{"id":13260,"date":"2010-09-15T14:05:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T21:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=13260"},"modified":"2010-09-15T14:05:40","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T21:05:40","slug":"door-knocking-my-way-to-walking-the-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13260\/door-knocking-my-way-to-walking-the-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Door knocking my way to walking the walk"},"content":{"rendered":"

So now that it’s time to think big and act on those thoughts<\/a>, I went door knocking. Oh yes I did. I have made a public commitment to prospecting<\/a>, and no, I do not have an unbroken chain of red X’s<\/a>, and no, I don’t feel good about that<\/a>. Okay so now that we have that covered, let me tell you about door knocking.<\/p>\n

Another Realtor and I have on occasion been partnering up for the past year. She’s just gone full time so I recently suggested that we go door knocking. Not only has she never done this, but when I suggested it, she was sure that: a) she’d hate it; b) she’d have people cuss her out and slam the door in her face; c) she’d promptly be kicked off this planet; or d) all of the above. What she didn’t count on, couldn’t believe, and was tickled to find out was, e) none of the above happened. Here’s what we learned about door knocking: The hardest part is getting started. No really. Once you set a time, drive to the neighborhood and get yo lazy booty out the car, the hard part is over, and once you knock on that first door, the rest is a cake walk down Primrose Lane<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We picked a practice neighborhood. A neighborhood that we have a listing in, giving us something to talk about, but we really wanted a neighborhood in which we wouldn’t be too horrified to make some mistakes. It’s a forgiving neighborhood that I’m familiar with. Hard-working, blue collar, friendly people who are used to door-to-door sales people. They will either open the door to be polite, or kindly tell us no thanks. Sorry BawldGuy, not one person told us to go to hell- not one! The houses are close together allowing us to quickly move on to the next house, and we went in the afternoon, 2pm, our thought being the only people home at that time are either retired or Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another Realtor and I have on occasion been partnering up for the past year. She’s just gone full time so I recently suggested that we go door knocking. Not only has she never done this, but when I suggested it, she was sure that: a) she’d hate it; b) she’d have people cuss her out and slam the door in her face; c) she’d promptly be kicked off this planet; or d) all of the above. What she didn’t count on, couldn’t believe, and was tickled to find out was, e) none of the above happened. Here’s what we learned about door knocking: The hardest part is getting started. No really. Once you set a time, drive to the neighborhood and get yo lazy booty out the car, the hard part is over, and once you knock on that first door, the rest is a cake walk down Primrose Lane.<\/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":[6,10,494],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-marketing","7":"category-realty-reality","8":"category-the-hustle","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12085,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/12085\/like-bugs-trapped-in-amber-take-a-close-look-at-rotarian-socialist-cockroaches-and-the-pusillanimous-pissants-who-make-them-possible\/","url_meta":{"origin":13260,"position":0},"title":"Like bugs trapped in amber, take a close look at Rotarian Socialist cockroaches and the pusillanimous pissants who make them possible.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"May 27, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"This is from today's Arizona Republic:Businesses that send employees door to door through Phoenix neighborhoods have jumped into the discussion over whether the city should require peddlers to be licensed before ringing doorbells. 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