{"id":16874,"date":"2020-09-02T17:04:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T00:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=16874"},"modified":"2020-09-02T14:26:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T21:26:20","slug":"which-way-dawgs-there-are-growth-paths-from-here-but-they-require-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/16874\/which-way-dawgs-there-are-growth-paths-from-here-but-they-require-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Which way, dawgs? There are growth paths from here, but they require effort."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cGot content?\u201d<\/p><\/div>We added a contributor today, for the first time in what must be a decade. I’ll brag about that more when there is more to brag about, but this much matters: BloodhoundBlog is back.<\/p>\n

Sort of. It’s back for me \u2013 and I was away for long enough to have managed to miss it. I’m having fun writing a lot, which is what blogging is \u2013 writing a lot \u2013 and I’m delighting in that playfully-informal blogger’s voice. It’s back for Brian Brady, too, and he can tell you which stars he is shooting for himself. And it’s back for people who have been asking to hear from us for a long time.<\/p>\n

We could hear more from the latter folks in the comments. It’s challenging to shop into the echoes of a seemingly empty shopping mall, but there are a bunch of shoppers here \u2013 y’all are just too shy.<\/p>\n

Here’s where I am: Social Media Marketing and social-media sociability are splitting up. Speaking your mind on social media sites is bad for business and is likely to cost you your marketing investment on that site if you get banned. Meanwhile, being able to speak freely in purely-sociable online settings will become more and more a walled-garden phenomenon. This is already so for the many thousands of folks who socialize with like-minded folks by way of forum software running on hundreds of little web sites.<\/p>\n

So I need to get out of Dodge, at a minimum, and I don’t think I’m alone. Are there enough of us to sustain a community? We’ll find out.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, there are lots of ways for this place to grow. There are no more real estate weblogs, for one thing \u2013 not in our world, defending the grunts on the ground from the parasites who prey on them. Nothing left of real estate bloggers talking to real estate bloggers, but really nothing left of blogging directed at Realtors and lenders that is not itself predatory \u2013 monthly subscriptions, sales training, books-\u2019n\u2019-tapes. If I’m wrong about this, I’m very interested in links.<\/p>\n

But from our end of Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cGot content?\u201dWe added a contributor today, for the first time in what must be a decade. I’ll brag about that more when there is more to brag about, but this much matters: BloodhoundBlog is back. Sort of. It’s back for me \u2013 and I was away for long enough to have managed to miss it. 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