{"id":3558,"date":"2008-08-01T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T17:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3558"},"modified":"2008-08-01T10:11:06","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T17:11:06","slug":"are-you-playing-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3558\/are-you-playing-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Making Music?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently attended a birthday party with my two beautiful boys (yes they are the most beautiful boys in the world and no, I am not biased).\u00a0 The birthday guest of honor received a great many gifts and it was lots of fun.\u00a0 Save for one interesting observation… an odd note that just might reflect a growing problem many agents face in real estate.\u00a0 But I am ahead of myself.<\/p>\n

In particular, the boys all gathered around a video game (I think it is called Guitar Hero) that comes with drums and a guitar.\u00a0 You put the DVD in and the TV provides music and a video while the boys watch a visual cue telling them when to strum a chord or bang a drum.\u00a0 Anyway, they all jumped in and so did I.\u00a0 (Little kid at heart still…)<\/p>\n

Now here is the interesting part.\u00a0 I did well at that game. I did well because of my athleticism.\u00a0 I still have very good eye-hand coordination and I pick things up pretty quickly.\u00a0 In hindsight, maybe that is not so interesting.\u00a0 But let me add this: I am completely tone deaf and possess no rhythm whatsoever.\u00a0 My ex-wife used to laugh at me when I clapped my hands or tapped my foot along to some song.\u00a0 Apparently I was never on the beat.\u00a0 I tried to tell her I was keeping with the “back beat”… but she wasn’t buying.\u00a0 In any case, I was the source for a good deal of amusement.\u00a0 Now imagine: a guy with no beat excelling at a game involving music.<\/p>\n

(Stay with me because I am going to tie this all together in a moment.)\u00a0 A day or two later, I catch an episode of Gene Simmons’ Family Jewels<\/em> on cable.\u00a0 If you have not seen this you are missing out on insights from one of the greatest marketers of our time.\u00a0 In this particular episode Gene’s son, along with some friends, challenge Gene to this very same video game… and kick his rock & roll butt.\u00a0 Gene decides this is not right.\u00a0 So he calls his buddies Tommy Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently attended a birthday party with my two beautiful boys (yes they are the most beautiful boys in the world and no, I am not biased).\u00a0 The birthday guest of honor received a great many gifts and it was lots of fun.\u00a0 Save for one interesting observation… an odd note that just might reflect […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-casual-friday","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10752,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10752\/using-the-disc-system-to-understand-the-boys-of-entourage\/","url_meta":{"origin":3558,"position":0},"title":"Using the DISC system to understand the boys of Entourage","author":"Greg Swann","date":"December 31, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I've talked about the DISC system of personality profiling in past. 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