Seeing as how we’re stuck on the ground in Newark… just some random thoughts. 1. What accounts for the immense incompetence of airlines? I mean, they’re private enterprises, in a competitive environment. Why do they all suck so uniformly? Is it that they are so wrapped up in government regulations that they are effectively pseudo-government … Read more
April 23rd is finally here. Happy Tax Freedom day to you all! -rsh
When your marketing person creates a video like this one, it’s time for the pink slip (h/t: Branding Identity Guru): As BIG said, you wish this was a parody… but it’s not. o.0. Excuse me — I must now wash out my eyes with battery acid. -rsh
It appears that Coldwell Banker Commercial, my last oeuvre before I left Realogy, has been selected as a 2008 Webby Honoree. It seems that C3Cube, our agency who helped design it, must have submitted it as an entry. Color me pleased as peach. 🙂 Kinesis Marketing and Cyberitas should both be mentioned, of course, but … Read more
I lived in a highrise in NYC for about three years of my life. It was one of the luxury apartments with full doorman service, grand lobby, and marble in the bathrooms. With what my roommate and I paid in rent over three years, we could have bought a nice house in the burbs. So … Read more
Well, at least, it attracts interest. Joe Ferrara alerts us to some… ahem… sexy ads related to real estate (safe for work). Go check it out. To be fair, most of those are ads for hotels which… I guess is real estate… sorta…. But one of them is for a condo project in Manhattan called … Read more
A while back, I’m afraid I bashed the hell out of MoveSmart.org — a seemingly well-meaning website that wants to practice something called “integrative moves”. I have learned more about what that might mean through this post on Stuff White People Like: White people like to live in these neighborhoods because they get credibility and … Read more
From Inman blog comes news of this new organization: The Association of Associates Representing Sellers (AARSTEAM), a just-launched for-profit corporation that is open to membership by independent, non-Realtor agents and brokers who work with sellers, promotes an “Oath of Actions” that may rubsome buyers (and their agents) the wrong way (see Inman News). One of … Read more
This being election season, I suppose it’s inevitable that we’ll see politics infecting every conversation, including those on real estate and marketing. As a fairly longtime veteran of the political blogosphere, I want to keep the focus just on real estate, marketing and technology. But this has to be addressed, because I fear that we’ll … Read more