{"id":932,"date":"2007-01-23T07:32:33","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T14:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=932"},"modified":"2007-01-23T14:52:45","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T21:52:45","slug":"introducing-jeff-turner-father-poet-entrepreneur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/932\/introducing-jeff-turner-father-poet-entrepreneur\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Jeff Turner: Father, poet, entrepreneur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And today we introduce still another new contributor:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/17.jpg\" align=\"left\"\/>Jeff Turner is the founder, president and COO of Real Estate Shows, which produces internet commercials from Realtor-supplied photos. A life-long successful entrepreneur, Jeff is also the proud father of six children.<\/p>\n<p>Readers here may be familiar with <a href=\"http:\/\/activerain.com\/blogs\/respres\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff&#8217;s blog on ActiveRain<\/a>. He also runs <a href=\"http:\/\/rainforchange.typepad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rain for Change<\/a>, a sort of direct-action community assistance weblog.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff is a vendor, and I will tell you that we have been very careful in our relationships with vendors. &#8220;Everybody sells something,&#8221; which is a speech I think everyone should give at their next Toastmasters meeting. But there are two perils a weblog like ours confronts, should it become too engaged with vendors.<\/p>\n<p>First is the charge of having sold out. I&#8217;d like to think we&#8217;re insulated from that, first by our sheer quantity of opinion-makers, and second by the raging diversity of those opinions.<\/p>\n<p>The second peril is simply the cacophony of very polite clamoring from other vendors: &#8220;Why not us, too?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re making an exception for Jeff. We trust him not to go all promotional on us, and he is simply too fine a writer to be missed. <a href=\"http:\/\/jefferyturner.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">He even writes poetry<\/a>&#8230;<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/blogging\" rel=\"tag\">blogging<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate\" rel=\"tag\">real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And today we introduce still another new contributor: Jeff Turner is the founder, president and COO of Real Estate Shows, which produces internet commercials from Realtor-supplied photos. A life-long successful entrepreneur, Jeff is also the proud father of six children. Readers here may be familiar with Jeff&#8217;s blog on ActiveRain. He also runs Rain for [&hellip;]<\/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":[3,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-932","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":961,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/961\/bloodhoundblog-week-in-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":932,"position":0},"title":"BloodhoundBlog week in review . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"January 28, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"We had quite a week at BloodhoundBlog. 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