MSN The New Google Slayer?
So what does the largest Software manufacturer do when it decides it wants to get "serious" about search? Call their platform new. -New relevancy (better than Google)-New technology, with big words (like neural network ranking and natural language)-New search types-Targeted, Exploration, and...
Robert Bruss
A few years ago I met Bob Bruss thru a client named Brian Yui. Bob was contributing to Brian's Home Buying book, and Brian thought we should meet. I was eager for the introduction as I knew Bob to be a real estate legend. I remember reading his advise 20 years ago in the San Francisco Chronicle...
Universal MLS
Recently I hinted that I believe that the current MLS system is dangerously susceptible to being replaced. Possibly by an outsider. The only way to fix this problem is for the MLS's to get themselves in touch with technological realities and to create a true Universal sharing of data. As it...
Top Internet Friendly Cities
An Ohio State University research study determined accessibility by the number of internet connections to and from each city through 41 major commercial internet backbones: 1. Chicago2. Washington D.C.3. Dallas4. Atlanta5. New York6. San Francisco7. Los Angeles8. Denver9. Seattle10. Houston28. San...
More Good News
Just when you thought the world was going to hell in a hand basket. Just recently: U.S. Mortgage Rates Drop Below Year-ago Levels The economy has expanded faster than expected The trade deficit has been reduced Housing inventory has shown signs of stabilizing. This according to a recent Zip Realty...
Digital Suicide
How An Industry Gives Away Its Power When Microsoft defended themselves from the Feds for acting as a monopoly, most could have predicted the outcome. The prosecutors simply did not understand the case. Why? ".. Blinded Me With Science!" Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With ScienceSelling...
The Inevitability of “Free”
Or, when Angels Refuse to Fly Out there on the property web we see many value propositions. It isn't anything new to place listings online in a vertical portal. Surely Trulia is a company who is in the right place at the right time. However one wonders when the Angels will ask for a revenue...
“Questions about buying a blog”
Real Estate Blogs More from the Questions and Answers Archive:Tim,I'm real interested in using your services.I am teamed up with my wife (a realtor) in the Las Vegas market...We are struggling right now as most agents are, and could really use some help creating a blog and submitting the keywords...
Digital Cosmotology
From the Online Real Estate Marketing Ten Commandments: Technology replaces itself and thusly cheapens over time. Eventually it gets so good that it becomes free. Of course in order to make a buck, marketers enhance the basic model with higher perceived items real or imagined. It is the imagined...
Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
I found this news very intriguing. A builder of townhouses in Torrance is guaranteeing buyers that they will not lose money on their home purchases. "..it's true! BC Urban Development will guarantee that you cannot lose on your new home purchase by offering the first ever 100% guaranteed buy-back...
Secrets of a Virtual Assistant Revealed
Get it Here In an earlier post I wrote about the famous $7 an hour businessman. Hey, we have all done it. But how do we get out of it? One way is to get an assistant. Reasons to hire a virtual assistant: Its hard to find good local help. You only pay for time spent. Shared expertise. We just put...
More Good Rain
The Mortgage Bankers Association said its mortgage applications were 10.5% above their year-ago level.Borrowing costs on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages, excluding fees, averaged 6.41%, down 0.08 percentage point from the previous week. Interest rates were above year-ago levels, which averaged 6.39%....
When It Rains it Pours II: So Much Good News
As James Brown says, "I feel good!" There is so much good news it is ridiculous. As an addendum to the good news I listed yesterday, I wanted to add a couple more that I picked up from today's paper and Yahoo news. (I hardly ever read the morning paper). Watch how I reframe the bad news into good....
When it Rains it Pours
With a Voice Comes Responsibility I recently read a post over at Active Rain which at first appeared to be a positive story on the real estate market. I was excited and was prepared to link to the story. When I actually read the post I was dissapointed that the writer posted several reasons why...
Google Ads Help Your SEO? I get asked..
Someone told me if you use Google Analytics and Adwords, you rankings will be higher. Do you agree? No. using Google Analytics, GMail, Google Adwords, Google anything will not help you with SEO/natural rankings. It will obviously help you with Adwords if you use their tools to tell you about...
Videos The Future of Online Marketing
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Parking by Association
The power of a professional association knows no bounds. It is like a Union for White Collar workers. I am no fan of the most Board of Realtors as I liken them to the worst of DMV stereotypes. But the following brings up very funny images to mind. Apprently the Chicago City Clerks office is...
Coloring Your Google Bar Green
The Number One Mistake That Websites Make Forgive me for the hype. But the way I see it, traffic is more important than anything else. If no one sees your site, what good is all the great content? Its kind of the "what came first the chicken or the egg?" scenario. This is the pervasive argument...
If You Snooze You Lose
Foreclosures are up , Prices are up, Sales lag. Huh? Is the world going crazy? How is this possible? Despite heavy foreclosure data, and bad news, there is good news in the market. What are you going to believe? Whose job is it to SELL the good news? The newspapers? Yah right. Your franchise? Not...
Karma
Karma is that word that self important people use to say that what goes around comes around. But I would like to discuss it with a twist. You see Google bought a free blog host company a few years back. This purchase of Blogspot served as a Go signal that the blog race was on. Along came bloggers...