{"id":3303,"date":"2008-06-30T03:30:25","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T10:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3303"},"modified":"2008-06-30T03:30:25","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T10:30:25","slug":"how-i-avoided-deleting-23-different-cliches-for-an-introduction-by-taking-the-easy-road-and-just-saying-happy-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3303\/how-i-avoided-deleting-23-different-cliches-for-an-introduction-by-taking-the-easy-road-and-just-saying-happy-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"How I avoided deleting 23 different cliches for an introduction by taking the easy road and just saying Happy Birthday."},"content":{"rendered":"

Allow me to further the B-day round of toasts at Bloodhound by introducing my relationship to these very pages.<\/p>\n

It is with great pleasure that I’m allowed to share thoughts on the pages on Bloodhound.\u00a0 You see, I have been a long time reader of the posts that put thought to action in Real Estate the way no other blog does.\u00a0 My interest go back to turning to the web to try and find clues to help with marketing as a newb to Real Estate.\u00a0 The requisite “Realtor type<\/em>” mags et al did not cut it for me from the begininng.\u00a0 Already finding success with buying and selling merchandise, reading the Times, and do I dare say dating through the web, I knew that at least trying to leverage the power of my trusty notebook to crush the competition was worth looking into.\u00a0 What I found at the time were plenty of shiny buttons to poke at and play with.\u00a0 I must have bookmarked upwards of 500+ pages of plans, actions, and helpful hints on RE I thought might be of interest.<\/p>\n

When it came down to it, the one thing that mattered is what I found on the blog pages of the Real Esate community.\u00a0 No one did it better than those here that howled<\/a>.\u00a0 Aside from shadowing my broker as he wheeled his vehicle throughout the hills of SF and walked and talked the business, reading\u00a0 and getting involved in the discussions that take place on these very pages are what motivated me to win.\u00a0 The creative thinking and ideas that we come up with when we are challenged to the fullest is what gives birth to opportunity.\u00a0\u00a0 The contributors that currently write here and have passed through have given me giant shoulders to stand on.\u00a0 They are passionate entrepreneurs of the new medium of Real Estate technology.\u00a0 We are still far into the early days of blogging, and we know how slow our industry has been to keep up.<\/p>\n

With all that said, I personally know my way pretty well when it comes to all things social media and the like Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Allow me to further the B-day round of toasts at Bloodhound by introducing my relationship to these very pages. It is with great pleasure that I’m allowed to share thoughts on the pages on Bloodhound.\u00a0 You see, I have been a long time reader of the posts that put thought to action in Real Estate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"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":[175,5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-project-blooodhound","7":"category-real-estate","8":"category-weblogging-101","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1419,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1419\/peeing-on-your-own-tree-with-bloodhound-enriched-googlejuice\/","url_meta":{"origin":3303,"position":0},"title":"Peeing on your own tree with Bloodhound-enriched Googlejuice","author":"Greg Swann","date":"May 12, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Cathy brought this up this morning, so I thought I would look into it. 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