{"id":672,"date":"2006-11-22T09:05:29","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T16:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=672"},"modified":"2006-11-22T09:39:44","modified_gmt":"2006-11-22T16:39:44","slug":"model-realtors-will-real-estate-sell-for-higher-prices-in-the-company-of-a-stunningly-beautiful-super-model-and-what-should-you-do-about-the-drool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/672\/model-realtors-will-real-estate-sell-for-higher-prices-in-the-company-of-a-stunningly-beautiful-super-model-and-what-should-you-do-about-the-drool\/","title":{"rendered":"Will real estate sell for higher prices in the company of a stunningly beautiful super model? And: What should you do about the drool . . . ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our dear friend and marketing guru, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postrd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Riccelli<\/a>, shared <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gawker.com\/news\/sex\/sex--real-estate-who-can-tell-the-difference-anymore-216169.php\" target=\"_blank\">this marketing idea<\/a>. Brilliant. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/ModelRealtors.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The brokerage knows its target market, and my mom wouldn&#8217;t be in it. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paramount-group.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paramount Group<\/a> wouldn&#8217;t want to sell her a home&#8230; and she couldn&#8217;t afford the houses they represent anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think we have enough super models in Phoenix for anyone here to steal the idea. Wonder if Phoenix prospects would settle for our own stunningly beautiful supermodel, Odysseus&#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\/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>Our dear friend and marketing guru, Richard Riccelli, shared this marketing idea. Brilliant. The brokerage knows its target market, and my mom wouldn&#8217;t be in it. But Paramount Group wouldn&#8217;t want to sell her a home&#8230; and she couldn&#8217;t afford the houses they represent anyway. I don&#8217;t think we have enough super models in Phoenix [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","category-real-estate","no-featured-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":139,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/139\/get-potent-ping-power-for-the-price-of-a-promo\/","url_meta":{"origin":672,"position":0},"title":"Get potent ping power for the price of a promo . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"July 27, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I read about realPING on the Zillow.com weblog's coverage of Real Estate Connect in San Francisco. 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But here is the\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":8253,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8253\/meet-the-new-dogs-six-new-bloodhounds-to-fill-out-the-pack\/","url_meta":{"origin":672,"position":2},"title":"Meet the new dogs: Six new Bloodhounds to fill out the pack","author":"Greg Swann","date":"May 6, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"We added six new BloodhoundBlog contributors last Friday at BloodhoundBlog Unchained. Actually, we added seven, but Dave Smith of the Real Estate Blog Lab has elected to take a pass for now to free up time for other projects. It's no accident that all of these folks are coming out\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Egoism in Action&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Egoism in Action","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/egoism-in-action\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2851,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2851\/if-you-dont-have-to-sell-into-the-current-phoenix-real-estate-market-dont-but-what-if-you-do-have-to-sell\/","url_meta":{"origin":672,"position":3},"title":"If you don&#8217;t have to sell into the current Phoenix real estate market &#8212; don&#8217;t. But what if you do have to sell&#8230;?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"March 29, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This is my column for this week from the Arizona Republic (permanent link): \u00a0If you don't have to sell into the current Phoenix real estate market -- don't. But what if you do have to sell...? Here's a piece of real estate marketing advice that should be obvious: If you\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":1470,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1470\/making-movies-wrestling-with-science-commerce-and-art-to-sell-the-idea-of-a-unique-and-distinctive-phoenix\/","url_meta":{"origin":672,"position":4},"title":"Making movies: Wrestling with science, commerce and art to sell the idea of a unique and distinctive Phoenix","author":"Greg Swann","date":"May 24, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't think I'm done with this yet, but it's coming along. I mentioned last week that I've been making a movie in all my spare time. I've got about two weeks in the project by now, most of that lost to rendering and FTP. 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