bloodhound blog: Another Way To Find Home Buyers on Facebook - 05/03/09 01:35 PM
Can real estate agents benefit from Facebook Quizzes? I think so and the good folks who attended the BloodhoundBlog Unchained Online Marketing Conference helped me realize this.
Facebook Quizzes have often been considered the frivolous indulgence of the bored. Witness Karen Parsons-Fiddler's observations from last April:
I admit it....long night, not … (25 comments)
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bloodhound blog: Divestiture Is The Answer To A Healthy Banking System - 03/07/09 09:43 PM
Wanna have some fun? I have an idea about how to “save” the banking industry. Through mergers and acquisitions, the banking cartel grew to become infallible. Dave Shafer pins the tipping point of this crisis to the repeal of The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933. I’m not so certain he’s incorrect.
The … (3 comments)
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bloodhound blog: The Dirty, Little Secret of Real Estate Bloggers - 10/25/08 01:35 AM
I know your secret. Honestly…I do.
You aren’t knocking the ball out of the park, regardless of your blogging effort. You play around on Twitter, Facebook, Active Rain, and might even comment on Bloodhound Blog. You’re probably REALLY smart and can’t believe that you’re having problems in business. I know … (38 comments)
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bloodhound blog: Bloodhound Blog Radio Hosts Matt Padilla, author of Chain of Blame - 09/22/08 08:33 PM
From Bloodhound Blog:
We interviewed Matt Padilla, author of Chain of Blame- How Wall Street Caused the Mortgage and Credit Crisis. This book, released in May, 2008, details a history of non-prime lending, the S&L crisis, securitization of mortgages, and what went wrong.
Download and Listen to the 45 minute interview … (4 comments)
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bloodhound blog: Matt Padilla Scheduled For Radio Mortgage - 09/17/08 08:57 PM
Have you been listening to, or participating in Radio Mortgage ? Each Monday afternoon, at 4PM, we invite California REALTORs to listen to and participate in our 40-60 minute "radio broadcast". Of course, we welcome ALL REALTORs but the show is focused on helping California REALTORs thrive in this market.
Our … (4 comments)
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bloodhound blog: Radio Mortgage: Nehemiah Down Payment Assistance Program - 09/15/08 08:26 PM
Our guest on RadioMortgage.net, this week, was Ronda Green, area manager with the Nehemiah Down Payment Assistance Program.
We discussed the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy filing and the Bank of America/ Merrill Lynch merger. After our brief commentary, we introduced Ronda who discussed the political battle seller-contributed, down payment assistance programs face. … (6 comments)
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bloodhound blog: Nehemiah Down Payment Assistance Reinstatement: Why The Increased Credit Scores ? - 09/10/08 02:38 PM
We broke the news about the eventual reinstatement of Nehemiah Down Payment Assistance Program, back in August ,on Bloodhound Blog. How did we know where this was headed? We talked to lenders rather than the charitable organizations. We talked to lenders because we know the Golden Rule; he with the gold … (48 comments)
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bloodhound blog: BloodhoundBlog Radio: Fannie/Freddie Seized- What Now? - 09/08/08 11:49 PM
Sean Purcell and I recorded a teleconference for California REALTORS about the Treasury bailout of the GSEs.
We talk about what exactly happened and what the near-term (3-4 month) effects and medium-term (12-18 month) effects on underwriting guidelines and rates. We also guessed at what the long-term (2-10 years) effect on … (7 comments)
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bloodhound blog: Look Who's Talking- It's Jessica Horton ! - 08/12/08 10:50 PM
Here's Greg Swann, introducing new BHB contributor, Jessica Horton:
What do you do when you’re selling a thick slice of a billion dollars’ worth of real estate every year, when you’ve built your own RE/Max franchise from scratch, when you’ve hit the “30 Under 30″ target at Realtor magazine?
Start over … (9 comments)
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bloodhound blog: Are Lead Vendors a Bunch Of Tools? - 06/23/08 11:28 PM
I think a little bit differently about marketing than Greg Swann does. Not much, but we’re of slightly different mindsets. I’m not scared to call a name a lead, a voice on the phone a prospect, a loan applicant a borrower, and a funded loan recipient a client. I KNOW they’re … (0 comments)
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bloodhound blog: You're BUYING in Phoenix? Are You Nuts? - 06/07/08 10:05 PM
Every day is a great day to buy a single family home, even in Phoenix. That ought to rile up the analytical types here. Of course, that same principle applies to the stock market, as well.
I started my career as a “Financial Consultant” but was mentored by some fellas who … (0 comments)
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bloodhound blog: Guess Who's Going To Be in Orlando For the NAR Convention (but not AT the NAR Convention)? - 06/05/08 09:20 PM
Here's a wrap up video from an interview I did with Mark from BrokerIPTV.com.
The important announcemnet comes from the transcript:
BrokerIPTV: So rumor has it there is a BloodHound 2 Unchained too in the works?
Brian Brady: Absolutely, by popular demand, BloodHound will be in Florida, in Orlando in … (12 comments)
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bloodhound blog: BloodhoundBlog UNCHAINED Social Media Marketing Conference...brought to you by ZILLOW- Price Is Going Up to $350, Next Week - 05/03/08 11:16 PM
Call me a shrewd negotiator or color me lucky but I pulled off a coup for the folks coming in for the Sunday session of the BloodhoundBlog Unchained Social Media Marketing Conference, brought to you by Zillow.com.
I was spending my Saturday evening online and e-mailed Wonderful Russ, asking him to give … (5 comments)
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bloodhound blog: The Ashley Dupree Story: Hustlers Win Online (How to Profit By Being Nimble) - 03/15/08 07:32 PM
I’m fascinated by this whole Ashley Dupree story because the mainstream media came into OUR world, the Web 2.0 world, to break the story. Equally as fascinating is the fact that OUR world, the Web 2.0 world, allows Ash to immediately profit from her art. Ashley Dupree disintermediated the onerous process … (0 comments)
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bloodhound blog: Gift of Knowledge: Russell Shaw - 01/02/08 01:03 AM
Happy New Year, Active Rain.
Are you a working REALTOR who is not getting the desired results? Worried about your future in this industry?
Listen to this five-part, three hour podcast series with mega producing REALTOR, Russell Shaw:
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five
The poster is from a success seminar, Russell hosted and I … (18 comments)
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bloodhound blog: UNCHAINED: The birth of cool RE.net marketing ideas - 11/23/07 08:49 PM
We're racking our brains for brilliance. Now, we have a name for our conference.
Unchained will be all about you, the independent thinking real estate agent or loan originator who is defining her service offering through Web 2.0; interactive marketing. It's not for the mainstream folks who troll for the stray buyer … (10 comments)
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bloodhound blog: Bloggers: Be Afraid of the Big, Bad Broker (or Bank) - 10/11/07 07:21 PM
The real estate weblogging phenomenon is catching fire like desert timber in the summer. The Active Rain Real Estate Network, the little engine that could, has grown from less than 5000 members to over 50,000 members in a short period of time. The attraction? Talking about the future around the virtual … (80 comments)
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bloodhound blog: Lenn Harley Interview on Bloodhound Blog - 03/03/07 09:42 PM
Lenn on her "new" business strategy:
So, it worked?
Brian, I just “love it when a plan comes together”
Were there fears or trepidations or were you confident in your strategy?
There was never any doubt. I never had any fear or trepidations because I was NOT “trying” anything.
Lenn on business through social networking websites:
No. … (29 comments)
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bloodhound blog: Please Welcome Michael Cook to Active Rain - 03/01/07 12:05 AM
Michael Cook is a multi-family investor and graduate student at the Johnson School of Business at Cornell University.
He is a co-author at Bloodhound Blog and a serial winner of the Carnival of Real Estate Investing. Greg Swann found him writing his stuff on myspace and quickly recruited him to write at … (14 comments)
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bloodhound blog: Wanna Be a Baller? You Better Get Street Cred - 02/27/07 10:06 PM
Russell Shaw is an associate broker with John Hall and Associates in Phoenix, AZ. He is a mega-producer who stumbled along, paycheck to paycheck, for seven years as a Realtor. He woke up one day and said that enough was enough, he was going to be a huge producer. Russell is … (7 comments)
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