I’m not going to buy a CSM from SSMI. I’m already a FART.
- Fracking
- Awesome
- Realtor
- Technologist
Ok, you got me. FART’s not a real designation.
You can’t go to any classes and pick up a FART- I cooked this one up in my living room a few minutes ago after overdosing on some grapes and apricots.
But if you’re hip, I’m not going to charge you for the right to add some flatulant flare to your business card.
For a limited time only, I’m willing to let you use the FART designation if you can prove any 3 of the following.
- You’ve generated more than 50 Idx signups from your web efforts in one month. (This is really an easy one , many “FARTists” consistently hit 800-2000/ month.)
- You landed you blog or website on the first goog page for your most competitive area keywords. i.e. “Bumbl&%^$ Real Estate.” Small markets count too, but if you’ve done this for a major metro area in under a year, then whoever you’re working for just isn’t paying you enough.
- You’ve helped another agent create and run a niche blog, free of charge, because you love spreading the RE Tech gospel.
- You’re “auto incubating” a large group of prospects using rss based newsletters or some geeky universal contact form you’ve hacked up to work with some obscure crm.
- You can tell me in under 30 seconds which 3 long tail search strings your most proud to be ranking organically number 1 for at the moment.
- You’re “autoblogging” your company listings out of the mls and into your site using some wp plugin that should probably be illegal.
- You’ve got Ping associated with 10 or more accounts and you update regularly via IM
- You’ve created at least 1 or 2 lead capture pages that regularly spew off registrations.
- You’ve started and run a photo or video
niche blog from the palm of your hand. And you update it almost every day. - You’ve written a blog post in the dark, after midnight, using the Iphone’s native notes app, from the guest bedroom, so your wife wouldn’t have to suffer your Tyrone Biggums– like twitching and turning because this RE Tech stuff is always on your mind.
If you’ve answered yes to 5 or more of the above, then you’re probably a FART, and I’ll be happy to buy or “smelt” whatever you “dealt” (if I didn’t already know I could get it for free using greader. )
But if you didn’t make the cut on at least 3 of the above, please don’t try to sell me a bunch of hot air in the form of some designation that’ll never help me earn a commission check…
John Rowles says:
I wholeheartedly endorse the FART designation.
— DR. BEATRICE ROWLES, PHD, BSR, FUBAR
(loved the post!)
March 10, 2009 — 4:00 pm
Austin Smith - Goomzee.com says:
Ahaha…awesome! I feel like something of a failure due to my ineligibility for the FART program. Maybe one day…
Great post…snaps to your now PIMPED biz card
March 10, 2009 — 4:04 pm
ryan hartman says:
Thanks guys…I was taking the lack of comments to mean maybe i’d stunk it up a bit too much and overstepped some bhb decency rule . Nice to know there’s at least a small “farternity” of fellow freaks out there.
John, Dr. B made my day.
Austin, I’m thinking maybe it’s worth taking a look at goomzee? Can you sic one of your sales guys on me?
March 10, 2009 — 7:29 pm
James Boyer says:
Hi Ryan, not a bad post really, not controversial which is why not a tone of comments.
I would be very interested in knowing more about “You’re “autoblogging” your company listings out of the mls and into your site using some wp plugin that should probably be illegal. if it exists.
March 10, 2009 — 9:01 pm
ryan hartman says:
James,
The plugin is WP-Omatic.
It basically creates individual posts from items in a feed. So it’s a poor guy’s alternative to purchasing a custom idx solution like you have with REW, but it’s pretty powerful in many other ways.
My little “should probably be illegal” comment had to do with the fact that the plugin is likely being used to create splogs and makes it too easy for anyone to just steal content. I guess we shouldn’t blame a cool tool when someone uses it improperly?
March 11, 2009 — 3:40 am
Mark Brian says:
I can only hope that I will soon be able to get my FART designation! It sounds like something that would make me stand apart from the crowd!
March 11, 2009 — 12:29 pm
James Boyer says:
Thanks for telling me which one Ryan, I am going to play with that wordpress plugin tonight. Oh, I am considering getting the KODAK Zi6 Pocket Video Camera or the Creative Labs Camera you talked about. I was thinking that the video camera in the Blackberry storm might be good enough, but cannot find any reviews of it.
March 11, 2009 — 2:47 pm
Richard C Mongler says:
Great acronym.
March 11, 2009 — 8:33 pm
Austin Smith - Goomzee.com says:
Ryan – Sure thing…in fact that sales guy would be me. I shot you an email; feel free to respond at your convenience.
March 12, 2009 — 9:32 am
Kevin Sandridge says:
Ryan – Tell the truth – you a Battlestar Galactica Fan? Fracking …. Get the Frack Outta Here! (LOVE IT!)
I, too, am quickly becoming a FART… even an OLD FART – thanks to folks like you, Greg, Brian, Sean, Teri, and the rest of the BHB gang!
March 13, 2009 — 7:52 am