Stupid Tourists
Watch the video above before reading the rest of this post, I’ll wait… Done? Okay, now quit laughing- you might be the guy on the bicycle. When someone comes to your site by searching Google for “Chicago real estate” because they want to learn about the market but land on your site and read about how REALTORS should blog, about some drama on another site, and about an award you won but nothing about real estate, you are the guy on the bicycle withholding what you know from the tourist.
When someone calls you and doesn’t know the proper terminology for your field and accidentally asks “can you tell me about the sport sail on Venice Street?” instead of “about the short sale on Venice Street” and you hang up because they’re so stupid you just can’t bear it, you are the guy on the bike. You also may be the guys in the street when someone uses the IDX search on your site, calls and says “I’m calling about your house on Oak Lane” and you don’t have a listing on Oak Lane and instead of taking pause and realizing that you have a MLS search on your site and they’ve called you instead of the direct agent, you tell them “I have no listing on Oak Lane” despite they’re objections that they’re on your site. Of course you hang up (essentially telling them “I don’t speak English”).
Although the video is funny and I realize it’s a stretch (and is a little fluffier and loftier than my normal writing), it just made me think of all of the lazy business practices. Please, I beg of you- don’t be the jerk on the bicycle that actually speaks English but feigns ignorance either out of laziness or just simple rudeness.
