{"id":2468,"date":"2008-01-04T10:02:34","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T17:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2468"},"modified":"2008-01-04T10:02:49","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T17:02:49","slug":"heads-up-folks-theyre-not-consumers-theyre-his-cousins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2468\/heads-up-folks-theyre-not-consumers-theyre-his-cousins\/","title":{"rendered":"Heads up, folks: They&#8217;re not consumers, they&#8217;re his cousins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What they&#8217;re saying, no matter how true it might ring to you, is scripted. (Why does it ring true to you? Because they&#8217;re parroting back to you the things you&#8217;ve written and read over the last two years.) They&#8217;re not talking to your clients, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1000wattblog.com\/2008\/01\/i-am-not-a-lead.html\" target=\"_blank\">they&#8217;re trying to snare your broker for their consulting practice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/m8nU-q5YPRQ&#38;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Video isn&#8217;t interesting just because it&#8217;s not text. Bad remakes of commercials so bad they were parodied years ago on a bad TV show are not good content for your weblog. It&#8217;s a good scam on their part, but why are you promoting their business?<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/blogging\" rel=\"tag\">blogging<\/a>, <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>What they&#8217;re saying, no matter how true it might ring to you, is scripted. (Why does it ring true to you? Because they&#8217;re parroting back to you the things you&#8217;ve written and read over the last two years.) They&#8217;re not talking to your clients, they&#8217;re trying to snare your broker for their consulting practice. Video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-marketing","category-real-estate","no-featured-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":223,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/223\/working-hard-to-get-the-listing-on-the-tower-of-song\/","url_meta":{"origin":2468,"position":0},"title":"Working hard to get the listing on the Tower of Song . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 18, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm really not the off-topic type, but it's Friday and I'm toast and I feel like sharing a little of the background here at Bloodhound HQ. 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