{"id":10695,"date":"2009-12-23T15:04:51","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T22:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=10695"},"modified":"2009-12-24T07:43:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T14:43:51","slug":"from-the-files-of-captain-obvious-five-fundamental-real-estate-business-truths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10695\/from-the-files-of-captain-obvious-five-fundamental-real-estate-business-truths\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Files of Captain Obvious: Five Fundamental Real Estate Business Truths"},"content":{"rendered":"

I. am. not. BawldGuy<\/a>. And I don\u2019t play one on this, or any other blog. Okay, now we\u2019ve got that (not-so) deep dark secret out into the open\u2026 If you are approaching BawldGuy status, God Bless You, and keep on truckin\u2019 and you go girl! You can move along, because this is for those of us who are working on real estate at the ground floor level.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been given the gift of time in 2009 and looking back and looking ahead, I see some obvious truths about the real estate business. Some of these are based on mistakes I\u2019ve made, but as long as we learn from them, I\u2019m okay with sharing.<\/p>\n

Truth #5<\/strong>: I like twitter. I don\u2019t like facebook. But who cares? Without a goal<\/a>–driven<\/a> plan<\/a> to use either for a very specific reason, then I\u2019m wasting time on both, and I\u2019ve wasted time so you don\u2019t have to. Use them to chat, or use them to market, or use them to sell, but understand the difference and if you are going to use them for business, have a plan and follow the plan. Don\u2019t get sidetracked, and do stay focused. If you are a lender or a vendor then you might want to network with real estate agents, but if you are an agent, then stop talking water cooler and find people who can tell you to go to hell.<\/p>\n

Truth #4<\/strong>: You don\u2019t need social media to do a great job in real estate. You don\u2019t need to\u00a0 blog, or twitter. You don\u2019t need to go to conferences. You can. You might learn a nugget or two, but it\u2019s entirely unnecessary to your success, and it just as likely will be a huge waste of your time and energy.<\/p>\n

Truth #3<\/strong>: To be successful in real estate, you need to meet as many people as possible. Lucky us, people are everywhere, and we can find them through any means- the method is really unimportant to getting to close. What\u2019s Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been given the gift of time in 2009 and looking back and looking ahead, I see some obvious truths about the real estate business. Some of these are based on mistakes I\u2019ve made, but as long as we learn from them, I\u2019m okay with sharing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"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":[212,29,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-flourishing","7":"category-group-therapy","8":"category-realty-reality","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":743,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/743\/bearding-the-bawldguy-in-the-land-of-the-never-setting-sun\/","url_meta":{"origin":10695,"position":0},"title":"Bearding the BawldGuy in the land of the never-setting sun . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"December 7, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"BawldGuy Jeff Brown was in Phoenix yesterday, and he made time to sit down with Cathleen and me before he flew back to San Diego. 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