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All good things come to an end (and make room for great new things)

By Marc Davison | August 20th, 2009
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Let me paint the scene.
You now get the fact that popping quarters into a slot machine promises better ROI than sending checks to newspapers to buy double truck ads.
You now realize that there’s little difference between the local kids tp-ing your neighbor’s front lawn and your agents leaving flyers with some vaporous service promise you [...]


Real estate freestyle – what if?

By Marc Davison | July 22nd, 2009
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Watch this video. As you do …

Replace the branded beverages with branded brokerages.
Replace the content of each beverage with listings, data, content.
Replace the typical fountain dispenser that offers limited selection and significant backroom dependency with IDX rules.
Replace freestyle integration of complex flavor cartridges w/micro-dosing technology with a freestyle integration of apps, data, and content without [...]


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The school of Redfin revisited

By Brian Boero | July 14th, 2009
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Redfin was profitable last month.
This well-documented fact may be an anomaly, the brief shining moment of a real estate Camelot in which tragic geeks have their day. Who knows for sure?
It doesn’t matter anyway.
I’m focused on this:
A company that rebates half its buy-side GCI, charges a modest flat fee to list, gives salaries and benefits [...]


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Repositioning for the future

By Marc Davison | July 2nd, 2009
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First published on Inman News 7.1.2009
Read Part 1 here
A brokerage model of the future is coming.
Some might suggest they’re already here.
One might be stealing your client right now.
In the blink of an eye Hawaii Life Real Estate Services launched and became the No. 1 real estate site in Kauai. Soon after, they went from [...]


New brokerage model: from bust to boom

By Marc Davison | July 2nd, 2009
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First published on Inman News – June 30, 2009
The corridors of real estate echo with the anxious cacophony of futuristic business model chatter.
Environmental branding, virtual space, marketing, social media and stemming the ooze of profitability caused by the open gash of lopsided splits are now on the gurney as the present model heads for open-heart [...]