A September poll by PNC Wealth Management says:...nearly 60% of ultrahigh-net-worth investors are expressing optimism about their portfolios for the coming year..and 4% of investors with $10 million or more of investable assets surveyed expressed pessimism.."Interestingly the less rich are more...

An easier way to Podcast? utterz.comI usually don't show off widgets and gizmos on this blog. But I tested this thing called Utterz and it allows you to post from your phone. I just forgot to set it to draft, and it auto published. Oh well. However, I can see this as a great way to podcast from...

Analysts predict the Fed will trim its key rate, now at 4.5 %, by one-quarter of a percentage point at that time. A few even speculate about the possibility of a half-point cut. What are Vegas oddsmakers saying about an interest rate cut?.... Former Vegas oddsmaker Wayne Allen Root says odds for a...

NAR says that the housing market is on the verge of stabilizing and and forecast sales will rise slightly in 2008 to 5.7 million, up from last month's prediction of 5.69 million.  Lawrence Yun,Chief Soothsayer gave a positive outlook for job growth and the replacement of sub prime lenders to...

Just read this from Realty Times: Battle of the Warring Housing Price Indexes by Kenneth R. Harney that compares the competing OFHEO (the Government) and Shiller index and maybe why they are so different. "What's going on here? For starters, the two surveys are measuring very different things-even...

I just got off the phone with a colleague. He asked me why his "vanity property URL's" (122applestreet.com ) Does not get found in Google. My reply was that Google or the other engines do not really consider a URL until it gets a link from somewhere that is indexed in Google. Your Brand is Not...

People want to buy but often find the financing is a roadblock. Can You Remember Creative Financing? Get out those books! According to the 2007 National Housing Pulse Survey from October, 59% of Americans think "now is a good time to buy".Interestingly as I wrote in the December newsletter, I see...

Ariana Huffington recently spoke to a group of students about the Internet. Whether you agree with her politics or not I like watching her because in no time at all she has built one of the largest web portals on the net."Everybody's so overloaded," she said, explaining that our "inner lives" are...

Pay Per Click Pay per Click does not mix well with real estate websites. The reason is small budgets and technical expertise to properly track the campaign. And step one in this tracking process is measurement. And the best way to measure is by creating landing pages. Which also will help in...

It is wonderful to see the industry fighting back against all the negatively spun real estate news. But please allow me to give you some tips to help you make a more persuasive appeal. It is very easy to fall into the "my stats" are better than "your stats" trap. That is where we as the real...

Top 10 Social Networking Sites for October 2007 from Nielsen Online Site Oct-06(000) Oct-07(000) Percent Change | Myspace.com 49,516 58,843 19% Facebook 8,682 19,519 125% Classmates Online 13,564 13,278 -2% Windows Live Spaces 7,795 10,261 32% AOL Hometown 9,298 7,923 -15% LinkedIn 1,705 4,919...

What is Saving Offline Advertising? Online.... Newspaper Association of America show that advertising expenditures for newspaper Web sites increased by 21.1 % to $773 million in the 3rd quarter versus the same period a year ago. This is the 14th straight quarter of double digit growth for online...

Do you know those videos that I do? Some of my videos. Well it is Camtasia and at one time I paid like $300 for a copy. Now they are giving it away. Kind of proves one of my Online Marketing Ten Commandments ( The First Commandment ). Turns out Techsmith, the makers of Camtasia are giving away...

This fits very much with my last post. Borrell Associates expect newspaper advertising revenue to drop more than 6%. This they say will decline by 16% in 2009 and 13% in 2010 as consumers go online for their CONTENT. The real estate advertising market is expected to show strong growth online...