{"id":7024,"date":"2009-02-21T16:04:17","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T23:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=7024"},"modified":"2009-02-21T16:04:17","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T23:04:17","slug":"changing-your-own-hi-tech-oil-who-cares-is-there-a-skinned-cat-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7024\/changing-your-own-hi-tech-oil-who-cares-is-there-a-skinned-cat-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Your Own Hi-Tech Oil — Who Cares? — Is There A Skinned Cat Or Not?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greg’s post earlier today<\/a> prompted me to respond via post rather than comment. He made some superb points, and one or two for which we’ll have to agree to disagree. He quoted me from my earlier post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

If you honestly believe your income is higher with you spending time changing your own hi-tech oil, then continue along that path \u2014 it\u2019s obviously working for you. On the other hand, if you think putting yourself in front of 50 more serious prospects a year might be more productive for your bottom line, AND that would make you happy, you may want to modify your approach.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He said it was a false dichotomy.<\/p>\n

It’s not a false dichotomy at all. We disagree on the basic satanic nature of vendors as a species. My car for example is easily more complex than most, and I don’t have a clue how to service it, including changing its oil. (Though I’ve changed oil on many of my previous cars.) I simply found the right guys to call. They service it while I drive one of their cars. I don’t have much down time. The same vendor has been servicing the car since summer of ’04 with spectacular results, and at a very fair price. <\/p>\n

His second point is well taken, and we don’t disagree. As my post indicated, I’m a hi-tech marketing Kool-Aid drinker. Anything producing six figures annually has my full enthusiastic endorsement. But I compare it to the concept car. It’s cool, but it ain’t here yet, at least to the degree Greg and others predict. It’s not that I don’t think he’s correct, I do. It’s that it’s not producing the volume now that it surely will in the future. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, as Chris said so well in his comment, I’m using what works. And all debate aside, I’ll get belly2belly with more folks\/year and do more deals 1.0 than most 2.0 practitioners do in three years. Are there some exceptions out there? Of course, there always are. Good on ’em because they’re demonstrating what’s possible. But current reality shows bottom lines aren’t being impacted in a Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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