AG Zillow Beat
It’s Time For the Real Estate Industry to Get Engaged
This post was brought about by a thread on my local association blog about whether or not we should be feeding our listings to Zillow. I’m not going to re-open that debate here. (so let’s try not to hi-jack the comment thread with Zillow diatribes ) I want to discuss what I see as a schism developing between the attitude ...
Zillow One-Ups Lending Tree With Mortgage Marketplace
Lending Tree is fond of advertising “when bank competes, you win.” Zillow took that model for its Mortgage Marketplace, which debuted yesterday, and took the next step – lenders are competing for business, but consumers aren’t forced to surrender their personal information to receive the quotes. No name. No e-mail address. No Social Security Numbers. No names of your dearest ...
BREAKING NEWS: Zillow Partners w/UnChained – Bloodhoundblog
I had a suspicion this was in the works and my suspicion was confirmed in an email from Brian Brady seconds ago. Zillow will be the leading sponsor of the Bloodhoundblog UnChained Conference this May. Quoting Zillow’s David Gibbons in the release: In 2008 we are increasing our bet on Realtor 2.0 and I’m excited to announce that the Bloodhound ...
Do You Put Out for Free?
I was reading Matt, you know, Matt that founded WordPress, and he called out Seth Godin on having a typepad with a name like Seth Godin. Matt made the following point that I found astounding: it drives me crazy that people like Seth Godin and John Moore are pouring countless hours into creating priceless content as sharecroppers on domains they ...
Won’t Someone Think of the Consumer?
I attended the Inman Connect Conference in New York City last week and spoke at a workshop. The picture above is from a session called: “Online Real Estate as Media Enterprise“. The panel was moderated by Brad Inman, and the panelists in the picture, from Left to right are: Thomas Evans President and CEO, Bankrate Inc., Pete Flint Co-Founder Trulia, ...
Fun with Fair Housing
I don’t want to be around old people. Don’t take me into any of those Spanish speaking neighborhoods. If there are a lot of kids around, I don’t want to live there. Gee, Mr. Buyer, I can’t narrow down communities by those factors. But go check Zillow Neighborhoods, they can answer all of those things. It’s a bit of a ...
Top 5 Ways Zolve.com Steals the Show
Rather than give you a top 10 reasons for this or that, I’m going to give Brian at Zolve.com the Top 5 Things to adjust on Zolve.com to get real professional interest in his network. Last night I wrote a flippant review of Zolve.com and honestly, I had to take it down. Everything inside of me wanted to yell at ...













