{"id":1381,"date":"2007-05-03T08:53:16","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T15:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2007-05-03T08:53:20","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T15:53:20","slug":"if-you-were-the-cutest-dog-at-the-dog-show-would-you-work-for-world-peace-or-would-you-just-go-for-the-contact-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1381\/if-you-were-the-cutest-dog-at-the-dog-show-would-you-work-for-world-peace-or-would-you-just-go-for-the-contact-info\/","title":{"rendered":"If you were the cutest dog at the dog show, would you work for world peace, or would you just go for the contact info?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Give Shaun McLane of EKDAY.com<\/a> credit for self-promotional skills, anyway. He has started a new site called Posh’d<\/a>, which is — I kid you not — a beauty contest for real estate web site.<\/p>\n

Say that again: He is finding the least ugly of — let’s face it — the ugliest stuff on the web, and featuring it on a one-page gallery site, which links back to the designated beauty queens. I can’t but think that this will win Shaun the Mister Congeniality award, but the idea is still kind of a stretch.<\/p>\n

For example: BlueRoof.com<\/a> is featured first and should be. It is a stunning site. But right next door is Realtor.com<\/a>, looking as dowdy and dated as the Yellow Pages.<\/p>\n

(For younger readers, the Yellow Pages is a big, useless book perfect for exhausting landfills. The Council of Residential Specialists<\/a> publishes its own version, which is even stoopider.)<\/p>\n

The rest of the dog show, including BloodhoundBlog, is not awful<\/i>. But it’s not great, either. Better than average, maybe, but that’s hardly an accomplishment. I know there are some sightly sites among the Realty.bots. For example, Eppraisal.com<\/a> has the coolest Web 2.0-like Weebils<\/a>. My guess is that there is more and better to be found in The Undiscovered Country, the world beyond weblogs.<\/p>\n

So: Here’s for everyone except BlueRoof getting kicked out of the dog show by ever-prettier dogs. Even better: Here’s to clinging by claws to our vaunted status by revising our sites into something useful and beautiful — with no movies, no MIDIs and an absolute maximum of 937 links on the home page. Who ever heard of anything like that<\/i> in real estate?
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Technorati Tags: blogging<\/a>, real estate<\/a>, real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n

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Give Shaun McLane of EKDAY.com credit for self-promotional skills, anyway. He has started a new site called Posh’d, which is — I kid you not — a beauty contest for real estate web site. 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