{"id":8471,"date":"2009-05-18T13:26:28","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T20:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=8471"},"modified":"2009-05-18T13:26:28","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T20:26:28","slug":"nothin-new-under-the-sun-especially-if-im-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8471\/nothin-new-under-the-sun-especially-if-im-involved\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothin’ New Under The Sun — Especially If I’m Involved"},"content":{"rendered":"

I learned early on in my career I had no problem whatsoever taking others’ ideas and running with ’em like a thief out of a 7\/11 carrying a paper bag full of ones and fives. I’m BawldJapan — I can take your idea, tweak it for my uses, and most of the time make it work to some degree. Ideas don’t have to be new, or even perceived as cool — they just have to work. What a concept — excuse me a sec while I write that gem down. <\/p>\n

For the record, often times epiphanies for me are just empirical evidence I may have arrived at grammar school via the little bus. I’m reminded of my never ending irritation with the various business magazines aimed at entrepreneurs. Two lifelong best friends succeed wildly with a Mexican restaurant in their hometown, and are interviewed by Peter S. Small of Entrepreneurs and Stuff. <\/p>\n

“Tell me guys, to what do you attribute your wild success?” “Well Peter, one day we were lamenting the dearth of high quality, affordable Mexican restaurants in Southern California. Then it came to us like a flash! We’ll do our own, and we’ll do it right. The rest is history.” You KNOW you’ve read those interviews too. You can’t swing a dead cat in SoCal without hittin’ an affordable Mexican restaurant with good food.<\/p>\n

I’m now about to take what I’ve been saying here for quite awhile to house agents, into what I do. The concept of hyper-local has been cussed and discussed into oblivion. This isn’t about that exactly. This is about taking something that’s traditionally been done on a much larger scale, and narrowing it down to its lowest common denominator. Or something like that. It’s nothing new, and you may have even tried before. <\/p>\n

For years I generated impressive business volume using direct (mass) mail — it was always<\/em> successful, once we figured out the winning formula. From 1987 ’till around 2004 or so, no letter sent out yielded less than five figures worth of closed escrows. A few resulted in six figures. Then it stopped Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I learned early on in my career I had no problem whatsoever taking others’ ideas and running with ’em like a thief out of a 7\/11 carrying a paper bag full of ones and fives. I’m BawldJapan — I can take your idea, tweak it for my uses, and most of the time make it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-marketing","7":"category-real-estate","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12105,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/12105\/if-wind-and-solar-power-were-practical-entrepreneurs-would-invest-in-it-there-would-be-no-need-for-government-to-take-money-from-taxpayers-and-give-it-to-people-pushing-green-products\/","url_meta":{"origin":8471,"position":0},"title":"“If wind and solar power were practical, entrepreneurs would invest in it. 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