly sure: unlike nearly every company at the conference, we don\u2019t sell anything to real estate agents. The subject of my talk is Seven Ways to Convert Online Leads Better... And to Be a Better Agent. 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