{"id":1427,"date":"2007-05-14T11:40:55","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T18:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2007-05-14T11:40:55","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T18:40:55","slug":"are-traditional-realtors-being-undercut-theres-always-room-at-the-top-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1427\/are-traditional-realtors-being-undercut-theres-always-room-at-the-top-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Are traditional Realtors being undercut? There’s always room at the top"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is me from last July<\/a>. Real Estate Wives has a post on Redfin and WalMart today<\/a>, so I thought I’d bring this back to the top of the queue.<\/p>\n

Are traditional Realtors being undercut? There’s always room at the top<\/b><\/p>\n

Let’s see… Our customers are leaving us in a steady march. They’ve found an alternative that is easier to use, more convenient, overall just a better fit to their lives — and to top it all off, it’s much cheaper than our product.<\/p>\n

What should we do?<\/p>\n

Here’s an idea. Our customers are telling us in no uncertain terms what they want: More! Newer! Better! Faster! Cheaper! So let’s do the same things we’ve been doing all along, only less!<\/p>\n

From Reuters.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The New York Times Co. plans to narrow the size of its flagship newspaper and close a printing plant, resulting in the loss of 250 jobs, the company said in a story posted on its Web site late on Monday.<\/p>\n

The changes, set to take place in April 2008, include the closure of a printing plant in Edison, New Jersey. The company will sublet the plant and consolidate its regional printing facilities at a plant in Queens, the paper said.<\/p>\n

The newspaper will be narrower by 1 1\/2 inches. The redesign will result in the loss of 250 production jobs, the company said.<\/p>\n

The New York Times said it expected the changes to result in savings of $42 million.<\/p>\n

The narrower format, offset by some additional pages, will reduce the space the paper has for news by 5 percent, Executive Editor Bill Keller said in the article.<\/p>\n

The Times will join a list of several other papers from The Washington Post to the Los Angeles Times that have reduced their size as they cut newsprint and other production costs and try to stem a loss of readers and advertising to the Internet and other media.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It might be fun to chortle about someone else’s troubles — and who doesn’t love seeing the New York Times<\/i> get it good and hard?<\/p>\n

But what they are doing is what the real estate industry, in general, is doing. In both cases, the consequences Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is me from last July. Real Estate Wives has a post on Redfin and WalMart today, so I thought I’d bring this back to the top of the queue. Are traditional Realtors being undercut? There’s always room at the top Let’s see… Our customers are leaving us in a steady march. 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