{"id":17301,"date":"2020-10-12T14:21:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T21:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=17301"},"modified":"2020-10-12T14:21:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T21:21:35","slug":"i-am-the-applecart-how-do-you-propose-to-motivate-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/17301\/i-am-the-applecart-how-do-you-propose-to-motivate-me\/","title":{"rendered":"I am the applecart. How do you propose to motivate\u00a0me?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"

Here today. Gone tomorrow?<\/p><\/div>I have a brand new business idea.<\/p>\n

At first glance, you might call it lead-gen, except that I hate that kind of wheel-spinning. What nerds call leads, I call inquiries \u2013 and the difference between inquiries and crap is that nobody wastes that kind of time on crap.<\/p>\n

Instead, as I have discussed, I am interested in in-real-life marketing strategies,<\/a> this as a way of neutralizing the Realty.bots where they are worst \u2013 at Sociability.<\/p>\n

So what I have is a way of creating a warm network of around 200 people interested in self-improvement, each deploying their varied talents to engender a self-amplifying mutual-improvement machine. Generates listings for me \u2013 from people already sold on me \u2013 but it generates opportunities for everyone involved.<\/p>\n

Even better, it’s totally replicable: There’s room for a group like this every three miles on every freeway in every city in North America. We spend all our time looking<\/em> for better people, when, instead, we should be cultivating<\/em> better people \u2013 starting from the inside out. Eminently doable \u2013 and there’s work in it for everyone.<\/p>\n

There’s a hitch, for now: What I am talking about is inescapably social in a world in quarantine. I had all this worked out when Coronavirus came to call. But this is temporary, and we all know it. When I’m ready to jump, the people I want to meet will be ready to jump, too.<\/p>\n

The bigger question would be: Why should I?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am the applecart. In my head are the means to create jobs in my own business while encouraging the creation of jobs in many other businesses.<\/p>\n

Why should I bother?<\/p>\n

So you know, for now I am not<\/em> bothering. We haven’t marketed for new business in ten years, and I am not committing to anything new between now and the election. If Trump wins, I’ve got twenty years of growth to plan for. If Biden wins, my applecart will very quickly come to resemble an armadillo.<\/p>\n

Yours, too, I should expect.<\/p>\n

Profit is faith and follow-through \u2013 not faith in the magical but simply an unwavering belief that the follow-through Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here today. Gone tomorrow?I have a brand new business idea. At first glance, you might call it lead-gen, except that I hate that kind of wheel-spinning. What nerds call leads, I call inquiries \u2013 and the difference between inquiries and crap is that nobody wastes that kind of time on crap. Instead, as I have […]<\/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":[212,29,6,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-flourishing","7":"category-group-therapy","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","10":"category-technology","12":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2936,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2936\/barry-cunningham-is-full-of-crap\/","url_meta":{"origin":17301,"position":0},"title":"Barry Cunningham is Full of Crap","author":"Russell Shaw","date":"April 11, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I mean that in a really nice way. I am just trying to help. Just like Barry is just trying to help Realtors by pointing out various things that are wrong with Realtors, I am trying to help Barry. I mean no insult.\u00a0 None. And should Barry get even a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Disintermediation"","block_context":{"text":"Disintermediation","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/disintermediation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Barry Cunningham-Turd","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/barry-cunningham-turd1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":17154,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/17154\/overnight-news-its-quiet-too-quiet\/","url_meta":{"origin":17301,"position":1},"title":"Overnight News: It\u2019s quiet… Too quiet…","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 26, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Despite the headline, it's not so much quiet as boring. That's the way weekends are supposed to be. Housing Wire: OJO Labs rolls out agent referral network. I don't normally link to crap like this, because it's just PR, but two things popped out at me in this one: \u201cThere\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Group Therapy"","block_context":{"text":"Group Therapy","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/group-therapy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Ya think it's easy?","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BHBNewTopImage-300x225.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5416,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5416\/are-you-in-orlando-on-friday-make-some-time-to-learn-how-to-make-more-money-in-2009-at-bloodhoundblog-unchained\/","url_meta":{"origin":17301,"position":2},"title":"Are you in Orlando on Friday? Make some time to learn how to make more money in 2009 at BloodhoundBlog Unchained","author":"Greg Swann","date":"November 3, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"If you're coming to the NAR Convention in Orlando this year, the vendors are quite literally dying to meet you. It's been a bad year already for their useless crap, and attendance will be way down this year. They cannot wait to sink their fangs into you. If you're going\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Lending"","block_context":{"text":"Lending","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/lending\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":18144,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18144\/overnight-news-the-art-of-managing-zillows-all-but-useless-rental-leads\/","url_meta":{"origin":17301,"position":3},"title":"Overnight News: The art of managing Zillow\u2019s all-but-useless rental\u00a0\u201cleads.\u201d","author":"Greg Swann","date":"May 15, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"We market our rental properties with the Realty.bots, not the MLS. I want to meet everyone, and I don't want to pay a weak agent to come between me and the prospects. But what that means is that I get inundated with inquiries: The Realty.bots make it easy for unmotivated\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Group Therapy"","block_context":{"text":"Group Therapy","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/group-therapy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Ya think it's easy?","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BHBNewTopImage-300x225.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2053,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2053\/disingenuous-diatribe-compliance-is-crap-its-about-the-cash\/","url_meta":{"origin":17301,"position":4},"title":"Disingenuous Diatribe: Compliance is Crap-It’s About the Cash","author":"Brian Brady","date":"October 15, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Broker-controlled blogging was a hot topic this weekend. I tried to raise some eyebrows (and awareness) with my speculation about the internet land grab the employing brokers and banks might try. I think a few things might have gotten lost in the translation. While I said that the brokers and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":424,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/424\/blogoff-post-47-weblog-review-poor-and-stupid\/","url_meta":{"origin":17301,"position":5},"title":"Blogoff Post #47: Weblog Review: Poor and Stupid . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 26, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"For a change of pace, let's talk about Donald Luskin's weblog, The Conspiracy to Keep You Poor and Stupid. This is one of the few political blogs I am willing to read on any regular basis. Luskin's is nobody's demagogue, but he himself is very smart, as are the people\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17301"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17307,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17301\/revisions\/17307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}