{"id":3885,"date":"2008-08-14T15:18:01","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T22:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3885"},"modified":"2008-08-14T15:34:52","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T22:34:52","slug":"i-fear-the-geeks-especially-when-bearing-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3885\/i-fear-the-geeks-especially-when-bearing-gifts\/","title":{"rendered":"I fear the Geeks, especially when bearing gifts."},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m not sure if it was Greg\u2019s post welcoming me to Bloodhound Blog<\/a> or if it is last name \u201cH\u201d week for the Hi-Tech cold callers\u2026but my phone has been ringing off the hook with people trying to sell<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> (give) me stuff to enhance my web 2.0 career. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The pitch<\/strong>, has been very simplistic in nature: <\/span>The vendor is willing to give me their product\/service for free or at a drastically reduced rate. <\/span>IF<\/strong>, I will recommend it to the agents in my office and the ones that read my blog.<\/p>\n

The close, \u201c<\/strong>Isn\u2019t this a great deal! <\/span><\/strong>What do you have to lose?\u201d<\/p>\n

What do I have to lose? <\/span>Let me shuffle my feet and look down at them with my hands in my pockets. <\/span>Ummmmm. <\/span>Geee. <\/span>I don\u2019t know. <\/span>How about my reputation with the people that I work for and depend on me to make sound decisions? <\/span>How about the respect of people who read me and trust me to make reputable endorsements? <\/span>If those aren\u2019t good enough reasons how about all the money that I could lose? <\/span>Money lost when agents figure out that I\u2019m willing to sell my soul for free products\/services on their dime. <\/span>Referrals that might not come in if I recommend based off personal gain instead of success.<\/p>\n

Do you really want my business?<\/strong> <\/span>Do you really want me to recommend you? <\/span>Would you really like me to write about how your product\/service is the greatest thing since IMAP on my iPhone? <\/span>Do you really want to improve my web 2.0 career?<\/p>\n

First, I\u2019m not looking for a handout. <\/span>Times are hard but I\u2019m not offering to give away my services. <\/span>You shouldn\u2019t either. <\/span>People pay me a lot of money to sell their homes. I\u2019m good at what I do. <\/span>Why should I expect any less from you? <\/span><\/p>\n

Second, interact with me on BHB<\/a>, Active Rain<\/a>, My Space<\/a> or any of the other online communities that I frequent. <\/span>Comment on my posts. <\/span>Ask questions. <\/span>Disagree. <\/span>Challenge the way that I think and do business. <\/span>Show me something different. <\/span>Something exciting! <\/span>Knock my Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m not sure if it was Greg\u2019s post welcoming me to Bloodhound Blog or if it is last name \u201cH\u201d week for the Hi-Tech cold callers\u2026but my phone has been ringing off the hook with people trying to sell (give) me stuff to enhance my web 2.0 career. The pitch, has been very simplistic in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"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":[29,6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-group-therapy","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-technology","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3885"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3894,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions\/3894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}