Archive for September, 2008
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Rent Marketer is very excited to have been nominated for the 2008 CSIA DemoGala Award. The theme of this year's event is "Deconstruction-Reconstruction: How disruptive technologies are being used by startups and incumbents to take advantage of a changing world."
Congratulations to the other nominees as well.
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
We recently launched RentalScams.org in an effort to help educate the World about rental scammers and the scams they do. It seems the scammers are not too happy with us exposing their email addresses and content of the scam email. We want to do more of this.
Please help us educate ...
Posted in rental scams | 4 Comments »
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Dave Dugdale of RentVine is working with property managers and setting up Neighborhood profile videos for their home page for free.
What are Neighborhood Profile Videos?
RentVine will shoot the property manager town in HD. Set everything up and generate code for the property manager to add to their home page.
Below is ...
Posted in RentVine, Rental Market | 1 Comment »
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
eBay, who owns classifieds site Kijiji and a 25% stake in Craigslist, is going to start to buy many classifieds sites in the coming months. The WSJ says, "[eBay is] looking to expand its global classified-ad business by taking advantage of an economic slowdown to buy promising private companies with ...
Posted in Craigslist | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
RentWiki, a site we wrote about awhile back, has launched in 4 metros. The metros are Atlanta, Washington DC, San Francisco, and Dallas/Fort Worth.
Eric Wu, a very smart 25 year old, who was named BusinessWeek’s Top 25 Entrepreneur Under 25 and is a good acquaintance of mine, wrote on his ...
Posted in RentWiki | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Trulia, the for sale property search engine released their iPhone app last month and has seen some steady growth in the free iPhone app rankings.
Some competitive real estate search iPhone apps are:
StreetEasy Real Estate
Puluwai Real Estate
RealEasy Real Estate
Trulia is currently ranked 52 in the iPhone app rankings.
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
In 2007, total internet fraud was around $240 million in the US.
Over the last year or so, the rental industry has seen a dramatic rise in rental scams and rental scam complaints.
At Rent Marketer and Apartment Marketer, we do everything in our power to ensure rental scams don't get sent ...
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
Twitter as it exists today is not a very practical application for apartment communities. It needs to allow users to communicate with a "family" of users. For example, everyone within the apt. community that has opted in.
Yammer, a twitter like application for businesses is trying to solve a similar problem ...
Posted in Apartment Marketer, Rental Market | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Pete Flint at Trulia analyzed the revenue numbers from naa.org this week and this is what he found. Here’s the summary: Total print ads in Q2 were down 16% year-over-year Online ads came to only $777M in Q2, down 2.4% from the year before Real Estate Classified ads were down 36% over the prior year
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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
3 years ago I was frustrated. I soon found that frustration became the catalyst for innovation.
In 2002 I began working for Google. While at Google Tim Moynihan and I grew the Mt States region from $1 million a year in revenue to over $100 million 4 years later. Working ...
Posted in Rent Marketer | 3 Comments »
Friday, September 5th, 2008
Google recently had its 10th year anniversary. During that time, Google hasn't changed much. Below is what Google looked like in 1998.
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