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Did They Lie To Me?

Who rules the Internet today? Well if you judge it by money and broadband it is by far the baby boomer's. This group of 78 million people in the US control more than 83% of consumer spending. And that number will grow to $4.6 trillion... Read more →

Yellow Pages Dead?

Borrell Assoc. just announced that they believe that the Yellow Pages are all but dead. Over the next five years, we are expecting 39% of the ad spending on print yellow pages to vanish. After 12 years as an advertising medium, the Internet has finally... Read more →

FICO Scores

Fico Scores can mess up a deal. Getting way in front of a possible frustration is just smart business. Scott Mitic from Trusted ID tells us what we can do to protect ourselves and how you can help your client not only protect her FICO... Read more →

My Recession is Worse Than Yours

Have you participated in a pity party lately? Have we as an industry,like our country become whiners? Tony Robbins thinks we are emotionally unfit. In Today's real estate mess Misses '80s Mark by a Mile, the author illustrates why this isn't as bad as back... Read more →

C21, The Web, and the Unseen Opportunity

Front page of this weeks DM News says C21 Revamps Web Strategy. Pretty much a yawner until I read the following quote from Kevin Pollack, senior director of e-commerce marketing at Century 21 As real estate moves online, content is ultimately a commodity (that) is... Read more →

Some Perspective on the U.S. Economy

In today's economic environment there is a little of everything for the pessimist and the optimist. Foreclosures are at record levels. Sales volume is way down. Vegas seems to be ground zero for bad housing news. As I mentioned in a previous post, to some... Read more →

Social Distortion

As a product of the late 70's and early 80's I was fortunate enough to be immersed by L.A. Music. It was everywhere. All over the country music fans have pilgrimaged to the Sunset Strip. The Whiskey and the Strip was and still still is... Read more →

Some Good News In Housing

Housing is getting some good news as the markets keep fighting on despite the front running economists saying its all but dead.

First off any good news needs a narrative and it starts with Donald Trumps record sale of his Florida Mansion.

Meanwhile U.S. Housing starts U.S. housing starts unexpectedly surged 9.1%,  the most in more than two years in June.  Barron's Magazine is asking if the market is ready for the "giddy days again".Stating a recovery may well be on its way. While affordability of many real estate markets are being sung across he Country.

Study good and bad news on the web. Be curious how it spreads. Do you want to talk viral marketing? This is how it is done folks. Not some widget or some poorly conceived link bait.

This is good news folks. If I was an agent I would publicize it.Everywhere. My next move after this post is to talk about Trumps sale at Twitter.  I would get the world to know that there is positivity out there. Say it enough times and eventually it will catch on. Perception is reality.

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Interview With a Social Media Pioneer

Paul Chaney of Bizzuka.com When someone talks about the "new media" what does that mean? Paul Chaney is a pioneer in the social media and as such is a force to reckon with. He talks about blogs and the new media. Learn from a master.... Read more →

Real Estate Lead Generation

  Interview with Payam Zamani CEO Reply.com

Lead Generation 1.0: Challenges with Lead Generation Today

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