Last night’s Lucky Strike Social Media Club (LSSMC) dinner featured a presentation by Phil Thomas DiGiulio (@holaphil) of Wellcomemat on “Video and Social Media”. I thought it was an interesting topic in and of itself, and am grateful to Phil for coming by to have the conversation with us. During the dinner — as is … Read more
I had a roommate in college who was an architecture major as an undergrad. He was such an insufferable snob — for example, in the entire year we lived together, he never watched any movie that wasn’t by Fellini — that my view of architecture and architects may have been unfairly colored. Thankfully, I recently … Read more
Just caught Coldwell Banker’s new campaign on TV while watching some animated movie with the kids. Here it is: Wow, what an improvement over the misguided Talking Heads campaign: I do think CB should have stressed the 103-years of experience thing just a bit more. Talked about how they’ve seen ups and downs, and helped … Read more
The second post ever on Notorious R.O.B. was entitled, “More Silliness from Real Estate Connect” and contained this passage: The Real Estate industry has gone tech-crazy. Here’s a wakeup call: all that technology does is make your existing processes more efficient. If what you do is crap, it makes crap more efficient. If what you … Read more
The second post ever on Notorious R.O.B. was entitled, “More Silliness from Real Estate Connect” and contained this passage: The Real Estate industry has gone tech-crazy. Here’s a wakeup call: all that technology does is make your existing processes more efficient. If what you do is crap, it makes crap more efficient. If what you … Read more
Matt Dollinger, of @Properties in Chicago, raised a very interesting question at the Leading RE conference that just concluded. He then raised it again over Twitter (Matt is @mattdollinger) and the discussion threatened to overwhelm the 140-char limit. It’s time for bloggery. Matt’s question was this (in essence): In 2015, with companies like Trulia, Zillow, … Read more
Just a brief note from the Leading RE Show going on right now in Scottsdale, AZ. I got to sit in on a great session earlier today with a speaker who I gather was a luxury marketing consultant. He actually had some great points to make and great things to say. However, a theme he … Read more
At the recent RE Tech South conference, I had the opportunity to meet Eric Stegemann — a self-described 25-year old going on 40 — who is the founder and CEO of a company called Tribus as well as the “Head Honcho” of River City Real Estate, a brokerage in St. Louis. Eric is really one … Read more
So I ask an innocent question recently on Twitter: “What’s the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0?” And I got a number of interesting responses. So of course I have to blog about it, heh. Heather Elias (@heatherflynn) wrote: @robhahn interruption marketing versus permission marketing. Actually, I take that back. More like broadcasting versus … Read more