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Splendor and Labor Day…
Mad Men for Labor Day: Your compensation for doing your job comes in the form of — wait for it — compensation.
Do you want to actually achieve your goals? Then make your commitment real by making specific, explicit, objective, detailed plans.
Your Right to Say Nothing
“Hi, My Name Is Jeff, and I’m a TechTard” – “Hi Jeff!”
I can do better than this
Have a great Labor Day weekend!
Dear Steve Jobs: Stop jerking everyone around with a goofy set-top box. Give us a real Apple TV — a TV engineered by Apple.
Update – Adapting To a New Reality – Some Results
Uh Oh Aliens are spreading through the Real Estate Community
Celebrating Praxis: “And my heaven will be a big heaven. And I will walk through the front door.”
Fire Proofing Vs. Putting Out Fires
Those Who Can Not Learn From History Are Doomed To Repeat It
“The American dream is not dead — it’s just taking a well-deserved rest.”
A kinder, gentler Jeff Brown challenge: Catch yourself doing something worthwhile — for every day in September.
Tag-teaming off of Jeff Brown: Daily action builds habits, so don’t break the chain.
Facebook: The Ultimate CRM
Tag Teaming Off Of Jeff Brown: Rescue Time
“The Next Time You Actually Work 40 Hours In a Week Will Be the First”
It’s Not My Fault
Prospecting Your Way To Prosperity With Social Media
Want More Showings and Quicker Offers? The “Secret” Source of Buyers.
React to this idea, if you would: “BloodhoundBlog Unchained and Unwired in Las Vegas: The Return of the Sales Monster.”
We’re all Vendors, Every one
Are you closing on the wrong objectives? The most insidious form of sales call reluctance is proudly racking up empty “accomplishments.”

1	Splendor and Labor Day…
@September 06, 2010 14:25:00 PM
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	This is me looking back on looking back on a Labor Day a long time ago. The first extract was written on Labor Day, 2005, as the City of New Orleans was demonstrating for all of us that dependence on government is a fatal error. The second extract was written a year or two before [...]

2	Mad Men for Labor Day: Your compensation for doing your job comes in the form of — wait for it — compensation.
@September 06, 2010 10:27:51 AM
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3	Do you want to actually achieve your goals? Then make your commitment real by making specific, explicit, objective, detailed plans.
@September 05, 2010 20:56:28 PM
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	Teri Lussier turned me on to this TED talk on goal-achievement. The video makes the seemingly confounding claim that announcing your goals to other people makes you less likely to achieve them. As with every other seemingly confounding “argument,” the matter turns on the conflation of unlike things. What the speaker, Derek Sivers, is talking [...]

4	Your Right to Say Nothing
@September 05, 2010 16:58:07 PM
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	I’m going to give everyone a little unsolicited information. It’s a free gift from me to you, partly paying you all back for all the great advice I receive on Bloodhound Blog. Call it educational. Let’s just say I’m in a patriotic mood. Labor Day and all that. And when I get into a patriotic [...]

5	“Hi, My Name Is Jeff, and I’m a TechTard” – “Hi Jeff!”
@September 05, 2010 12:33:46 PM
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	Back in the day I was in a perpetual state of frustration when it came to pretty much anything hi-tech. Not only because I couldn’t use it, or that it almost always failed to deliver anything close to the multiple miracles promised, but because I simply couldn’t understand — at almost any level. Outside of [...]

6	I can do better than this
@September 04, 2010 23:05:50 PM
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	A year ago last week I had just passed the bar. Today: some 90 clients later with some excellent results for those clients, and some excellent results for me not only in building a law practice, but in learning what I need to represent my clients effectively. I started last year with a WordPress, a [...]

7	Have a great Labor Day weekend!
@September 03, 2010 23:00:45 PM
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	Let’s stay away from the #RTB(tab) crowd as industry lifeguard comparison, shall we? Have a safe and relaxing weekend. h/t Phil Martin

8	Dear Steve Jobs: Stop jerking everyone around with a goofy set-top box. Give us a real Apple TV — a TV engineered by Apple.
@September 03, 2010 21:46:57 PM
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	iOS 4 can go there, no doubt. And the lame-ass “web-enabled” HD-TVs shipping now are no competition for what Apple can do. The iPad may be the actual future of video content, but there will be room in the home for big screens for a long time. An Apple TV becomes the ideal blackboard, too, [...]

9	Update – Adapting To a New Reality – Some Results
@September 03, 2010 14:50:38 PM
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	To some in real estate brokerage, hearing the ‘R’ word — that would be results, causes them the same stress as my son’s mom felt the first time she read his lips on the mound, and didn’t like it one little bit. She didn’t buy my explanation that he was talkin’ about the umpire’s new [...]

10	Uh Oh Aliens are spreading through the Real Estate Community
@September 02, 2010 22:01:23 PM
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11	Celebrating Praxis: “And my heaven will be a big heaven. And I will walk through the front door.”
@September 02, 2010 21:30:38 PM
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	I wrote this in a comment a couple of weeks ago: Everything we’re doing on-line emerges from the points of this star: * engenu — rapid web site development * encartus — elaborate custom Google maps * Scenius — dynamic blogs-within-blogs * ScentTrail — CRMishness with transaction management * FlexMLS and the FlexMLS API — [...]

12	Fire Proofing Vs. Putting Out Fires
@September 02, 2010 11:19:02 AM
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	I’m an addict. I’m addicted to drama. To feeling necessary, to the hustle, and to the grind. I have heard 3 bloodhounds separately say “putting out fires,” recently. And to that I say: why? And to myself I say, why. Here’s the thing: even though we’re living through a paperwork-fight-to the death with the [...]

13	Those Who Can Not Learn From History Are Doomed To Repeat It
@September 02, 2010 09:08:06 AM
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	HUD announces it’s “First Look” program today: The National First Look Program is a first-ever public-private partnership agreement between HUD and the National Community Stabilization Trust (Stabilization Trust). In collaboration with national servicers, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac, the First Look program is intended to give communities participating in HUD’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) a [...]

14	“The American dream is not dead — it’s just taking a well-deserved rest.”
@September 01, 2010 21:38:27 PM
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	From the New York Times, economist Karl Case of Case-Shiller fame says: Buy! This financial crisis has made us all too aware that we live in a Catch-22 world: the performance of the housing market drives the economy, and the performance of the economy drives the housing market. But housing has perhaps never been a [...]

15	A kinder, gentler Jeff Brown challenge: Catch yourself doing something worthwhile — for every day in September.
@August 31, 2010 20:12:27 PM
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	It’s hard not to love Jeff Brown’s prospecting challenge. But it’s kind of easy to note that most of us have not raised our hands to submit ourselves to its arduous benefits. It goes for me, too: If I have six hours to spare on any given day, I’m going to throw it at marketing [...]

16	Tag-teaming off of Jeff Brown: Daily action builds habits, so don’t break the chain.
@August 30, 2010 14:03:06 PM
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	I had a short sale get to approval this morning, which puts us one tiny deal away from a million-dollar September. We haven’t seen many million-dollar months since 2005, and it’s a harder target to hit than it was in those days. I’m loving where our business is going, and I feel like we might [...]

17	Facebook: The Ultimate CRM
@August 30, 2010 00:50:03 AM
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	Since my last post and a couple of comments happened, I’ll scribble my basic lead gen/followup methodology down. This changes all the time, and it’s the part of what I do that’s grinding/belly to belly/phone banging based. That part gets me 35-45% of my business. Another 35-45% comes from referrals/social media. Roughly 10% is “pure” [...]

18	Tag Teaming Off Of Jeff Brown: Rescue Time
@August 29, 2010 15:19:51 PM
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	Right now, there’s no real way to do business with me online. This is not an accident–and I’ll get to the Jeff Brown section of the equation momentarily. I’m redoing everything. We’ve not been marketing lately, because we’ve got to raise the standards of everything. This won’t be interminable, we’ll be done with this at [...]

19	“The Next Time You Actually Work 40 Hours In a Week Will Be the First”
@August 28, 2010 16:37:11 PM
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	Note: This post isn’t aimed at the (IMHO) 10-20% of the real estate agent population who, day in and day out, work hard, effectively, and with massive purpose. Dad, ‘FDB’ to some of his friends and family, said those exact words to me a few months after I’d gone from part time agent/student, to real [...]

20	It’s Not My Fault
@August 27, 2010 20:57:28 PM
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	I pride myself with being a fairly understanding person, yes, sometimes to a fault. But I just can’t understand how so many sellers are unwilling or unable to accept any responsibility for their current situation. Sure, facing a short sale is not a position in which any one would want to be in but at [...]

21	Prospecting Your Way To Prosperity With Social Media
@August 26, 2010 13:41:45 PM
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	Most real estate agents and mortgage loan originators don’t know how to find business. I fear that some of the social media strategies I’ve shared have morphed into a “build it and they will come” approach to business development. Greg Swann did a nice job of identifying this problem when he said that time spent [...]

22	Want More Showings and Quicker Offers? The “Secret” Source of Buyers.
@August 25, 2010 09:16:55 AM
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	In a recent comment on his own post: Are you closing on the wrong objectives? The most insidious form of sales call reluctance is proudly racking up empty “accomplishments.” Greg Swann, the author, said this: “we devote a lot of effort … to closing on the buyer and on the buyer’s agent. Salespeople need something [...]

23	React to this idea, if you would: “BloodhoundBlog Unchained and Unwired in Las Vegas: The Return of the Sales Monster.”
@August 24, 2010 14:32:31 PM
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	I was talking to Scott Cowan this morning, and he asked me about future Unchained events. It happens that I’ve been thinking about doing something, and Scott and I explored a few ideas. Here’s one I really like: BloodhoundBlog Unchained and Unwired in Las Vegas: The Return of the Sales Monster. I’m thinking Friday, November [...]

24	We’re all Vendors, Every one
@August 24, 2010 10:46:59 AM
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	It should come as no surprise that the average “good customer,” doesn’t spend a lot of time (or wish to learn) anything about the Real Estate Industry. Even when it serves them–even if they should know. The average “good customer,” would prefer that their real estate was “handled,” for them, that they could swallow [...]

25	Are you closing on the wrong objectives? The most insidious form of sales call reluctance is proudly racking up empty “accomplishments.”
@August 23, 2010 22:45:02 PM
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	I want to talk about being a sales monster, so I want to issue a disclaimer first: We are all about value. I get paid for closing real estate transactions, and I like getting paid, but I never want to get paid for encouraging a client to do the wrong thing. I’m going to be [...]