{"id":1749,"date":"2007-08-05T05:15:06","date_gmt":"2007-08-05T12:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1749"},"modified":"2007-08-05T05:15:06","modified_gmt":"2007-08-05T12:15:06","slug":"connect-the-dots-whos-buying-whos-selling-and-what-is-being-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1749\/connect-the-dots-whos-buying-whos-selling-and-what-is-being-sold\/","title":{"rendered":"Connect the dots: Who’s buying, who’s selling, and what is being sold"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mind if I tell a story<\/a>?<\/p>\n

My dad<\/a> earned his living as a sales rep. He sold high end paint and wallpaper tools in a tri-state territory. There were years when he would be out the door by 5:00 a.m. on Monday and we would see him about 3:00 p.m. Friday afternoon. He worked hard, but he is very smart and driven.<\/p>\n

When we were a little older, he would on occasion, take one of us kids to a trade show with him during the summer. I can’t speak for my brothers, but I always enjoyed the chance to get away, the chance to see something new, and the chance to spend some one-on-one time with Dad. He was a great story teller and he would tell me all kinds of things: About his life, his parents (they died by the time I was three), how to track deer, how to fish, how to change a transmission, how to dump a boyfriend either gently or not-so-gently whichever the situation called for. You know, the really important life skills that every girl should know.<\/p>\n

We would go to these big hotels or convention centers in a big city. Dad would unload his display, I would help him set it up, then it was “see ya at five”. Off I’d wander. To me, back then, a trade show was a cool thing. I would wander up and down the aisles, mouth open, eyes wide, looking at stuff. All this stuff! Who knew there was so much stuff to be had? Bright and shiny stuff, weird stuff, funny stuff, just stuff. I’d go back to Dad’s booth and report about the stuff I saw. Now here’s the fun part, Dad would give me the back story of that company and why their stuff was crap, or the company was full of crooks, on a rare ocassion a particular company was worthy of praise. I learned that everything is not as it would appear on the surface, and there is usually more to a story than what you are seeing.<\/p>\n

So I grew up in the sales world. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mind if I tell a story? My dad earned his living as a sales rep. He sold high end paint and wallpaper tools in a tri-state territory. There were years when he would be out the door by 5:00 a.m. on Monday and we would see him about 3:00 p.m. Friday afternoon. He worked hard, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12284,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/12284\/success-in-real-estate-brokerage-branding-what-the-public-really-wants\/","url_meta":{"origin":1749,"position":0},"title":"Success In Real Estate Brokerage — Branding — What the Public Really Wants","author":"Jeff Brown","date":"June 16, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Daniel Pink has put out a video with some interesting facts learned by those in science studying human behavior in the workplace. 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