I hope you feel the love here. I have decided that I need to help other people. I want to do it becasue I am better than everyone else and I should be sharing my wisdom and experience so that others can benefit from it. Russel Shaw, I know you don’t read the weenie but you really should. It is in your best interest to do so and I only want to help you.
Russel wrote a post, "Barry Cunningham is Full of Crap" to help Barry Cunningham. Barry may need help but that isn’t the point. Russel has helped Barry by publicly calling him a "turd". I am sure Barry will appreciate the help and take Russel’s wise advice. I know that if someone called me a turd publicly I would be able to overlook it and understand the loving intentions behind it.
I have seen this type of behavior on the Bloodhound blog before. A few of the writers are on a mission to help and guide the clueless unwashed masses who hold real estate licenses issued by states all over the country. Bloodhound blog tried to save me last year by noticing the evil in my heart and trying to snuff it out. They did not understand at the time that I don’t have a heart.
This post is meant to help. I just want to say that you could learn a lot from me, and you should all pay attention. Read the weenie every chance you get so that you can learn and grow. It doesn’t matter how much you know now, there is always more to learn and you can learn from me becasue I know more than you do.
Russel you are not helping anyone by publicly trashing them. Your posts can ruin reputations and ruin businesses. If you do want to help others, which I know you do, consider sending them an email with your words of wisdom instead of calling them a "turd" and posting it on the Bloodhound blog. That is my advice to you. Publicly discussing someone else’s business in a negative way is not at all helpful but I recognize your greatness and understand your loving intentions.
I say it without getting personal, although I have mentioned your name a few times. I am not attacking you, I am merely commenting on your actions and using them as an example to demonstrate to others what should not be written on a blog. Thanks for giving me such an excellent example of a post the makes the writer look bad, and the blog look bad.
I know that Mr. Shaw and the bloodhound blog will not be offended by this and it would be just wrong for anyone to get defensive. I am just trying to help and I think this would be a great venue for a discussion on how we can all help each other.
Bloodhound dogs are cannibals? Eating their own? I’m glad I was Beagle born!
Bow-Wooo!
ruff, ruff….I love the Winnie !
Damn it T, now you’re going to make me have to hard click over to that post. My feed reader has been so much less…. hostile, since I removed Bloodhound from it.
But when I get there, I will not comment, I will not comment, I will not comment.
Jay, I ended up on the blog because of a link from it to my site. I started leaving a comment that would have been held in moderation forever but decided I would rather write my own post.
That’s two hard clicks I’ve wasted there this week … grrr.
1) I thought Barry’s post was perfectly in character for Bloodhound – accusatory, smug, overwraught. (And imagine writing about the ineffectiveness of Active Rain … oh wait. I did. A week earlier.)
2) Watching one BHB writer attack another again seems incredibly appropriate.
3) It could be worse … people could be paying hundreds of dollars to learn how to behave this way. Oh wait …
I am way ahead of you my friend. I wrote about the ineffectiveness of active rain in January of 07. I have written a few posts here on the weenie too about not giving up the local content that drives a real estate blog.
As for paying to learn how to blog BHB style, you have to admit they are brilliant to get people to pay to learn bad behavior when they can come to the weenie and learn it for free.
T-
PLEASE, PLEASE, lead me to the promised land. Call me a turd, call me a loser, call me a dork, whatever, just increase my traffic! 🙂
Beautiful post.
ah my striped friend, you can also get traffic by writing something that people want to read. kind of like you do now. 🙂
Hey Teresa..see I spelled it right!
Russell did not realize that he was staging a celebrity roast. It’s all fun and games until someone gets poked in the eye.
The fact that Russell got upset means something inside isn’t being fulfilled. Perhaps all is not as Russell portrays. Maybe he isn’t as successful as he purports? Maybe he’s just looking for a hug? Who knows what his deal is…fact is he personifies that which I wrote.
Barry – nice spin you put on it, “celebrity roast” and good luck with that. i guess I would attempt some kind of damage control were I in your position. you are not a celebrity and you were not roasted. What is written on the internet stays there forever. Both you and Mr. Shaw come off looking very bad. In your case you might consider working on your people skills. The web 2.0 world is just like the rest of the world when it comes to interacting with others and there is no evidence that behaving like an arrogant ass or being perceived as a turd will sell any kind of product. People skills and social skill still rule. Follow Jeff Turners example. He provides an excellent product for the real estate community but he also spends time interacting with agents from all over the country in a positive way. He does not pretend to know more about anything than we do, and he doesn’t tell us what to do. He researches, teaches, tests, educates and he sets a great example. He collects feedback from agents who use his product and he listens to the needs of agents and to consumers. he provides a product and adds value and although I can’t read his mind I am thinking he would never consider acting like an arrogant ass or putting others down to sell a product.
Teresa, first, I am not selling any product.
In fact we interviewed Jeff Turner and it went quite well. Great guy, great product and nothing but good things to say about him.
We interviewed you, great interview, lots of positives, and I believe we saluted you on our show and thereafter.
I could go on and on with interviews we have had with stellar real estate agents and business leaders. Damage control? We speak to the brightest minds in real estate and in the emrging Web 2.0 world.
While my direct delivery may be somewhat harsh, it’s not a lie. However even though it’s true I will begin tempering my comments with a bit more decorum as it seems some shut down as soon as they see something they don’t like without seeking out the thoughts I am trying to get across.
I don’t write with the intent of injury. I write with the intent of having spirited discourse.
Why is it taken that I have a problem with ALL realtors. Nothing could be further from the truth.
As I told Russell, I will also tell you.
I work with many a fine agent and have lauded them many, many times. If the appearance of mass inclusion is what bothers you then we are talking about semantics and delivery.
What I have written can not be seen as wrong except if it appears or is taken as being superlative in nature.
If that is how it comes across then I will endeavor to make sure that I am much more clarifying.
If it was some inference that made you feel personally attacked and that of the superlative which I already have apologized for, then that’s one thing.
If you feel that sub-par performers should not be taken to task, then by all means that’s another problem altogether.
I want to be a part of an emergence. I want to be a part of a revolution. In revolution some get left behind ..not ALL. So in closing if you felt there was some superlative reference to Realtors that you inferred from anything I wrote then by all means I apologize for not being more clear than I have been.
If however you are throwing a saftey net over ALL realtors then it is you who are applying a superlative then that is something else.
I thank you for your advice and I just want us all to raise the bar on this business. That can not be a wrong premise.
T, do you have your helmet on? ☺
Ah, I have come to sit at the feet of the weenie to learn and watch. One day I too might become worthy. 🙂
Bonnie – yup
KK – unlikely
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