{"id":7419,"date":"2009-03-10T07:08:12","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T14:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=7419"},"modified":"2009-03-10T07:25:45","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T14:25:45","slug":"fart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7419\/fart\/","title":{"rendered":"FART"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"188\" height=\"186\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/fart.jpg\" alt=\"FART Realtor designation\" title=\"FART Realtor designation\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7420\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to buy a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smminstitute.com\/\">CSM from SSMI<\/a>. I&#8217;m already a FART.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t<strong>F<\/strong>racking<\/li>\n<li><strong>A<\/strong>wesome<\/li>\n<li><strong>R<\/strong>ealtor<\/li>\n<li><strong>T<\/strong>echnologist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ok, you got me.  FART&#8217;s not a real designation.<br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t go to any classes and pick up a FART- I cooked this one up in my living room a few minutes ago after overdosing on some grapes and  apricots.<\/p>\n<p>But if you&#8217;re hip, I&#8217;m not going to charge you for the right to add some flatulant flare to your business card.<\/p>\n<p>For a limited time only, I&#8217;m willing to let you use the FART designation if you can prove any 3 of the following.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> You&#8217;ve generated more than 50 Idx signups from your web efforts in one month.  (This is really an easy one , many &#8220;FARTists&#8221; consistently hit 800-2000\/ month.)<\/li>\n<li>You landed you blog or website on the first goog page for your most competitive area keywords. i.e. &#8220;Bumbl&#038;%^$ Real Estate.&#8221; Small markets count too, but if you&#8217;ve done this for a major metro area in under a year, then whoever you&#8217;re working for just isn&#8217;t paying you enough.<\/li>\n<li> You&#8217;ve helped another agent create and run a <a href=\"http:\/\/smellslikefishtown.com\">niche blog<\/a>, free of charge, because you love spreading the RE Tech gospel. <\/li>\n<li> You&#8217;re &#8220;auto incubating&#8221; a large group of prospects using rss based newsletters or some geeky <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/index.php?s=speaking+in+tongues+universal+contact+form&#038;sbutt=Go\">universal contact form you&#8217;ve hacked up to work with some obscure crm.<\/a><\/li>\n<li> You can tell me in under 30 seconds which 3 long tail search strings your most proud to be ranking organically number 1 for at the moment.<\/li>\n<li> You&#8217;re &#8220;autoblogging&#8221; your company listings out of the mls and into your site using some wp plugin that should probably be illegal. <\/li>\n<li> You&#8217;ve got <a href=\"http:\/\/ping.fm\">Ping <\/a>associated with 10 or more accounts and you update regularly via IM<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ve created at least 1 or 2  <a href=\"http:\/\/southphillyforeclosures.com\">lead capture pages<\/a> that regularly spew off registrations.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ve started and run a <a href=\"http:\/\/samhillhartman.com\">photo or video<br \/>\n niche blog<\/a> from the palm of your hand. And you update it almost every day.<\/li>\n<li> You&#8217;ve written a blog post in the dark, after midnight, using the Iphone&#8217;s native notes app, from the guest bedroom, so your wife wouldn&#8217;t have to suffer your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7419\/fart\/#more-7419\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not going to buy a CSM from SSMI. I&#8217;m already a FART. Fracking Awesome Realtor Technologist Ok, you got me. FART&#8217;s not a real designation. You can&#8217;t go to any classes and pick up a FART- I cooked this one up in my living room a few minutes ago after overdosing on some grapes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"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":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-technology","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9931,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/9931\/is-it-time-for-a-second-vook-at-brad-inmans-latest-brain-fart\/","url_meta":{"origin":7419,"position":0},"title":"Is it time for a second Vook at Brad Inman&#8217;s latest brain fart?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"October 2, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Believe it or don't, just yesterday I was telling Cathleen that I felt remiss in not having made fun of the Vook lately. 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