{"id":8071,"date":"2009-04-25T18:00:18","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T01:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=8071"},"modified":"2009-04-25T18:00:31","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T01:00:31","slug":"greg-swanns-bloodhoundblog-unchained-homework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8071\/greg-swanns-bloodhoundblog-unchained-homework\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Swann&#8217;s BloodhoundBlog Unchained homework"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, here&#8217;s are homework assignments for BloodhoundBlog Unchained in Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>First, until this week I had no idea how deprived folks in the Windows world are. Just about everything I do is built around the idea of truly robust FTP software, and it turns out that this does not even exist for Windows users. Y&#8217;all are stuck behind the Iron Curtain and you don&#8217;t even know it.<\/p>\n<p>The vast suckage that is Windows FTP drastically affects my plans, but I&#8217;ll work it out.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile:<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have one, download and install a decent FTP client. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coreftp.com\/download.html\" target=\"_blank\">Core FTP LE isn&#8217;t awful<\/a>, and it&#8217;s free.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll also need a decent text editor. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.activestate.com\/komodo_edit\/\" target=\"_blank\">Komodo edit is actually quite good<\/a>, and it&#8217;s also free.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to be helping Mark Green talk about CRM and automated database solutions. If you want to play along with some of those ideas, <a href=\"http:\/\/heap.wbpsystems.com\/?referral=bloodhound\" target=\"_blank\">sign up for the free demo of Heap CRM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Heap is not all the way there as a real estate CRM, but it is adequate for the ideas we&#8217;ll be discussing, and a 31-day demo is free. Note that the link above goes to my Heap affiliate account, the vast proceeds from which my wife spends on food for stray animals.<\/p>\n<p>But wait. There&#8217;s more.<\/p>\n<p>I upgraded engenu today with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=7611\" target=\"_blank\">the mapping software I talked about here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You will need to <a href=\"http:\/\/engenu.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">download and install engenu on your file server<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have previously installed engenu, you won&#8217;t need to install a new copy of engenuPageDex.bin (your password file). (Likewise, if you have a customized &#8220;skin,&#8221; don&#8217;t install engenuComponents.) Even if you don&#8217;t want the mapping software, you should install the new version of engenu. First, there have been dozens of small bug fixes since the last official release. And second, I want you to get comfortable with your FTP client.<\/p>\n<p>Do you need some remedial help with engenu? Cheryl Johnson is the world&#8217;s most unlikely super-hero, but <a href=\"http:\/\/engenuworkshop.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">you can see her heroic efforts at making engenu more understandable here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And: We&#8217;re ready to rock. <a href=\"http:\/\/unchained.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog_Unchained_in_Phoenix_2009\/Unchained_Class_Schedules.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Class schedules are up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Students are split into two groups, Alpha and Omega, and <a href=\"http:\/\/unchained.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog_Unchained_in_Phoenix_2009\/Students\/\" target=\"_blank\">you can discern whether you are the aboriginal specimen or the <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8071\/greg-swanns-bloodhoundblog-unchained-homework\/#more-8071\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, here&#8217;s are homework assignments for BloodhoundBlog Unchained in Phoenix. First, until this week I had no idea how deprived folks in the Windows world are. Just about everything I do is built around the idea of truly robust FTP software, and it turns out that this does not even exist for Windows users. Y&#8217;all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[212,6,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-flourishing","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","9":"category-technology","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7672,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7672\/i-need-software-advice-for-bloodhoundblog-unchained\/","url_meta":{"origin":8071,"position":0},"title":"I need software advice for BloodhoundBlog Unchained","author":"Greg Swann","date":"April 2, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"We're getting ready to start handing out homework assignments for the folks coming to BloodhoundBlog Unchained in Phoenix. 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To do that work, students will need a web browser, which everyone has, but\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Photography&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Photography","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/photography\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6970,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/6970\/if-i-could-show-you-how-to-leverage-your-marketing-efforts-to-get-tens-of-thousands-of-dollars-worth-of-added-value-added-reach-added-impact-and-added-sales-how-much-would-you-pay-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":8071,"position":1},"title":"If I could show you how to leverage your marketing efforts to get tens of thousands of dollars worth of added value, added reach, added impact and added sales &#8212; would you be willing try on some new ideas?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"February 20, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Pre-script: Here's one of the secret benefits of working at BloodhoundBlog: If you screw up in really interesting ways, Direct Response provocateur Richard Riccelli will phone or email to tell you what you're getting wrong. 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