{"id":11284,"date":"2010-02-12T17:51:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T00:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11284"},"modified":"2010-02-12T18:47:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T01:47:40","slug":"rtb-raising-the-bar-is-rot-restraint-of-trade-if-you-want-to-do-something-that-will-actually-benefit-consumers-and-will-run-the-bums-out-of-the-real-estate-business-stfu-stop-being-a-tweetar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11284\/rtb-raising-the-bar-is-rot-restraint-of-trade-if-you-want-to-do-something-that-will-actually-benefit-consumers-and-will-run-the-bums-out-of-the-real-estate-business-stfu-stop-being-a-tweetar\/","title":{"rendered":"#RTB (raising the bar) is #ROT (restraint of trade). If you want to do something that will actually benefit consumers and will run the bums out of the real estate business, #STFU (stop being a tweetard) and #DTFG (deliver the frolicking goods) already!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d have more to say about this, but everything I have to say is encapsulated in a single URL: BloodhoundBlog.com.<\/p>\n

I was mildly interested in this #RTB (raising the bar) nonsense until I figured out that it’s just more Rotarian Socialism: Make it harder for punters to get a real estate license so that the few who make the cut can make more money with less competition. Nice.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, an email correspondent sent me to Twitter to search on a particular #hashmark. There were more than 30 tweets in a span of 20 minutes, from perhaps a dozen tweetards — all of them theoretically real estate professionals.<\/p>\n

Why theoretically? Because if you’re pissing away your day on Twitter, you’re not selling real estate, underwriting loans or doing anything else productive.<\/p>\n

And all of those clients you claim to have cultivated via social media? They can see what a goof-off you are, just as much as I can. If I were steaming by the phone, waiting for you to return my call, I would just love<\/em> to watch you kibitzing with your butt-buddies around the virtual water cooler. Now that’s service!<\/p>\n

Here’s the only<\/em> standard of value that matters to consumers: #DTFG (deliver the frolicking goods)! Your clients want for you to treat them the same way you yourself would want to be treated, were you in their place.<\/p>\n

It’s easy to figure out what to do, harder to get the job done — harder still to get it done well. But that is all<\/em> that matters. And if you’re not going to deliver the goods, then you, too, are one of the bums I want to see pushed out of this business.<\/p>\n

Whether you’re a dinosaur pissing and moaning in the bullpen down at the brokerage office or a shiny new dino.bot giggling on-line with all the other shiny new dino.bots — you<\/em> are the problem.<\/p>\n

Until you are prepared to put your clients first — all the time — you have nothing to say about raising anything. Raise your frolicking standards! And if you don’t — if you won’t — hard-working dogs like me are going to help Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’d have more to say about this, but everything I have to say is encapsulated in a single URL: BloodhoundBlog.com. I was mildly interested in this #RTB (raising the bar) nonsense until I figured out that it’s just more Rotarian Socialism: Make it harder for punters to get a real estate license so that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[397,24,29,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-abusing-twitter","7":"category-egoism-in-action","8":"category-group-therapy","9":"category-marketing","10":"category-real-estate","12":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11341,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11341\/the-real-problem-with-the-morons-and-cowards-at-rtb\/","url_meta":{"origin":11284,"position":0},"title":"The Real Problem with the Morons and Cowards at #RTB","author":"Chris Johnson","date":"February 17, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Greg put me on this #RTB nonsense. 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