Matthew Shadbolt is the Director of Internet Marketing for The Corcoran Group, Manhattan’s largest real estate brokerage.
Follow Matthew on Twitter at @corcoran_group
Over the past few years there’s been an explosive growth in the number of things marketers can do, especially online. Even the trusty banner ad seems to be in rapid decline. As the internet [...]
Last week I stumbled across a really interesting and easy-to-use personalized search plugin – Kikin.
Kikin, plugin you download for your browser, was launched in late 2009 and is still in beta form. When you search on Google, Bing or Yahoo – in addition to your regular search results, it will also aggregate relevant content from: [...]
Let’s be honest – when is the last time you updated your web site? For most real estate agents it’s a couple times a year.
In 2010, it’s no longer ok to have a web site that is static – one just sits there and never gets updated.
If you are thinking of updating your site – [...]
I love going to the movies. I love the whole experience; the popcorn, the soda, the previews, being a part of the big audience, getting caught up in the plot, etc. Being a big fan of marketing, I always love a movie a little bit more if it has a great business theme or does [...]
Just in case you hadn’t had enough already, Yahoo! News has re-purposed Redfin’s controversial 60 Minutes segment into a new microsite called Real Estate: Buying And Selling Online.
Unfortunately, the original Lesly Stahl segment has been split into several short clips, losing whatever coherence the original had and making it nearly unwatchable (this was presumably done [...]
photo by Lizette Greco
This, from today’s Wall Street Journal, author Jeremy Wagstaff tries to engage in a house hunt using the latest technology.
Finding a Place to Live
Is More Low-Tech Than You Think
August 10, 2007
The past few days, I’ve been engaged in that most stressful of pursuits: looking for a place to live, when [...]
That sound you hear is the great web crash of 2007.
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More seriously, TechCrunch says a major SF power outage may be to blame for some pretty major sites going down today. Technorati, Netflix (my quuueeeuuue…), Yelp, Alexa and others have been affected. Valleywag, on the other hand, is blaming a drunk employee at the hosting [...]
I’m pretty bearish on so-called ‘neighborhood’ sites right now. Relying on user generated content to provide information on local areas seems to me to be a tenuous proposition at best. This is particular evident at some of the higher-profile sites; the ghost town that is StreetAdvisor, Yourstreet folding up shop (see Yourstreet is Now Empty) [...]
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RealTyger is the new product from the minds at RealEspace (see RealEspace Launching Soon), led by Jeff Corbett, The XBroker. Both will be launching next week at Real Estate Connect.
So what is it? In a recent blog post, Jeff reveals it is:
An exclusive online real estate community, or social network, by Professionals for [...]
I stumbled upon this interesting tidbit recently while doing some research for another post. It looks like you can now filter a search for real estate listings by brand using Google.
This looks likes the initial implementation of the deals signed last year to feed listings into Google base (more on StartupSquad).
Right now the results are [...]
