A question for other small independent brokerage owners and managers:<\/p>\n
I have almost completed the online version policy and procedure manual for my smallish, independent brokerage office. It’s been a lot<\/i> of work. Who knew? I ended up using a WordPress platform, since I didn’t have the energy to learn all the ins and outs of designing around the wiki format.<\/p>\n
Here’s the question: Can the online version completely replace a printed version? Do you add a paragraph to your agent’s contracts stating they have read the online manual (yeah, right) and they agree to comply with the policies and procedures?<\/p>\n
Creating a printed version kinda defeats the purpose, though I suppose I could install one of those “Turn-Your-Blog-into-a-Book” plugins.<\/p>\n
Thoughts, suggestions, anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A question for other small independent brokerage owners and managers: I have almost completed the online version policy and procedure manual for my smallish, independent brokerage office. It’s been a lot of work. Who knew? I ended up using a WordPress platform, since I didn’t have the energy to learn all the ins and outs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,4,212,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-casual-friday","7":"category-disintermediation","8":"category-flourishing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4889,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/4889\/meanwhile-back-at-the-ranch-or-creating-a-local-independent-powerhouse-brokerage\/","url_meta":{"origin":5685,"position":0},"title":"Meanwhile, back at the ranch…. (Or Creating a local, independent, powerhouse brokerage)","author":"Cheryl Johnson","date":"October 12, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Bob and I opened our own office, Bob Taylor Properties, Inc.\u00a0in 2000.\u00a0\u00a0Good friend and friendly competitor Dan Jordinelli had already opened\u00a0his own office, Jordinelli and Associates,\u00a0 in 1986.\u00a0\u00a0 I like to think that over the years both offices have built up some recognition and respect. A few weeks ago, Dan\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Real Estate"","block_context":{"text":"Real Estate","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/real-estate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":229,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/229\/interview-with-the-vampire-how-nick-learned-to-knuckle-under\/","url_meta":{"origin":5685,"position":1},"title":"Interview with the Vampire: How Nick learned to knuckle-under . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 21, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Hi, Nick. Come on in. Sit down. Sorry to keep you waiting. \"How long have you been here, Nick. Sixteen months! Wow, it seems like just yesterday that I turned my back on you and forgot all about you. \"It seems like you're doing pretty well for yourself, Nick, two\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Marketing"","block_context":{"text":"Marketing","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/marketing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15573,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15573\/real-estate-brokerage-models-jeff-browns-dad-and-dead-cats\/","url_meta":{"origin":5685,"position":2},"title":"Real Estate Brokerage models, Jeff Brown’s Dad, and Dead cats.","author":"Eric Blackwell","date":"January 23, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"If you have never read what Jeff Brown writes, STOP. Go read it. Seriously. Go to the right sidebar, scroll down to the Bawld Guy and click the archive link. Ok. ;-) Jeff's recent post brought up some good conversations that I want to shed some light on from my\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Real Estate"","block_context":{"text":"Real Estate","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/real-estate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":297,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/297\/back-story-how-we-evolved-our-policy-forbidding-dual-agency\/","url_meta":{"origin":5685,"position":3},"title":"Back story: How we evolved our policy forbidding dual agency . . .","author":"Cathleen Collins","date":"September 7, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Someone commented on Greg's recent post regarding dual agency. I thought I'd give you the \"back story\" so you can understand how we came to this position. Just this past May three events converged to make it crystal clear that dual agency was, in general, good for no one except\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Dual Agency"","block_context":{"text":"Dual Agency","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/dual-agency\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3528,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3528\/a-real-estate-sign-of-the-times-our-first-custom-yard-sign-printed-in-both-english-and-spanish\/","url_meta":{"origin":5685,"position":4},"title":"A real estate sign of the times: Our first custom yard sign printed in both English and Spanish","author":"Greg Swann","date":"July 27, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This is my column for this week from the Arizona Republic (permanent link). \u00a0A real estate sign of the times: Our first custom yard sign printed in both English and Spanish We do things that other brokers in the Phoenix area don't do. We're not the busiest listing brokerage --\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Marketing"","block_context":{"text":"Marketing","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/marketing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5403,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5403\/writing-an-office-policy-manual-for-real-estate-20\/","url_meta":{"origin":5685,"position":5},"title":"Writing an office policy manual for Real Estate 2.0","author":"Cheryl Johnson","date":"November 2, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"As part of our current ongoing \"expansion\", for the last few days I have been trying to cobble together something that resembles a real estate company policy manual. I am going to post a few of my policy manual paragraphs here, in the hopes that my Bloodhound friends might suggest\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Real Estate"","block_context":{"text":"Real Estate","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/real-estate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5687,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685\/revisions\/5687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}