Keyboardr is an interesting AJAX metasearch engine mashup (yep) that brings together Google web search, Google Blog search, with Wikipedia, YouTube and Google Images results in the sidebar. Results are displayed as you type, making for an interesting, yet a bit weird, user experience.
While Google is busy adding to its piggybank with ads in [...]
Archive for November, 2008
The Best Price To Sell a House is Not Round
Published by November 28th, 2008 in Marketing tips. CommentsA University of Florida marketing professors’ study of buyer behavior indicated that you will likely net more money if you price a home at a precise amount– $498,550 (or 501,350) vs. a round number like $500,000. Apparently, the brain discounts the value more when it’s a round number and discounts to another round [...]
Happy Thanksgiving to all who pass here.
She can’t cook me, if she can’t find me.
Turkey toon
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Need a reason to be charitable? According to folks who get paid to find this stuff out, being altruistic makes you very attractive to the opposite sex.
In three studies involving more than 1,000 people, Dr. Tim Phillips and his research team from the University of Nottingham found that women place significantly greater [...]
Happy Thanksgiving from the Real Estate Web 2.0 Gang
Published by November 26th, 2008 in humor and selltoons. CommentsTechnorati Tags: web 2.0, real estate agents, sellsius, selltoon, real estate marketing
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Broker Agent Social is New Real Estate Networking Site
Published by November 25th, 2008 in Social Network. CommentsBrokerAgentSocial is the latest online real estate social network. You can make connections with other real estate professionals, submit articles and create polls. You know the drill.
Social networks are great for socializing and sharing but with so many out there to compete with, you might do better carving out a unique niche or [...]
Mirror Mirror on The Wall, How Do I Market in the Stall?
Published by November 24th, 2008 in Marketing tips. CommentsFrom Alpay Kasal and LitStudios, an Interactive Mirror. Great, now I’ll never get out of the bathroom:
Interactive Mirror from Alpay Kasal on Vimeo.
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Washroom Advertising: AddMirror
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Let U.S. Seniors Defer Real Estate Property Taxes Like Canadians
Published by November 24th, 2008 in PSA. CommentsThis Guest Post by Larry Yatkowsky, a realtor (and blogger) from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, aye. Seems our neighbors to the north have a property tax deferment program to help senior citizens deal with their property taxes. Someone tell our Uncle Sam. Larry sent me this after reading this post on senior foreclosures caused by [...]
Real estate offers a lot to excite the senses — from lush landscaping to evocative architecture to the ways the rooms open up to reveal their hidden treasures. Then there are those features which have a certain irresistible appeal to some folks. I confess a special attraction to doors.
Here are some interesting doors [...]
You Be The Judge: Broker Non-Cooperation Under the Realtor Code of Ethics
Published by November 22nd, 2008 in NAR. CommentsAccording to Article 3 of the National Association of Realtors’ Code of Ethics (2008):
REALTORS® shall cooperate with other brokers except when cooperation is not in the client’s best interest. The obligation to cooperate does not include the obligation to share commissions, fees, or to otherwise compensate another broker. (Amended 1/95)
OK, let’s apply this to a [...]
