It’s All About YOU!

When Ashtyn and I were building up our original business, Dominash Studios (formerly DomAsh Designs – but changed due to another company with the same name), we worked with a lot of real estate agents and mortgage companies. The majority of our work was a combination of writing, editing, SEO and internet marketing work. Working one on one with real estate agents could sometimes be like stepping into a shark pit. A lot of them did not really understand the Internet and how to utilize it to maximize their business. It was our job to guide the way to the future. With many of them stuck in their old, image marketing ways, they spent time bemoaning about themselves. When would they see a profit? What payoff would the work we put in for them have and why were they not seeing same day results? It was always about them and how great they were as agents. Telling them to have patience in order to reap greater rewards was like telling them to stop acting like yapping, self-centered Chihuahuas.

We had proven success at what we were doing to help real estate agents. Getting them to understand these results did not happen overnight was the hard part. It takes time and patience to build an internet mecca, but we’d done it for more than one real estate agent. Perhaps that is what kept them listening. Regardless, I grew tired of their Me-centric attitudes and in my frustration I wrote an article listing EVERYTHING I felt agents were doing wrong. After writing it, as this was before my blogging days, I submitted the article to a free article site, which let business people use it if they gave me credit and linked to my website. Then, I subsequently forgot about it.

Imagine my surprise when a few months later, I came across my article on a realtor’s site. There, in big, bold letters was my name. A Google search revealed my article had exploded across the web. Four, five, SIX or more pages of my article littered Google. From time to time I do a search for the article. To this day, a few websites are still using it, and with good reason.

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