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A pulse, a passing grade and a business card: raising the bar on real estate agent qualifications

By Marc Davison | February 22nd, 2010
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Ed McMahon: A pulse, a passing grade, and a business card Carnac the Magnificent: Name the three things required to become a real estate agent Inspiration Lots of talk these days about the brokerage of the future. The brokerage model is under intense scrutiny. This is a good thing. In fact, I’m inspired by those [...]


Google in talks to buy Yelp; is real estate asleep at the switch?

By Brian Boero | December 18th, 2009
Tags: , , | Filed in: Technology 13 Comments

[Note: Yesterday - 3 days after this was posted - Techcrunch is reporting that the near certain deal, which was covered as pretty much done even in mainstream media, is now off. At the same time, rumors are surfacing that Google is going to by Trulia. Time will tell.] This is getting interesting. Multiple sources [...]


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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 [...]


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Breaking through the haze of social media confusion

By Marc Davison | June 6th, 2009
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Since I don’t live in the Bay Area – where I hear posting Yelp reviews like this is prevalent – I snapped this photo prior to entering Damon and Pythias in Calabasas on my way home from a full week of meetings with brokers. It got me thinking. Breaking through the haze of social media [...]