{"id":10494,"date":"2009-12-04T08:05:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T15:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=10494"},"modified":"2009-12-04T07:50:44","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T14:50:44","slug":"embarrassing-confessions-marketing-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10494\/embarrassing-confessions-marketing-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"Embarrassing Confessions & Marketing Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two quick confessions:<\/p>\n

I can’t throw a baseball.<\/strong>
\nI’m pretty sure I just scared a potential client away.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I used to be able to throw a baseball.\u00a0 I played little league and pony league with some success.\u00a0 There weren’t any pro scouts putting radar guns on me or anything, but I played right up until high school and I was regularly elected to the all-star team.\u00a0 (Although looking back, it probably helped that I was much bigger than all the other kids and threatened to show them my Bruce-Lee-super-fist-of-temporary-death if they didn’t vote for me…\u00a0 Nah, I’m sure it was my prowess inside the foul lines.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, in high school I discovered my true calling: shot-put.\u00a0 After that, I didn’t have occasion to pick up another baseball until my boys started playing just a year or two ago.\u00a0 That’s when I discovered that I now had all the throwing grace and accuracy of a little girl.\u00a0 You see, by my estimate I probably threw the shot – over the course of my competitive career – 15-20,000 times.\u00a0 That pretty much wiped out any skill I ever had for throwing a baseball.\u00a0 On the other hand, it created a near perfect shot-put technique that I can still demonstrate even now… as I enter my peak “mid 40s” athletic years.\u00a0 (These are a lot like my peak “mid 20s” athletic years, only everything is now done while carrying around the extra weight of a small child.\u00a0 It’s actually quite impressive if you think about it…)\u00a0 Think about it or not, I can still summon dynamic and purposeful form because of a powerful adaptation called muscle memory<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, as I was parking my truck,\u00a0 I noticed a car stopped in the middle of the street.\u00a0 The driver was craning her neck to jot down information from an agent’s For Sale sign.\u00a0 She then pulled up two houses and stopped again to take down information from another agent’s For Sale sign.\u00a0 By this time I was walking down the sidewalk; I veered in toward the middle of the street and approached her on the drivers’ side.\u00a0 “Hi,” I Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two quick confessions: I can’t throw a baseball. I’m pretty sure I just scared a potential client away. I used to be able to throw a baseball.\u00a0 I played little league and pony league with some success.\u00a0 There weren’t any pro scouts putting radar guns on me or anything, but I played right up until […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"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":[13,212,6],"tags":[533],"class_list":{"0":"post-10494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-casual-friday","7":"category-flourishing","8":"category-marketing","9":"tag-marketing","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7295,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7295\/confessions-of-a-married-man\/","url_meta":{"origin":10494,"position":0},"title":"Confessions of a Married Man","author":"Tom Vanderwell","date":"March 3, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"No, not that type of confessions, I've been happily married for 23 1\/2 years and believe firmly in the \"until death do us part\" of my marriage vows. 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