{"id":861,"date":"2007-01-06T01:33:34","date_gmt":"2007-01-06T08:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=861"},"modified":"2007-01-24T22:45:24","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T05:45:24","slug":"lessons-from-the-epicenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/861\/lessons-from-the-epicenter\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from the Epicenter"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am biased towards Phoenix. I should be. I lived in the Valley of the Sun for twelve years. I was married in St. Mary’s Basilica<\/a>, celebrated that conjugal union at Heritage Square<\/a>, and watch my daughter come into this world at St. Joseph’s Hospital<\/a>. I’ve lent money on mansions in Mesa and mobile homes in Marana. I’ve dined at Durant’s<\/a> and drank beer at the Downside Risk.<\/p>\n

I love living and working San Diego but have bias towards Phoenix. Bias nothwithstanding…
\nPhoenix is the epicenter of Real Estate 2.0.<\/strong> That’s fancy term for interaction between the consumer and real estate professionals. It gives the consumer a chance to get to know you (the principle of transparency) and get valuable information about communites (the principle of local content).<\/p>\n

Phoenix is the epicenter of Real Estate 2.0<\/strong>. Bloodhound Blog is here. The Phoenix Real Estate Guy<\/a> is here. Phoenix Arizona Real Estate Blog<\/a> is here. Boatloads of Bubbleheads are here. Today, I was here with 20 other front-line evangelists discussing the Gospel according to Google. Here are the lessons we learned<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am biased towards Phoenix. I should be. I lived in the Valley of the Sun for twelve years. I was married in St. Mary’s Basilica, celebrated that conjugal union at Heritage Square, and watch my daughter come into this world at St. Joseph’s Hospital. I’ve lent money on mansions in Mesa and mobile homes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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-861","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":1447,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1447\/where-is-the-epicenter-of-real-estate-weblogging\/","url_meta":{"origin":861,"position":0},"title":"Where is the epicenter of real estate weblogging?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"May 18, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Arizona, of course. 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