Today, A Zebra Shows His Stripes

November 15, 2007 |

If you have been following along with my NAR 2007 coverage, you know that on Tuesday, I attended a presentation by Seth Godin.  The message he shared was, “be remarkable.”  Today, I am going to try to do just that.  But first, some background. . .On the way to the airport to head out to Vegas, Kari and I were discussing how to promote RealEstateZebra.com.  We talked about the idea of me actually wearing a referee shirt, or at least some zebra-themed clothing.  In a way, I already do this, as Kari gave me a wonderful pair of Zebra-striped cufflinks for my birthday last year (I love great cufflinks).  Seeing as how I didn’t bring any referee shirts with me (duh), we kinda blew it off. Then, when we were at the Seth Godin presentation, Jeff Turner turned to me and said, “hey man, you could wear stripes.”  Again, we joked about it, and I sort of blew it off.  He also posted this picture of the people working the Chase Bank booth at the Expo on his Twitter with the message, “Will the real Real Estate Zebra please stand up.”  I don’t want there to be any doubt, and today is a perfect opportunity to do that.    I will be doing a “Meet the Bloggers“ Q&A at the NAR Expo today at 10am.  This is what I am wearing:refshirt2.jpg So there.Today is the day I show my stripes.  I haven’t even been to the expo yet, and I have already had two people comment on my shirt.  I guess that means it is, at least in some small way, remarkable.I’m going to wear the shirt all day at the Conference.  I’ll see how this goes, and I’ll share my thoughts about the whole experience in another post. [tags] real estate, realtor, NAR2007, officiating, [/tags] 

Posted by Daniel Rothamel | Filed Under 2007 NAR Conference & Expo, Blogging, Officiating 

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4 Responses to “Today, A Zebra Shows His Stripes”

  1. Jeremy Hart on November 15th, 2007 9:46 pm

    His foot was on the line, ref! You were standing right there! Get some glasses!

    Remarkable.

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  2. Jeff Turner on November 17th, 2007 1:51 am

    Daniel… it was great meeting you in person and you rocked the show with your twitters, utterz and stripes!

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  3. Diane Cohn on November 18th, 2007 7:03 am

    Daniel, dude… I’ve gotta be honest. The shirt is only halfway there. As a lifelong horse-lover (don’t ask for details) I know the difference between a referee and a zebra. Next time, to be remarkable, you’ve got to be in a full-body zebra print spandex cat-suit at the minimum… You’re young, cute and skinny, I’m sure you could pull it off.

    Sorry we didn’t meet at NAR… I enjoyed Seth’s preso as well. It was one of the best sessions I attended.

    Going to Inman NY? That’s where all the real innovators show up. ;)

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  4. Daniel Rothamel on November 19th, 2007 9:13 am

    Diane,

    I, too, am sorry we didn’t meet. I will most definitely be at Inman– Zebra suit or otherwise. . .

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