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Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Many of my friends ask me how they can find lake front property. Unfortunately, there are not many sites out there that offer this type of functionality.However, a new site called LakeFrog is designed to just offer lake front properties thoughout the United States. The site covers over 5,000 lakes in the ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Zilok is a company that offers a marketplace for renters to find and rent anything online. They entered into the US in 2007 and US traffic seems to be growing nicely.
You can rent anything from a scruffy basketball to a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder.
More on Zilok below:
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Google has been doing Google Trends and popular searches for a while now. For example, below are the top searches for June 20th 2008.
Trends for Websites combines information from a variety of sources, such as aggregated Google search data, aggregated opt-in anonymous Google Analytics data, opt-in consumer panel data, and ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
What if we acted the same way in real life as we do on Facebook? It may look something like this:
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Inman News just wrote that Overstock.com has launched a real estate search engine.
The Overstock.com real estate channel claims 2.9 million properties, including 2.6 million residential listings. Of those, 1.96 million are single-family homes, 246,000 are condos and townhouses, and another 73,720 are multi-unit properties.
Overstock.com did not respond to a request ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Mark Cuban suggests.
How many websites would have to recuse themselves from the Google Index before Google Search was negatively impacted ?
Mahalo.com thinks it needs to support the 25k most common search terms in order to be successful. What would happen if MicroSoft or Yahoo or a MicroHoo went to ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
A report from Atlas Institute's "How Overlap Impacts Reach, Frequency and Conversions" states that
"Consumers reached across multiple publishers were twice as likely to convert as those reached only on a single publisher."
Jed Flower , analyst, Atlas Institute States, “Overlap across publishers has tremendous implications for an ad campaign’s performance, marketers ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Interesting data but not surprising. We see this in the rental industry as well. Anytime a website is focused on a particular vertical or industry, they can demand higher advertising rates because those users are more qualified and more likely to convert.
The PubMatic AdPrice Index is a broad-based measure of ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Found on TheRealEstateBloggers:
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
RentMineOnline.com, is a trust based online market place that connects asset owners and renters and facilitates rental transactions between them. They are currently integrated into Facebook, MySpace and Linkedin.
They aim to offer services that will allow renters and apartments to:
Rent ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Ok by now you probably know that Google did not acquire Zillow or Trulia. But in other news, Trulia was named most likely to succeed by The Industry Standard.
Zillow also made the list but for companies most likely not to succeed. I disagree with Bill's analysis and think both Trulia ...
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Hay una variedad de sitios de alquiler que ofrecen una experiencia de usuario en español. En los Estados Unidos el español es hablado en el hogar por unos 28,1 millones de personas de 5 años o más.
Aproximadamente la mitad de los 28,1 millones de personas hablan Inglés muy bien de ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Forget Facebook, Orkut, LinkedIn, Tribe, MeetUp, Ryze, and the other 350 social networking sites.
The greatest social network on Earth launched in beta and is called Isolatr.
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
We talk about the long tail a lot. We owe it to Chris Anderson who was the brain behind making this phrase popular within the technology industry. Take a look at his video on the long tail below.
Chris Anderson (video), the editor of WIRED , explores the four key stages ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
In 2007, Facebook launched an online classifieds section called Marketplace. It allows anyone to post for sale items, jobs, real estate and rentals within their market.
For my market, Denver, the most recent posted rental properties were 2 and they were posted on March 11th. In Los Angeles, there were a ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
HomeRentals.net, the largest property management platform and software provider for the single family rental industy, has added another rental site to their portfolio of associated partners. Last month, MyNewPlace became the newest addition to the HomeRentals.net list of sites they syndicate listings to.
HomeRentals.net was founded in 1997 by Mike Anderson ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Compete, the site that we use a lot to show traffic for a lot of the rental sites, has been acquired by London base TNS for $75 million and will have another $75 million as a potential earnout.
TechCrunch reports that Compete did $15 million in revenue for 2007 but lost ...
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
I have written before on steps that need to be taken to be successful. If there was only 1 step I could use to be successful it would be to Set Goals and Quantify Everything of Significance.
I have always wanted to keep track of my goals online and now there ...
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
The founders of Seloger.com, a French real estate classifieds site has cashed out and are now reinvesting their dough into YesForLove, a new cosmetics brand that is dedicated to enhancing sex. They have raised 1.5 million Euros and are backed by 123venture.
Seems like these founders are gradually moving their way ...
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
As with many businesses, the rental market is extremely cyclical. Jan - August are the strongest months where renters are searching for rental houses. Sept - Dec are slower months.
We have ran extensive economic and behavior models on various rental traffic theories. We have come to the conclusion that renters ...
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
David Cohen, the founder of Colorado Startups and Tech Stars, wrote a post about Rent Marketer entitled Ex-Googlers rock on at Rent Marketer.
Colorado Startups, LLC invests in Colorado-based early stage startups. You can view the portfolio here.
Tech Stars provides seed funding, mentoring, advice, and connections to ten new companies in ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
The Ubertor real estate blog did a quick interview with Seth Godin, the marketing guru and writer, and asked him three questions about real estate.
Ubertor: If you were a Realtor what one way would you market yourself differently?
Seth Godin: It wouldn’t be marketing, it would be what I DO. I ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
Seems like Hearst and MediaNews group read my post about the newspapers. They have just dumped $20 million into Kaango, a classifieds site that has deep relationships with the papers. Kaango's motto is post a classified Print-to-web, Web-to-web, and Web-to-print on one platform.
The firm was founded in 2003 by CEO ...
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
Bill Gates, has developed a property that is extremely personalized to each guest that enters any room. If you like a colder temperature, the room will automatically adjust to your climate needs. If you like a lot of light, the room will adjust accordingly.
The technology of interactive wall paper has ...
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
Total Deck can be found here (pdf):
• Strong Internet user growth – fastest in non-US markets
• Strong broadband growth – with more upside
• Search continues to improve as content access tool
• Ongoing share gains to online from offline – large markets to tap
• Turf wars increasing – core / emerging ...
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Looks like Dave from RentVine has broken this story wide up. Is Zillow going to start tracking the Moon? Google opts to hire all 1.2 million real estate agents. Does this mean the end of the MLS? View the video here.
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