{"id":3439,"date":"2008-07-22T04:38:45","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T11:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3439"},"modified":"2008-07-22T04:38:45","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T11:38:45","slug":"gulp-i-am-a-vendor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3439\/gulp-i-am-a-vendor\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulp… I AM a VENDOR!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had one of those REALLY UGLY commutes to work today. You know the ones…when your mind won’t stop ruminating on the scary thoughts of the hours before you left. I mean…you are trying to focus on the business of the day, but it just won’t happen…<\/p>\n

After Hunter’s post about vendors…and Greg’s… It was time for me to do some serious soul searching about what I thought was right. I mean…I hate all these vendors pestering the heck out of me…and lying to me…and doing ANYTHING to get business…And then it hit me.
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\nGulp… I AM a VENDOR!<\/strong><\/p>\n

My blog over at EricOnSearch is my business. While I limit (severely) the number of clients that I take on to only those that TRULY fit with me, and while the real estate side is limited to SEO. ( I refer out website development to those I trust -see site) I AM indeed a vendor to the real estate market.<\/p>\n

I spent my entire 35 minute drive to the office thinking….”I have NEVER solicited business from anyone on BHB. Ever.”
\n“I have always TRIED to be helpful and spent time and offered FREE advice to many who have asked.”
\n“I have never paid for an ad or paid a (insert chokepoint Charlie here) for exposure.”
\n“It has all been Earned Media.”<\/p>\n

And yet I AM indeed a VENDOR. I feel dirty. Tainted by the company of people who CALL themselves vendors but who in reality are confidence men (and women). The problem is that con men and women and shysters seem to make up a vast majority of the RE vendor market. <\/p>\n

Russell Shaw made a great point in a recent post about the Enemy Line<\/a>. Maybe this is one of the items on my list that I need to get over.<\/p>\n

So I started thinking about distinctions that I believe separate the ME’s from many of the rest. I actually made a pretty good sized list of things that I do differently as a vendor to make SURE that I am firmly putting distance between myself and THEM. But once I looked at the list it all boiled down Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had one of those REALLY UGLY commutes to work today. You know the ones…when your mind won’t stop ruminating on the scary thoughts of the hours before you left. I mean…you are trying to focus on the business of the day, but it just won’t happen… After Hunter’s post about vendors…and Greg’s… It was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"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":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-group-therapy","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1736,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1736\/controlling-your-own-destiny-in-your-hi-tech-real-estate-practice-three-simple-rules-for-dealing-with-technology-vendors\/","url_meta":{"origin":3439,"position":0},"title":"Black Pearls: Controlling your own destiny in your hi-tech real estate practice: Three simple rules for dealing with technology vendors","author":"Greg Swann","date":"May 21, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"[This post came up yesterday in a discussion at Unchained, and I'm kicking it back to the top of the blog because the issue of data portability is so important for people who might be coming anew into the world of Web 2.0\/Social Media Marketing. --GSS] \u00a0Would it surprise you\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Disintermediation"","block_context":{"text":"Disintermediation","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/disintermediation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15985,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15985\/an-effective-way-to-gets-lots-of-pages-indexed-to-your-real-estate-web-site\/","url_meta":{"origin":3439,"position":1},"title":"An Effective way to gets lots of pages indexed to your real estate web site","author":"Al Lorenz","date":"June 11, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm cheap on spending money on real estate stuff from vendors promising all kinds of things, whether it is leads or exposure.\u00a0 But, I went ahead and tried out a real estate search utility that is setup for WordPress.\u00a0 There were three reasons I chose to do it:\u00a0 1) They\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Marketing"","block_context":{"text":"Marketing","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/marketing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Search for Pateros areas properties near Lake Chelan","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Pateros-Area-Property-Search.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":14854,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14854\/introducing-displet-rets-idx-how-i-spent-my-summer-vacation-and-the-following-2-years\/","url_meta":{"origin":3439,"position":2},"title":"Introducing Displet RETS \/ IDX: How I Spent My Summer Vacation….and the Following 2 Years","author":"Eric Bramlett","date":"July 26, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"It all started with two phone calls to two separate IDX vendors: Call #1 Eric: Hello. 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