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Viral

What did the leader of the free world, co founder of the largest search engine, founder of Re/Max, a Presidential Candidate, and yours truly do when we got together up North? Can you guess who is who?*

JibJab has grown by leaps and bounds and is a great example of viral growth as guys like me using their service and sharing it with you.I actually did this for the business and another with my family I am addicted!

http://www.elfyourself.com/ also has this feature. It is operated for free by Office Max.

*George Bush, Sergey Brin,Dave Liniger,  Hillary Clinton, Tim O'Keefe

Addition to original post:I made a video on how to create these videos. They are a great idea to add your staff and send out as an ECard.

http://www.spiderjuicetechnologies.com/christmas/

The Riches are in the -Rich Niche-

A September poll by PNC Wealth Management says:

...nearly 60% of ultrahigh-net-worth investors are expressing optimism about their portfolios for the coming year..and 4% of investors with $10 million or more of investable assets surveyed expressed pessimism.."

Interestingly the less rich are more pessimistic:

Say What?

An easier way to Podcast?

utterz.com

I usually don't show off widgets and gizmos on this blog. But I tested this thing called Utterz and it allows you to post from your phone. I just forgot to set it to draft, and it auto published. Oh well.

However, I can see this as a great way to podcast from your phone without having to go thru the hassle of knowing onboard audio editing. Oh yah you can't edit. All the ums and ahhs will go live. But it is a ton easier than processing it on your desktop.

Not sure if this was created with the idea of a Podcast but if they give us the time,it wasn't apparent to me how long a recording it would allow. But form the ones I have listened to, they went on and on.

"Get the Odds on a Rate Cut"

Analysts predict the Fed will trim its key rate, now at 4.5 %, by one-quarter of a percentage point at that time. A few even speculate about the possibility of a half-point cut.

What are Vegas oddsmakers saying about an interest rate cut?....

NAR Rosy on the Future

NAR says that the housing market is on the verge of stabilizing and and forecast sales will rise slightly in 2008 to 5.7 million, up from last month's prediction of 5.69 million.  Lawrence Yun,Chief Soothsayer gave a positive outlook for job growth and the replacement of sub prime lenders to borrowers with weak credit with government-backed loans as reasons for the improved outlook.

"Despite over-exaggerated negative coverage on the housing conditions, many local markets are actually seeing price increases," Yun said at a press briefing. "Mortgage availability is improving"...housing"remains affordable in vast parts of the country" — particularly in the Midwest."

Shilled Numbers

Just read this from Realty Times: Battle of the Warring Housing Price Indexes
by Kenneth R. Harney that compares the competing OFHEO (the Government) and Shiller index and maybe why they are so different.

How Do I Get My Vanity Address Property Found?

I just got off the phone with a colleague. He asked me why his "vanity property URL's" (122applestreet.com ) Does not get found in Google.

My reply was that Google or the other engines do not really consider a URL until it gets a link from somewhere that is indexed in Google.

Your Brand is Not Your Own

Creative Financing

People want to buy but often find the financing is a roadblock. Can You Remember Creative Financing? Get out those books!

According to the 2007 National Housing Pulse Survey from October, 59% of Americans think "now is a good time to buy".

Interestingly as I wrote in the December newsletter, I see this in the hundreds of log files of real estate websites. People are consistently coming to realty websites. But, it seems that their willingness to register as a lead is down. ( I believe that can be more than just a market driven thing, but it might be the freely available listings at verticals like Edgio, Trulia and such. Even smaller players like Picky Homes offers real estate listings without registration.)

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November Recap

My Stats are Better Than Your Stats -Are you singing to the Choir?
Newspaper Advertising - The irony of traditional print.
Forcasting a Great Neigborhood to Buy - How do you know where to pick an up and comer?
The Church of Bubble-The Bubblistas live their beliefs out as Dogma.
Free Video Software - Free sreen capture software
Tom Brokaw and Your Future- Tom tells us what the 60's have to do with today's marketing.
Positvity in the OC-Why the real estate market is not as bad as you think.
CCube- My most recent podcast.
More November Blog posts.

The Obfuscation of the truth...

....& The Orgy of Free

I offer you two videos today on getting a free real estate blog and then follow up with a rant on Free Blogs, Websites, Social Networking and well anything....

Free.

Part I

Part II

The site mentioned is part of a course that we are about to launch called
Get a Cheap Real Estate Blog