I think my defense mechanism kicked in for a justified reason. First off, I think the post was made in the same nature as some of the, “look what these realtors are stooping to now” sort of postings. In and off itself that is fine.
However when one thinks about it, doesn’t it make perfect sense? I don’t know how many people that post here are in sales. I would assume not many of you. Me, I am an engineer but doing the real estate brokerage for a few years now has exposed me to things I would have never seen or thought of.
Take a guy like Gary Kent. Do you think he made all his money sitting in his office doing floor time? People here love to bang the neighborhood expert that comes and knocks on his door. You think that guy would get more business sitting at his local Prudential office waiting for you to come in? The top producers in real estate invariably are the men and women who market themselves, who bust ass and get after it. You see what I am saying? No matter what your profession is, if you wait for the nugget to find you then you will ALWAYS be no more then someone who will never be at the top.
As an engineer I used to get very irritated with people who didn’t grok things quickly. If it was intuitive to me why wouldn’t it be intuitive to anyone. After all I am not an Einstein by any means. I took many a sideways glance at my buddys test in some of my upper level classes at UCSD. Nonetheless every time I think I have outgrown that behavior, it rears it’s ugly head every now and then. In this case I guess I don’t understand the reasoning why people post about surprising new ways they see realtors trying to market themselves.
