4realz.net

A few days ago, I decided to experiment by using a room on friendfeed in much the same way that I used to use del.icio.us… Which is to say that I’ve began bookmarking (or in this case “sharing with a room”) articles that I find interesting.
In many ways, I’ve been treating the porch on [...]

Canada counts as international, right?  
I really do enjoy speaking to real estate audiences about online marketing and technologies…  And my talk last fall at NAR was a wonderful event where I felt like I hit a great groove with the audience.
Thanks to the alignment of a few stars (including the fact that a Director [...]

After last Thursday’s event, Jim and I took the weekend to relax and digest what we learned. The break was nice, but now we’re ready to hit the next event up harder than ever!  
Here are some of the things that I learned from our first event:

The people in the audience seemed [...]

I think I’ve recovered enough now to actually post about it!
Despite our best efforts to be prepared, the day started off a bit rough with a nearby mudslide taking out power in our building in the morning (meaning no hot coffee and no projector) and a 9-car pileup on a nearby freeway [...]

…I convinced my wife to hit publish on this article about Redfin.
I’m reminded of this today because Marlow just picked up on the fact that the founder of Redfin just started a new site with information/resources for people with mental health problems:  MindSite.
The connection between these stories is that despite the fact that David Eraker [...]

As I said to when I started the 4realz interviews, I reached out to four players in the real estate technology space and asked them a similar set of 9 questions.   I purposefully picked four people representing four different companies at different stages of development and different types/levels of funding.   First was Marty [...]

…community using ning for the backend.
The real hurdle for a project like this is getting enough people in order to make it a viable community. The 44 members so far is a great start, although it appears to be heavily skewed toward real estate professionals and not too many consumers (at least not [...]

…look and lots of new features. Congrats to everyone involved.
I know having talked with the team that they’ve put a lot of effort into this endeavor, so a huge congratulations to making it happen! Out of all the changes, I’ll be most interested to see how real estate [...]

…of social media is probably because he is simply more in touch with the technology?  For example, my guess is that he was probably answering his own emails just a few years ago while Clinton has probably always had other people filter and respond to emails for her…

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Both Zillow AND Top Producer have come on as sponsors!
As you can imagine, the more sponsors that we can bring on board, the better for everyone involved because (1) it helps to drive the cost of the event down for real estate professionals and (2) it gives attendees who’ve earned “REALZ” more ways to spend [...]

…Move, I landed a 30-minute meeting with Dan Rosensweig (COO of Yahoo at the time), where I tried to convince him that I should lead up a team for Yahoo to build a platform that would help real estate professionals market themselves at a local level using the various tools Yahoo had in-house (at the [...]

… the 4realz party.

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…but can’t help wonder why the Zolve boys are using Typepad instead of their blog platform for this endeavor?

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(even if he’s selling for only $802!)

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…the Zillow machine, but I seriously doubt it…
I 100% agree that someone could seriously improve on the existing CRM products for agents… During our after-lunch conversation this past week, I mentioned that if Trulia really wants to reach marketing dominance some day, they should offer a free, high-quality CRM to agents. [...]

It took a few times reading Seth’s post… but I think I’m starting to see what Jon is getting at… Maybe.

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Not only am I speaking tomorrow at a Coldwell Banker educational event, but I just got back from a fun speaking engagement at Pepperdine University where I was on a panel with some people from ActiVision and MySpace talking about online marketing to a group of marketing and technology graduate students.
There were some great questions [...]

A tipster just let me know that one of our own will soon be taking a very interesting position at a well-known real estate site.  A huge congrats goes out to…
(rumor to be confirmed on Friday)

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…interview with me over on the Real Estate Zealot.   
 
We cover two things…   The genesis of RCG and my time at Move (you’ve probably heard all this before) and two things I think many brokers could do a better job of going forward:  1) Understanding the impact of social networking on their industry and [...]

…this blog post by Brendan.  While it doesn’t provide much info on the VendAsta “product” it does start to shed some light on what the crew is thinking beyond setting up lots of Dell computers!
If you want more, they are equally vague about their actually product, but always interesting, on this video:
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Here are my notes [...]