Archive for October, 2008
Friday, October 31st, 2008
Dominium Enterprises was looking to sell by the end of this year, but the current economic conditions is not going to make the sale happen. Frank Batten Jr., chairman and CEO of Landmark, said in a statement: "The credit crisis has made it virtually impossible for companies to obtain bank commitments to ...
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Where exactly is our tax payer bailout money going?From the BailoutSleuth.com."The Treasury Department has hired two big accounting firms to help keep tabs on the government's financial-industry rescue program, and once again certain basic elements of the deals are shrouded in secrecy. That sort of specific detail is lacking in the agreements themselves. ...
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
Rich Barton, the CEO of Zillow recently wrote a post entitled "Difficult Times, Difficult Decisions". In it he says:This week we are reducing our workforce by 25%. This was an incredibly painful decision for me and the leadership team, but, in the end, we concluded that we had no choice ...
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
This is a very interesting question since I think Trulia is worth much less today than it was 6 months ago. But, for arguments sake, lets run some numbers on what Trulia could potentially be worth today if someone were to acquire them.(Note: Theses are obviously guesses based on data ...
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
CNET recently wrote a post on who they think are the top 11 web companies that may be in trouble considering the current state of the economy. Zillow.com made this list.Zillow The real-estate site's revenue model is advertising. Real estate and bank advertising. Unless the real-estate research site starts charging for foreclosure ...
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Vacation rentals are a mutli-billion dollar opportunity. Vacation Roost recently launched to acquire some of this market share. VacationRoost.com has over 100,000 vacation rental properties and was formed by consolidating three vacation rental companies: Mountain Reservations - one of the first vacation rental Web sites that marketed properties exclusively in the Intermountain West; Rooster.com ...
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
"A Very Tough Day" says Glenn Kelman, the CEO of Redfin who yesterday had to lay off 20% of his staff. "Unlike other startups, our industry's recession started a year ago, when home prices first plunged." says Kelman.Kelman's final words in his post "Redfin's whole business will struggle and fight and ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
Many companies are cutting jobs. Ebay recently let off 10% of its workforce, VC's are telling their portfolio of companies to cut staff and conserve as much cash as possible.Well, not here at Rent Marketer.We are looking to hire in various positions for Rent Marketer and Apartment Marketer.Open positions for Rent MarketerOpen positions ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
There seems to be some confusion within the rental advertising space on what an online rental lead actually is.
A lead is NOT: When someone views your ad When someone clicks on your ad When someone clicks on your ad map When someone prints out a flyer When someone forwards your adA lead IS: When a potential ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
The AIM conference for 2009 will be held in Denver, CO. Steve Lefkovis and team put on a great conference last year and I know it will be a very educational one this year as well. Some highlights: Registration is now open for AIM 2009 at www.aimconf.comConference is happening April ...
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Sunday, October 12th, 2008
"Be greedy when others are fearful and be fearful when others are greedy." - Warren Buffett
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
According to Compete.com, both Trulia and Zillow saw a decrease in traffic for the month of September. Trulia fell 11.8% from the previous month and Zillow fell 2.2%.
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
I am not a reader of Esquire Magazine but Rent Marketer was recently mentioned in it. The article talks about the Xoogler universe. We fall between #24 and #25 on the pod grouping. 24. Dan Daugherty, Rent Marketer Previously: sales and operations25. Tim Moynihan, Rent Marketer Previously: sales manager
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
rentBits, our free national rental search engine, has launched a redesign of the search results. We have incorporated feedback from users who asked for: More prominent advanced search features Visual of new ads that are in the system Ability to show just rental ads with picturesOur engineers have spent countless hours and lots ...
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