I just escaped! I ran all the way home to tell you what just happened to me. I can’t believe this….I’m out of breath……. Ok, breathe…in…out….in…out. Ok, yesterday, Wednesday, July 28th, 2010, 1700 hours, I mean 5:00 P.M., (sorry, I reverted back to my military training there for a minute. Won’t happen again.) Ted Canto (a loan officer here in the Southeast Valley) and I left my office in Mesa, Arizona, (really its the Mesa-Gilbert Border), any way… after another successful day of helping Arizona REALTOR’s grow their business using Web 2.0 tactics. You know….Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WordPress, ActiveRain, Yelp, YouTube, the list really goes on and on. Anyway, we left my office yesterday, whistling “girls just want to have fun” the theme song to Mission Impossible when everything went black!
I heard the noise of screeching tires, then the heat of a van, probably a mini van of some kind, in front of me. 2 guys with sharpened brooms and fishing poles 12 commandos with guns, and grenades, and knives, picked me up and threw me in the side of the van, I cried held my composure….I didn’t want them to see that I was scared not scared at all! I could hear Ted yelling “I want my Mommy!” “You’ll never take me alive!” I didn’t know what these guys wanted but I knew them meant business!
You see, I am a marketing rep for a national title insurance company based in Phoenix Arizona, I help my clients (mostly Realtors) get found on the Internet….where more and more of their clients are. Up until now I thought that my competitors were just frustrated, I never thought that anyone would do something like this! (If they did that is). Anyway, I woke up, to tape being ripped off my mouth, and bright lights in my face. Some GUY, with horrible breath was screaming at me, “Whats the secret?”, I’m like,.,, “Dude..the secret to what?“ “The Internet!…what is the secret to generating leads on the Internet!”
I’m like “whatever dude….I’m not telling you anything!” He says, “We will see about that, after the truth serum starts to take effect”. Truth Serum?
Ok, so, anyway, I escaped! And these Idiots recorded the whole darn thing! I grabbed the tape on my way out. I want you to see what happened!
As you can see this has been quite an experience. I still can’t believe this happened. I know the title industry is competitive but this is ridiculous! I got home and jumped right into my Tae-Bo videos Tae Kwon Do
Stephen, I have escaped for a few minutes and am sending this via my cell phone. Please, pretty please, please!! TELL THEM THE SEE'CRAYT!!!! Damn you Stephen!! Damn yooouuuuUUU!!!!!
P.S. I WANT MY MAAAH'MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL! Excellent...and certainly something Ben should consider incorporating into the RainCamp intro. I hit RainCamp Boston this week and it was fantastic. I have no doubt that you're going to have some fun with it :)
Pertty funny. I am very happy to see that someone who is on AR actually has a sense of humor!!!! AMAZING>>>> But what is the secret to getting internet leads???? I can not go to rain Camp!!!
And of course, if anyone wants to join us in Arizona for RainCamp on August 26th they can sign up by clicking here
Or you could probably contact Stephen directly. I heard he might have a deal or two up his sleeve for people really eager to get drenched in internet marketing knowledge.
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Best laugh I had all day, man you are in the wrong business... you should have been in the Blair Witch project Stephen, your acting is so believable, this was an act right??? ROFL~ Great job buddy! :-)
@Brad, thanks brother. That means a lot coming from you. We have sure come a long way since we hooked up here in Phoenix last year for the 1st pseudo raincamp, we should have called that one "dryheatcamp" I got sick of chasing agents all around the valley, now I am using inbound marketing tools like video to bring them to me. Gone are the days of "hi Im so and so and I want to tell you about my alta policy vs xyz title. agents buyers, sellers all consumers want value. I have an idea.....Lets give it to them! I have learned so much from AR, you guys are awesome. Dude,,,, you want to really laugh? Check out the other videos on my Youtube Channel, there are about 5 with my 1 year old son, you think I am good? This guy is a natural! Check it out.... Youtube.com/mytitleguy. Videos are ""beware of the social media expert",Hondro calls a title company, Why work with MyTitleGuy?"
@Elizabeth, Thank you. I would come to Orlando but with living here in Phoenix, I have heard that I can only handle "dry heat". And its my understanding that Orlando is a "wet heat?" Darnit..... LOL
I have the mental picture of Will Ferrell and others jumping out of a van and grabbing pledges like they did in Old School - heavy metal playing on the stereo. "If you tell anyone about this, we'll kill you... just kidding, we'll have him home by 5."
i love the video, and lead in story. That evil laugh is classic. What smells like butter? I used this as an example of thinking out side the box when creating viral videos in one of my classes today.
Nate & Stephen-We can make the Old School video happen. I even know a guy that can play Blue (he smells like mothballs and probably needs some Old Spice).
@Steven, thank you...that means a lot coming from you. By the way, you are the first person that noticed "what smells like butter". reference. We just threw that it there to see who would notice. You won the prize. A stick of Butter! Thank you for referencing the video....
I have some others that are outside the box as well, all real estate related. Check out my channel. Youtube.com/mytitleguy
@Jan, you will without a doubt see me at Raincamp in Prescott, the "Bad Man" will be there too, as well as Ted...the camera man. Want me to bring you some butter? LOL
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Ha! Nice work, great way to promote the event. Totally fun to watch but grateful you have a day job and are not pursuing acting! All the comments on this post tell me your audience loves it too! www.gailkeithmarketing.com
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I like the effort you make in getting the word out--refreshing approach and memorable.