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2007
A friend of mine sent me a link to the video below asking me if I had ever heard of them before. He said the idea is brilliant and would invest in Redfin if he could. He is planning on selling his home soon and indicated that he would also list with them if they served his market.This video is ...
12/31/2007
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1. Zillow marginally increases the accuracy of their Zestimates. Consumers don't notice or care. They only care that they are able to watch the value of their home decrease on a daily basis. 2. Two top level mortgage executives are indicted for fraud. One of the CEO's indicted has a very strong t...
12/31/2007
ActiveRain's own Sharon Simms was featured today in the "country's oldest newspaper in continous publication", the Hartford Courant. They referenced her ActiveRain blog post about a new marketing concept called a sleep over; it is similar in concept to a test drive for a car. Here is link to Shar...
12/30/2007
Usually we don't feature posts that are just copy and pastes of other people's content, but... I liked this video a lot and wanted to share it.Good work Joe and Rudy! Blog Tour USA - INMAN Real Estate Connect from rudy bachraty on Vimeo.
12/30/2007
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Joel Burslem from the Future of Real Estate Marketing blog has a great post today about using static search results for long tail seo success. This is a strategy that Brio Realty pioneered 5+ years ago, Trulia successfully uses now (notice the url address), and it looks like Zillow will start to...
12/28/2007
As many Rainers know we occasionally experience the growing pains that accompany rapid growth. This morning our servers went down for a bit and needed a reboot. (Jerry should be posting a follow up shortly on his blog with the cause of the downtime.) Coincidentally, Royal Pingdom released their ...
12/27/2007
Inman News published their annual top real estate stories of year article. The graduation of real estate blogging from "sport" status to "business plan" status was listed as the #2 top story. As could be guessed the housing downturn headed off the list... 1. Subprime market implodes; housing ...
12/27/2007
