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My "elevator" definition of what is a blog? Web Blog=blog The word blog has reached the inevitable level of over-hype. However, I give my pith revelations form years of blogging (This blog has been around since 2004). A great blog concept in my humble opinion is to define what it can do for you. It can help one capture an instant credibility and authority over ones marketplace. Like...

What did the leader of the free world, co founder of the largest search engine, founder of Re/Max, a Presidential Candidate, and yours truly do when we got together up North? Can you guess who is who?* JibJab has grown by leaps and bounds and is a great example of viral growth as guys like me using their service and sharing it with you.I actually did this for the business and another...

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 pessimistic: 44% of surveyed investors with more than $500,000 or more in investable assets...

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 your phone without having to go thru the hassle of knowing onboard audio editing. Oh yah you...

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 rate cut are as follows:25% pt  1 to1050% pt  3 to 21%  pt  10 to 1No Cut  100 to 1(CNN)...

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 borrowers with weak credit with government-backed loans as reasons for the improved outlook....

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 if news reports don't bother to tell you that. The Case-Shiller index has no data...

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 Your Own That is why many Realtors and Brokerages expect that their name will automatically...

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 this in the hundreds of log files of real estate websites. People are consistently coming...