Keyword: transparency
Last bastion of obfuscation – real estate marketing lacks transparency
Take a Critical Look When was the last time you have taken a critical look at your marketing plan? Not in terms of completeness or variety or creativity but rather in terms of effectiveness. And not effectiveness in terms of whether the house sold or not, but whether the sale took place because of your marketing or by dint of ...
The Flip Side of the Inaccurate Search Results Debate- Good News?
Oh how they cry From the day aggregation of MLS/Broker data began, the traditional real estate industry has cried foul over inaccurate search results, citing expired listings, withdrawn listings, or even pending listings as currently available properties within big search portals like Zillow, Trulia, Vast, and others. But why the angst? For years, Craigslist has been abused by the traditional ...
Taking Government Transparency to the People- AG Politics
HR 554 – taking transparency and political responsibility to where they belong – to the people. ‘(1) It shall not be in order to consider a motion to dispose of a Senate amendment reported in disagreement by a conference committee until at least 72 hours (excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays except when the House is in session on such a ...
Stop the Noise!
Transparency Transparency has been the goal of real estate professionals throughout the RE.net and blogging has provided the perfect platform for transparency in information. Real Estate bloggers have provided a great deal of knowledge for the general public. In the past few years, the public has been given access to almost every listing, details about neighborhoods and communities, as well ...
Why I Think Some Will Protest Blog & Forum Transparency
I can imagine a million + 1 reasons some will be stubborn about making comment ip addresses public. But a few sinister ones come to mind. I’m not saying this about anyone or any company in particular so lets just make that clear now, this is more about the future credibility of the forum and blog communities that have the ...
Is Redfin.com a True Web2.o Experience?
Well, I would surmise by my own appraisal of Redfin.com that you can easily do more than Redfin is doing, and probably are already. With the transparency debate exposed all over the blogosphere, I look at Redfin and wonder, where exactly is the transparency? They’re counting on momentum from sensationalism, name recognition and a liberal cause to carry them forward, ...














