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I kind of like the new logo for our periodic market updates. We aren’t fighting crime, mind you. In fact I probably should have gone with more of a Dragnet theme (”Just the facts”), and the “man” part is a little misleading until I can shame Steve into making a cameo blog appearance, but I think it is snappy nonetheless.

Are you a Real Estate Team Player? September 2, 2008 by Bill Shue comments (1) There is a lot of buzz out there in the industry today about the emergence of “teams” and how dominant they can be in their market.

photo credit: akaalias Hellooooo! Is anybody there? It has been so quiet over the past week, you can hear a call drop. And it is just so hard to be a blur of activity, a working machine, when the real estate world feels like it is operating under a cone of silence. It must be August.

While a lot of people still don’t know it, Ralph Lauren is a fashion house that is really ahead of the curve, when it comes to integrating technology with fashion and shopping, as well as in the range…

There was a time about a year and a half ago when I used to run all of our client's search marketing on Google and Yahoo on my personal corporate card. It was, as you might expect, a logistical nightmare to put in all the expense claims for that (particularly since Google insisted on charging you in increments once you neared $500) ...

There was a time about a year and a half ago when I used to run all of our client's search marketing on Google and Yahoo on my personal corporate card. It was, as you might expect, a logistical nightmare to put in all the expense claims for that (particularly since Google insisted on charging you in increments once you neared $500) ...

Hooker creates Home Staging Hell August 25, 2008 by Andy Capelluto comments (2) Witnessing the burgeoning staging industry has me marveling at the viral nature of its growth. Well over two thousand Real Estate Agents now hold the AHS Designation, which means that they are able to guide their sellers through the process of staging their homes.

I had this amazingly thought-provoking post of the epic variety in the hopper this morning when I took a call from an agent on one of our listings. OK, fine. The other post wasn’t all that great, but I couldn’t let this one go. The agent was phoning to arrange a showing.

photo credit: spaceodissey I believe I have set a record. It has been a full seven days since I have posted here, and somewhere around day four of my sabbatical I stopped worrying about it. Circumstances were simply beyond my control, and a blog post last week simply wasn’t in the cards.

As a marketer and blogger, there is no shortage of noise about Facebook as a marketing platform. One of my struggles has been to decipher what is accurate and what is mis-guided hyperbole. I took it upon myself to get some answers using Facebook's own ad targeting system and I created this abridged