Mar

5
2007

Transparent Patent Office

The U.S. Patent office is going Web 2.0, putting not only patent apps up on the site but also publishing comments and ranking the comments. Transparency, fantastic. My recent experience with buying a home made me realize how arcane the...  more...

Some blog topics are oversaturated - not Real Estate

Kevin forwarded me a fine Seomoz article that explains why certain blog topics - politics, gadgets, sports, Apple, etc. - are oversaturated and a new blogger will have a hard time breaking through the clutter with any independent voice, unless...  more...

End of a cycle (or an era) for newspaper RE ads?

Advertising Age, a sister publication to Crain's Chicago Business, reports that newspaper real estate ad sales grew to a total $4.6 billion on the wings of a prolonged housing boom, up from about $2.6 billion a decade earlier. And revenue...  more...

7 Ways to Market Your Blog

Real estate blogs are red hot these days, but with 35.3 million blogs out there, how do you get yours to the front of the pack? Just like everything else in the business, it all comes down to savvy marketing....  more...