{"id":3370,"date":"2008-07-16T22:04:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T05:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3370"},"modified":"2008-07-16T22:06:29","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T05:06:29","slug":"listing-real-estate-the-bloodhound-way-custom-yard-signs-in-english-and-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3370\/listing-real-estate-the-bloodhound-way-custom-yard-signs-in-english-and-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"Listing real estate the Bloodhound way: Custom yard signs in English and Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These signs don&#8217;t exist yet; they won&#8217;t be finished until Friday at the earliest.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time we&#8217;ve done this, custom signs with one side in English, one side in Spanish. The flyer is done in both languages, also, one on each side of the sheet. I may echo some of the copy on the web site in Spanish, also.<\/p>\n<p>Just because we can, we&#8217;re using four unique photos on each side of the sign. The sign printer is digging this stuff beyond all measure. We came to them two years ago with these ideas, and, so far, no one else has even bothered to ask them what we&#8217;re doing. Meanwhile, we keep coming up with new things to try. I want for them to enter our work in sign-makers&#8217; competitions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/BerylSmallSignEnglish468.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/BerylSmallSignSpanish468.jpg\"\/><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\/real estate photography\" rel=\"tag\">real estate photography<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These signs don&#8217;t exist yet; they won&#8217;t be finished until Friday at the earliest. This is the first time we&#8217;ve done this, custom signs with one side in English, one side in Spanish. The flyer is done in both languages, also, one on each side of the sheet. I may echo some of the copy [&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":[6,9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-marketing","7":"category-photography","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3528,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3528\/a-real-estate-sign-of-the-times-our-first-custom-yard-sign-printed-in-both-english-and-spanish\/","url_meta":{"origin":3370,"position":0},"title":"A real estate sign of the times: Our first custom yard sign printed in both English and Spanish","author":"Greg Swann","date":"July 27, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This is my column for this week from the Arizona Republic (permanent link). \u00a0A real estate sign of the times: Our first custom yard sign printed in both English and Spanish We do things that other brokers in the Phoenix area don't do. We're not the busiest listing brokerage --\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Marketing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Marketing","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/marketing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3278,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3278\/listing-real-estate-the-bloodhound-way-the-marketing-power-of-a-custom-yard-sign-is-not-the-color-not-the-photography-not-even-that-it-is-custom-made-its-the-text-on-the-sign-that-stops-traffi\/","url_meta":{"origin":3370,"position":1},"title":"Listing real estate the Bloodhound way: The marketing power of a custom yard sign is not the color, not the photography, not even that it is custom-made &#8212; it&#8217;s the text on the sign that stops traffic","author":"Greg Swann","date":"June 26, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"We've been making custom yard signs for two years now, but that represents the third generation of our sign philosophy. 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John is a profile in courage, to my way of looking at things. He's just launched a brand new brokerage. In this real estate market. In Cleveland. He's being very sweet to the Bloodhounds in this note, but this is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Egoism in Action&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Egoism in Action","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/egoism-in-action\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1715,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1715\/black-pearls-custom-directional-signs-can-draw-buyers-to-your-listings-and-make-your-listings-seem-to-multiply\/","url_meta":{"origin":3370,"position":3},"title":"Black Pearls: Custom directional signs can draw buyers to your listings &#8212; and make your listings seem to multiply","author":"Greg Swann","date":"July 31, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, here's a Black Pearl made from sandy irritants we picked up at the StarPower Conference. 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