{"id":3032,"date":"2011-07-04T09:40:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T16:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3032"},"modified":"2011-07-04T09:20:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T16:20:13","slug":"the-unchained-epiphany-working-in-the-web-20-world-is-not-mastery-of-technology-but-the-celebration-of-your-own-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3032\/the-unchained-epiphany-working-in-the-web-20-world-is-not-mastery-of-technology-but-the-celebration-of-your-own-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"The unchained epiphany: Working in the Web 2.0 world is not mastery of technology but the celebration of your own independence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kicking this back to the top from April 8, 2008. — GSS<\/em><\/p>\n

 
In comments to Sean Purcell’s “NAR Challenge”<\/a>, Scott Rogers wonders why the NAR could not teach hi-tech real estate as well as or better than BloodhoundBlog.<\/p>\n

The short answer is that we’re not teaching hi-tech real estate, not even close, and what we are<\/em> teaching is anathema to the NAR.<\/p>\n

In her own comment to Barry Cunningham’s post on the typewriter being state-of-the-art NAR technology<\/a>, Newport Beach Realtor Stacey Harmon<\/a> offers this serendipitous explication:<\/p>\n

WOW. This video really highlights for me the opportunity that exists for Realtors who really embrace not only technology, but Web 2.0. What I see in this video is the application of technology to improve the “traditional” way of selling real estate. I think there is a whole emerging group of Realtors out there who are looking to utilize technology (in particular Web 2.0 technologies) to TRANSFORM how real estate is sold. I agree with Dave that this video speaks to 75% of Realtors – I work in one of the most lucrative markets in the US (Newport Beach, CA) and I’d say that this video accurately represents how most Realtors (that do any business in my market) view and utilize technology. I see this as a huge opportunity for anyone who is savvy enough to have even found this blog. Thanks for a very interesting post!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s an epiphany in text form. I don’t know Stacey, and I don’t want to characterize her thoughts, but that kind of epiphany is what BloodhoundBlog is all about.<\/p>\n

We don’t teach technology, even though we talk about it all the time.<\/p>\n

We don’t teach marketing, new-wave or old-school, even though marketing is constant obsession around here.<\/p>\n

We don’t teach Web 2.0, even though many of the brightest lights in the wired world of real estate write, read and reflect here.<\/p>\n

What we teach is independence, the recognition that you alone are the source and the sink, the alpha and the omega of your knowledge, of your business and of your success or failure.<\/p>\n

I am a rude, crude and vulgar man, so it falls to me to Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kicking this back to the top from April 8, 2008. — GSS  In comments to Sean Purcell’s “NAR Challenge”, Scott Rogers wonders why the NAR could not teach hi-tech real estate as well as or better than BloodhoundBlog. 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