REAL ESTATE PLANET BLOG

WARNING!!!!!  These are real MLS photos!!  I am always amazed at the idea that any picture is better than no picture.  I half-agree with it now since I have been seeing the stuff I am about to post here.  This should be fun to do---please send up in THIS blog any pics you think are the WORST of t...

You mean I have to WORK again? (edit/delete) Anyone that's old enough ( I just know history well...chuckle) knows of Maynard G. Krebs from Dobie Gillis.  He had a knack of running around being cool and all until he needed money.  He then would go into convulsions and cry out .WWWWWWWWWWWWWORK!?!?...

So please people, tell me something.  Why is it that (now these are NAR numbers BTW) 86% of all consumers find their homes on the net ----66% of all consumers ONLY click on virtual media buttons like the spinning house.....BUT!  only 2.67% of all listings have virtual media? NATIONWIDE! That's li...

RISMEDIA, April 6, 2007-It's hard to go anywhere or do anything without being exposed to marketing and the myriad of methods used to attract consumers. Yet, despite all this, our desire to be bombarded with marketing and advertising has not increased; quite the contrary-we don't want it. Just thi...

by Debra Pestrak Advertising, marketing, and the media's assault on the consumer has lead to a change in consumer's expectations and tolerance levels. Real estate media?exposure led to increased consumer activity. Tivo, Moxi, DVRs, "Do Not Call" lists, iPods, and spam filters are sending a messag...

So tell me this --listing agents.  Are we in sales or marketing of homes -- tell me what it is that would make one a sales professional as opposed to a marketing pro? To me in my very long life so far.... a sales pro is one that represents a product that has features and benefits associated with ...

  By Mike Parker RISMEDIA, Feb. 8, 2007-If you are one of those many agents or brokers who don't really believe that the Internet is "the way" in real estate today, perhaps the following data compiled and presented by Leslie Appleton-Young, chief economist and vice president of the California Ass...

I saw a new story on the ABC affiliate this evening from a few days ago.  It seems that it's not enough to have been chicken-littles about the "real estate bubble" and try to create more heat than existed for the last couple of years.  They decided it was a worthy story to posit a "scare argument...

What did Rod know that many of us don't know in 2007? In Internet parlance............OMG means of course OH MY GOSH!  In Real Estate Internet parlance. OMG mean---OH you mean I need to take a picture of the HOUSE to sell it?  OMG!!  I QUIT!!! Lemme give you a few examples of the horror without. ...

Anyone that's old enough ( I just know history well...chuckle) knows of Maynard G. Krebs from Dobie Gillis.  He had a knack of running around being cool and all until he needed money.  He then would go into convulsions and cry out .WWWWWWWWWWWWWORK!?!?!  Then Zelda or Dobie would feel sorry for h...