{"id":491,"date":"2006-09-30T18:15:28","date_gmt":"2006-10-01T01:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=491"},"modified":"2006-09-30T18:16:49","modified_gmt":"2006-10-01T01:16:49","slug":"blogoff-retrospective-picking-through-everything-and-picking-out-the-ones-i-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/491\/blogoff-retrospective-picking-through-everything-and-picking-out-the-ones-i-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogoff retrospective: Picking through everything and picking out the ones I like . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

I finally made time today to read all of my posts in the Sellsius 101 Blogoff Challenge<\/a>, correcting any errors I spotted and commenting where I had something to add to the conversation.<\/p>\n

Jim Cronin of The Real Estate Tomato<\/a> had asked me which posts I thought were my best and worst. I didn’t think any were horrible. There were plenty that I would not have done were it not for the contest, and others I might have done at greater length in different circumstances. I was gratified to show off many of my columns from the Arizona Republic<\/i><\/a>, because they present a very hands-on approach to real estate.<\/p>\n

Here are a few that I think stand out:<\/p>\n

Blogoff Post #1: Cry, ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the war of blogs<\/a>: “So, although there may be a lot of blog entries posted in this contest, I don’t think there will be any wasted entries. Your attention will be repaid with knowledge, insight, wisdom and, one hopes, grace.”<\/p>\n

Blogoff Post #39: Work for passion, not money<\/a>: “An admirable poverty is only admired from the outside. From the inside, eventually, it can come to be a tailor-made hell.”<\/p>\n

Blogoff Post #45: Real estate weblogging? Yo, Shlomo! Cut back on the promo<\/a>: “The bottom line is, if you start to look like spam to me, I’ll start to treat you like spam. How is that to your advantage…?”<\/p>\n

Blogoff Post #50: Real estate weblogging? Write about blogging<\/a>: “We become a forum, an agora — blog to blog, within a blog and within our own minds, solitarily engaged in the most blaringly public of debates.”<\/p>\n

Blogoff Post #90: Stupid mistakes of the newly self-employed<\/a>: “The only benefit I can think of to having a job is that there’s always someone to tell you to get busy. Not so for the self-employed. If you don’t learn to monitor and manage the hours of your days, you’ll be back on the clock in no time.”<\/p>\n

Truly, time will tell: I link back to earlier posts all the time. We’ll know how these hold up by how I reference them in the future.<\/p>\n

Thanks to everyone for being Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finally made time today to read all of my posts in the Sellsius 101 Blogoff Challenge, correcting any errors I spotted and commenting where I had something to add to the conversation. Jim Cronin of The Real Estate Tomato had asked me which posts I thought were my best and worst. 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