{"id":1861,"date":"2007-08-27T06:50:11","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T13:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2007-11-23T20:01:40","modified_gmt":"2007-11-24T03:01:40","slug":"flashed-cards-the-riccellivised-version-of-the-realty-butler-business-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1861\/flashed-cards-the-riccellivised-version-of-the-realty-butler-business-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashed cards &#8212; The Art of the Card: The Riccellivised version of The Realty Butler business card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ideasincirculation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Riccelli<\/a> sent me this yesterday, his unique take on a business card for <a href=\"http:\/\/TheRealtyButler.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Allen Butler, The Realty Butler<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>The art of the card<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Allen,\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Your\u00a0euphonious butler idea can work &#8230; just be more\u00a0evocative\u00a0to move it up market.\u00a0 More like this on the front&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_Vettriano\" target=\"_blank\">with apologies to Mr. Vettriano and the Portland Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/Butler.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Formula for success:\u00a0 Fine art on the front** + Simple contact details on the back = Hard to discard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>__<br \/>\n**Don&#8217;t even THINK of appropriating this work without Mr. Vettriano&#8217;s\u00a0permi$$ion!\u00a0 Of\u00a0course you knew that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That formula, fine art on the front, details on the back, could rock.<\/p>\n<p>There is no guarantee that a top-drawer marketing guru will while away his Sunday redesigning your business card &#8212; but what have you got to lose? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?page_id=1838\" target=\"_blank\">Show us your card and let&#8217;s talk about it<\/a>&#8230;<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate\" rel=\"tag\">real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Riccelli sent me this yesterday, his unique take on a business card for Allen Butler, The Realty Butler: The art of the card Allen,\u00a0 Your\u00a0euphonious butler idea can work &#8230; just be more\u00a0evocative\u00a0to move it up market.\u00a0 More like this on the front&#8230;with apologies to Mr. Vettriano and the Portland Gallery. Formula for success:\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/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":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-marketing","7":"category-real-estate","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1865,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1865\/flashed-cards-the-realty-butler-is-served-three-times-over\/","url_meta":{"origin":1861,"position":0},"title":"Flashed cards: The Realty Butler is served three times over","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 28, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"More from Richard Riccelli on ideas for Allen Butler's business card:An object lesson in the art of the possible. (Yes, Chuchundra, you are of course right**), since Vettriano\u2019s licensing fees are likely to be a bit dear on a Realtor's business card budget, let's quickly explore what can be accomplished\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Marketing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Marketing","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/marketing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1923,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1923\/in-the-spirit-of-sharing-or-showing-off\/","url_meta":{"origin":1861,"position":1},"title":"In The Spirit of Sharing (or showing off).","author":"Allen Butler","date":"September 13, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, Kris threw down the gauntlet, so to speak, and invited a sharing of our own ideas and intrepid adventures in home marketing. 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When he posted a few youtube clips of some great music, I was immediately reminded of one of my absolute favorite artists, P J Harvey. I was struck by the preternatural mystery of these two lady's similarities. 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