{"id":5176,"date":"2008-10-25T10:30:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T17:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=5176"},"modified":"2008-10-25T11:32:37","modified_gmt":"2008-10-25T18:32:37","slug":"why-bloggers-fail-to-become-top-producers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5176\/why-bloggers-fail-to-become-top-producers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Bloggers Fail To Become Top Producers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know your secret.\u00a0 Honestly…I do.<\/p>\n

You aren’t knocking the ball out of the park, regardless of your blogging effort.\u00a0 You play around on Twitter, Facebook, Active Rain, and might even comment on Bloodhound Blog.\u00a0 You’re probably REALLY smart and can’t believe that you’re having problems in business.\u00a0 I know you are; I’ve read most of your blog posts, Tweets, and Facebook messages.\u00a0 You fancy yourself ethical.\u00a0 I believe that, too.<\/p>\n

Why is a smart, ethical real estate agent like you failing then?<\/strong><\/p>\n

You got hoodwinked.\u00a0 Tricked.\u00a0 Sold a bill of goods.\u00a0 That snake oil you bought?\u00a0 Web 2.0- it was supposed to be the new way to do business; you just didn’t realize it was gonna take 3-5 years.\u00a0 It’s taking longer than you imagined and you’re stuck.\u00a0 Your spouse is riding your ass as she punches a clock while you play on Twitter.\u00a0 Your kids wonder why you treat the occasional prospect who calls you to Ruth’s Chris while making them eat off the value menu at Mc Donald’s. You’re failing because you bought into the hype and you’re scared to admit that you blew it.<\/p>\n

That’s okay- it’s not your fault.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You see, I got hoodwinked too.\u00a0 I was all puffed up, speaking in San Francisco and New York like I was some kind of expert.\u00a0 As I was hob-nobbing with the RE.net, I heard more than one of the “blogging elite” talk about their fear of personal foreclosure.\u00a0 I heard the practitioners talk about losing their homes and the tech gurus talk about how rich they were getting…<\/p>\n

…off the poor practitioners whom they appointed “experts”. THAT disgusted me.<\/p>\n

I knew I had to make a VERY big change in my life.\u00a0 I was following the “wrong crowd” and if I kept it up, I’d be face-down, lying in the gutter, with no customers at all.\u00a0 I definitely didn’t want that…so I made some changes.\u00a0 Those changes, combined with the things I learned from the folks who DO make money online, grew my business while my competitors were submitting employment applications at the mall.<\/p>\n

Let me do my best Joe Biden…\u00a0 It’s not your fault.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Greg Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know your secret.\u00a0 Honestly…I do. You aren’t knocking the ball out of the park, regardless of your blogging effort.\u00a0 You play around on Twitter, Facebook, Active Rain, and might even comment on Bloodhound Blog.\u00a0 You’re probably REALLY smart and can’t believe that you’re having problems in business.\u00a0 I know you are; I’ve read most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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":[3,26,6,175,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-lending","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-project-blooodhound","10":"category-real-estate","12":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2152,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2152\/the-jim-duncan-channel-learning-to-surf-the-enblogged-globe\/","url_meta":{"origin":5176,"position":0},"title":"The Jim Duncan Channel: Learning to surf the enblogged globe","author":"Greg Swann","date":"November 2, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"We're adding another new BloodhoundBlogger today -- and I'm not done yet. 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