Archive for August, 2007

Link Post 'Cause I'm Lazy

by Scott Ableman
Looking forward to Labor Day, I thought I’d leave you with these links:
How blogging is like selling a house…tips from the ProBlogger. 9 Lessons You Can Learn about Blogging By Watching Me Sell My House.
Need help customizing your Wordpress blog? 300+ Tools for Running Your WordPress Blog from Mashable!
Plus, my new favorite plugin. [...]

PropertyQube Comes out of the Box

PropertyQube, the formerly stealth real estate site, launched into Beta this week – and with the wrap finally lifted, it looks like the site is in fact a social network play similar to Trulia Voices, where people can ask real estate related questions of the community and (hopefully) find the help they are looking for.
As [...]

What the Subprime Mess Means for Real Estate 2.0

by newfoundland_rcmp
Innovation in real estate 2.0 has largely been driven by two things over the last year; deep VC pockets and a bullish expectation that real estate advertising dollars are starting to flow online.
In a red hot market, this looked like a sure bet. And there is no doubt that more advertising dollars are [...]

Real Estate Shows Takes on vFlyer and Others

Real Estate Shows, the online virtual tour provider, recently launched new features of their platform which now includes the ability to create a ‘flyer’ of any of your listings. You can see an example on their site (see New Construction In Woodland Hills!).
I’m a fan of the Real Estate Shows (RES) product even though I’m [...]

Monday Morning Thoughts

Fighting words from Seth’s Blog:
If the “serial number profit motive” disappears from residential real estate, what happens? I think it could be bigger (and worse) than most people imagine. If the marketers in the real estate world understand the challenge they face, they may very well be able to market their (our) way out of [...]

Lots and Lots of Real Estate Lists

 
The guys at 1000Watt Consulting have mapped out the full spectrum of Real Estate 2.0 companies to create a (near) complete map of the Real Estate 2.0 universe. Print it out and stick it on your wall so you can see who should be on your radar screen.
Many of the old guard are there; Redfin, [...]

Spamming Social Media Sites

by skypecaptain
Recently I received a tip that someone was spamming Trulia Voices with advertisements for Realtor.com. The allegations which are detailed on this page were basically that a user was repeatedly responding to individual queries with short answers that provided links back to Realtor.com (you can see all the answers on their profile). The Voices [...]

Help Me Kill The Google Ads

Recently, I’ve thinking about tweaking this blog’s advertising strategy (see Blogvertising: The Decision to Add Ads to Your Blog) by bringing new advertisers on board at FOREM and deep-sixing the Google Ads I’ve been running lately. Why? I’m starting to doubt AdSense’s supposed contextual relevance as I’m starting to see more and more truly bizarre [...]

How to Pay Off Your Subprime Mortgage

Courtesy of The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
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Agents Seeing Success with Online Video

By KingVitaman
Recently, I posited the idea that an agent could use real estate video to supplement their position in search engines (see Rethinking Real Estate Video Marketing Strategy). I also brought up the suggestion at the Digital Video panel I moderated at Connect.
Great to see then, agents already seeing real world success with this strategy. [...]