It is Friday again and Fridays are for fun. I have already had plenty of fun this week, but am always willing to have more. I wrote this post a couple of months and published it on my other blog. I was looking at it and decided that it would make a perfect Friday post because it is either making fun of real estate company web sites or the obituaries, I can’t remember which. Like I said I wrote it a couple of months ago.
Real estate company web sites and the obituaries
When I read the Sunday paper I always take a peak at the obituaries. Mostly to see if I am listed. This past Sunday I got to thinking about how similar the obituary section of the paper is to real estate company web sites.
Real estate company web sites usually include a page with pictures of agents a brief bio, and maybe some details about the services they provide. There is a banner across the top, with the name of the real estate company on it. The obituary pages of the paper are similar, there is a banner across the top and then and pictures of people with a brief bio, and details about services.
There are other similarities. I look at the dates in an obituary and see that the person who passed away was born in the 1920’s, which means they would be in their 80’s today, yet the person in the picture looks to be in their 20’s or 30’s. This seems to be true with the photos of agents on real estate company web sites too. I have met agents who are 10 to 20 years older than the web site photo. Yet the pictures in the obituaries some how look more natural than those of agents on real estate web sites.
Not all obituaries have pictures with them. The same is true with agent bios on real estate web sites. For the obituaries the picture section is simply left blank, on the real estate web site the place where the picture should go will have a shadow of a face, the company logo or a for sale sign.
I often wonder who made the rules about real estate company web sites. Did they get their ideas one Sunday morning as they were reading the obituaries?
Have a great weekend. If your 4th of July holiday starts this weekend please drive carefully.
I read the obits to look for old pictures, and I prefer people in their WWII uniforms because you know there’s a good story there. But all the old pictures usually have something interesting about what this person did with their time on earth.
What’s funny about this is that a lot of realtors have very old pictures on their sites, too. What did you do in the war, Daddy?
Erik – I could say do much about this but I thought it would be nice to see if I can get though the rest of the week without any more trouble. I can’t help myself I am always getting into it and sometimes I can’t get out of it.