{"id":8401,"date":"2009-05-14T06:35:23","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T13:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=8401"},"modified":"2009-05-14T07:09:01","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T14:09:01","slug":"how-we-say_what-we-say_is-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8401\/how-we-say_what-we-say_is-important\/","title":{"rendered":"How we say_What we say_Is important"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is actually a post about transparency, but as you’ll see, I am not a big fan of the ‘word’ itself. The idea of belaboring a word all of you seem to take for granted came about as I was talking with Scott Schang<\/a> a few days ago. We were just enjoying each other’s company, doing real work, a lender and real estate guy talking about the industry, our own ideas, sharing and laughing, scribbling notes and taking stock of the ideas that just never seemed to quit coming.<\/p>\n

For me transparency is about saying what you want to say, showing what you want to show, sharing what you want to share, and doing it in a manner and method that is most likely to allow the reader or listener to understand. In order for that to happen the writer or creater of thoughts and ideas, facts or fictions, must decide up front HOW they will present the information.<\/p>\n

Let me give you some examples.<\/h2>\n

Greg Swann<\/a><\/p>\n

“I write well. I’m a tough read here, but I can be much, much more difficult to read. I understand grammar the way other people understand cars or football or cooking, and I can build perfectly valid sentences in English that almost no one can understand, much less diagram. The English language is like Jazz to me, and it ripples and rolls through my head all the time, making connections like lightning strikes that take many paragraphs to explain to other people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Brian Brady<\/a><\/p>\n

“I posed this question at Unchained Phoenix \u201809 and you would have thought I asked the REALTORs to walk on coals…at first. A few bright agents listened to my reasoning:”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Geno Petro<\/a><\/p>\n

“When I awoke from my dehydrated coma and rack focused my blurry vision toward the general direction of the deactivated alarm clock on my night stand, the numbers 7:07 burned my retinas digital red. I jumped up in a virtual panic, threw on a suit and Hermes noose, splashed on a handful of Bulgari, gargled a Red Bull and Diet Coke highball and flew out the door in search of my car. Alas, God was looking Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is actually a post about transparency, but as you’ll see, I am not a big fan of the ‘word’ itself. The idea of belaboring a word all of you seem to take for granted came about as I was talking with Scott Schang a few days ago. 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