{"id":14208,"date":"2011-02-27T10:49:35","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T17:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=14208"},"modified":"2011-02-27T16:21:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T23:21:21","slug":"the-lones-group-in-bellingham-washington-commits-hari-kari-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14208\/the-lones-group-in-bellingham-washington-commits-hari-kari-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lones Group in Bellingham Washington Commits Hari Kari"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warning : This post is purely REALTOR inside baseball<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Around here, we live, eat and breathe marketing. Online reputation management and online publicity is what we do to get our clients houses sold and\u00a0 to find buyers who trust us enough to allow us\u00a0 to assist them in their home search.\u00a0 As a student of this stuff, I am flabbergasted by the news that a self anointed expert who in her own words, “started the Real Estate marketing revolution… and we are darn proud of it!” <\/em><\/strong>would attempt to extract money from a practicing REALTOR over 2,000 miles away who happens to use the same mascot, a Zebra. Now I understand that hard earned and promoted brands must be protected, but I really cannot see how Daniel Rothamel’s zebra mascot<\/a> in Virginia, promoting Daniel’s real estate brokerage activity could in anyway damage The Lones Group in Bellingham Washington which uses a rainbow zebra on their website.<\/p>\n

The Lones Group in Bellingham, WA and it’s owner, Denise Lones do not even perform real estate brokerage-they sell advice to those who do perform real estate brokerage.\u00a0 I am not sure I see how Daniel Rothamel, the Real Estate Zebra<\/a> is damaging The Lones Group and their photoshopped rainbow zebra.\u00a0 I took a peak at the Lones Group website to see if perhaps they did business in Virginia and that was why they were picking on Daniel Rothamel, The Real Estate Zebra<\/a>.\u00a0 Upon glancing at their testimonial page of happy customers, I only found clients in the Pacific Time zone, most of their clients were Washington REALTORS.\u00a0 I did note something peculiar about the Lones Group’s happy customers, as listed on their testimonials page. There are 28 testimonials displayed. Six of their happy clients had no website link.\u00a0 Six more happy customers of the Lones Group had links to\u2026 wait for it\u2026dead websites<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Now we find that the company that started the Real Estate marketing revolution has 25% of their happy clients who love the Lones Group’s work are not even linked to this powerhouse marketing firm and are hidden from potential clients.\u00a0 I may be Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Warning : This post is purely REALTOR inside baseball Around here, we live, eat and breathe marketing. Online reputation management and online publicity is what we do to get our clients houses sold and\u00a0 to find buyers who trust us enough to allow us\u00a0 to assist them in their home search.\u00a0 As a student of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"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":[62,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-dirty-laundry","7":"category-real-estate","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":506,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/506\/there-are-no-shades-of-gray\/","url_meta":{"origin":14208,"position":0},"title":"There are no shades of gray . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"October 4, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"...at The Real Estate Zebra. 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