Quarrying metaphors to name the BloodhoundBlog Conference

by Greg Swann

Suburban Phoenix Real Estate Broker

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We have a name, and we have the birth of a look:

We went through zillions of ideas — Brian and Cathy and I, our contributors, some commenters here, but mainly marketing guru Richard Riccelli. Richard came up with fantastic names — not just words but their graphic expression — but we went off and did things our own way anyway.

All of us were looking for a defining metaphor, an idea that encapsulates everything we are trying to communicate. Richard, to his credit, was much more benign toward our attendees. My position was that we built this place on attitude, and we need for people to understand that that attitude will be on the program — in essence will be the program.

The graphic look falls out from the metaphor, and, if the idea is the right one, everything falls out from the metaphor. Integrity is the state when every disparate thing is all one thing, when every different way of communicating ideas comes together to communicate the same one idea. I don’t know if we’ve achieved that here, but that’s the goal we’re aiming for.

We have an idea for a conference exploring a radically different kind of real estate marketing. You can learn more about it by clicking here.

We have an interest list that you can join so that we can keep you up to date with our plans by email. Append yourself to that list by clicking here.

We have dates: May 18th and 19th, 2008, with some advance fun on the evening of May 17th.

We have an insatiable lust for the most killingly perfect venue, but we don’t know yet if we can get it.

We are having preliminary conversations with the most killingly perfect keynote speaker, the progenitor of many of the ideas we champion.

And we have a name and a look and a big, bold, bad-ass attitude.

And there is much more to come…

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