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  • Using Competitive Research to Find Content Ideas
    The hardest part of my job, other than resisting the urge to smack Susan in the face with a laptop (I'm kidding!), is coming up with content ideas. Whether I'm writing a blog post, an article for the SEO Newsletter, or site copy for a client, the mere thought of...
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  • Google To Push Its Search Suggestions
    The fun news from Google is that Google Search Suggest has graduated from Google Labs and will be rolled out to Google.com sometime this week. Kind of neat and exciting, right? Of course Yahoo, Live and Ask already offer this functionality but it's more noteworthy now that Google's doing it...
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  • Displaying Your SEO Ethics
    It's been interesting to see the recent chatter about SEO ethics over the last couple of days. Twitter was all aflutter during the weekend and then Harith brought the conversation to Sphinn asking, "should a SEO company declare its 'SEO Code of Ethics'. It's a topic worth discussing. I'll start...
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  • Where My White Hat Ladies At?
    Hey, hey, party kids. SMX East is officially accepting speaker pitches for the big October show in New York City. If you have some search smarts in a particular area and you want to speak, submit your idea and let Danny know you're interested. There are lots of great sessions...
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  • [Shakespeare On Subprime] “First Let’s Kill All The Lawyers”
    Perhaps one of the most misused phrases in the history of literature is the reference to a quote in Shakespeare’s play “Henry VI”, “First lets kill all the lawyers.” The line is from The Second Part of Henry VI, act IV, scene ii, line 86; spoken by Dick the butcher, a follower of Jack [...]
    read more Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:58:42 +0000
  • [Bullish In Technicolor] Housing Prices Show More Weakness
    It’s 48 hours of market report nirvana! Guess what? Home prices are falling. [shocking] And prices during the spring market didn’t fall as much as the winter. [informative] This is all very new and helpful. [sarcasm] Here’s a recap NAR’s existing home sales report was released yesterday. Interpretation not to be relied on based [...]
    read more Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:38:34 +0000
  • City Of Architecture: 2nd Quarter 2008 Market Report For Charleston, SC
    The research for this monthly market report is provided by Brad Rundbaken, of Diversified Resource Group, LLC, a real estate appraiser, consultant and investor with a stock brokerage background. He analyzes the Charleston real estate market using the Charleston-Trident MLS and inserts a lot of extra analysis on the national housing market. In fact, [...]
    read more Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:07:36 +0000
  • Windy City Update: Chicagoland 2Q 2008
    This quarterly market report is provided by Chip Wagner and Robert Headrick. I have had the pleasure of knowing them for a large part of my appraisal career. They are both very active in appraisal industry matters having held many leadership positions. Their respective firms have been covering the Chicagoland market since [...]
    read more Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:01:12 +0000
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  • iPhone Real Estate App Showdown
    The real estate application category on the iPhone really seems to be filling out. When the upgraded version of the software launched in July, Puluwai was the only real estate specific search tool (see 5 Apps Every Real Estate Agent Should Have on Their iPhone). But that’s now changing and it looks like there is an [...]
    read more Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:48:08 +0000
  • New International Property Portal Site Launched
    Simon Baker, former CEO of Australian REA Group, has launched a new web site he’s calling Property Portal Watch. From his blog: Property Portal Watch will be the one stop shop for all information on property portals around the word. It is designed to provide news, views, rumours, overviews and general information on property portal [...]
    read more Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:53:26 +0000
  • Utopria Brings Property Listings to iPhone
    Over the last couple of weeks we’ve seen a handful of companies launch real estate search tools for the iPhone, but Canadian company Utopria is the first out of the gates to take the listing flyer and single property web site and bring it onto the mobile platform. I gotta say. I love this thing. Here’s how [...]
    read more Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:55:08 +0000
  • Can the Web Save the 6% Commission?
    In its September 2008 issue, alongside its reviews of tub cleaners and organic produce, Consumer Reports turns its critical eye on the real estate industry. The publication polled a sample of 3753 readers who sold or tried to sell a home, 4029 readers who bought a home and 7368 readers who did both. The results are [...]
    read more Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:23:56 +0000
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  • RightTimetoBuy.Org
    I just saw a scary commercial.  It went by pretty quickly and I was just walking by the TV, but this is what I think I saw. A woman holding a microphone saying it’s maybe not a good time to buy. (perhaps a media facsimile) A perky young woman who said that wasn’t true and she found [...]
    read more Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:29:51 +0000
  • Reviewing Your Adjustable Rate Mortgage
    RCG’s Jillayne Schlicke was interviewed on King 5 last night…I wish her spot would have been longer.  Check her out here!  The piece is about resetting subprime adjustable rate mortgages.   King 5’s, Chris Daniels reports that locally, we’ll see around 12,000 subprime mortgages reset over the next 6 months.  Combined with lower home values and [...]
    read more Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:48:47 +0000
  • Sunday Night Stats - King County
    We’re just past the halfway point on the third quarter, and condo prices are getting much lower.  Unless we see a major change in the next 5 to 6 weeks, the MPPSF is showing down over 11% from peak At $274 vs. $311.  Not a big surprise, as pending stats have been low, so it [...]
    read more Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:43:16 +0000
  • Tracking Homebuyer Activity
    Last week an agent said to me, “I have had the same 6 or 7 buyers and sellers for the last 4 months.”  Reminded me of a waitress who couldn’t “turn a table” because the same people stayed all night long. I decided to track homebuyer activity to see how many buyers who have been looking [...]
    read more Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:48:13 +0000
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