These are the Best Sellsius Posts for 2008 (completely biased, of course).
Best Real Estate Advice Post (Seller): Best Questions to Ask a Real Estate Agent Before You Hire One to Sell Your Home
Best Real Estate Advice Post (Buyer): When to Buy: A Buyers Guide to Picking the Sweet Spots
Best Blogger Advice: How to Idiot Proof [...]
Archive for December, 2008
How to Add Social Media to Your Blog or Website: Google Friend Connect
Published by December 30th, 2008 in Cool Tools. CommentsGoogle recently launched Friend Connect to let anyone add social media features to their website or blog. This can include a chat, a rate and review, or a photo sharing feature.
What’s neat about Friend Connect is you choose the social media feature you think works best on your site. It’s [...]
Trulia Seeks Online Ad Salesman to Sell Fortune 500 Brands
Published by December 29th, 2008 in Advertising. CommentsTrulia is looking for a rockstar salesman to get Fortune 500 company advertising, which will compete with individual agent ads and house listings for consumers’ attention.
From Trulia’s ad on Craigslist (12/12/08):
Trulia is currently seeking a rockstar Account Executive to join our New York-based online media sales team. You will be responsible for generating new business, [...]
How to Send Multiple URLs in One Link: Krunchd
Published by December 28th, 2008 in Marketing tips. Comments
Krunchd lets you easily convert multiple URLs into one short descriptive URL.
For example, if you want to send a bunch of related URLs, you can copy and paste them into Krunchd and it will produce a single URL which you can label accordingly.
To illustrate: http://krunchd.com/badsantas
There is a bookmarklet you can use to Krunchd [...]
Viagra Bribes Causing a Rise in Informants
Published by December 27th, 2008 in Marketing tips. CommentsHaving trouble bribing folks with sex, money, and corporate swag? Take a lesson from the CIA.
The Washington Post reported that CIA agents have found an ingenious way to get information and cooperation from Afghan warlords– give them Viagra. Seems the happy blue pill is something that really moves the chieftains to act (as in informing). [...]
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A Christmas Tale: Inventor’s Self-Correcting Glasses for the Poor
Published by December 24th, 2008 in Marketing tips. CommentsRead this wonderful story in the Guardian (UK). Here are some excerpts:
It was a chance conversation on March 23 1985 (”in the afternoon, as I recall”) that first started Josh Silver on his quest to make the world’s poor see. A professor of physics at Oxford University, Silver was idly discussing optical lenses with a [...]
Okooko is a mattress and bedroom furniture company based in New Zealand. The Float, designed by David Trubridge, costs $25,000. Hmm.. not sure you’d want that sail-like thingee hooked up when you took a snooze — heck, you could end up in Australia.
Source: The New York Times, Home and Garden
More Home Furnishing Posts here.
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas From Realtors
Published by December 22nd, 2008 in humor and selltoons. CommentsAccording to Compete, monthly visits to third party real estate sites Trulia & Zillow have been trending down since about August 2008 — monthly visitors to Trulia are down 21% and Zillow 7% over the past month. (note: compared to the same month last year, Zillow, however, shows a 48.4% increase, to Trulia’s 25.6%)
This [...]
Love Sculpture by Robert Indiana (NYC)
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give ~ Sir Winston Churchill
Coming from the legal profession, which has a pro bono provision in its Code of Professional Responsibility, I’m trying (with others) to bring the concept over to the real [...]
