{"id":13500,"date":"2010-11-04T22:52:16","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T05:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=13500"},"modified":"2010-11-05T07:05:10","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T14:05:10","slug":"if-you-cant-sell-teach-and-if-you-cant-teach-teach-e-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13500\/if-you-cant-sell-teach-and-if-you-cant-teach-teach-e-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"If you can’t sell, teach. And if you can’t teach? Teach e-Pro!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t pay close attention to this crap, because — well — it’s crap. But you may have heard that the NAR’s most-idiotic designation, e-Pro, has been taken over by a confederacy of dunces<\/s> super-nice people from Agent Shortbus (where they “pour” over everything, especially maple syrup over waffles) called SMMI.<\/p>\n

You have to read between the lines in this press release<\/a>, but my take is that the swamis from SMMI are going to teach you how to waste your days on TwitBook just like the cool kids. You might think that this is a suicidal strategy for working Realtors to pursue, but as has been discussed here lately, apparently the notion of working is one the cool kids are trying to get away from altogether<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Like this: I am told that the e-Pro trainer-training event held by the smarmies at NARdigras drew a thick slice of the most-prominent twitwits. I don’t know if they’re going to stop officially selling real estate — how would one know the difference? — in order to become full-time carriers of the TwitBook virus. The one thing we can hope is that the long-standing stench of e-Pro will arouse working agents from their TwitBook-induced stupor before they go completely broke.<\/p>\n

And if they don’t? Crush them like bugs. This business isn’t for everyone. TwitBook is just the new bullpen, the new water-cooler around which losers can gather as they gripe themselves out of the real estate business.<\/p>\n

Looked at that way, the e-Pro trainers in training could be doing all of us a favor: Isolating the people who won’t make it and teaching them How To Succeed At Failure<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ll leave you with two thoughts:<\/p>\n

First, if you are deeply offended at seeing pompous, blustering, sputtering, know-nothing jackasses being skewered in public, please just go away. I don’t care, and I cannot imagine how anyone over the mental age of nine even could<\/em> care.<\/p>\n

Second, if you don’t want to go down the toilet in a very amusing public display of TwitBooked indolence, get your nose to the grindstone, your shoulder to the wheel and stop pretending that schmoozing with losers and Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t pay close attention to this crap, because — well — it’s crap. But you may have heard that the NAR’s most-idiotic designation, e-Pro, has been taken over by a confederacy of dunces super-nice people from Agent Shortbus (where they “pour” over everything, especially maple syrup over waffles) called SMMI. 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