AGBeat Columnist: Jay Thompson
Jay is the Broker / Owner of Thompson's Realty in Phoenix, Arizona. A self-professed "Man with a blogging problem" he can be found across the Interweb, including at the Phoenix Real Estate Guy blog where he opines on all things real estate and tosses out random musings.
Please Don’t Try This At Home
How to Annoy your Visitors While perusing real estate blogs today, I came across one that had implemented a chat feature. In and of itself, this is nothing revolutionary. Google Talk, Meebo, Plugoo and similar chat solutions are scattered all across the blogiverse. I’ve tried a few such solutions and have had mixed results. I like the concept, where they ...
UPDATED: FSBOs on Realtor.com?!?
Huh? From a press release by ForSaleByOwner.com: ForSaleByOwner.com today announced that it has become the nation’s first “by owner” real estate website to enable home sellers to advertise their home on Realtor.com without appearing on a local Multiple Listing Service (MLS). This new direct access to Realtor.com follows the May 2008 settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice and the ...
NAR is Looking for a Social Media Manager
Photo Credit Seeking a Social Media Manager On or about October 8, the NAR posted a position on Monster.com. It appears they are looking for a Social Media Manager. Here’s part of the job description: MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (NOT ALL-INCLUSIVE): The Manager of Social Media will ensure that NAR has the knowledge and skills to guide NAR staff and ...
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Why Lenders Piss Me Off
Photo Credit FAIL The financial market is melting down. LIBOR was up this morning. The “Credit Crunch”. Short sales. Foreclosures. The list goes on and on. Let’s face it. There is a lot of doom and gloom out there. 6 semester hours of college accounting and 9 hours of economics do not make me a financial wizard. But I can ...
Your Brokerage Model Sucks: 6 Months Later
Photo Credit The Birth of a Brokerage It’s been six months since the lovely wife and I launched our independent brokerage, and six months since I wrote my first post on Agent Genius, Your New Brokerage Business Model Sucks!. It’s been a busy six months… I thought I’d take a moment to share some of the trials and tribulations of ...
Peek-a-Boo! Greetings Lurkers!
Photo Credit Missy Caulk wrote a nice post on Active Rain over the weekend “introducing” Agent Genius to the many many real estate professionals that read and participate on AR. Thanks Missy! In the one hundred plus comments to that post, “Lurking” is mentioned a couple of times, which got me to thinking… Lurking? According to TechWeb, “to lurk” means ...
Writing For Google. Or Not.
Image courtesy of feuilllu Is this “good copy”? From an actual Phoenix area blog post (I’ve changed the city and redacted the agent/brokerage to “protect the innocent” (?): When it is time for you to purchase Phoenix luxury homes, turn to a professional Phoenix, Arizona real estate agent at [redacted] to handle the transaction in a skillful manner. With recent ...
Approaching Inbox Zero
Inbox 8,907 My favorite formal session of Inman Real Estate Connect last week was the keynote address. Merlin Mann of 43Folders.com discussed “Inbox Zero” — action based email management and a system to curb the problem of email overload. As I sat in the presentation, reviewing email on my blackberry at the same time, about all I could think of ...
Web Sites: Template or Custom?
Photo Credit Template Sites Suck I was stumbling through the Internet today and wound up on a post written by a vendor that supplies custom (well, semi-custom really) web sites to real estate agents. No, I’m not going to link to it because it’s not really germane to the discussion. And it’s strikingly similar to about half a jillion posts ...
N-Play Launches Beta Site
Bringing Buyers and Sellers Together Online N-Play, “a real estate service company focused on bringing home buyers and sellers together online” released a beta launch this morning. From the press release: The company is the first to connect buyers, sellers and agents through secure submission, ranking and evaluation of offers online, directly from the listing display. N-Play is currently undertaking ...
Top 10 Ways to Use Blogging in Real Estate: #3
#3: Use Blogging to Become a Niche Expert Photo Credit: mag3737 “Your City Real Estate” isn’t the Only Search Term Out There! Ask just about anyone what one search term they want their blog or website to rank well for and you’ll likely hear, “My City Real Estate!” And that’s all fine and dandy. But if you live in a ...
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