Archive for July, 2008

The San Francisco Experiment, Part I

(This is part one of a two-part series) I spoke with Sherry Chris, CEO of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate, two weeks prior to Real Estate Connect to think through a roundtable session we were tasked with running at…


Sirius XM

The long-awaited merger of satellite radio’s two players has finally been approved by the FCC. As an early subscriber to XM who converted to Sirius, I am pleased that, soon, I will be able to reap the benefits of their…


Lessons from Real Estate Connect

Friday at 2:00 p.m. I opened the door to my home, gave my wife and daughter a hug, apologized, and went to bed until 9:00 a.m. the next morning. In my suit. It was that kind of week. Between moderating…


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Daredevil

48 hours prior to leaving for Connect, last Saturday I found myself in surgery at French Hospital reattaching a severed finger. By evening I was home, packing my suitcase, trying to forget about the day. Between the many shots of…


The road to killer

This year, as in the past, I’m moderating several sessions at Real Estate Connect. If you’ve not yet registered, take the time to do so — it’s going to be a great show. One of my sessions is titled “Building…


Re-drawing the Real Estate 2.0 Mind Map

Almost a year ago, we mapped out the rapidly expanding real estate Web 2.0 universe. In the months that ensued, we did our best to chart new sites as they emerged and remove others as they went nova. But over…


You’re going to Real Estate Connect, aren’t you?

Do not miss Inman’s Real Estate Connect event next week. The crowd is big and the program rocks. Whether you’re an agent, broker, vendor, media company exec. or pretty much anyone interested in the future of the industry, you need…


The terror of Twitter

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. — Pozzo, in Waiting for Godot What if you could float in the ether and listen to the wails of…


Re-branding, one byte at a time

Out with the old, in with the new. This is my new business card. Built with retaggr. I offer this as Exhibit A in the case for how important, and, in some cases, how easy it is to re-brand yourself…


End times for the brick and mortar?

Louis Black’s hilarious riff on Starbucks. It’s worth watching in light of Starbucks announcement. Starbucks is what happens when becoming big is more important than becoming great. When flooding a marketplace with too many locations drains the balance sheet. Sound…