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
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
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
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
I wrote a longer piece on the OnBlog recently about this topic, but in light of this and this, I thought it worth revisiting the issue in plainer language and shorter sentences. 🙂 1. If your “local blog” is of little interest to people who actually live in your “locale”, then guess what? It ain’t … Read more
This post by Joe Ferrara made me laugh out loud. Seriously, I don’t know where Joe finds such interesting nuggets. You want to check it out. Don’t believe me? Okay, here’s a peek: For some reason, this reminded me of the rather interesting conversation that Joe, Jessie Beaudoin, and I think Jeff Corbett and Henry … Read more