{"id":843,"date":"2007-01-03T10:20:14","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T17:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=843"},"modified":"2007-01-03T10:31:50","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T17:31:50","slug":"kibble-and-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/843\/kibble-and-bits\/","title":{"rendered":"Kibble and Bits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KIBBLE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Odysseus, meet Simon. Tell me, can you really teach an old dog new tricks?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/Simon1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"194\" alt=\"Simon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/Simon-tbn.jpg\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Odysseus is our resident cover boy, a Bloodhound, described as a large, powerful dog tireless in his keen pursuit of a scent. Simon is a Golden Retriever, my family pet, or as we like to call him, the world&#8217;s dumbest dog. Goldens are a friendly and people-loving breed valued for their high level of socialability, yet they make poor watchdogs.<\/p>\n<p>Astute and inquisitive versus dumb-as-dirt and lovable &#8211; You make the call.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BITS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Agents, as I see it, generally fall into the Bloodhound or Golden categories. I can&#8217;t speak personally for Odysseus, but I know Simon all too well.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Puppy Agent:<\/strong> Fresh out of their Principles class and newly armed with a License to Sell, these agents attend the mandatory company obedience school. They quickly learn to perform rote tasks, such as announcing their new and exciting career to all of the people in their Sphere of Influence, sending letters to Expired Listings, dropping notepads at the doors of the neighbors, and shoving business cards in the hands of unsuspecting waitresses. <strong>Puppy Golden:<\/strong> I did my &#8220;business&#8221; where they told me to. I&#8217;m a Good Boy!<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Programmed Agent:<\/strong> You know him. He is the one that spends all of his business development time sitting in costly training classes in search of the &#8220;answer&#8221;. He is the first in line to purchase the costly books and cassettes which will reveal the &#8220;secrets&#8221;. While he is being coached and trained and recoached and retrained, others around him are building actual businesses and establishing successful careers. <strong>The Programmed Golden: <\/strong>Look! Another tail to chase! I bet I catch <em>this<\/em> one!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Myopic Agent:<\/strong> A conversation was related to me in which the broker of a small, local real estate firm said, in reference to our blog, &#8220;I could have a blog, but I prefer to spend <em>my<\/em> time serving my clients. Meanwhile, at the office holiday party, I was chatting with two veteran agents about the latest Zillow news to learn that neither had ever heard of Zillow. <strong>Myopic Golden:<\/strong> My snout is stuck in this soup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/843\/kibble-and-bits\/#more-843\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KIBBLE Odysseus, meet Simon. Tell me, can you really teach an old dog new tricks? Odysseus is our resident cover boy, a Bloodhound, described as a large, powerful dog tireless in his keen pursuit of a scent. Simon is a Golden Retriever, my family pet, or as we like to call him, the world&#8217;s dumbest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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":[3,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16183,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/16183\/you-havent-seen-a-bloodhound-until-youve-seen-odysseus-go-vertical\/","url_meta":{"origin":843,"position":0},"title":"You haven&#8217;t seen a Bloodhound until you&#8217;ve seen Odysseus go vertical.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 30, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Odysseus is getting to be an old dog, which is not a happy fate for big dogs. 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