Posts under ‘Success’

Over the past couple weeks I have been reading every real estate flyer I could find. I am sure many of you are asking why I would submit myself to such torture… and you would be right to ask. If I had to guess, eight out of every ten flyers I read were sheer torture. [...]

I recently attended a birthday party with my two beautiful boys (yes they are the most beautiful boys in the world and no, I am not biased).  The birthday guest of honor received a great many gifts and it was lots of fun.  Save for one interesting observation… an odd note that just might reflect [...]

Unchained has wrapped up and, by all accounts, done a stand-out job exposing Social Media Marketing and the power of the individual.   I was bummed I could not attend.  Funny thing though: if you are hungry enough you get fed anyway.  My hunger was sated in seeing how a democratic, capitalistic, free economy continues to reveal our greater selves.  [...]

Back on Monday, Jeff Brown wrote a post explaining in no uncertain terms why some real estate agents are failing.  If you have not read that post yet you need to take a long look in the mirror, get your priorities straight, stop reading this post and go back to Jeff’s.  Once you are done reading [...]

“Eat your peas.”
“Don’t talk to strangers.”
When we were young, we heard many admonitions.  Being of curious mind, I always had a lot of interests, so one particular admonition I heard repeatedly was: “A jack of all trades is Master of none.”  The implication being that someone with a wide array of interests but no focus [...]

One of the best parts of BHB for me, is taking the ideas and the round table discussions that happen here and bringing them to the street.  (I must admit an occasional guilty pleasure taken, when I use the knowledge I glean from BHB to steer and even dominate these discussions.  I am shamelessly looking forward to [...]

I recently found myself in the unenviable position of taking a good long look in the mirror.  Not your typical mirror on the wall (although I often find that to be no picnic either), but the metaphysical mirror; the “pot calling the kettle black” kind of mirror.  I often comment on posts (lately they have been Barry’s) [...]

Have you even had an afternoon off (yeah right!), looked forward to some quiet reading time and been overwhelmed by the shelves full of thick novels, success books and hi-tech, how-to manuals? All you wanted was a light read and a glass of wine.  BloodhoundBlog is sometimes a bit like that shelf.  So much hi-tech content and cutting edge theory [...]

Bourse is a funny word isn’t it?  What exactly does it mean and why do people keep referring to the Zillow Mortgage Marketplace as a Bourse?
Bourse: \ˈburs\ Function: noun
Etymology: Middle French, literally, purse, from Medieval Latin bursa — more at purse
Date: 1597
1: exchange 5a; specifically : a European stock exchange
2: a sale of numismatic or philatelic items on [...]

There sure have been a lot of posts recently regarding Zillow Mortgage Marketplace. Greg Swann gave us a pre-opening preview here, the advertising aspect here, and the capitalist and cookie aspects here and here. Brian Brady takes a “the last shall be first” attitude here and presents Zillow Mortgage as online dating here [...]