So two events conspired to make my evening interesting. First, there was a brief Twitter exchange between Marc Davison, he of the Kilo-class wattage, and Joe Ferrara of Sellsius: Joe: @1000wattmarc Riddle me this: When looking at a specific home zstimate, what value is knowing the median error rate for a city? Marc: @jfsellsius Totally. … Read more
First of all, let me give a shout-out to Hey Amaretto, aka, Diane Guercio, whose blog I just read for the first time. She’s got an amazing voice for the web: personable, yet relevant, with useful information mixed in with humor and an overall fun voice. Really, check her out for one example of how … 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
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
There are really very few voices in the RE.net I respect more than Russell Shaw‘s. I mean, this is a guy who not only talks the talk, he actually walks the walk. His insights and ideas are great in and of themselves, but they are that much more credible in my eyes because he’s a … Read more
I was recently asked by Inman to provide some opinions on a variety of topics, and one of my responses is as follows: 5. What technology trends will change the industry in the future? Enterprise CRM, married to truly effective, and measurable interactive marketing technology. In the alternative, third party systems that replicate all or … Read more
Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more. – … Read more