We had quite a week at BloodhoundBlog. If you haven’t had a chance to stay abreast of the trail we’re running, here’s a summary of the week’s most significant weblog entries.
We added three new contributors this week, starting with real estate investor Michael Cook, who brought us The Right Time to Buy: An Investor Perspective, Out of State Investing: All Sizzle, no Steak and A Different View of Diversification.
Our second new arrival, Jeff Turner, is an entrepreneur producing video tour commercials for listing agents. His inaugural post was Lessons Learned While Watching American Idol, followed by a post exploring issues facing Realtors in the age of Realty.bots like Zillow.com: Disintermediation? Not For Me. Not Yet.
Our third new contributor is Norma Newgent, a Realtor working out of Tampa Bay, Florida. Her first post to BloodhoundBlog is Pack Up Your Toys and Go Home.
But don’t get the idea that our tricks are all a matter of new dogs. Every member of the pack did exemplary work this week.
As her reward for having won the Carnival of Real Estate, Kris Berg is honorary Queen of the Pack. With typically regal comical rigor (try saying that out loud), she brings us A New Agent Guide to Getting the Listing… and Getting Over It.
Jeff Brown is completely disgusted with blog carnivals, but that doesn’t stop him from producing first-rate investment advice. This week, he brought forth Your Retirement — A Few Questions, Is There Any Diversifying Alternative To Real Estate Investing? and Ben Stein Says Real Estate Is Easily Inferior To The DOW.
Dan Green presents an object lesson in the destructive consequences of seemingly harmless weblogging practices: Anonymous Posters Can Be A Destructive Influence, or How Communication Is The Difference Between Good PR and Bad PR.
Doug Quance is on a tear: It’s High-Time To Do Away With Referral Fees! Kris Berg weighs in with her own thoughts on the subject from The San Diego Home Blog.
Brian Brady posted another of his excellent interviews, this one with The X Broker, Jeff Corbett. Brian also brought us Mortgage Origination Is A Contact Sport.
Mega-producing Realtor Russell Shaw was interviewed by Greg Swann and Cathleen Collins, yielding a series of podcasts (Parts I, II and III). The discussion is wide-ranging, but the essential points are these: Any committed real estate professional can achieve phenomenal success, despite the prevailing failure rate. And: Neither the DOJ nor the Realty.bots can supplant the results produced by plain old shoe-leather, face-to-face, belly-to-belly prospecting.
As some final notes, Brian Brady and Greg Swann turned a phone call into a podcast on real estate weblogging, BloodhoundBlog web programmer Cameron Swann threatens to amount to something, producing a real-time mirror for other weblogs and web sites of the potentially canonical list of real estate weblogs, and BloodhoundBlog will be hosting the February 5th Carnival of Real Estate.
Whither the RE.net? That’s a good question. We’re hounds on the trail, trying to makes sense of the scents we catch. But unlike any other form of real estate media, we are working real estate professionals writing to and for working real estate professionals. Wherever the RE.net gets, we’ll be there with it, with original reporting, commentary and podcasts. We’re delighted to have you along on the hunt…
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DofAM says:
Wow, what a round-up. Good stuff, keep the many blog entries coming. Can see why this well ranked on Technorati.
January 28, 2007 — 8:45 pm
Greg Swann says:
> Wow, what a round-up. Good stuff, keep the many blog entries coming.
Bless you. Thank you. Glad to have you with us.
January 28, 2007 — 9:03 pm
Drew Nichols says:
Since I’ve discovered the blog it is in my RSS reader and is a multiple-times-per-day visit. Great format.
January 29, 2007 — 7:36 am