{"id":8332,"date":"2009-05-09T08:13:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T15:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=8332"},"modified":"2009-05-09T08:13:14","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T15:13:14","slug":"the-goal-of-the-bloodhoundblog-unchained-training-conference-is-to-push-the-bums-out-of-the-real-estate-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8332\/the-goal-of-the-bloodhoundblog-unchained-training-conference-is-to-push-the-bums-out-of-the-real-estate-business\/","title":{"rendered":"The goal of the BloodhoundBlog Unchained training conference is to push the bums out of the real estate business"},"content":{"rendered":"

This from my Arizona Republic<\/i> real estate column (permanent link<\/a>):<\/p>\n

We publish a national real estate industry weblog called BloodhoundBlog.com<\/a>. There are 42 contributors from all over the country, each one an expert in his or her own right. Together we talk about real estate marketing and technology, lending and investment. If you want to know what Realtors and lenders really think, BloodhoundBlog is your keyhole into the industry.<\/p>\n

The blog is all about the wired world of real estate, how the participatory internet is changing age-old paradigms of real property and mortgage marketing. When we started three years ago, the Web 2.0 idea of online interaction was still very new. By now, it’s hard to remember a time when these technologies were not ubiquitous.<\/p>\n

BloodhoundBlog’s mission is to help Realtors and lenders keep pace with internet tools. In service of that objective, we produce an annual conference called BloodhoundBlog Unchained<\/a>. Real estate professionals come from all over the country to learn how to market their services in what amounts to a post-marketing marketplace.<\/p>\n

This year’s conference ran last week from Tuesday to Friday. We encamped in a hotel near Skyharbor Airport and worked all but continuously for 72 hours. Our world is changing so fast that we felt we had to work that hard, just to learn everything we need to know.<\/p>\n

What’s all this to you? BloodhoundBlog is all about promoting excellence in every conceivable way. We do everything we can think of to train Realtors and lenders to provide a better-quality experience by every means attainable.<\/p>\n

My objective, expressed baldly, is to chase the bums out of our business. Licensing purports to do this, but it has not. Trade organizations like the National Association of Realtors should do this, but they don’t. But if we can educate consumers to demand better service, better information, better representation, then the bums and the crooks will go get jobs. That’s the way free markets work, when they’re working properly.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, real estate professionals are just catching on to the idea that consumers can see everything we do. Drop in on BloodhoundBlog and keep an eye on us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This from my Arizona Republic real estate column (permanent link): We publish a national real estate industry weblog called BloodhoundBlog.com. There are 42 contributors from all over the country, each one an expert in his or her own right. Together we talk about real estate marketing and technology, lending and investment. If you want to […]<\/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":[212,29,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-flourishing","7":"category-group-therapy","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2771,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2771\/for-today-at-least-bloodhoundblog-is-the-fourth-most-popular-real-estate-weblog-and-the-most-popular-real-estate-industry-blog\/","url_meta":{"origin":8332,"position":0},"title":"BloodhoundBlog is the most popular real estate industry blog, but for now we’re the fourth most popular real estate weblog overall","author":"Greg Swann","date":"March 14, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The last time BloodhoundBlog scored this high on BlogTopSites was May of 2007. At the time, I said: \"It may not happen again for a while...\" What's going on? Brian Brady is showing you why you will reap huge benefits by attending BloodhoundBlog Unchained. This is just the beginning... Technorati\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":679,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/679\/content-piracy-on-the-renet\/","url_meta":{"origin":8332,"position":1},"title":"Content piracy on the RE.net . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"November 25, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"An aggregator weblog called Real Estate Chatter is resyndicating the feeds of these 25 real estate weblogs:Altos Research Real Estate InsightsAppraisal ScoopCarnival of Real EstateMike's Corner Web 2.0 For Real Estate ProsNAR in the Newsrealestate.com.au News & ViewsOverseas Property Blog :: guide to international real estate investmentPressReal.comSeattle's Rain City Real\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":159,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/159\/the-carnival-of-real-estate\/","url_meta":{"origin":8332,"position":2},"title":"The Carnival of Real Estate . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"July 31, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"...is up at The Future of Real Estate Marketing. Technorati Tags: blogging, real estate, real estate marketing","rel":"","context":"In "Blog Carnivals"","block_context":{"text":"Blog Carnivals","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blog-carnivals\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2721,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2721\/my-real-estate-radio-usa-debut-and-a-reminder-that-the-price-for-bloodhoundblog-unchained-tickets-goes-up-at-midnight-tonight\/","url_meta":{"origin":8332,"position":3},"title":"My Real Estate Radio USA debut — and a reminder that the price for BloodhoundBlog Unchained tickets goes up at midnight tonight","author":"Greg Swann","date":"March 7, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"You can go to Real Estate Radio USA to hear the MP3 of my appearance today. I went into it expecting to kind of goofy and fun, but we actually ended up covering a lot of nuts-and-bolts real estate techniques. As Brian Brady announced when he made his own appearance\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2285,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2285\/weblogging-without-chains-a-bloodhoundblog-unchained-introduction-to-viral-hyper-specific-real-estate-weblogging\/","url_meta":{"origin":8332,"position":4},"title":"Weblogging without chains: A BloodhoundBlog Unchained introductory podcast to viral, hyper-specific real estate weblogging","author":"Greg Swann","date":"November 28, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The podcast linked below is a piece of a conversation Brian Brady and I had today about styles of real estate weblogging that make sense in the onrushing world of social media marketing. Brian cites a post of mine from the first of this year, Think globally, blog locally: If\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1056,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1056\/real-estate-carnivals-nigel-swaby-wins-carnival-of-real-estate-investing-our-own-allen-butler-wins-carnival-of-real-estate\/","url_meta":{"origin":8332,"position":5},"title":"Real Estate Carnivals: Nigel Swaby wins Carnival of Real Estate Investing, our own Allen Butler wins Carnival of Real Estate . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"February 19, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"BloodhoundBlog was this week's host of the Carnival of Real Estate Investing. Nigel Swaby from the Salt Lake Real Estate Blog was this week's winner, with Creative Financing - Conversion to Traditional Mortgages. We had a total of seven entries and four judges: Michael Cook, Cathleen Collins, Jeff Brown and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog Carnivals"","block_context":{"text":"Blog Carnivals","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blog-carnivals\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8333,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8332\/revisions\/8333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}