The immortal F. R. David… my god, this brings me back to junior high school. Okay, maybe “immortal” is too strong a term… but that isn’t the point. The point is that a subtext woven throughout Jeff Turner’s amazing presentation on tools for real estate web is that audio and video content is easier to … Read more
First day, first session of RE Blog World, and Mariana Wagner is giving a great talk on taking someone from a random click to a closed customer. The talk itself is really solid, and Marianna is an engaging, conversational speaker. The session is being videotaped, so I’m sure RE Blog World will be posting it … Read more
My short vacation in the mountains (hills?) of Pennsylvania is now over, and I’m sitting at the Westin in Las Vegas. The RE Blog World show opens in a few minutes, and I’m sure blogs everywhere in the RE.net will be blazing with news and info. I do have a ton of things to get … Read more
Just a brief note to let you know I’ll be on vacation until heading out to RE Blog World on Thursday. So posting will be light or non-existent. It’s hard to find the Internet up here in the mountains. 🙂 -rsh
Eric Blackwell of Bloodhound picks up on this story that Zillow has entered into a relationship with a number of newspapers and asks a series of pointed questions. The comments section has some hot and heavy action going on therein, and it makes for an entertaining read. I saw this deal cross the news earlier … Read more
Eric Blackwell of Bloodhound picks up on this story that Zillow has entered into a relationship with a number of newspapers and asks a series of pointed questions. The comments section has some hot and heavy action going on therein, and it makes for an entertaining read. I saw this deal cross the news earlier … Read more
I’ve referenced David Ogilvy, the founder of Ogilvy & Mather, a number of times. His book, Confessions of an Advertising Man, is one of the wittiest and yet most influential books I have read. I recently ran across a webpage of “Ogilvyisms” — sayings and quotes from David Ogilvy — that I found absolutely fascinating. … Read more
I thought Glenn Kelman’s latest post on Yammer was a treat — it’s rare for those of us in the management ranks to get management insights and thoughts from a CEO that aren’t prepackaged and heavily worked over by a legion of editors. The post is ostensibly about Yammer, the new corporate Twitter, but it’s … Read more
Greg Afarian of Zipvo.com was kind enough to alert me in the comments section of my original post on Zipvo that they are about to announce Zipvo Platinum: I wanted to get back to you about our “incredibly flawed business model”. We are revealing http://zipvoplatinum.com/ after MANY months of production. We have kept ZIPVO Platinum … Read more