Marc Davison’s newest post is, as is normal for him, a wonderful read filled with cool and interesting insights. Go read it in full. The key passage, I think, is this: But over the decades, the love waned. As new competitors grew into the marketplace, these establishments remained still in their own murky waters of … Read more
I recently discovered Brandie Young, a fellow marketer, via her first blogpost on Agent Genius. That post is interesting in and of itself. And I’ve added her blog to the blogroll here. But this comment from a Barry Cunningham on that post is really interesting to the whole Robnecks v. Kristians debate: You have described … Read more
As some of the commenters on my original thread have already surmised, Aybaf is not a real company. It is a thought experiment that came about as the result of my hours-long conversation with an executive at one of the top web real estate companies. My first thought was to call this new concept Trillow, … Read more
So here I am cruising the Interwebs, checking out various posts from around the RE.net, and I run across this jewel of a post from Marc Davison and Brian Boero, then gents behind 1000watt. The post itself is interesting reading, and I’m not sure if I agree 100% or not, but there’s much food for … Read more
So here I am cruising the Interwebs, checking out various posts from around the RE.net, and I run across this jewel of a post from Marc Davison and Brian Boero, then gents behind 1000watt. The post itself is interesting reading, and I’m not sure if I agree 100% or not, but there’s much food for … Read more
The Setup The talented and lovely Kris Berg is but one of the able spokespersons on the vanguard of a movement I have whimsically dubbed the “Kristians”. This is an important movement, with very important points to make, and even as I disagree with them on points, I take their arguments seriously. Essentially, the Kristian … Read more
I just heard of this new company that is planning to launch in mid-2009, called Aybaf. It is a new virtual brokerage model with the following pertinent points: A world-class consumer web portal, currently generating north of 2 million unique visitors per month Roughly 15,000 web-based leads every month, growing at 10% on average month … Read more
I originally had a different post planned for tonight, but an online conversation with a friend, followed by an interesting set of exchanges on twitter with @onehappyguy led me to want to ask this instead. What makes someone a good realtor? Seems like a simple question with a simple answer, no? But like many seemingly … Read more
Gary Vaynerchuk, of Wine Library, is a tremendously entertaining speaker. And he spoke at Inman NY this past week. While we wait for the official video from the good people of Inman, I found this… what do you call it, bootleg conference speaker video? on this blog post by Sue Adler, a realtor who actually … Read more