Are your a wannabe blogger, or do you write to find leads? ProBlogger is a blogger now selling something (books). CopyBlogger, Dave Taylor, Life Hacker. These are professional bloggers. It seems the advice that most take for blogging has been from guys and gals that blog professionally. That is...

I visited a friend over the weekend and he asked me what is up with real estate? In fact he posited that, "aren't we at the bottom?" That was interesting that he would think that. I told him that my unscientific reasoning is that: The real estate market got way past rent value There are way too...

David Walker, Comptroller General, (THe U.S. tops Accountant), says that our Country is broke. I know that this is not really about real estate or marketing, but it is in a way as it affects markets, and that affects mortgages. This is an important topic that noone from either side of the aile is...

3 Oceans is claiming the real estate bottom to add to the echo coming from the OC and LA. So we got North and Southern California covered. How about the rest of the country:-) Seriously they mention some key points about why the real estate market is at the bottom in the Bay area: The Rich affect....

Pat alerted us to a new Page Rank update. I really do not pay much attention to the PR bar anymore. At best it is a glimpse into the past about 4 or 5 months. And at worse it is a fabrication. (I tend to go with the latter). Simply put in an ungeek way, Page Rank is the relative importance of your...

If you have read any of HouseBlogger you know I am a bit of a curmudgeon on the whole Web 2.0 thing and Social Media and Blogs. This seems hypocritical I know. But, I am not against them, just the hype around these web 2.0 entities. In fact, these platforms get lots of search engine spider...

RISMedia’s announced its 20th Annual Power Broker Survey. Interestingly, the total number of transactions down from 2,754,618 in 2006 to 2,322,210 in 2007. On average, real estate firms did over 1,100 less transactions in 2007 compared to 2006. Total sales volume in 2007 was down more than $100...

Lyris ISP Deliverability Report (PDF), nearly 1 of every 5 permission-based email messages sent to U.S.-based ISPs gets automatically junk mail folder. That means slightly more than 76 percent of invited email successfully makes it to the inbox. 

I just found the clip that I referenced in an earlier post on the market bottoming in Orange County and LA.

I know I know....but doesn't it seem like some of the bad news is starting to get crowded out by some of the positives lately. Just last night I heard on KABC TV in LA that there is lots of proof that LA and Orange County real estate have hit bottom. I looked all over for the video but cannot find...

This is a snippet from a recent email thread I had with a UK journalist.  I cut her part out as she never did give me permission to print her part: First EMail reply by me: Popularity by whom? On readers : No I don't and I wouldn't trust the (blog) stats anyway. I believe that the majority of...

Google offers a plethora of great tools for Webmasters. But why? Data Many of us webmasters love Google's "help", while others see their tools as an unwelcome intrusion. More specifically, an unwelcome look into your website's inner workings and your users behavior. Some skeptics even go so far as...

"It's now clear that we have entered what we anticipate will be a mild recession, running through the first half of this year, and there are substantial downside risks to this economic scenario," said David Seiders, of the National Association of Home Builders, in a statement today.What a load....

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What real estate niche is still selling like hotcakes? Luxury in pretty much any industry the high end is impervious to any market. They have the credit and the equity to stay fluid. So what to do in the rest of the markets? Well, ramp up your marketing and your persona as marketing expert Dave...

As an SEO professional specializing in the real estate and mortgage industry, I have refused to write much about Search Engine Optimization. Even though that is the bulk of our business. Because most of is being taught is about the WHAT of SEO & is a complete waste of time. The HOW is much...

Redfin was going to prove to the world that you don't need a Realtor, you can just buy off the web for a mere pittance of what a traditional Realtor would charge. Now it seems that the young maverick may tick off a few of its purists. It seems that Redfin is offering some "hand holding" just in...

I recently read an article on how the rich buy real estate that reminded me of my only experience with how the super rich, buy a house. Or in this case, build a mansion. As the article points out celebrities and the wealthy like to buy incognito under the guise of a trust. Well, years ago, back in...

A recent study says that 80 %  of all searches are "informational" in nature while 10 % are "navigating" to a specific website, and 10%  are what the researchers call "transactional" whereby the searcher is looking for an item to purchase. The sample was based on 1.5 million queries from hundreds...