All Posts Tagged With: "real-estate-advertising"

Best. Real Estate. Ad. Ever

It’s pretty epic.
Seriously. I love the honesty. The attitude. And the tongue in cheek humor puts it over the top.
Besides, any guy who can take a crescent wrench to the face 5 times will win my business ever time.
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It’s time to simplify real estate advertising

A guest post from Tim Fagan, CEO of HomeFinder.com
Things were simpler then, more familiar. You knew who to call, what to do and what to expect.
I’m talking about the good old days of real estate advertising.
Back then, you dealt with the sales rep for the local paper over a cup of coffee. Maybe you sponsored [...]

Down Market Advertising Fail

I know that some companies strive very hard to be creative with their advertising. And yet most in the real estate space, despite their best intentions (and big budgets), fail miserably (see Coldwell and Banker Back At Helm). 
And while this may have been forgivable during the height of the bubble; now, when the market is at [...]

Century 21 Ditches TV for Online

In a move I suspect may be followed by many of the other big real estate brands in 2009, last week at Real Estate Connect in New York, Century 21 announced it was shifting its television advertising dollars to support its online marketing efforts.
You can see the announcement made by Tom Kunz, president and CEO [...]

AdReady Lets You Get Creative with Your Ads

It used to be if you wanted to build your own ads online you were stuck writing boring text ads like Google AdWords or Zillow EZ ads.
Not any longer. AdReady is a self-service platform for marketers that’s aiming to change that. It lets you build out a targeted banner campaign in literally just a few [...]

My New Favorite Real Estate Ad

An advertisement from OptHome, a company that offers to “unbiasedly search all licensed agents to help you choose the one that is right for you.”

Let’s face it, this is every consumer’s worst nightmare when it comes to finding an agent and this ad taps right into that fear. No idea how effective the service is, but [...]

Microsoft’s Moves in Advertising

Microsoft is definitely serious about becoming an advertising play on the web. Their $6 Billion acquistion of aQuantive, an online advertising and marketing company, was just the first in a series of steps they plan on taking in this arena.
MS’ adCenter Labs lies at the heart of a lot of these future initiatives and is [...]

Facebook Doesn’t Like Realtors

I was recently sent an email by a reader regarding Facebook’s take on placing real estate listings in its Marketplace. I thought it presented an interesting dilemma, so I’m reprinting here.
To summarize. Facebook, it seems, does not want Realtors placing their listings in its marketplace and will suspend the accounts of any persons caught doing [...]

Hulu Should Make You Rethink Your Television Ad Budget

OK so this is only marginally real estate related… but I got my Beta invite from Hulu.com over the weekend and I have to say I am pretty impressed.
For those of you who didn’t know, Hulu is a joint effort by NBC/Universal and Fox to bring TV to the web. Major media have been much [...]

Keller Williams Realtors Rock

…or One Week with Facebook Social Ads
The recent Facebook Beacon controversy aside (see Mark Zuckerberg’s Mea Culpa) – Facebook’s Social Ads are one of the most fascinating advertising platforms that has been introduced to the Web over the last little while.
When the platform launched, I posited that it could be a very precise way to [...]