{"id":15752,"date":"2012-03-15T14:41:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T21:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=15752"},"modified":"2012-03-19T07:02:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T14:02:27","slug":"jay-thompson-takes-leadership-role-at-zillow-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15752\/jay-thompson-takes-leadership-role-at-zillow-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay Thompson takes leadership role at Zillow.com."},"content":{"rendered":"

Witness:<\/a><\/p>\n

Thompson joins Zillow’s growing partner outreach team, which includes Sara Bonert (director of broker services), Brad Andersohn (industry outreach manager), and recent addition Bob Bemis (vice president of partner relations). Together, the team advances Zillow’s goal of helping real estate agents grow and market their business.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Grow and market whose business?<\/p>\n

This is precisely the kind of leadership I have come to expect from Jay since 2008 or so: The goat takes a left when the cattle take a right<\/a>. If you don’t know what that means, you’ll probably be taking the right turn.<\/p>\n

I’m killing comments on this post, because I don’t want you to soil yourself in public just because I’m the only person in this benighted industry who will tell you the truth.<\/p>\n

 
More:<\/b><\/p>\n

Table talk from my email: A Judas Goat- yes? Got it. <\/p>\n

Me: What’s the point of having friends if you can’t sell ’em out?<\/p>\n

Andersohn = ActiveRainiers<\/p>\n

Bemis = MLS systems<\/p>\n

Thompson = TwitBook losers<\/p>\n

Coming soon: Project FUD at REBarCamp: Can you afford to be WITHOUT<\/i> Zillow?<\/p>\n

The window on integrity in real estate seems to be closing…<\/p>\n

 
Still more…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our business is corrupt, so it’s no surprise that this is the only place on the net where you can find the other side of this story. This is me from a comment at Real Estate Industry Watch:<\/a><\/p>\n

Whatever job they end up giving him, Jay Thompson has already delivered everything Zillow is paying for: His endorsement of their brand. Now they get to make the fallacious \u201cEven-Jay-Thompson\u201d appeal: Even Jay Thompson thinks you should piss away your money on Zillow\u2019s advertising. Jay has yearned to be the Head Lemming of the RE.net since the passing of Joe Ferrara, but, as we saw in the Denise Lones fiasco, he lacked that sad little man\u2019s taste for blood. Luckily, Zillow has provided him with an even better cliff off of which to drive his credulous “followers.” It\u2019s sad to say, but they deserve each other.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We’ve seen this kind of self-dealing posturing from Jay Thompson before<\/a> — and not just<\/em> from him, alas. But eighteen months from now — when you finally wake up and say, “Wuh happened?!?” Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Witness: Thompson joins Zillow’s growing partner outreach team, which includes Sara Bonert (director of broker services), Brad Andersohn (industry outreach manager), and recent addition Bob Bemis (vice president of partner relations). Together, the team advances Zillow’s goal of helping real estate agents grow and market their business. Grow and market whose business? This is precisely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[524,22,25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-fun-with-vendorsluts","7":"category-the-cheez-whiz-prize","8":"category-zillowcom","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2884,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2884\/zillowcoms-long-awaited-mortgage-lending-service-to-offer-anonymous-customized-loan-quotes-to-consumers-affording-loan-originators-the-opportunity-to-compete-transparently-for-free-mortgage-leads\/","url_meta":{"origin":15752,"position":0},"title":"Zillow.com’s long-awaited mortgage lending service offers anonymous customized loan quotes to consumers, affording loan originators the opportunity to compete transparently for free mortgage leads","author":"Greg Swann","date":"April 2, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Seattle-based real estate start-up Zillow.com tonight releases its long-anticipated mortgage lending product. 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