Damn it used to feel good to be a Banker
Friday, August 29th, 2008"Yo. Word. Don't hate the game playa. I mean don't hate the playa, hate the game. Chill." - anonymous banker [youtube]weKN9-9TQcU[/youtube]
Archive for August, 2008
"Yo. Word. Don't hate the game playa. I mean don't hate the playa, hate the game. Chill." - anonymous banker [youtube]weKN9-9TQcU[/youtube]
Rentals.com Revenue Down 6% for Q2 2008
Friday, August 29th, 2008The Transcript for the Primedia Q2 earnings call has just been released. Kim Payne, the CFO said rentals.com revenue declined by 6% compared to the second quarter of 2007 but Apartment Guide revenue saw a 2.6% increase. "First, Apartment Guide continued to forward momentum with revenue increasing 2.6% compared to second ...
Rent Marketer Foosball Champs
Thursday, August 28th, 2008At Rent Marketer we understand the importance of having fun. We recently received a Foosball table and we are all getting pretty good at it. On days when we are not getting massages from our massage therapist, eating pizza or having happy hour, we concentrate on playing a great game of ...
RentBlurb to No Longer Accept Offers
Thursday, August 28th, 2008RentBlurb, the regional rental site looking to sell, will cease to accept bids to purchase the company on Friday, August 29th. In an email from Aaron the owner of RentBlurb, he said "Friday, August 29th will be the last day we will be accepting bids for the purchase of RentBlurb.com. ...
Digg Like Real Estate News Site Launches
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Bumpre, a Digg like real estate news site that allows visitors to vote for the best news stories has launched. Bumpre allows anyone to submit a real estate story and if the story is good, users can vote for the article. The article or story with the most votes gets ...
Google. Fix Your Real Estate Rental Search.
Monday, August 25th, 2008Why is Google Base not picking up much traction in the real estate sector? Because of the user experience like this. Search for "Houses for Rent" in Google: Google says they have 645,673 houses for rent in their google base database. Click on it. Do you see any rentals? Not a very good ...
Is this from Zillow or Not?
Friday, August 22nd, 2008It doesn't matter. A great viral video from Zillow or maybe not. [youtube]GbhnNizN5DA[/youtube]
Lessons Learned from the Olympics
Thursday, August 21st, 2008- You are never to old to conquer your dreams [youtube]V5bR2d7VKhg[/youtube] -Records are meant to be broken [youtube]Cw0e4pvPmRI[/youtube] - Never. Ever. Give Up
Regional Rental Site RentBlurb Looking to Sell
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008Aaron Hassen, the owner of RentBlurb contacted me this morning letting me know he is looking to sell his 4 year old company RentBlurb.com. RentBlurb is a local rental site that has strong search engine rankings in the Florida market. From Compete.com, the top keywords that drive traffic to this site ...
TripAdvisor Now Getting into Vacation-Home Reviews
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008Since yesterday, another large site is getting into the vacation rental market. This time it is TripAdvisor which is owned by Expedia.com. TripAdvisor has announced a majority investment in vacation property review site FlipKey.com. TripAdvisor plans to include FlipKey reviews on its site. "Vacation rentals is the hot emerging category in ...
Orbitz adds Vacation Rentals
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008The vacation rental market is a multi-billion dollar industry. The market leader in this space has primarily been HomeAway with their acquisitions of VRBO.com, CyberRentals.com, GreatRentals.com, A1Vacations.com, TripHomes.com, Holiday-Rentals.co.uk, Holiday-Rentals.fr, FeWo-direkt.de, Abritel, and HomeAway.es. Home Away is now facing strong competition with the recent launch of vacation ...
Here’s to the Crazy Ones
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008[youtube]USn5t5nQWU8[/youtube] “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because ...
Rent.com Old School Radio Advertising - Hilarious
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008For those of you who don't know the true roots of rent.com, below is a brief history of the company: Scott Ingaham and Allan Hunter created Viva.com in 1999, which was a cost per lease business model with the $100 reward to renters. Initially, it was a platform where renters would ...
Can the Newspapers Be Saved?
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008I recently read that The LA Times has cut a section of their newspaper that is over 100 years old. The section, you guessed it, Real Estate! Why? Because the print classifieds model is broken. If things continue as they are, we will see other sections being axed as well. John Keister ...
Rental Sites Timeline
Monday, August 11th, 2008We started to categorize all of the rental sites we know of and add them to a timeline list. While doing so, we came to the conclusion that it would be impossible for one person to categorize all of the rental sites in the United States by themselves. This is ...
Insights for Rental Search
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008Google just released Google Insights for Search and it allows users to compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, and time frames. I compared Apartments for Rent and Houses for rent and here is what I found: There is a cyclical nature to rental search. Florida has the highest concentration of renters ...
Oh Those Creative Googlers - Will You Marry Me?
Tuesday, August 5th, 20081642 Charleston Way, Mt View, California - Google HQs View Larger Map
rentBits Rental Properties Now Over 400,000 Listings
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008At rentBits we are constantly crawling the web actively looking for available rental properties. We have hit yet another milestone and have surpassed the 400,000 active rental property mark. If you would like your site crawled, or if you want to supply us with a feed, please submit your ads here.
Rent Marketer, Inc. is Hiring
Monday, August 4th, 2008At Rent Marketer, Inc, we are always looking for bright, hard working individuals who shine in a team environment. We are looking to fill the below positions for our sites rentmarketer.com, apartmentmarketer.com and rentbits.com. We have free sodas, chair massages, and snack goodies any time you want them. After all, we ...
