Friday Fun: Spell with Flickr
Spell out your own sentences with pics from the photo-sharing site Flickr using this fun tool.
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Archive for May, 2006
Is Advertising Going to be Zillow’s downfall?
Is it just me or do the ads on Zillow run the risk of compromising its usability?
Zillow launched to great fanfare a couple months ago and grew quickly to become what's arguably the 800lb gorilla in the Real Estate 2.0 space right now. Now, depending on who you talk to, its Zestimates are either wildly [...]
Meet the new real estate customer
This blog is ostensibly about the Web 2.0 revolution and the intersection of the Internet and real estate. But the reality is that technology is ultimately just another tool to conduct business more efficiently. This industry has been and will always be about the people. So that being said, who are the people that are [...]
Please update your feed…
If you subscribe to my blog via feedreader or news aggregator, please update my feed, as I have switched my feed over from Wordpress' default RSS feed handler to that provided by Feedburner. You can even use one of the handy buttons I have provided over on the left-hand column to subscribe to my posts.
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Tip Tuesday: Dazzle with Zazzle
In real estate, image is everything. Your name and face are arguably your most valuable assets.
Over the years, agents and brokers have single-handedly kept thousands of print shops and promo item manufacturers in business, as they've thrown millions (if not billions) of dollars into fridge magnets, calendar mailers and postcards to prospect for and keep [...]
John L. Scott breaks the mold
In what is truly a bold move, John L. Scott (JLS), a midsize brokerage based here in the Pacific Northwest has recently updated its home page to include comparable sold data from the NWMLS.
Entering an address (WA only, for now) into the site pulls up a simple map interface based on Microsoft's Virtual Earth technology. [...]
Friday Fun
Make your own fake newspaper with the Newspaper snippet generator
Technorati Tags: Fake Newspaper, fun, Real Estate Marketing
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Where’s the feed?
I recently made the transition from freelancing and consulting to full-time employee, taking a marketing communications position with Prudential Northwest Properties, here in Portland. While I was looking for a full-time gig, I relied almost exclusively on RSS feeds to help me get the jump on any new job postings. I even wrote a post [...]
Google Trends An Fascinating Research Tool
Google has just launched an amazing new tool, one that Steve Rubel is calling "a must-bookmark for every PR person and marketer worldwide".
Google Trends allows you to see a graph based on searches for particular term and its relationship to the total number of searches. (You can also compare up to five terms by separating [...]
The Future of Real Estate Marketing
The reason for this eponymously titled post is that I had the opportunity to attend the Portland Communicators Conference this morning. The conference was hosted by the local chapter of the PRSA and by OCIABC, and was focused on getting back to basics in all of our marketing, communications and public relations efforts.
I was [...]
