{"id":5769,"date":"2007-11-24T21:34:35","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T02:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ewm.com\/2007\/11\/24\/kevin-tomlinsons-blog-lesson-i-wish-i-was-fluent-in-another-language\/"},"modified":"2007-11-24T21:34:35","modified_gmt":"2007-11-25T02:34:35","slug":"kevin-tomlinsons-blog-lesson-i-wish-i-was-fluent-in-another-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/?p=5769","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Tomlinson&#8217;s Blog Lesson:  I Wish I Was Fluent in Another Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So many agents at EWM (except for me) are fluent in two or more languages.  There is an amazing opportunity for you to blog in a language that you are fluent in about real estate in South Florida.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I was fluent in Italian.  South Beach is a hub of activity for the Italians right now.  They are buying, buying, buying!  So&#8212;If I could write\/speak Italian, I would be here blogging my little hands off&#8211;making sure that I become the go-to- guy for anyone from Italy.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I believe in the opportunities so much, that I would set aside blogging in English and only blog in Italian&#8212;THAT is how much opportunity is out there. <\/p>\n<p>My friend Pat Kitano over at <a href=\"http:\/\/transparentre.com\/\">Transparent Real Estate<\/a> wrote an<a href=\"http:\/\/transparentre.com\/2007\/11\/23\/cultural-blogging.aspx\"> excellent post <\/a>on the very subject.  It gives you insight and ideas on how to become the hub for their South Florida Real Estate needs.<\/p>\n<p>In his post, Pat mentions &#8220;the soft sell,&#8221; which I think is a very elegant way to &#8220;help&#8221; people from foreign countries navigate the waters of South Florida Real Estate.  Become a resource, not a salesperson, and you will have more &#8220;clients&#8221; than you could imagine.<\/p>\n<p>And for the naysayers&#8212;YES, it is just THAT easy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many agents at EWM (except for me) are fluent in two or more languages. There is an amazing opportunity for you to blog in a language that you are fluent in about real estate in South Florida. I wish I was fluent in Italian. South Beach is a hub of activity for the Italians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}