Archive for June, 2008

Buy This House and Get This Wife

No, that’s not the real estate agent. That’s Devon Traboscia. Devon’s selling her house on eBay and Craigslist and thinks she’s come up with a great buyer incentive— herself. Buy her house and she’ll marry you– or is it marry her and she’ll throw in the house? Either way, it’s gonna cost […]

Ice Cream Marketing: Loans and Cones

Looking for a cool marketing plan for summer?  How about Ice Cream?
Webster Bank in New York is driving around town offering free ice cream to all:
Beginning on Wednesday, June 25 through Sunday, June 29, we will be giving away free ice cream throughout Westchester and Fairfield County. Over these five days, Webster Ice Cream Trucks […]

House of the Day: Window House

Room with a view? How about a house with 52 views? The Living Room House in Germany has 52 windows and a living room that extends out like a drawer for al fresco living.

The interior is also quite interesting, especially the stone level:

via LikeCool
More architecture and cool buildings.
Technorati Tags: architecture, unusual […]

Walking Billboard Street Marketing

Forget Monster.com and other job listing websites.  This guy took his job quest to the streets of New York.
Wearing a pin-striped suit and a sign on his back that reads “Experienced MIT grad for hire”, Joshua Persky, an unemployed investment banking consultant, pounded the pavement in midtown Manhattan during lunch hour, when the streets are […]

Are Featured Home Listings Worth The Price of Admission? An Alternative

What is the favorite carrot dangled in front of real estate agents by real estate websites to get more of their money to list a home? You guessed it, The Featured Listing. (all bow in reverence). “Come on agents, get your featured listings here…featured listings here.” But are featured listings losing […]

More Toys For Twits: TwitThis Wordpress Plugin Posts Links to Twitter

Twit this is a Twitter posting tool similar to friendfeed’s share this bookmarklet.
Add it to your blog or webpage and any twitterer who wants to update the twitter community can click the TwitThis button (see at end of post… try it)— and BAM!, the link is sent to Twitterland. TwitThis conveniently shrinks the link […]

Twittercounter is Twitter Popularity Widget

Are you the big twit on campus?
Visit twittercounter and get the widget to tell the world you got people, like Kevin Rose.

Technorati Tags: twitter, twittercounter, widgets

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Got Siphs? Create Branded Emails and a Link Blog Too

Yeah, I know, siphs sounds like something contagious– and it is! Everything shown below is FREE. The site navigation can be a little tricky, so I’ll try to break it down:
Sign up for a siphs account here.
In a nutshell, here are the applications you get (I’ll explain them below):

1. I’ll start with SiphsPosts […]

Help Hospitalized Realtor

Since I am working on a charitable venture, I can appreciate the need for sharing in times of need.
Charles Richey is in ICU in a Las Vegas hospital after being diagnosed with Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a rare nervous system disorder.
The good news is the prognosis is good. The bad news is Charles and his wife Jacqui, […]

Who Is Mr.Is? And Can He Save Realopolis?

This link sent to me by a real estate deep throat.
Looks like something is amiss in Realopolis. Can Mr.Is save it?  We’ll have to stay tuned.

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