{"id":513,"date":"2006-10-05T13:39:05","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T20:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=513"},"modified":"2006-10-05T13:41:38","modified_gmt":"2006-10-05T20:41:38","slug":"getting-thousands-of-dollars-in-real-estate-commissions-back-getting-the-idea-across","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/513\/getting-thousands-of-dollars-in-real-estate-commissions-back-getting-the-idea-across\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting thousands of dollars in real estate commissions back: Getting the idea across . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, let&#8217;s play. I&#8217;m building marketing materials around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=494\" target=\"_blank\">the flat fee buyer representation idea<\/a>, and you can have a look at them &#8212; for a price. What&#8217;s the catch? Tell me what I&#8217;m missing. What I&#8217;m getting wrong. What could be better-handled.<\/p>\n<p>Witness:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/$5000-Ad.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s an ad. It may run as you see it in free-distribution supermarket listings magazines, or I may do a black-and-white version for the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bloodhoundrealty.com\/rebate.php\" target=\"_blank\">The web page cited in the ad is live<\/a>, so you can visit that, as well, if you like.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any thoughts you would like to share &#8212; while my dog might be all nose &#8212; I&#8217;m all ears&#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\/arizona\" rel=\"tag\">arizona<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/arizona real estate\" rel=\"tag\">arizona real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/compensation for buyer representation\" rel=\"tag\">compensation for buyer representation<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/disintermediation\" rel=\"tag\">disintermediation<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/phoenix\" rel=\"tag\">phoenix<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/phoenix real estate\" rel=\"tag\">phoenix real estate<\/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>Okay, let&#8217;s play. I&#8217;m building marketing materials around the flat fee buyer representation idea, and you can have a look at them &#8212; for a price. What&#8217;s the catch? Tell me what I&#8217;m missing. What I&#8217;m getting wrong. What could be better-handled. Witness: That&#8217;s an ad. It may run as you see it in free-distribution [&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":[4,8,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-disintermediation","7":"category-investment","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":510,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/510\/business-is-slow-at-the-arizona-business-blogs\/","url_meta":{"origin":513,"position":0},"title":"Business is slow at the Arizona Business Blogs . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"October 5, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"In the \"Don't Hate Me Just Because I'm Pitiful\" sweepstakes, The Arizona Republic invites us to visit their brand new \"Arizona Business Blogs\". They're not new, but that hardly matters. First, there is no link to the not-new \"Arizona Business Blogs\" in the on-line article. Second, although there is a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":390,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/390\/blogoff-post-13-little-white-signs-are-tin-eared-real-estate-marketing\/","url_meta":{"origin":513,"position":1},"title":"Blogoff Post #13: Little white signs are tin-eared real estate marketing . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 26, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"This is one of my favorites from my Arizona Republic column:You're driving through a neighborhood, and there it is. Not the \"For Sale\" sign, the rider - the little white plastic sign slung beneath. There, for all the world to see, is the ultimate testament to tin-eared real-estate marketing: A\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Marketing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Marketing","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/marketing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1447,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1447\/where-is-the-epicenter-of-real-estate-weblogging\/","url_meta":{"origin":513,"position":2},"title":"Where is the epicenter of real estate weblogging?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"May 18, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Arizona, of course. Want proof? Jay Thompson, The Phoenix Real Estate Guy really is the phoenix real estate guy. I'm getting him in sixth place in Google organic results for that keyword, with nowhere to go but up. John L. 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