I’ve been traveling like crazy the past few weeks. Detached from home, from family and from my Tempur-Pedic mattress, I had lots of sleepless nights. At the end of my trip I spent a few long days hunkered down in the French Quarter. In the evening, after the parties, I’d sit on my balcony eating [...]
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The masked ball
I am a big believer in the power of social media. They — or, it, really — enables meaningful connections; it’s a solvent of unnatural barriers that stifle talent; it explodes the wall of cant that brands and service providers…
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Can a real estate brokerage matter?
June 4, 1942: Capitol Records opened its doors on a vision founder Johnny Mercer expressed while golfing with friends. He was tired of listening to the way everyone treated music. And the musicians. He could do better. 1946: He proved himself right. Capitol had sold a total of 42 million records. Their acts – each [...]
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“Productizing” the Realtor mind
One of most interesting (if misguided) things about the RPR project is the drive to create an online property valuation “Gold Standard.” The RPR team intends to do this by layering Realtors’ street-level assessments of value on top of the algorithmic magic that can be worked with mounds of raw property data. They’re calling it [...]
Real estate disintermediation revisited
Disintermediation. Remember that? Back in the late nineties, it’s what everyone was talking about: “the middleman” – Realtors – being taken out by technology. To some, this notion now seems as quaint as its millennial counterpart, the Y2K Crisis. For while putting listings on the Web did change consumer behavior, it did not cut close [...]
Like a Man-Lamb tethered to the Space Shuttle floating miles above the competition
[Note: I offer the following as a playful prayer for an end to "personal" branding in real estate] *** I want to do my part to help you. If you want to nail a great brand identity, do this: Start with Photoshop. Don’t bother reading the manual. The truth is, the more you know, the [...]
Great marketing versus stupendously bad marketing
Good marketing A good marketing campaign begins by understanding what you’re trying to achieve. It helps define who you are, what you stand for and how your brand should be perceived. Marketing helps you shape your image; or that of your product or service.
Stop yelling at me
Why do so many agents use all caps for property descriptions? Just now I was looking at some design comps our designer created against a live implementation of her work. The live property detail page was marred by a massive block of all-caps nonsense. Someone please tell me there’s a crazy but nonetheless adhered to [...]
From Carchemish to Ur
I wrote about this home a few weeks ago in a post titled Susquehana Real Estate Company. Between then and now, I have been gone from home and focused on other things.
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