{"id":3786,"date":"2008-08-06T07:55:30","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T14:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3786"},"modified":"2008-08-06T08:52:24","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T15:52:24","slug":"the-just-exactly-how-dumb-are-you-realtor-spam-of-the-decade-recs-wrecks-twenty-six-reputations-for-only-a-buck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3786\/the-just-exactly-how-dumb-are-you-realtor-spam-of-the-decade-recs-wrecks-twenty-six-reputations-for-only-a-buck\/","title":{"rendered":"The just-exactly-how-dumb-are-you Realtor-spam of the decade: RECS wrecks twenty-six reputations for only a buck"},"content":{"rendered":"

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incites no end of questions for me.<\/p>\n

For example, exactly how will my mastery of Real Estate Cyberspace have improved by sending these schmucks a dollar?<\/p>\n

If I send two dollars, can I be twice as wizardly?<\/p>\n

Precisely how much value should my clients put on a real estate designation that is just<\/em> as difficult to obtain as an Official Inman News sippee cup — but $148 cheaper?<\/p>\n

Yes, yes, I’m sure there’s fine print, but I’m a high D and I don’t care. Here’s the question that made me crazy for days:<\/p>\n

I don’t know of all of those twenty-six people who lent their names and faces to this vastly stoopid promotion, but I know of quite a few of them. Presumably they took some pains to make themselves famous in the real estate vendor space. My question:<\/p>\n

Why would they deliberately wreck their reputations by associating themselves with this sleazy wreck of a real estate designation?<\/p>\n

I’m quite serious. I’ve had this email open all week, trying to figure it out. I get slimed all the time by creepoids trying to leech away the value of my recommendations, but the sole<\/em> power I have in the marketplace of ideas is my reputation for integrity. Because I never attach my name to crap, you know that, if I do praise a product, I’m doing so for reasons I consider valid. I can’t imagine taking money to endorse a product, but, surely, it is far worse to take money to endorse a product that — by its own admission<\/em> — is not even worth a dollar!<\/p>\n

And it’s not one wannabe real estate bigfoot up there, it’s twenty-six of them! Reputation is all there is in the Web 2.0 world. Why would they squander the intellectual capital they worked so hard to accumulate?<\/p>\n

I couldn’t work it out, but then I stumbled on an infomercial-like sales presentation that made the whole issue clear to me:<\/p>\n

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Mind what goes into your mind.<\/p>\n

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Technorati Tags: real estate<\/a>, real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n

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This incites no end of questions for me. For example, exactly how will my mastery of Real Estate Cyberspace have improved by sending these schmucks a dollar? If I send two dollars, can I be twice as wizardly? 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