Zipvo Revisited: Zipvoplatinum, Business Models, and a Q&A

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

Zipvo Revisited: Zipvoplatinum, Business Models, and a Q&A

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

Imagining the Future: Part 3 — Shifting the Grounds of Competition

So let’s say that some brave soul out there has decided to gamble away his life at the urgings of a certain blogger who works for a certain data company in New York City. To him, I offer my deepest sympathies. But courage! If this works, please do remember to look down upon us peons … Read more

A Word About Iteration: RE Bar Camp Edition

During one of the sessions here at RE Bar Camp, an interesting point came up. There was a company here presenting named Zipvo — they do real estate video for agents.  Their technology seems good; they seem like bright guys.  The issue was, as I saw it, their incredibly flawed business model. They want advertisers … Read more

How Do You Compete With WalMart?

So I’m trying to put my thoughts on cluetrain real estate together.  And while all those thoughts are swimming around my head, I read this fantastic interview of Alex Chang, CEO of Roost.com, over at 4Realz. Specifically, I read this section: I don’t think it is a stretch to say that the big brokerages are … Read more

Competition, Web 2.0, and Cluetrain

I hate Web 2.0. I mean I hate the term. People throw it around all the time, and it even comes up in conversation at parties: “So, what’s your cute friend Sarah doing?” “Oh she’s doing publicity for this fabulous Web 2.0 company in the dress-swapping community.” “That’s so cool — can you give me … Read more

Halstead, Brand Suicide, and Media Companies

Over at the Future of Real Estate Marketing blog, Joel Burslem celebrates Halstead’s incorporation of New York magazine’s neighborhood profiles on their website. But then he goes on to make what I think is an outrageous claim: It also signals to me that more brokers are waking to the reality that they themselves are media … Read more