I’ve really only been in the Real Estate business for a couple of years… ~ Rich Barton (Zillow profile)
Despite $87 million in funding, over 3 million property listings, 5 million visitors per month, a ton of press and placing 3rd for most real estate search traffic for September, Zillow CEO Rich Barton announced the layoff [...]
Just twittering out loud.
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Stephen Jagger, Founding Partner at Reachd.com (and Ubertor) asked if I’d mind posting information on their April 17, 2008 training event being held from 9 am – 12 noon at Zillow headquarters in downtown Seattle, 999 3rd Avenue, Suite 4600 (great views up there). Why not?
They are offering a 3 hour Google Adwords real [...]
Lead generation is a broken business model. It is an unsustainable business model. The lead gen model on the web is not something I would invest in.
–Zillow’s Rich Barton , November 2007 (quote source)
Really? Hmm…
Zillow’s new offering is a lead generator called the Mortgage Marketplace. Mortage professionals sign up with [...]
According to The Industry Standard’s post entitled “10 Net Services that will succeed and 10 that will probably fail“, Trulia is hot and Zillow is not. Is Zillow really going to the dogs (wink)?
In the words of David Gibbons of Zillow: OUCH!
Rich Barton and the gang shouldn’t feel too bad. They [...]
Zillow (Big Z*) just announced its new Smart Search feature. Here’s our review: It ain’t. It’s as fuzzy as most of the real estate search engines out there.
According to Dave Beitel, Zillow’s chief technology officer,
Smart Search sets a new standard for online real estate search and solves one of the biggest challenges [...]
Dear Zillow,
We heard about Zillow.com’s Virtual Sold Sign program and thought you should be fair to buyers’ agents and include them on the Virtual Sold Sign. After all, it takes two to tango.
Sincerely,
Joe and Rudy
Sellsius
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