I’ve decided to post the followup to the Trulia Blogs & Active Rain post over at OnBlog. The main reason was that what I ended up writing was exactly the kind of marketing advice I would offer to our clients. The other reason is that I’m too tired to copy and paste it into this … Read more
Breaking news from Inman Blogger Connect: Trulia has announced that it is launching a blog platform. I don’t have a link, because this was on a piece of paper, but there will be an official announcement later. I actually had a chance to speak with Vicky Gkiza, Sr. Product Manager for Community, at Trulia and… … 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
I think Pat Kitano at TransparentRE is one of those guys who has brilliant and useful insights to anyone interested in exploring what Real Estate 2.0 might look like. And despite disagreeing with him on a specific thing here or there in the past, I continue to think his blog is valuable and his insights … Read more
In part one of this series, exploring the implications of the Cluetrain Manifesto on the real estate industry, I focused on the basic concept behind the Cluetrain: that markets are conversations, and in the Internet age, authenticity and honesty is absolutely indispensable. In this part, I’d like to muse on what the value of expertise … Read more
Mike Farmer at Bloodhound has an inspirational and thought-provoking post up on what he calls a “Biz 2.0: Super Real Estate Company” would look like. Read the whole thing; it’s long, but worth the time. By now, readers of this blog know that I am entirely simpatico to Mike’s call for a new enlightened leadership … Read more
Move, Inc. — the folks behind Realtor.com and Top Producer — held its Q4 2007 earnings conference call recently. The transcript is available on Seeking Alpha. I think it’s well worth your time to check it out in full. Move did $286M in 2007, vs. $280M in 2006. Considering the shape that the real estate … Read more
Redfin has one of the best corporate blogs not just in real estate, but in…well, business. Posts like this are the reason why. Glenn Kelman takes the Freakonomics guys to task (gently, as is his wont) for relying on bad sample set to conclude that brokers have little to no value. Stephen Dubner and Steven … Read more
Now, this is good news from NAR: The integrity of data is a foundation to the orderly Real Estate market. The Real Estate Transaction Standards (RETS) provides a vendor neutral, secure approach to exchanging listing information between the broker and the MLS. In order to ensure that the goal of maintaining an orderly marketplace is … Read more