{"id":423,"date":"2006-09-26T08:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=423"},"modified":"2006-09-26T08:07:14","modified_gmt":"2006-09-26T15:07:14","slug":"blogoff-post-46-ask-the-broker-what-do-you-do-when-youre-not-drowning-in-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/423\/blogoff-post-46-ask-the-broker-what-do-you-do-when-youre-not-drowning-in-text\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogoff Post #46: Ask the Broker: What do you do when you&#8217;re not drowning in text . . . ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The is from my email, just a few minutes ago:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s not a real estate question, it&#8217;s a blogging question. Just wondering how much your traffic is up today during this blog off with Ardell? I know Jon Ernest is doing a live play-by-play, but how many others are tuning in and keeping up with you?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of my favorite films is Norman Jewison&#8217;s version of <i>Jesus Christ Superstar<\/i>, and one of my favorite scenes in that movie is the pantomime of TV news reporters interviewing the Nazarene as he is being taken to his trial before the Sanhedrin.<\/p>\n<p>Not to be offensive, but this is the same kind of thing, I think. I am writing to avoid drowning by now. I am nearing the halfway point, debating whether I should sleep or press on for now. I hear pingbacks hitting my mail every minute or so, but I have no idea what is going on away from my keyboard. I only read this question because I want more &#8220;Ask the Broker&#8221; questions.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s going on? Probably a lot. What do I know about it? Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry&#8230;<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/blogging\" rel=\"tag\">blogging<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/sellsius 101\" rel=\"tag\">sellsius 101<\/a>, <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><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The is from my email, just a few minutes ago: It&#8217;s not a real estate question, it&#8217;s a blogging question. Just wondering how much your traffic is up today during this blog off with Ardell? I know Jon Ernest is doing a live play-by-play, but how many others are tuning in and keeping up with [&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":[12,3,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-ask-the-broker","7":"category-blogging","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":327,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/327\/new-bloodhoundblog-feature-ask-the-broker\/","url_meta":{"origin":423,"position":0},"title":"New BloodhoundBlog feature: Ask the Broker . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 12, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"A lot of the searches that land on this weblog take the form of general real estate questions. \"What is an earnest deposit?\" \"How long is a typical escrow?\" \"What is dual agency?\" But search engines don't answer answer questions, they simply shuffle up web pages that have have a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Ask the Broker&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Ask the Broker","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/ask-the-broker\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":473,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/473\/blogoff-post-96-ask-the-broker-are-you-glad-you-did-this\/","url_meta":{"origin":423,"position":1},"title":"Blogoff Post #96: Ask the Broker: Are you glad you did this . . . ?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 26, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a question with a following, judging by the 300 unread emails in my inbox:Are you glad you took the Sellsius\u00b0 101 Blogoff Challenge?Emphatically, yes. 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