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Hunch: The intelligence of a million clicks

By Brian Boero | June 18th, 2009 | 6 Comments Categories: Buyers, Marketing, Web 2.0

Hunch, a website that claims it “Helps you make decisions and gets smarter the more you use it” emerged from private beta this week.
The site - which collected 7 million answers from 40,000 people during its beta phase - runs you through a series of questions that produce a “hunch” about what you should do. The [...]

American real estate flea market

By Marc Davison | February 27th, 2009 | 1 Comment Categories: Buyers, Current Affairs, Foreclosures, NAR

Joel over at FOREM sent this to us. Happy Friday!

No, it’s not okay

By Marc Davison | February 11th, 2009 | 28 Comments Categories: Agents, Buyers, Real Estate Shows, User experience

The late morning silence that typically pervades my home was broken by expletives emanating from my bedroom. From my study, I yelled, in a similarly frantic tone, if all was OK. My wife responded, “No, all is definitely not OK!”…

Buyers stretch the boundary of real estate blogging

By Marc Davison | February 4th, 2009 | 4 Comments Categories: Agents, Blogging, Buyers, Consumers

Well, it’s a blog — technically. Newman’s own is the newly launched diary of a young couple - Nora Krug and Michael Newman - who are proclaimed members of the “highly discriminated against minority - renters,” and their pursuit of…

The end of real estate “search”

By Brian Boero | May 6th, 2008 | 6 Comments Categories: Buyers, Change, Marketing, real estate technology

The forces that will kill real estate search as we know it have been set in motion. They are embryonic but growing rapidly. They will overtake their prey within a couple years. Personally, I look forward to this. I’m tired…

Eruption

By Marc Davison | April 23rd, 2008 | 14 Comments Categories: Agents, Buyers, Consumers, Leadership, New business models

He was a grown man on the brink of tears. A broker. Relating a story to a fellow speaker after a conference session a few weeks ago. I happened into the conversation by virtue of proximity. I became engaged by…

Pocket full of Kryptonite

By Marc Davison | February 11th, 2008 | No Comments Categories: Advertising, Agents, Blogging, Buyers, Sellers, User experience

Faster than a speeding bullet More powerful than a locomotive. Look up in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane, no … it’s just a simple twist on an old idea. The Golden Age of Superman During the Golden…

Sawbuck offers an “alternative” alternative brokerage model

By Brian Boero | January 29th, 2008 | 7 Comments Categories: Buyers, Consumers, Discount real estate, New business models, User experience

Cut your commission, offer buyer rebates, rock the website, get that consumer religion … and, after a few hard-bitten years, fade away. Such has been the trajectory of nearly all discount or “alternative” brokerage shops for the past decade. Today,…

Buyer sues agent: Anomaly or tip of the iceberg?

By Brian Boero | January 22nd, 2008 | 7 Comments Categories: Agents, Buyers, Consumers, Current Affairs

From the New York Times this morning: “Feeling mislead on home price, buyer sues agent”. This story, alas, is the “most emailed” on the entire site at the moment. What do you think — are we going to see more…

96 hours later - Innovation

By Marc Davison | January 18th, 2008 | 6 Comments Categories: Agents, Buyers, Consumers, Real estate market, User experience

The saga continues: Captain’s log star date: 1-18-2008 It’s been 96 hours since my first distress signal. Still no response. There appears to be no sign of life on planet Realtor. I am a lead. Lost in cyberspace. My mission…

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