I was in a rut.  I admit it.  I haven't been over to BHB much lately.  I don't know why.  Today I was bored and went over (probably with the intent to look for carnage of a blog brawl...no luck, tho).

I saw an interesting post on a scanner that I happened to buy about two months ago.  I putzed around and as I was leaving....I noticed something in the sidebar that made me say "I need to come back here more often."

I liked that little notice.  In business, I'm super tired of placating people with niceties because they are too nice, too lazy, misinformed or just plain inept.

Refreshing.

On another note, I noticed that BHB's welcome message:

Better yet, welcome to the wired world of real estate. We are busily inventing Real Estate 2.0 - technology, marketing, service and salesmanship.

I'm not a Social Media or technology guru (I sell real estate) but for a blog as prominent as Bloodhound, and focused on real estate technology/Web 2.0, I was a little perplexed by their lack of presence on Twitter or Facebook.  My blog has mostly consumer traffic (yay!) because I focus on local Miami Beach real estate content there.  I do, however, get a TON of traffic from Twitter and Facebook.  I'm sure that Greg will have something very witty, smart and deep to say as to why he doesn't have (or want) a large presence in those two places, and I will be publicly flogged for it, but this was tonight's lonely little thought that rolled around my pretty little (and very vacant) head.

Anyhoo, this was more of a post to show how breaking out of my "usual" patterns helped me.