{"id":2479,"date":"2008-01-08T12:46:30","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T19:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2008-01-08T12:46:37","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T19:46:37","slug":"steve-jobs-and-the-fine-art-of-managing-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2479\/steve-jobs-and-the-fine-art-of-managing-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Jobs and the fine art of managing expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the biggest trade show of your corporate calendar debuts one week from today, when, precisely, would you introduce <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macpro\/?sr=hotnews.rss\" target=\"_blank\">an insanely great new desktop tower<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/xserve\/?sr=hotnews.rss\" target=\"_blank\">an insanely great new workgroup server<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"373\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2i32NkW0s94&#38;rel=1&#38;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The video is funny, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/01\/07\/the-truth-that-dare-not-speak-the-ces-keynote-sucked\/\" target=\"_blank\">funnier still because Bill Gates laid an egg at CES<\/a>, but think what Apple must have in store for us next Tuesday, if they could blow off two killer new products as if they were nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation is rife, of course, but I think we may be in for something no has anticipated.<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>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/technology\" rel=\"tag\">technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the biggest trade show of your corporate calendar debuts one week from today, when, precisely, would you introduce an insanely great new desktop tower and an insanely great new workgroup server? The video is funny, funnier still because Bill Gates laid an egg at CES, but think what Apple must have in store for [&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":[6,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-marketing","7":"category-real-estate","8":"category-technology","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1707,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1707\/theres-no-place-like-homepage-insanely-great-guerrilla-marketing-tactic-for-locally-focused-real-estate-weblogs\/","url_meta":{"origin":2479,"position":0},"title":"There&#8217;s no place like homepage: Insanely great Guerrilla Marketing tactic for locally-focused real estate weblogs","author":"Greg Swann","date":"July 29, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"From ProBlogger:I met a blogger recently who had a blog with a very local focus. 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And yet we shrug our shoulders and say, well, at least we&#8217;re not France&#8230;&#8221;","author":"Greg Swann","date":"April 15, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The American Spectator:How did it become \"fair\" for an American family to give to government a third of its income? How did it become \"fair\" for an American family to give to government half of its income? 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