{"id":13415,"date":"2010-10-22T10:45:49","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T17:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=13415"},"modified":"2010-10-22T10:45:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T17:45:50","slug":"talking-dogs-and-skinning-cats-an-anti-sales-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13415\/talking-dogs-and-skinning-cats-an-anti-sales-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Dogs and Skinning Cats: An Anti-Sales Message"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I’m about to reopen<\/a> my doors<\/a>. \u00a0I’m up and delivering now, but I have some anti marketing to kill, and I’ll get to it over the weekend. \u00a0I had to learn a I recently attended a real-estate trade conference in the Pacific Northwest. \u00a0I won’t say which one<\/a>. \u00a0I went to blogworld.<\/a> sat in the back and mingled little. \u00a0What follows is overheard snipets from attendees, booth speakers and vendors.<\/p>\n

“You, \u00a0can–and you should–finally…graduate from selling. \u00a0That’s the goal of every agent, right? \u00a0You deserve to rise above the crowd and become an online marketer, an avatar…an icon. \u00a0Let me help you do that. \u00a0Selling? \u00a0That’s for the lesser lights amonst us. \u00a0Let them handle it. \u00a0And, since it’s for lesser lights, then you needn’t learn to do it at a high level. All you need to do is turn some of your worthless GCI into digital credits. \u00a0We’ll bring pre-sold, can’t miss buyers to your door.<\/p>\n

“And if our widgets fail…at least you \u00a0have provided them with their new entitlement: automated regurgitation of data without context. \u00a0Because that’s what buyers and sellers want, right? \u00a0They want to be in charge of their own experience and decide what’s right for them.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\ufeff”Well, \u00a0sure I respect him. \u00a0Why wouldn’t I? \u00a0What happens in Vegas is between adults. \u00a0Of course he’s honest, sure. \u00a0Just because he lies to his wife, betrays his children in plain site doesn’t mean anything bad will happen business wise. \u00a0I think he’s as honest as the day is long. \u00a0I trust him\u00a0implicitly. <\/em>I mean, you gotta do what you feel is right, right? \u00a0He’s kept secrets for me, and you know, at the end of the day, marriage is long.<\/p>\n

“Look, I want to provide value. \u00a0I don’t want just another pitchfest. \u00a0But, you know, if it feels a little festive, great. \u00a0If there are pitches going on, hey, what can you do?<\/div>\n

“ROI? \u00a0Why would you ask about that? Puh-leaze. Hello, Old fashioned. \u00a0You need to become a personal brand.<\/em> You need to become a recognized authority amongst all the agents. \u00a0Don’t you know? \u00a0Nobody’s ever really figured out the ROI Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I’m about to reopen my doors. \u00a0I’m up and delivering now, but I have some anti marketing to kill, and I’ll get to it over the weekend. \u00a0I had to learn a I recently attended a real-estate trade conference in the Pacific Northwest. \u00a0I won’t say which one. \u00a0I went to blogworld. sat in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-estate","no-featured-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5122,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5122\/orson-scott-card-on-the-fanniefreddie-melt-down-would-the-last-honest-reporter-please-turn-on-the-lights\/","url_meta":{"origin":13415,"position":0},"title":"Orson Scott Card on the Fannie\/Freddie melt-down: “Would the last honest reporter please turn on the lights?”","author":"Greg Swann","date":"October 21, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Orson Scott Card is a Hugo-award-winning science fiction author, having written Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead among other best-selling works. 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