Been ruminating my little arse off this week. How about you?<\/p>\n
I’m a hyper-local blogger. I’m on the Bloodhound Blog because of a contest Greg and I teamed up to compete in-\u00a0my being here is\u00a0kind of a fluke, and frankly\u00a0the only reason I’m\u00a0still here is because this is such a great pack of dogs\u00a0with which to run, at this point I can’t imagine giving up this gig. I have no desire for fame or fortune in the RE.net, best evidenced by the infrequency that I post here. My focus is to build a fantastic and profitable hyper-local weblog. Does hyper-local weblogging work? As someone once said: That’s another post for another day.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What I do is blog to a very specific group of people. I don’t blog for the RE.net, and if you check your MyBlogLog widget you can confirm that I rarely visit your blog. In my limited time,\u00a0I visit blogs in Dayton Ohio. Those are the blogs that\u00a0matter most to me and my local blog.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I do Twitter<\/a>\u00a0though, and from that I’ve met quite a few RE.net bloggers, and I have completely enjoyed making Twitterfriends with each and every one of them. One of my favorites (yeah I got favorites, don’t you?) is Daniel Rothamel<\/a>. There are very few RE.net bloggers I respect more than Daniel. We’ve had\u00a0several offline conversations, and that is a\u00a0RE.net relationship that I value. Earlier last week when he tweeted that he just posted a video, I didn’t hesitate to take a look. I like Daniel’s video. I did then, and I do now. I thought it went well as a link to a post on my home blog, so I added it without hesitation. Then Jeff Brown posted about it<\/a> and fast forward to all hell breaking loose.<\/p>\n As I said, I don’t spend much time in the RE.net. I had no idea how much hell could actually break loose. At first I simply sat back and watched,\u00a0taking my place among the elusive ninety and nine. Daniel and I even shared a gentle joke over\u00a0the fuss. But then, (apparently true to form<\/a>) I did begin to ruminate and Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Been ruminating my little arse off this week. How about you? I’m a hyper-local blogger. I’m on the Bloodhound Blog because of a contest Greg and I teamed up to compete in-\u00a0my being here is\u00a0kind of a fluke, and frankly\u00a0the only reason I’m\u00a0still here is because this is such a great pack of dogs\u00a0with which […]<\/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":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-real-estate","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2025,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2025\/third-party-vendors-pick-up-where-the-nar-leaves-off-milking-the-realtors-dry\/","url_meta":{"origin":2412,"position":0},"title":"Third-party vendors pick up where the NAR leaves off: Milking the Realtors dry","author":"Greg Swann","date":"October 11, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"It's Milk the Realtors week on the RE.net -- with the shilling appeals for useless new \"solutions\" getting pretty close to actual sleaze -- so I wanted to revisit a couple of themes we've hit before. 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