Sweet Vindication for a Selfish Active Rain Parasite

I thought it was a great blog. I think were all hesitant to give away our best ideas.  Even though they are presumed to be copyrighted(based on a nother post i read) Unless you enforce it people will definetly copy it in which case your great idea(s) become diluted and therefore less effective and unique!

Al, Al, Al...do vindictive...so bitter...Lenza and Paul ganging up on you? (tounge and cheek for those that miss my intentions here).

You know I had a real estate agent, who is a member of my local MLS, who called me wanting to know when I was going to run my market reports...Hmmm...Hello, you have the same data, run your own, but I told him it would be a couple of weeks since I was heading on vacation.  Have to say I thought it was odd that he didn't run his own. It is the challenge of being web 2.0.

Sheesh, my listing presentation would make a horrible video.  I'm very instinctual and so I flex my presentation based on how the sellers are responding. Not sure I could share that.

What happened? Caffeteria fight? What is this, high school? LOL. Oh, well, I've gotten some nasty coments at times and I figure those people must've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed that day. Big deal! And for the ones that want to copy you, take it as a compliment.

Here is a great example of how you can indirectly inspire people (referring to your other post...yes, that one) on Active Rain.  You gave me a great blogging topic for many towns...famous people that have or currently live there.  For instance, Anne Arundel County is my area and Pat Sajak lives full-time in AA Co. (except when he is out west filming Wheel).

So thanks for the inspiration!

Oops, I meant to leave that on your Favre post...I clicked it and it opened in a new window, which I closed and accidently commented here.

AL - I think that you hit on the most important part of your dilemma in this post.  Your competitors may very well read what you write, and even try to copy it.  The thing is, there is only one Aloysius Donohue (probably because it's so hard to spell :-) ), and no matter how much people try, they cannot duplicate the original.  In fact, in this very post, you are supporting someone that is nothing more than a weak imitator.  Since I don't want to call anyone out by name, feel free to contact me to help you solve this riddle.

I have had a couple of agents call me and offer to pay me to create a website for them that is like mine.  I wouldn't mind helping them, or teaching them how they can do it, but I'm in the real estate business...maybe I should go into building websites.....?????

Al as I have already mentioned I like to share but I can understand your concern. There is a fine line between what you should give away and what you shouldn't. In a platform like this if you are on it enough your competition will probably find out about it anyway.

Al - I have put in soooooo many hours.  I have my site through point 2 agent.  It's really not hard to do...."you can do eeeet!"

Al - I just took a look at your site...not too shabby.  I like it better than mine.

I can't believe that I've been on AR this long and never came across your blogs before now.  I so totally understand the angst.

I've been debating with myself (that gets a little loud and scary at times) about putting my "listing presentation" of sorts on my outside blog and on my website for sellers to see, simply because I don't want my competitors to see it and say the same things.  I know they couldn't actually IMPLEMENT what I do but I know that they could easily SAY it...kwim?

~sigh!~