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The Voice of Real Estate

By Matt Fagioli, Thursday, October 8, 2009.

It's been a whole 6 days now since I joined the team here at Inman News.  People have been asking lots of questions about why I'm here and what we're "up to" :)  It's been a lot of fun sort of NOT answering the questions directly because there's some secrecy around many of the big changes to come and around some of the exciting stuff that you'll see at Inman Connect NYC (and future events).

The many details about where Inman is going don't matter as much as the understanding about our direction.  Our direction is toward an even more diligent & clear voice for the real estate industry.  Inman News has been one of the strongest voices in real estate for many years now.  That's nothing new. But, we want to be "the" voice - The Voice of Real Estate.

So, here's the twist...

"voice" in our 2.0 world is no longer about one directional megaphones.  It's about community & conversations & shared learning. The direction and intention of Inman News is toward an ever expanding embrace of our amazing real estate community.  From this blog to the larger Inman.com site to our Inman Connect events, we've got renewed focus around connecting all the best information with the right people.

We're asking ourselves questions like those below...

  • How do we deliver even more value to our industry?
  • What stories and topics does the RE world really care about?
  • What does "the very best conference/event in real estate" look like (or how do we make it even better)?
  • How do we encourage the true leaders in the real estate community (online and off)?
  • What's next in real estate marketing?

 

The most important answer of all is your answer.  What's your answer?

 

 

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Submitted by Mike Gibbons on October 8, 2009 - 4:52am.

Matt congratulations clearly in order!

What's Next? Homebuyer Catnip**
I do have some thoughts, a bit contrarian -- in a nutshell what I am seeing as a Realtor is people (agents & clients) losing sight of the real reason(s) to buy/sell a home. Necessarily everyone is consumed / arguably obsessed with the transaction/price - OK it is important, always has been but...

People (used to) buy a house because they love it, where'd that go? Given the environment you're gonna be there a while (this time)- be smart about the price (of course) but don't lose sight of the "forest".

I wrote about the overlooked importance of the "story" of house, the "homestory", it is part of what makes a house a home, buyers actually excited about the house vs. the "deal" - remember all that stuff? Well I think it's coming back and here's my take
** http://budurl.com/HomebuyerCatnip

 
Submitted by on October 8, 2009 - 12:17pm.

Hey Matt,
first of all, CONGRATULATIONS (again) - I'm thrilled to see you as VP Business Development at Inman News and consider it a great move on their part.

How to make inman better? I have a million thoughts but I'll start with a few: I've never really understood the concept of the "big stage" and blogger's connect being separate. To me it feels like main stage presentations are vendor driven and learn nothing from them whereas bloggers connect has the potential of offering the meaty information and not enough emphasis is placed on that.

You just experienced the whole Boooooo thing at New Media Atlanta with the sponsor presentation at the beginning - who wants to pay to see that?

Challenging for you to find a way to give value to those sponsors while at the same time providing good content.

Speaker recognition is a must (my presentation from New York still reads "Benn Rosales" here on the site - doesn't make me feel very valued.

...that's it for now :)

 
Submitted by Matt Fagioli on October 8, 2009 - 3:26pm.

Mike, Ines,
Thanks for the comments.

Ines, I loved your presentation in NY :)

 
Submitted by on October 10, 2009 - 12:04pm.

What Ines said...

Jay Thompson
Broker / Owner
Thompson's Realty

Blog: www.PhoenixRealEstateGuy.com

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contact me at info@bizbroker.com or go to www.bebizbroker.com for a free download of a listing presentation/
frank covich

 
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