{"id":16150,"date":"2012-08-04T18:35:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T01:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=16150"},"modified":"2012-08-04T18:35:53","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T01:35:53","slug":"the-inman-two-step-errol-samuelson-has-an-opportunity-to-get-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/16150\/the-inman-two-step-errol-samuelson-has-an-opportunity-to-get-it-right\/","title":{"rendered":"The Inman Two Step – Errol Samuelson has an opportunity to get it right…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warning – long post ahead. I had a lot on my mind. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

This last week and my trip to Inman has been a whirlwind and I just walked in the door from the airport.<\/p>\n

I have literally been too busy to write some of the things that I experienced and I really want to have some time to put them in context and “digest” some of them so that I can (hopefully) use what I saw to provide something useful in future posts. <\/p>\n

That said, the first of my impressions was the most clear and thus most easy for me to put out into the arena of public ideas while it is still fresh. One of the panel discussions was the “Syndication Discussion” which included the usual representatives, (Saul Klein, Spencer Rascoff from Zillow, Errol Samuelson from Realtor.com, and others) including Mark McLaughlin of Pacific Union<\/a>. (Note to Mark – I don’t know you personally, but nicely done. The crack about “I’m not outnumbered the audience is on my side.” was priceless. There were many people in that audience that wanted to get up and say something, but did not…)<\/p>\n

Ok, now to my main point. At one point in the panel, Mr. Samuelson turned to Mr. Rascoff and pointed out that they include FSBO listings on their site at which time Mr. Rascoff replied that REALTOR.com included non-REALTOR listings in THEIR site as well. (gulp–start the music and Mr. Samuelson proceeds to do the “Inman 2 Step – a dance done by executives when they want to avoid continuing the line of discussion that THEY started…) This is a point which I had made recently in a post on Real Estate Industry Watch. And the folks at Realtor.com had actually asked to meet me about at Inman (and we did…)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you read what I wrote at REIW, I specifically was concerned that REALTOR.com has a HIGHER LEVEL of ACCOUNTABILITY because they are the OWNER of the REALTOR trademark. (Please, we can leave the anti-NAR stuff for a later post, I am trying to stick to one issue here) Since they HAVE Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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