I’m not entirely sure why I feel this way, but reading Matthew Rathburn just tee off on a couple of people who emailed him unsolicited ‘advice’ was… just refreshing in so many ways. I can’t help the title of this post. 🙂 I urge you to go read the whole thing. It’s insightful and just … Read more
I just found this quote attributed to David Ogilvy, in his book Confessions of an Advertising Man: People do not buy from bad-mannered liars. Well, not twice, anyhow. Considering that David Ogilvy is sometimes called the Father of Advertising, one might do worse than think about his statement. For some reason, I feel like all … Read more
Depending on who you ask, we are either headed for a recession or in one already. There seems to be some sort of a political angle to the whole question of recession, so who knows what the truth is in an election year? What everyone seems to agree on is that we’re certainly not in … Read more
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
Blogging has been nonexistent for a few days. Life, work, situations, scenarios… they conspire to rob me of time. Sick kids, deadlines at work, less resources than you’d like… these things just kind of pile up. It’s why I find the prolific bloggers like BHB and Sellsius and 4Realz so amazing. They always have something … 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
A reader of Dustin’s sent him an email that both were kind enough to allow to be published at 4realz. The reader, a member of a MLS committee, raises some very interesting and very important questions provoked by the discussion on Cluetrain marketing in real estate between Dustin and myself. Read the whole thing. This … Read more