{"id":9554,"date":"2009-08-20T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T17:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=9554"},"modified":"2009-08-20T07:34:54","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T14:34:54","slug":"how-to-run-a-real-estate-business-finding-wisdom-in-a-baseball-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/9554\/how-to-run-a-real-estate-business-finding-wisdom-in-a-baseball-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Run a Real Estate Business: Finding Wisdom in a Baseball Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Last night I went to a boxing match and a hockey game broke out.”\u00a0 (Ba-da-bum-ching<\/em>.) That’s an oldie but a goodie.\u00a0 I had a similar experience recently:\u00a0 I went to a baseball game and a business class broke out.\u00a0 About an hour north of me is the Padres Single A affiliate, The Storm<\/a>.\u00a0 If you’re a fan of baseball and haven’t made it to a minor league game, you really should; they are a blast.\u00a0 But that’s a different story.\u00a0 Because I attended the game with a friend from the Padres organization, I was lucky enough to meet the Storm’s President, Dave Oster<\/a> and we got to talk a little business.<\/p>\n

What’s that you say?\u00a0 What does minor league baseball have to do with real estate?\u00a0 By now you should know that business is business.\u00a0 In the end, if you’re an agent, you’re running a business and I suggest we take every opportunity we get to learn from other successful business people.\u00a0 As a matter of fact, I’m going to come right out and say you learn more from someone running a business different from yours than you’ll ever learn going to another 5000 seat auditorium and listening to some “real estate expert” who hasn’t sold anything but seats for years.\u00a0 (Sorry… another tangent).<\/p>\n

When Dave and I first got to talking, my goal was to ask him about his marketing philosophy.\u00a0 I am always interested in learning what someone can share on marketing.\u00a0 It’s been my experience that most people (and agents in particular) do a poor job of it.\u00a0 Actually, that’s misleading.\u00a0 The problem most people have is they don’t know the difference between advertising and marketing.\u00a0 Genuine Chris Johnson<\/a> wrote a post yesterday (and Jeff Brown is famous for them \ud83d\ude42 ) wherein they lay out that difference, but I wonder how many people are seeing it.\u00a0 In any case, that’s another post for another day because Dave gave me a humdinger of an answer.\u00a0 During the course of our conversation though, he said something you almost never hear, yet it may be the most important concept in running a Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Last night I went to a boxing match and a hockey game broke out.”\u00a0 (Ba-da-bum-ching.) That’s an oldie but a goodie.\u00a0 I had a similar experience recently:\u00a0 I went to a baseball game and a business class broke out.\u00a0 About an hour north of me is the Padres Single A affiliate, The Storm.\u00a0 If you’re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3740,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3740\/understanding-how-250-hitter-out-earns-325-hitter\/","url_meta":{"origin":9554,"position":0},"title":"Understanding How .250 Hitter Out Earns .325 Hitter","author":"Jeff Brown","date":"August 4, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I'll begin by encouraging brokers & agents to read and continue to follow Sean Purcell's Super Team series. 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