{"id":7747,"date":"2009-04-10T12:32:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T19:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=7747"},"modified":"2009-04-10T12:43:06","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T19:43:06","slug":"how-india-made-me-a-better-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7747\/how-india-made-me-a-better-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"How India Made Me a Better Agent"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following is a true story.\u00a0 The names were not changed and only the mistakes were innocent.<\/em><\/p>\n

Not too many years ago I took a month off and traveled to India (for those new to the real estate profession, there was actually a time one could take a long vacation and still be successful).\u00a0 India was not so much a destination of choice as it was obligation:\u00a0 I was married at the time and my wife’s family is from there.\u00a0 In any case, I found myself in India.<\/p>\n

It is common for foreigners traveling in India to become sick the first week (the malady even has a name: New Delhi belly<\/em><\/a>).\u00a0 When I began feeling better I wanted to go for a run.\u00a0 From the tenth floor window of our hotel room I looked down upon a large, undeveloped space bounded on all sides by city streets – roughly the equivalent of a city block.\u00a0 I guesstimated a lap to be just short of a half mile and headed down to get in an hour’s worth of exercise.\u00a0 Seemed simple enough from the tenth floor.\u00a0 Strange thing though: once on the ground the loop was not nearly as obvious and that third left turn just never appeared.\u00a0 I was quickly lost:<\/p>\n

Lesson 1: No matter how great or simple or brilliant your marketing plan, things can and will go wrong.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I decided that I would keep going, counting on the innate, natural sense of direction all males possess… (I’ll pause for a moment while the women stop laughing).\u00a0 Two and half hours later I decided I was really<\/em> lost.\u00a0 Nothing looked familiar and I was no longer even in town.\u00a0 It was also at this point that I stopped and took a good hard look at my situation: “I am lost, I don’t speak the language, I don’t have any ID with me and I’m not carrying any money.\u00a0 Hmmm, this is not good.”\u00a0 I decided to enlist some help; I was pretty much all-in after running for over two hours and imagined everyone back at the hotel worried sick.\u00a0 Plus, there was the ‘spectacle’.\u00a0 Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following is a true story.\u00a0 The names were not changed and only the mistakes were innocent. Not too many years ago I took a month off and traveled to India (for those new to the real estate profession, there was actually a time one could take a long vacation and still be successful).\u00a0 India […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"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":[13,29,6],"tags":[533,111],"class_list":{"0":"post-7747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-casual-friday","7":"category-group-therapy","8":"category-marketing","9":"tag-marketing","10":"tag-success","12":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":450,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/450\/blogoff-post-73-using-web-to-buy-home-a-bad-idea\/","url_meta":{"origin":7747,"position":0},"title":"Blogoff Post #73: Using Web to buy home a bad idea . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 26, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a sweet one from my Arizona Republic column:\"Save thousands buying surgery online!\" It may be a while before you see this headline. 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