“Hey babe, looking for a dream home?” “Hey good looking, wanna check out my testimonials?” “Hey toots, wanna search my database?” Like catcalls from construction workers to pedestrians, false bravado, come-ons and innuendo continue to adorn broker websites. They stand…
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Nurturing a real estate brand in a post-print world
This line, in the middle of a very long and very good post by author and online media executive John Battelle, leaped out of my feed reader this morning: “… more than 80 percent of the advertising inventory on the…
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Stats of the week
Just as I begin to feel that social networking is turning into a spammy mess, I see this from eMarketer: “This year, 37% of the US adult Internet population used online social networking at least once a month. That figure…
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Cracking real estate’s social media code
Why does facebook flourish? Why does YourStreet struggle? Why does Yahoo! Answers thrive? Search me. And really, who really knows these things? At this point in the short life of social media, anyone who puts forth claims to absolute certainty…
fatdoor gets serious
Neighborhood social site fatdoor announced $5.5 million in funding and a new CEO (from Yahoo!) earlier this week. The company has been in private beta for some time. I am glad for them. I have raised questions here about the…
Zillow, Android, iPhone, SMS and the liquid real estate experience
The walls that stand between media, devices, publishers, advertisers and consumers are being wrecked, both inside and outside the online real estate category. This has been going on for some time now. A restless generation has turned the phone into…
No brand’s land
My father mentors a teenage boy who lives in East Oakland, a treeless expanse that is one of the most violent, intractable ghettos in America. I sometimes drive this young man home after he’s come along on one of our…
Social Media Haiku
I need a doctor One with great bedside manner Someone others vouch for I need a good shrink Like every sane New Yorker Need to lose 10lbs of guilt Want to remodel And expand my living space Can someone help…
Impressions from my Midwest speaking tour
I wrapped up my speaking tour of the Midwest today at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland (I took the shot to the left just before I walked onto the hardwood to speak). The crowds have been large and fantastically…
The “Big Bang” of Social Networks
Following Connect my social network sphere expanded like the universe after the big bang. The only difference is I don’t view anything out there as space debris. Here’s the beauty of social networks: I connect with 10 close friends. Each…
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