A Bird’s Eye View

It’s not going to come as news that the housing market is currently in crisis. And the root cause of that extends beyond the mortgage industry fiasco, Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, etc. It’s equally a crisis of consumer confidence.
Part of the road to recovery will be helping people regain their faith in the process of buying [...]

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The start of my real estate brokerage career just happened to coincide with the dramatic increased use of the Internet by home buyers and sellers. As a marketer, this sounded like the Holy Grail because unlike other advertising outlets (newspapers or magazines) the Internet is clearly a highly trackable medium.
As it was explained to me [...]

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Everyone knows that the Internet has expanded our reach, our knowledge and our possibilities. But is it ALL good? I’ll be the first to admit that it can be sometimes daunting to keep up with it all. I remember watching Shift Happens for the first time and being amazed by the exponential growth of unique [...]

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I’ve been in the real estate marketing/technology world for almost ten years now and one aspect of an agent’s life that I’ve always thought would be difficult for me is limited weekends. I was thinking this as I was taking the train into work this morning and thinking about my awesome weekend at the beach [...]

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So I was reading Marc Davidson’s 1000Watt blog post from last Thursday titled “Why agents will one day rule the real estate world” and I was in a little disagreement with Marc’s view of the real estate search world as it relates to consumers. Now Marc, who I’ve known for a few years, did not [...]

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We know how important social networking is becoming in our daily lives. Drew Izzo, CMO of Roost.com, and I attended SocialMediaCamp this last Tuesday and learned how social networking sites are being integrating into businesses everywhere. From Twitter to LinkedIn to Facebook, the world is becoming connected.
So I got a tweet this morning from Peter [...]

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If you’re like me, you’ve started to glaze over a bit about all the Foreclosure, home sales declines and credit crunch headlines.  I feel like I can’t watch an episode of Top Chef (guilty pleasure) without seeing an ad, news snippet, headline or blog post (like this one J) around Foreclosures.
But then I was flying back [...]

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“There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.”
-Brendan Behan, Irish Dramatist & Author
Touché. We’ve hardly written anything more than our own birth certificate since we were hatched just one month ago. And since we are all bite and no bark (all engineers and product people and currently no marketing [...]

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We’ve received great feedback from our visitors since our launch almost a month ago. I’ve personally been responding to your feedback since the launch and sharing them with my team. There was a healthy range of comments falling almost evenly into three categories: Bugs, New Feature Requests and Sales Inquiries. A few [...]

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Welcome back!
We are still pulsing from the excitement of our initial launch of Roost and the flurry of resulting coverage. While we were certainly hopeful that all the late nights’ work would be well received – it has been really satisfying to hear the initial response from around the Web.
Thought we’d share some of the [...]

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