There’s always something to howl about
November 2009
October 2009
- 31: Business as Politics? No way.
- 31: You Can’t Drink Yourself Sober…..
- 29: With help like this…
- 28: Post-Opt Best Practices: Internet Marketing Meets
- 28: Please do NOT extend the $8,000 tax credit
- 28: If you want to do what you can to kill this pestilential home-buyers’ tax credit…
- 26: A/B Testing Unleashes Creativity
- 26: 7 Things Every Home Buyer Should Know – Part 2 – Don’t Worry
- 26: Estately - Running in the black. Congrats Galen.
- 25: The bad news: Tens of thousands of people, including IRS agents and including at least one four-year-old, fraudulently claimed the $8,000 first-time home-buyer’s tax credit. The good news? When these morons take over your health care, you’ll probably die before you suffer too terribly much…
- 24: “See, the thing is, Don Corleone, I just want you to steal my competitor’s assets and give them to me. I don’t want for you to tell me what to do with them after you steal them for me. Capisce?”
- 22: Atlas Twitched?
- 22: Driveby Economics - $8,000 Price Cut?
- 22: Twitter Inks Deals with Microsoft and Google
- 21: Selling is fun! And fundamental too!
- 20: Transactions Vs. Having a Business
- 20: Real Estate Sales Transactions In Phoenix
- 20: I was joking - honestly, I was really joking!
- 20: My iMac obviously knew just when to die…
- 20: What makes “progressive” utopias like Portland seem so cool to the cognoscenti? Could it be a zoning-enforced racism?
- 19: Unchained Melody: Fields of Gold
- 19: 7 Things Every Home Buyer Should Know - Part 1
- 19: Intellectual Property Theft for REALTORS - a primer on what not to do.
- 18: “We are easy prey” — Propositions Three and Seven by Richard Mitchell
- 17: When the Saints…
- 17: A Look Back - What Has Changed and What Hasn’t…..
- 16: Why I don’t like a Bi-Weekly Mortgage Payment Plan
- 15: When you’ve got your health, you’ve got everything…
- 15: Why I write on the Bloodhound Blog….
- 15: Dead Mac Society: Cupertino, we have a problem…
- 14: Howard Brinton : A Chance To Do Something Really, Really Cool.
- 14: Estimate to extend the Home Buyer Tax credit? 16.7 Billion What a Bargain!
- 14: Some Updates from the Marble Tower
- 14: My Best Online Find Ever
- 14: “Going to the doctor DMV-style? Count me in!”
- 14: Why the Housing Bubble hit some areas harder than others.
- 14: The passive path to active real estate investment marketing
- 14: Bucking up is not the answer, and even if it were, it isn’t
- 13: The (last) Amend
- 12: “Leading” With Listings, Systematically Getting (A Few Clicks) From Twitter, And Using Some Lazy Math To Justify The Effort…
- 12: Capture Appreciation and Cash Flow
- 12: Digital Access Pass: A Membership Site/CRM
- 10: How To Be More Honest: Accounting For Morons.
- 10: The news media may insist that the real estate market has turned the corner, but my attitude toward work is simple: “Just say yes!”
- 09: Flying beyond flyers, here is our first full-color brochure for our first million-dollar listing
- 09: The Nobel Sales Motivation Strategy
- 09: Mr. FTC-Man: Don’t Gore My Ox!
- 08: A Bloodhound’s Proven System for Sniffing out Hotel Deals
- 07: The Day Realtors Figured Out A Practical Use For Twitter
- 07: Big Brother attempts to control Bloggers
- 07: Stopping Horse Fraud
- 06: Want buyers to think you are better than sliced bread?
- 06: “The 10 (Real Estate Website) Must-Haves” - Top Producer’s List Isn’t Bad, But…
- 06: So have you heard that Jimmy Carter is contemplating suicide?
- 06: Thought for the Day
- 06: Rainman house foreclosure
- 05: Monday Motivation
- 04: The quest for the paperless office: Scanning
- 03: You’re going to have to jail me, President Obama: I might be a sucker, but I will not be a blood-sucker
- 03: The Self Correcting Loop: Another Loop Brought To You By GenuineChris
- 02: Is it time for a second Vook at Brad Inman’s latest brain fart?
- 02: Screenflow Rocks: 30 Minutes End to End.
- 02: Jobs Report - Option #3
- 01: BloodhoundBlog Radio: FHA/VA in 2010 (with Tony Gallegos)
- 01: The Jobs Report – what’s it going to mean for mortgage rates?
- 01: DocuSign may be the best friend Realtors have ever had
September 2009
August 2009
- 23: If You Want to Close Deals, Force Registration
- 23: Via Video - Smoking Mr. Potato Head
- 22: Unleashing the power of internet technology on real estate transactions
- 22: Bing: Not indexing some and indexing others
- 21: REBarcamp: It’s not just for Realtors anymore
- 21: DriveBuy listings: Plug-n-play procedure, knock-out presentation
- 20: A Pig with Lipstick – The Financial Services Oversight Council
- 20: How Good is Google Voice Transcription?
- 20: How to Run a Real Estate Business: Finding Wisdom in a Baseball Storm
- 20: Real Estate Branding, Post-Google
- 19: Ian Greenleigh of DriveBuy Technologies used the Bawldguy technique to promote SMS marketing by social media — and sold his product to the biggest-nosed sneezer in the RE.net
- 19: Social Media’s Dirty Secret: It’s Not About You, It’s Not About Marketing
- 18: And you thought being a REALTOR was tough…
- 17: “Pardon me sir, but have you seen the special on Grey Poupon at Wal Mart?”
- 15: Embracing Compliant Speech
- 15: Fishing for the details takes all the fun out of real estate fish stories
- 14: I’ve got friends in Loan Places…
- 13: Hey Zillow, hey Trulia, hey SmarterAgent: Here’s what I really want in a smart-phone app…
- 13: The Fed Translated - and why it isn’t good for interest rates…..
- 12: Am I being Paranoid about what the NAR is calling the “Recovery?”
- 12: Introducing Tony Gallegos: The Mortgage Cicerone as guide dog
- 11: Makin’ Impressions — Being a Pro — Oh, and Lookin’ the Part
- 11: Why Withhold Addresses for Internet Display?
- 10: The National Association of Realtors, in perfecting the idea of Rotarian Socialism, not only sanctified the criminal violation of the property rights of innocent people, it also robbed us of the highest and best uses we might have achieved with our real property…
- 10: It is time for a new Civil Rights Movement
- 09: Dear NAR… (If you really wanna help?)
- 09: From The Gift of Fire, by Richard Mitchell: Who is Socrates, Now That We Need Him?
- 09: A Governmental Takeover Of Real Estate Brokerages?
- 05: Grinders and Grinding
- 05: Prometheus without forethought: Using the Bloodhound meme to bring clients around to a conversation about quality in real estate
- 04: Should Realtors “Interview” Lenders?
- 04: The Old Dog In Me
- 03: ZipForms for the iPhone is free tonight…
- 01: Realtors in the Coffee Shop and Everywhere
- 01: Reversing a Trend Or Back To The Future?
- 01: Banks Have All The Money - Money Is The Root Of All Evil - Therefore Banks Are Evil
July 2009
- 31: What Lessons Have We Learned From Past Hard Times?
- 31: In search of better, faster, linkier Craigslist Ads
- 30: Realbird’s Free IDX Alternative: (Eeeee….aaaaahhhh…aahhhhahhhhhhah)
- 29: Want a free GPS-aware smart-phone client to search the complete Phoenix MLS? BloodhoundRealty.com has one, thanks to SmarterAgent
- 29: I’m Not Saying Cap and Trade is Gonna Be Expensive, But…
- 29: BingHoo
- 29: Is ActiveRain Selling Loan Officers An Exclusive Opportunity, Or Just Selling Their Real Estate Agents Out?
- 28: VA Jumbo Mortgages: Determining The Down Payment
- 26: Goals? Plans? Tools? All Secondary — Teapots and Gyms As Teachers
- 26: The Part You Give Away
- 25: Why should you enlist a buyer’s agent to help you buy a home? Because you’ll get a much better deal — even if you pay full price
- 24: Too Stupid To Do Business With?
- 24: What’s an “Exit Strategy” and why does it matter to the housing market?
- 22: Americans and Hard Times
- 22: Search Engine Marketing is about Conversations - my (errr…) Manifesto
- 21: All is Well… (A Tin Foil Hat Production)
- 20: Consider a Seller-Paid Rate Buy-Down Rather Than Price Reduction
- 18: Unchained melodies: Stumblin’ onto the heart of Tom Waits
- 18: With MLS listings available everywhere on the internet, why do you need a buyer’s agent?
- 17: A Sailor Jerry Moment
- 17: Now Could Be A Good Time To Buy A Top-Notch Home
- 16: For those of you following the lurid drama of our lives…
- 15: “Since when does our great free-market country punish success?”
- 15: Just had to share this….
- 14: Web 2.0 in real life in Metropolitan Phoenix
- 14: On Mortgages and Moral Compunction
- 14: Viable Business Models ….
- 13: Redfin Turns a profit
- 12: Halfway Through The Year (And Then Some) What Next?
- 12: Some questions about using DocuSign for electronic signatures
- 12: Sunday Morning Musings
- 11: What drives your fear of flying solo?
- 10: Finding Perfection in Real Estate
- 08: San Diego dogs: When BloodhoundBlog Unchained comes to San Diego during the NAR Convention, will you be ready to stand up and howl?
- 08: What’s the End Goal To be?
- 06: Why Web 2.0 Still Hasn’t Mastered the Real Estate Mantra: LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION
- 04: Private ownership of the land is the source not just of our freedom but of our civility and of our humanity itself
- 02: Rotarian Socialism in action: Taking lessons from the NAR and the NAMB, Wal-Mart is using compulsory health insurance as a weapon to destroy its smaller competitors
- 01: Follow me on this; I hope Cap & Trade passes for all our sakes!
- 01: It’s A Wonderful Life - A Eulogy from California
- 01: NAR Responds To Cap and Trade Concerns
June 2009
- 30: Face Down in Iceplant
- 30: Real estate duets: Looking for some advice from seasoned partnerships
- 30: Do It Yourself and More Nonsense From Otherwise Intelligent Folk
- 29: Hoarding Listings?
- 29: Building the perfect Bloodhound, three years into the job
- 28: “Repeal Proposition 13 Or File Chapter 13 !” To Be California Leftist Politicians’ Cry
- 27: The “cap and trade” bill is full of outrageous proscriptions on private property rights — so the NAR is campaigning against honest appraisals instead of fighting the growth of the nanny state
- 26: How Bloodhoundblog’s Innovators Have Inspired My Business
- 26: Vultures to the Rescue - HOORAY!!!
- 26: How Do You Measure The True Success Of Innovation?
- 25: Google Wave Goodbye Real Estate Brokerage As We Know It?
- 24: Unchained melodies: Desdemona outside the walls…
- 24: The Fed Translated…..
- 24: Is Excess Still A Value Proposition?
- 24: A little bit of honey cake for Desdemona as she makes her last escape
- 23: Is It Time For You To Put Up Or Shut Up?
- 22: Just because the real estate market is being trumpeted by bull horns, that doesn’t mean it’s time to retract your bear claws
- 21: “For every one that doeth evil hateth the light…”
- 20: The Problem With Agents: They’re Not Selfish Enough
- 19: To celebrate BloodhoundBlog’s third birthday, let’s celebrate all of the insanely great ideas we have come up with…
- 19: Freeing The Real Estate Market From The Real Estate Industry
- 18: Hectoring Rian from the iPhone 3G 3.0
- 18: Data Discrimination, A Class Action Lawsuit in the Making
- 18: To Catch a Theme: The NAR can’t evolve, but that shouldn’t stop you
- 16: Darwin and the Notorious NAR
- 15: The Case For Twitter, Really Fast
- 14: Getting a $15,000 tax credit when you purchase your next home could be as easy as stealing candy from a baby…
- 12: This Post Has Nothing To Do With Real Estate
- 10: What If The Real Estate INDUSTRY Didn’t Control The Real Estate Market?
- 10: Green or Beige?
- 10: If You Will Not Assist Us With the Shrubbery, We Will Be Forced To Say “MORTGAGE!!”
- 09: Don’t Look At The Explosion, Just Focus On Your Mission.
- 09: Those Who Can Not Remember The Past Are Condemned To Repeat It
- 08: A “Glory Be” for Rian — in hooked-on-phonics Latin
- 08: The mortgage situation for nonresident buyers
- 07: Name of My New Band: Best Efforts Are For Cowards
- 07: Is Rice A Roni Really a San Francisco Treat?
- 07: Mr Inman, less advertorial content please!
- 07: Unchained Melody at Heaven’s Gate
- 06: Are Our Customers EnTitle-ed To Better Fees?
- 06: Why Real Estate Agents Should Stop Playing Loan Officer
- 05: Swiss Accounts, Condo Developers, and an Open Door
- 05: Please Help Me Welcome NAMB President Marc Savitt To Web 2.0 - Action Step Requested
- 05: “Search Overload” = Toenail Fungus
- 04: Why I read Ibsen
- 03: HVCC Petition
- 02: Q: Why is taxpayer-funded education in the United States so poor? A: Johnny can’t read, but he sure can vote…
- 02: Open During Construction
- 01: Can a REALTOR Truly be a Consumer Advocate?
- 01: How Do We Handle Change and Adversity — Especially When They’re Synonymous?
- 01: I just tried BING!
- 01: The FDIC is going broke…
- 01: Mortgage Market Update - what difference does GM make?
May 2009
- 31: Happiness is a green status board…
- 31: Thwat?
- 30: Reds
- 30: Mother Nature is not a MILF
- 30: From Russia, With Love (How Americans Could Learn A Thing Or Two From The Former Subjects of the Soviet Union)
- 28: Transparency — Newest Weapon Of The PC Crowd
- 28: If Not Us, Who?
- 28: Truzilla IDX = N/A R.Com?
- 28: Lower June, 2009 Mortgage Rates Rely On Central Bank Action
- 27: When a Bloodhound loses the scent, uptime can be a dawg’s life
- 27: What Happened, What Does it Mean, and Where Do We Go From Here?
- 27: Some listings are extra FUN!
- 27: Who is the NAR Advertising Helping?
- 25: Kipling on the land we live on and the land we love
- 25: Under all is the land: Celebrating property rights wherever you live
- 24: Show Me “Paint the Fence”
- 23: Memorial Day - A Time To Give Thanks
- 22: The Secret to Success (part 372)
- 22: The End of No-Cost Mortgage Loans and Other HR 1728 Concerns
- 22: Trulia - A search engine?
- 22: Is NAR Criminal or Clueless? What difference does it make?
- 21: News from the right side of the number line: Graphene, a possible replacement for silicon in computer chips, and a DVD-sized storage device that can hold more than a thousand DVDs
- 21: What would it take to reform the National Association of Realtors, to turn it from an anti-consumer cartel into a steadfast defender of the right of American citizens to own, use and enjoy real property?
- 20: It’s not an EOD
- 20: $8,000 Tax Credit Advance Friend or Foe?
- 20: What’s the best way to use ALT Tags on a web site?
- 19: No more free lunch! Understanding the National Association of Realtors — all the way down to your bones…
- 19: NAR midyear: They’ve got a lot of what it takes to get along
- 18: What’s the HVCC and what does it mean to Loan Officers, Realtors and Consumers?
- 18: Nothin’ New Under The Sun — Especially If I’m Involved
- 18: Taking A Page Out of Realtor.Com’s Absurd Playbook, Craig’s List Offers FREE Showcase Listing Package!
- 17: Earth to NAR: Drop dead — and try not to stink up the place while you’re doing it
- 17: NAR Board Sends IDX Policy Back to Committee
- 16: Press Pause Before I Get Popped In The Balls
- 16: Realtor.com : Truth in Advertising?
- 15: Unchained Freedom “Friends Keep Friends In The Business”
- 15: Skinning elephants: The lifelong salutary benefits of negotiating your compensation with your buyers
- 15: The $1392.50 Appraisal Fee or How the Home Valuation Code of Conduct Rewards Inefficiency At the Expense of the Consumer
- 14: What’s in a BBB Rating…
- 14: NAR Backs Off Labeling Google a “Scraper”
- 14: More Stuff On CRM: Know In Advance What You Want to Do.
- 14: How we say_What we say_Is important
- 13: Caption Me This Magnum
- 13: FHA and the $8000 Tax Credit - what I know and what I don’t….
- 13: Prospecting Numbers, Real And Acutal (In Case You Wanna Skin Some Cats).
- 13: Need Maps? BatchGeocode.com is the easiest way to create them
- 12: The essential importance of criticism to my mental functioning
- 12: Why Aren’t There ‘Guys Nights’ At Bars and Clubs? Duh
- 12: A quick, random thought
- 12: Caption this: Todd Carpenter at the NAR Mid-Year flamboozlepalooza
- 11: Losing my CRM Was The Best Thing That Happened To My Business.
- 11: NAR + IDX = FUBAR Rules
- 11: Making a virtue of necessity is usually an error…
- 11: Free IDX from Realtor.Com!
- 10: Greg Swann: Duty, Honor, Country
- 10: A real estate recipe for success: Scripts and Luck: Practice makes prepared
- 10: Throwing a Virtual Rent Party
- 10: Maybe the book we need is not the BloodhoundBlog book…
- 09: The goal of the BloodhoundBlog Unchained training conference is to push the bums out of the real estate business
- 09: My own first-hand foreclosure story
- 08: Query: Should the Bloodhounds write a book?
- 08: Multiple blog hosting and your files. A Project Bloodhound inquiry for DIY WordPress publishing.
- 07: I received the Nobel Prize in Real Estate Today!
- 07: The Funnel: the Leak in my Marketing Efforts!
- 07: My favorite Web Page Not Found Error Code
- 07: BloodhoundBlog Unchained in Phoenix 2009 - The Movie
- 07: The Seven Deadly Sins of a Business Relationship: How Not to get Jacked around in the New Economy
- 07: Home Prices and “The Rest of the Story.”
- 07: Stress Tests and Wells Fargo: A Tin Foil Hat Production
- 07: Squeeze more Google SEO Juice from your photos & video
- 07: Paper is so 20th Century - Think Bits, not Atoms
- 06: Twitter? I barely even know ‘er.
- 06: Why Don’t REALTORS Solicit Lenders For Buyers?
- 06: The Smell of the Grass, The Crack of the Bat, The Bombs Bursting in Air
- 06: Meet the new dogs: Six new Bloodhounds to fill out the pack
- 05: The Secret Of Successful Real Estate Career is summarized in this post
- 05: Wanna Help SEO My 404? - CentralPaLiving.Com/404LotsaListingLeads
- 05: Reflecting (very) briefly on the Phoenix real estate market: “I got my job through the New York Times”
- 04: A video postcard from Unchained in Phoenix
- 04: The Heart of Unchained
- 04: Engenu Webinar w/ Greg Swann TONIGHT @ 8:30 EST/ 5:30 PST
- 03: Brad Inman: “Would someone be kind enough to sell me some fur? I know mammals are warm-blooded, but perception is reality, right? Oh, what the hell! The way things are going, I’d settle for some feathers!”
- 03: Facebook Quizzes For Real Estate Marketers
- 02: Are you looking for a flinty-eyed steward to protect the value of real estate? Whatever you do, don’t turn to a banker!
- 01: BloodhoundBlog Unchained in Phoenix 2009: A quick wrap-up…
April 2009
- 30: Cindy at bloodhound mtg
- 30: End of the cyber daze
- 30: Odysseus and Shyly
- 30: IMG00051.jpg
- 30: He Took That Thing On A Plane
- 30: Talk with sophie about kansas city real estate market
- 30: 8000buyerstaxcredit.com
- 30: Marketing the Geek Marketing content to incipient geeks
- 30: We’re going LIVE! - Synchronous conferencing Unchained
- 30: The Fed Translated….
- 29: “Code Is Poetry” - Swann Translates Horace?
- 29: I Don’t Provide Good Service At All!
- 29: What’s Your Niche Biche?
- 29: More video from Unchained from TokBox
- 29: Can’t Sleep — ReTechulous Weds Sched at Unchained!
- 28: You’re Missing Out — The Geeks Will Share Their Wares
- 28: Let the Scenius Begin…
- 28: Pre Scenius
- 28: Bar At The Raddison Phoenix?
- 27: The Perfect RE Investment vs A Million Monkeys
- 27: Test Post - Unchained Phone Photoblogging Setup
- 27: Flickr
- 26: What Should I Wear To BloodhoundBlog Unchained?
- 25: Greg Swann’s BloodhoundBlog Unchained homework
- 24: Unchained Melodies: Here’s what our world sounds like to me tonight…
- 24: Social Media Marketing Homework for BloodhoundBlog Unchained
- 23: What a Completely Virtual Real Estate Solution Looks Like
- 22: Redirect: HeyCentralPa.Com –> CentralPaLiving.Com
- 22: Go ahead, Google me and see what happens
- 21: Mangiare! Morte! Mangiare!
- 21: Feeling Overwhelmed? Turn To Ayn Rand
- 20: Sin IDX (6 of 365)
- 20: Technology’s Challenge: Understanding How Cats Part with Skins
- 20: “No Matter How Good You Get, You Can Always Get Better…
- 20: How to sell every house in the neighborhood — except your own…
- 19: I’ll Do It For Free… - “That’s What She Said!” (HeyCentralPa.Com: 5 of365)
- 18: Mortgage Market Week in Review….
- 18: Finally: A Heap of Daylite at the end of the tunnel (Finding a CRM that doesn’t blow)
- 18: Sometimes It’s Good to Go Home
- 18: Audience Participation Request: Wanna Try Out The First Self-Hosted, Social Networking Real Estate Blog? (HeyCentralPa.Com: Part 4 of 365)
- 17: Three songs for freedom, fellowship, and the resistance to oppression
- 17: Loading Up A Twitterfunky Theme + “Hey…this aint no Localism!..If I Ditch The Ad Revenue Angle and Build My Own Darn Team Will You Believe Me?” (HeyCentralPa.Com: 3 of 365)
- 17: Personal Relationships 1, Cold Technology 0
- 17: Handling a deal with a foreign buyer or seller
- 17: The epistemology of open-mindedness…
- 17: The two dirtiest words in English are “tax” and “attorney” — but new contributor Phil Hodgen is both…
- 17: Shop Talk: How Are You Collecting on Bad Debt?
- 17: 10 reasons big box brokers suck
- 16: FHA and VA Assumable Loans Offer an Exit Strategy For Today’s Buyers
- 16: Introducing HeyCentralPa.Com (MMBB Part 2 of 365)
- 16: Andrew Klavan, “Night of the Living Government”
- 16: Bringing it. And sharing it.
- 15: “Americans today are taxed at levels most of our forebears would have considered unthinkable. By our own nation’s historical standards, we are outrageously, insanely overtaxed. And yet we shrug our shoulders and say, well, at least we’re not France…”
- 14: If you want to learn what we know — and to learn what we are learning — you’re coming to BloodhoundBlog Unchained in Phoenix
- 14: California Proposes to Regulate REALTORS Alongside Pawn Shops, and Lenders, and Banks…Oh MY!
- 14: With San Francisco’s tenants rights the way they are, it’s always a tough fight .. but still: Peeking back through the looking-glass
- 14: Susan Boyle shows us how to skin a cat
- 14: Ladies and Gentlemen….Lower Your Prices By Making things Products…
- 13: “Let’s just say that Jim and Dustin are going to be working on a secret project…”
- 13: Facebook Advice… Straight From the Buck’s Mouth
- 12: Tony Hawk Rocks Twitter With Easter Egg Hunt
- 12: Roommates without chains: If you want to split costs on a hotel room for BloodhoundBlog Unchained in Phoenix, speak up
- 11: Wanna Piss Off The RE.net? Succeed with Online Sales Letters
- 11: A fertility celebration from a dying city
- 11: Do something even if it’s wrong!
- 11: The Traffic Magnet Mega Monster Multi Agent Niche Focused Broker Blog Recruiting & Retention Market Domination Tool = A Huge Company Asset [Part 1 of 365]
- 10: Sen. Schumer’s “…merry bosom swells with the paean of the bells…”
- 10: How India Made Me a Better Agent
- 09: Battle Back With Your Posse
- 09: The failed listing revisted: What the hell do sellers need you for…?
- 08: Do Clients Spell Service R-E-S-U-L-T-S? Bet They Do
- 08: The Inman Prayer: “Deliver us not into deliberation and tempt us not into leadership, for ass-licking for lucre is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever and ever, amen…”
- 08: IF (…for the real estate crowd)
- 07: Please Get Out of My Face(book)
- 07: At last, the Peoples’ Republic of Obamistan has an answer for the Yugo
- 06: Hello, Wisconsin! Introducing Jolenta Averill
- 06: Don’t vook now, but Brad Inman has invented The Undead Pool
- 05: End of Daze
- 03: SEO Homework for BHB Unchained
- 02: The Eight Hour Day
- 02: I need software advice for BloodhoundBlog Unchained
- 02: O, the ignominy! Now real estate webloggers will have to learn how to sell real estate to make a living…
- 02: Should Blogs Enjoy the Same First Amendment Rights as Traditional Press?
- 01: You’re Unique - Just Like Everyone Else
- 01: An Open Letter of Apology to Chaz Berman
March 2009
- 31: It’s Springtime in Madison, Wisconsin. The trees are in blossom, the students are protesting — and I have a no-fee referral for an investment-savvy agent who works like a Bloodhound…
- 31: Don’t Discount Points As A Strategy To Lower Mortgage Costs
- 31: Announcing RealSearchUSA.com
- 29: The mapmaker’s dilemma: What the hell are you doing with your time?
- 27: Building customized Google Maps and engenu folder structures from lists of addresses
- 27: Wheaten Terrier Picks Agent for $150m Listing
- 26: Reflecting upon the Obamanation: “Love of our brothers? That’s when we learned to hate our brothers for the first time in our lives.”
- 26: Meet My New BFF: GoToWebinar
- 26: Hey Sunshine! Tell Me About Your Day
- 26: South Park reveals Department of Treasury decision-making tools
- 25: Is your business about to take a quantum leap? So is mine, so all I have time for is this: Whip your on-line and off-line marketing message into shape now, to make the most of the business coming your way
- 24: By applying CDSs to CDOs, did AIG go MIA? Or could the SEC, the OTS and one unhired CFO have kept it from turning up DOA?
- 24: Inquiry Bump?
- 23: The “Bad Bank” Plan…..(complete with music and video)
- 23: Just when you think the comedy can’t get any more rich…
- 23: Nest Realty, Jim Duncan’s new broker, joins the custom sign club
- 22: Why should you buy real estate — and lots of it — now? Well, inventory abounds, prices are low, and interest rates are incredibly low. And there’s one other factor you might take into account…
- 21: Victor Davis Hanson: “I’d prefer one gall bladder surgeon to fifty Botox experts, a good Perkins engine mechanic to 1,000 deconstructionists at the MLA, one competent chemist to fifty government attorneys.”
- 21: A Few Thoughts About Mortgages…..
- 20: Priced Well? No Offers — Not Even Insulting Offers? My 2¢
- 20: Put Down The Pipe - And Step Away From That Lease Agreement
- 20: The Financial Post: “Aging self-serving demagogues who have spent decades warping the U.S. political system for their own ends.”
- 20: There are no second acts in American real estate listings: It’s priced right, prepared right, presented right — and the house still won’t sell. What do you do now?
- 18: The Fed Translated…..
- 18: The Wannabe Cosmopolite
- 18: The quest for all the world’s riches is over: It’s in your iPhone…
- 17: Just Because You’re More Visible Doesn’t Mean You’re More Valuable
- 17: Who Needs Sit-coms?
- 16: “What do you mean, stop the party? We haven’t ripped off the new neighbors yet!”
- 16: Seven Deadly SEO Sins for real estate pros…Vanity
- 16: After the Great Recession: What Will Real Estate Be Like
- 14: Independence, for Realtors, comes from having a broker’s license
- 14: Bernie Madoff Explained
- 14: Some “Friday-The-13th” Fun
- 13: If the congenitally big-hearted American people were to fixate upon a moderately competent administrative assistant and make that man president of the United States, what would happen?
- 13: Show Me Yours - Then I’ll Show You Mine
- 13: That’s the night the lights went out in Pike County Georgia
- 12: My ZinePal wish list: Editors copyfit by cutting and adding copy
- 11: BloodhoundBlog Radio: VA Home Loan Tutorial For California REALTORS
- 11: Ave atque vale: Bidding farewell to conversations past
- 11: Preferred Stock….
- 10: Kicking the CAMELS Habit: Is Your Bank “Safe and Sound”?
- 10: FART
- 10: With zinepal.com you can create a targeted magazine in no time flat
- 09: I want my…I want my…I want my TA-R-P
- 09: Why FHA Loans won’t be getting cheaper or easier…..
- 09: The world’s most perfect spam email subject
- 08: “If I never make a single payment on my super-cheap FHA loan, do I still get my $8,000 tax credit?”
- 08: No, Mr. President. I Won’t Stand Down.
- 08: A few thoughts about freedom and real estate from the middle of an undisclosed cornfield
- 07: I’ve taken the liberty of posting my “Mortgage Market Week in Review” here…..
- 07: Here’s Some Piss Poor Journalism For Ya
- 07: Michael Ramirez: Why you can’t take Democrats seriously
- 06: Don’t miss Part II of Matt Carter’s gripping series on AR vs Move
- 06: Epiphany Marketing and Rocky Road ice cream…
- 06: The Subprime Bank of America
- 05: If you’re in the Phoenix area on April 22 and you want to learn a whole lot about how to use Web 2.0 to promote your real estate practice — I’m in the Yellow Pages under chopped liver
- 04: The New 105% Refi Plan - What I know and What I don’t…..
- 04: Biz Model Schmiz Model — It’s About Quality — The Rest Is Happy Noise
- 04: Duality (minus the metamathematics)
- 04: Brief links: Todd Carpenter at REBarCamp Virginia, Active Rain versus Move and why the Kindle iPhone app is too-little, too-late
- 04: engenu Epiphany #2: A hierarchy of Folders becomes a hierachy of Pages becomes a functional web site
- 03: Confessions of a Married Man
- 03: Demoing engenu: Building a web page, building that page into a web site, adding more content to that web site, reconfiguring the site, building a PDF site and repurposing standing content
- 03: But Tonight, I’m Cleaning Out My Closet.
- 03: Tell Todd Carpenter to stand down. “The Social Media Marketing Institute” is how the RE.net will be sold to the NAR.
- 03: Putting the charm back into CRM: Introducing Top of Mind Networks’ Mark Green
- 02: Not Ideology… Terminology
- 02: Can a Little Mr. Roboto & Some Video Kill The SEO Star?
- 02: Daisy-chained source-tracking with the Universal Contact Form
- 01: Building an even more universal Universal Contact Form
- 01: Stimulating Ideas
February 2009
- 28: The federal government’s housing casino will never play fair as long as there are votes to be bought by cheating
- 27: Dual Agency Debated Outside of the Echo Chamber
- 27: For All We Have And Are
- 27: How does a success like REBarCamp avoid the shoe pinch of growing pains?
- 27: Do Loan Originators “See” The Opportunity?
- 26: What if they reduced a tax deduction hardly anybody gets? If you’re the the National Association of Realtors and you’ve been spinning lies for decades about mortgage interest deductibility, your whole make-believe world just collapsed…
- 26: The Twitter Experiment: SWRake Seeks Companion for Possible LTR
- 26: A bumper sticker for our times…
- 26: We know sheep will follow a Judas goat to their slaughter, as will cattle. Now the NAR is testing the idea on lemmings…
- 26: engenu Epiphany #1: Folders become pages
- 25: “Appliance” is not a verb!
- 25: Getting Paid to be Motivated
- 25: Number1Expert - Again? R U Serious?
- 25: You get it, right? I mean people are looking for experts. Well for a few dollars more…
- 25: The three little pigs and the housing rescue plan, a modern fable
- 24: Sorry Europe. Our President Might Just “Cowboy Up”
- 24: Quietly going about our business
- 24: LeadStreet Beeflaboration…
- 24: The Butcher, The Banker, The Candlestickmaker
- 24: The participatory internet is a singularity, not a trend
- 24: Podcast: Wrapping your mind around dynamic web pages
- 23: Taking little teeny steps toward single-property web sites on little teeny mobile web browsers on little teeny mobile phones
- 23: Tweet Us Better Mr. Liniger! — When In The World Is RE/MAX International?
- 23: Adding a new hound to the pound: Introducing Ryan Hartman
- 23: Podcast: Building your own custom engenu skins
- 22: As the NAR makes its first forays into the participatory internet, wired Realtors must get a handle on a very difficult question: How do you get rid of the Boojum under the bed?
- 22: Podcast: Installing engenu on multiple domains
- 22: Here’s my question for Obama: How can you have a cult of personality when you don’t have any personality to begin with?
- 21: Changing Your Own Hi-Tech Oil — Who Cares? — Is There A Skinned Cat Or Not?
- 21: In the world of internet marketing, Realtors and lenders have to know how to solve their own on-line marketing problems
- 21: Obama’s housing rescue plan won’t rescue housing, but it will delay the eventual recovery of the real estate market
- 20: What’s the best way to deliver the Heap-specific universal contact form? With a Heap-specific form, of course.
- 20: Referral Prospecting The Facebook Way
- 20: Bankrupt Ideas for Changing Bankruptcy
- 20: Real Estate Brokerage Is Rocket Science — NOT
- 20: If I could show you how to leverage your marketing efforts to get tens of thousands of dollars worth of added value, added reach, added impact and added sales — would you be willing try on some new ideas?
- 20: Marketing to the Music
- 19: Max vs. The 1000-Pound Gorilla
- 19: Monetizing What Counts - Don’t Rain on Their Parade
- 19: The bad news: Obama’s housing relief plan is a giveaway to lenders, not homeowners. The worse news: It won’t work, anyway.
- 18: Pin Money
- 17: Juan Enriquez: How mind-boggling science will outlast the crisis
- 17: A big heap of Heap goodness: Revising my universal contact form to create Heap records, assigning initial drip campaigns to them
- 17: Marketing Advice from the Grave
- 16: Honoring Great Leaders for President’s Day
- 16: Piling onto Heap: I’ll trade you a big bunch of CRM development ideas for an affiliate link click-through
- 16: The ActiveRain hokey pokey: You shoot your left foot off, you shoot your right foot off, you shoot your left hand off — and then you present the audience with an invoice…
- 15: Making the Scene: How to create new public Scenius scenes
- 15: Video clips of Redfin.com CEO Glenn Kelman from the BloodhoundBlog Unchained preview event in Seattle
- 14: Living that Seattltude: Bloodhounds listening above the Sound
- 13: At REBarcamp, Scott Cowan…
- 13: Keeping It Light For Friday The 13th
- 12: De-Commodotize Your Listing Content
- 12: The Way of the Farmer in Downtown Seattle
- 12: Has real estate reality taken all the fizz out of FSBOs?
- 11: How can you benefit from the sexiest search site in the Real Estate 2.0 world without becoming an employee? Redfin.com is going into the referrals business
- 11: Pinocchio gets a radio show…
- 10: Should We Be A Good Society?
- 10: Swanepoel’s Top 10 Real Estate Trends matter to me — and to real estate — quite a bit less than my own list of burning issues
- 09: What are the Stimulus Plan and TARP II going to mean for the housing and mortgage markets?
- 09: How bad can the weather in Seattle suck? Come see the Bloodhounds this week and find out
- 09: Some ugly questions about that $15,000 home-buyers tax credit…
- 08: The Resistance Is Where The Action Is: Do what Others Don’t.
- 07: Thirty-three touches from the cloud: Seriously seeking CRM
- 07: The trouble with free software: Taking a second look at Jott…
- 05: Are We In Trouble?
- 05: Ask the Bloodhounds: What do people want on a real estate web site?
- 05: Things not to do…
- 04: Trulia hacked, Meh..WordPress security again
- 04: You’re Gonna Need a Shovel
- 03: Are You an Innie or an Outie? The Answer May Be an Ancient Chinese Secret
- 02: Saint Badda Bing
January 2009
December 2008
- 31: Human sovereignty as a New Year’s resolution
- 31: Courtney at the speed of life
- 31: Last call for end-of-the-year discounts on tickets for BloodhoundBlog Unchained in Phoenix, April 28 - May 1, 2009 — and catch us for free at Zillow’s offices in Seattle on February 12
- 30: A 4.5% Mortgage In Every Pot
- 30: How to slay dragons
- 30: The return counter — Looking AG’s Trojan Horse in the mouth: MyMarketWare works hard for the money, almost hard enough…
- 30: House Keeper
- 30: Social Media Webinar With Brian Brady & Jim Cronin
- 29: The return counter — Looking AG’s Trojan Horse in the mouth: No mere API-ing ape, Dwellicious is a true dead-pool mash-up
- 29: A trolley comes to Phoenix: Tendency in reporting and why it matters
- 29: 2008 in Dog Years
- 29: Net Happiness is Not Based on Net Worth
- 28: The Implied Accusation in real estate: How to win the war on your attitude…
- 28: The Goal-Getters Game: Yes, you want to set goals for 2009, but here’s a game to make sure you actually follow through on them
- 28: The Case For Paid Reviews
- 28: “U.S adults” may not want foreclosed homes, but homebuyers sure do
- 28: Psalm
- 27: Which is the most useful tool, on social media, to engage your audience and create offline conversations?
- 27: Shyly’s delight: “The Secret” to man and god in the universe . . .
- 26: A sermon for the ninety-and-nine: Don’t mimic bad examples among big-name real estate webloggers
- 26: How Much Does Knowledge Cost?
- 26: Over $100? You Better Improve My Friggin’ Bank Account!
- 26: The Case Against Paid Reviews: Why Agents & Vendors Should Never Use Them.
- 26: Eartha Kitt, R.I.P.
- 26: Do You Know How to Iron?
- 25: What would Greg Swann do? Integrity, transparency and Web 2.0
- 25: A canticle for Kathleen Sullivan
- 24: A Costco family Christmas
- 24: Holiday Greetings from the left coast
- 24: Merry Christmas to everyone who runs with the Bloodhounds!
- 24: My own little gift on Christmas Eve: I’ve discovered a way that a contributor to BloodhoundBlog can get fired…
- 24: By publishing enough of the right information, Mom and Pop teams can triumph over Redfin, VOWs, Realty.bots or big-name brokers
- 23: A father for Christmas
- 23: The Frog and Scorpion (Millenium Edition)
- 23: Learning to Appreciate the Arts
- 22: Merry Christmas, Princess Peach
- 22: Peace on Earth, Goodwill to men…
- 21: A dumpster diver’s Christmas
- 21: So this is Christmas, what have you done?
- 21: John Kalinowski’s custom real estate signs — and his custom-made approach to everything at his new Cleveland real estate brokerage
- 21: The Way of the Farmer, a video podcast from BloodhoundBlog Unchained in Phoenix, 2008: Using the internet, social media and direct marketing to farm for listings
- 20: Joe Strummer: My thoughts on the looming crisis
- 20: Mariana Wagner’s custom real estate signs are slicker than a Colorado Springs sidewalk in December
- 20: Pictures Still Sell
- 20: Workable real estate deals may require even more creativity
- 19: Blogger? Hell, No! I’m a Cyber Pro…Just Like You
- 18: Random Thoughts For The New Year
- 18: Inman “news” has always been a FUD-driven vendorslut cesspool — that’s not new — but what is it doing to the Web 2.0 ideal?
- 18: A Poke (in the eye) from Facebook
- 17: Ski Vegas!
- 17: Making a Scenius scene to make an impact on your target market
- 17: “Ben Bernanke Is Now One Of Us” Booyah !
- 16: The Fed Translated…..
- 16: What matters more — Attitude or Aptitude? I had always put my money on Application, but I realized the best bet is all three
- 16: More on Detriot: “Change” is a four letter word, too.
- 15: The deathless prose of the Bloodhounds: Against advice of broker
- 15: In Detroit, Idle is a Four Letter Word
- 14: Hope and despair at the onset of economic recession: Who cares about the tunnel? All I can see is the light…
- 13: For some, the most financially-astute course of action may be to fake their way to foreclosure
- 12: If the question is, “What should a Bloodhound do if awarded the Pulitzer Prize?” — the answer is, “Drool…”
- 12: Is Web Technology Squashing the Little Guy in Real Estate?
- 12: Today’s multimedia brunch consists of shift sandwiches…
- 11: Colloquial Warming
- 11: BloodhoundBlog.net can map domains: Your free real estate weblog can look just like you’re hosting it yourself
- 11: “The world’s largest country is well along the way to forming an intellectual elite on a scale that the world has never seen…”
- 11: In Like A Lion - Out Like A Lamb - 15 Minutes Of Fame Is Almost Over
- 11: If Mortgage Rates Are Not Going Below 5%, Where Are They Going?
- 10: Why Won’t Mortgage Rates Drop Below 5% ?
- 09: Marketing the praxis of a Scenius thoughtfully: How can we use dynamism and triangulation to play tunes that make the spiders dance?
- 09: Dear Rob- It’s not perfection vs. authenticity, it’s authentic perfection!
- 09: The Scenius.net scenes reader can tell if you’re working at your desktop web browser or on your iPhone…
- 09: Can We Stop Falling House Values? An Op Ed piece by the NAHB
- 09: The Tangled Web of TARP
- 07: Death, Taxes and Real Estate 3.0
- 06: Making the Scenius scene: I’m prepared to share an entirely new style of blogging with you — but you have to hold up your end
- 06: Seriously, who’s a better risk for a mortgage than someone who has already lost a home to foreclosure?
- 05: Speaking in tongues: Revising my universal contact form for real estate weblogs — e-paging support and friendlier coding
- 05: “Ask not what your country can spend for you, ask what you can spend for your country.”
- 04: Unlocking the scenius of BloodhoundBlog Unchained in Phoenix, a hands-on, step-by-step, learn-by-doing guerrilla marketing boot camp
- 04: What If The Divine Was Merely…Mortal?
- 04: Latest Findings From the Buyer, Seller Profile
- 04: Rustling up some Frontier Spirit in the old midwest
- 04: Stirred but not Shaken
- 03: An Unchained Melody for an unchained state of mind
- 03: Treasury may lower mortgage rates?
- 03: BloodhoundBlog Unchained in Phoenix will be a hands-on overhaul of your online and offline marketing – enroll now to be sure you get a seat
- 02: It’s not the singer nor the song. It’s the audience.
- 02: Not All Dinosaurs Are Extinct
- 02: Investor Sues to Block Mortgage Modifications
- 02: Does ”Googleopoly” = Evil ?
- 01: Bart Simpson takes on Steve Jobs
November 2008
- 30: “Privacy is an artifact of inefficiency”
- 29: Who wants to play the Scenius game? Rebuilding The Long List as a micro-blog
- 29: Someday soon we may have to turn back the clock on home lending
- 28: On giving thanks: The Thanksgiving Scenius and the Thanksgiving scene and the abundance of love
- 27: The Thanksgiving Day scenius at BloodhoundBlog
- 27: One for the Authors…
- 26: Launching SplendorQuest.com: Love among The Unfallen at every wavelength of heaven’s light
- 26: As an expression of gratitude to the Bloodhounds, here’s an Unchained Melody for Thanksgiving
- 26: Digging In To Dig Out
- 26: Social bookmarking for home search. Will it work?
- 25: What’s Mu? Pulling unforeseen results out of BloodhoundBlog.net
- 25: Weblogging without weblogging: If syndication be the food of love, feed on — I crave excess of it!
- 24: Citi’s So Nice I Bought It Twice (a Tin Foil Hat production)
- 24: Something new under the sun: Sim and the future of human interaction
- 24: My BloodhoundBlog wish list as we embark on the SplendorQuest
- 23: If You Are Going Through Hell…
- 23: R.com - Finally a bailout that interests me…
- 23: Late Sunday Post: 2009 Starts Today.
- 23: Speaking in tongues: Using the power of a robust text editor to code HTML pages with dispatch
- 23: The bottom of the Phoenix real estate market may be in sight — but, alas, the end is not near
- 22: Saving Face(book)
- 21: Quick Summary of the Day…..
- 20: Get friendz and generate adulation by using the App that expresses so you don’t have to. “Ideal for the imaginatively challenged”
- 20: Rethinking Real Estate Web 2.0
- 20: Estately.com grows by more than 50%, adding Chicagoland and Long Island, NY, to it on-line inventory of homes for sale
- 19: “…you don’t hear many MSM analysts making this obvious connection”
- 19: Unchained Notes: SMM is a Process, Not a Fetish
- 19: Setting Goals Part 3 of 4.
- 19: Creating an Online Policy and Procedure Manual
- 17: Introducing BloodhoundBlog.net, free WordPress weblogs for real estate professionals
- 17: The just-exactly-how-clever-are-you marketing-spam of the morning: SuperCuts shows you how to cut your database marketing costs
- 17: Unchained Notes: It’s a Greek Thing
- 17: The Difference Between the Best Website and Results
- 17: Part 2 of 4: Tracking Goals in google Docs.
- 16: Thus does Big Mother make gonophs of us all: How to keep your house by taking taxpayers for a ride
- 16: The House of Atreus
- 16: Can California cultivate anything better than the seeds of its own destruction? Urbanologist Joel Kotkin tallies the state’s ills
- 15: A workout loan can be a win-win solution to avoiding foreclosure
- 15: Adding a Print Stylesheet to Your WordPress Blog
- 14: NAR Responds to FSBOGate
- 14: SplendorQuest: kiss me…
- 14: Another Year, Another Challenge For Greg Swann
- 13: Let’s Crash Some Markets
- 13: Podcast: Teri Lussier talks about using weblogs to build relationships at BloodhoundBlog Unchained in Orlando
- 13: REALTOR.com features FSBO listings- The Excrement hits the Oscillating Rotary Blades
- 13: Think Your Taxes Are Going Down? Think Again
- 13: By making war on private property rights, the National Association of Realtors is making war on everything we are as Americans
- 13: Passion play: A working plan for working our brains until they explode at BloodhoundBlog Unchained in Phoenix
- 12: Paulson Translated
- 12: NAR Promotes Housing Stimulus Plan
- 12: The Paulson Clarification (a Tin Foil Hat production)
- 12: Using Google Docs to Track Your Goals for 2008: Part 1 of 3, Maybe 4.
- 12: Social Media Marketing Conversion: You Are Permitted To Get Paid
- 11: Podcast: Sherry Chris delivers the keynote address to BloodhoundBlog Unchained in Orlando, November 7th, 2008
- 11: Absolute War
- 11: How I spent my Orlando vacation, or; The exquisite feeling of an exploding brain
- 10: Thinking out loud about BloodhoundBlog Unchained in Phoenix
- 10: Basic SEO: How to Choose a Domain Name
- 10: Links to the Unchained: How people attending BloodhoundBlog Unchained in Orlando saw the event
- 10: Unchained Notes: An Outsider’s View From Inside the Hound Pound
- 10: How the new president is going to prolong the housing bust
- 10: 51 Days till 2009: What Are You Doing About it?
- 09: The scenius on Swallow Hill Road: A brief gloss on BloodhoundBlog Unchained in Orlando, November 7th, 2008
- 09: It’s my video.. you can have the audio!!
- 09: From an undisclosed location in Georgia…notes from BHB Unchained
- 07: Why I think the Jobs report won’t be helpful for mortgage rates….
- 07: Appendix A: Linking to Author’s Profile in Multi-Author WordPress Blog
- 06: Offering more service to buyers for a bigger slice of the buyer’s agent’s commission, Redfin moves closer to traditional real estate
- 05: Tin Foil Hats Optional
- 05: BloodhoundBlog Unchained in Orlando — Schedule of events
- 04: McCain concedes, as do I…
- 04: Landing in Orlando on Thursday? Come and howl with the Hounds!
- 04: I’ll show you my electoral-college map if you’ll show me yours…
- 03: Are you in Orlando on Friday? Make some time to learn how to make more money in 2009 at BloodhoundBlog Unchained
- 03: Prequel to Speaking in Tongues: Displaying Author Images in WordPress
- 02: How Will the Party End?
- 02: Writing an office policy manual for Real Estate 2.0
- 01: Social Media And What Matters
- 01: Restoring a bargain-priced lender-owned home is easy — if you have cash — but a HUD 203k rehab loan makes it easy even if you don’t
- 01: Defusing the Unabomber: Why individualism will triumph regardless of any temporary setbacks
- 01: My Treat
- 01: Mortgage Market Week in Review
- 01: Real Estate Blogging hits the NY Times
October 2008
- 31: Do You Like a Good Scary Story? Read This One Anyway…
- 31: Introducing RE.net’s Hottest Bloggers Contest
- 31: Hurray for Hollywood!
- 31: Happy Halloween…?
- 31: I’m Voting for Senator O’Cain
- 30: Twenty-five most influential bloggers? Influence upon whom? Toward what objectives? Or: Why collectivism makes my skin crawl
- 30: NYMag: “NYC Real-Estate Developer Offers ‘Obama Contingency’”
- 30: Credit Default Swaps Are Not The Bad Guys
- 29: The Fed Translated….
- 29: And after Big Mother is finished subsidizing the mortgages of allegedly prosperous, allegedly self-reliant Americans, could it also please wipe their pwetty widdle noses?
- 29: LinkedIn As a Prospecting Tool
- 29: All these Widgets, Idjits, Digits and Midgets are making me fidget.
- 28: Sherry Chris To Be Keynote Speaker at Unchained Orlando Online Marketing Conference
- 28: God Save Me From Another Real Estate Flyer
- 28: Fire Up the Echo Chamber, This Time It’s Hot.
- 27: Arthur Laffer: “The Age of Prosperity Is Over”
- 26: Pinching Pennies And Blowing The Big Bucks
- 26: Mouth to Mouth Capitulation
- 26: Want to learn how to pull maximum search-engine results from minimal SEO efforts? Come see Eric Blackwell at Unchained Orlando
- 26: A Disturbing New Dynamic
- 26: Real estate and the ties that bind: “I have to warn you, my mom’s a bit crazy”
- 25: Why Bloggers Fail To Become Top Producers
- 25: Foreclosure homes are sold “as-is” — but most need only minor restoration to bring them back to fully-livable condition
- 25: The Latest Project Bloodhound - Need for Speed Edition
- 24: Media bias as seen from the inside: “Nothing I’ve seen has matched the media bias on display in the current Presidential campaign”
- 24: Tiger the Caddie?
- 24: Mortgage Market Week in Review
- 24: Two weeks to BloodhoundBlog Unchained in Orlando: Learn how low-cost prospecting techniques can help you dominate in 2009
- 23: The Last Vestige of Respect… Gone
- 22: Praise the lord and pass the ammunition; I am Joe the Plumber and another perfectly good election year is ruined by politics.
- 22: How Alexander Hamilton, the father of American Rotarian Socialism, gave birth to the present economic crisis
- 21: The Verdict Is In
- 21: a Blog is a place to Connect (locally)…Part 2 of 3
- 21: I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
- 21: Orson Scott Card on the Fannie/Freddie melt-down: “Would the last honest reporter please turn on the lights?”
- 21: The GPhone is Here…and Here are My Thoughts
- 20: No layoffs at Trulia: The San Francisco treat is still hiring
- 19: Hurry up and wait
- 18: Tom Johnson to the Realty.bots: All that free stuff you gave us would have been a bargain at twice the price!
- 18: The (lack of) Soul of Numbers: Boiling the Republican Party to Its Essence
- 18: This just might be the optimal time to buy a home in Phoenix
- 18: a Blog is a Place to Connect (locally)…part 1
- 18: Mark Steyn writes about Joe the Plumber — while it’s still legal
- 17: Greed is Good: How the Rich Get Rich
- 17: Zillow feels the market’s pain
- 17: Mortgage Market Week in Review
- 17: A Song and A Smile
- 16: Sarasota Association of Realtors - The real Cybersquat
- 16: Spread the Wealth Around Real Estate
- 16: To Condi, with sweetness
- 16: Point / Counter-Point
- 16: What Happens to the Early Worm?
- 16: Peter Schiff: “Our leaders irrationally promoted home-buying, discouraged savings, and recklessly encouraged borrowing and lending, which together undermined our markets”
- 16: And That’s Why Commission is Better
- 16: Trulia goes Amway: Realty.bot start-up launches affiliate program
- 15: The soul of wit: Boiling Obama down to his essence
- 15: Bloodhound Blog Radio: Fundamentals Trumping “Headline” Risk
- 14: Videoplay: My idea of a halfway decent real estate video
- 14: Why the Bailouts Don’t Work and Why Wall Street Loves Them
- 14: How To Get Better, The Easy Way (Never Make The Same Mistake Twice)
- 13: Opt-Out of the Recession
- 13: Trulia hires (Lobbyists?) while others contract and layoff…hmmm
- 13: Citing market downturn, Redfin.com cuts headcount by twenty heads
- 13: Obama ups the stakes in his contest with McCain over who can do more enduring damage to the crippled economy
- 13: You Don’t Always Get What You Want, But If You Try Sometime, You Might Find, You Get What You Need
- 13: The Glass IS Half Full
- 12: Unchained melodies: Pachelbel’s Canon in D
- 12: Meanwhile, back at the ranch…. (Or Creating a local, independent, powerhouse brokerage)
- 11: Boringly functional artwork in the service of marketing homes: If people can’t figure out what you’re selling, they won’t buy it
- 11: If you have cash or can qualify for a mortgage, this could be the ideal time to grab a bargain-priced home in the Phoenix area
- 10: Bloodhound Blog Radio: Free Falling (But We Keep Hope Alive)
- 09: Engineering a soft landing…
- 09: Should Walmart Sell Real Estate?
- 08: Camp Pendleton/Oceanside Fires News On Twitter
- 08: Will Mortgage Brokers Be the Hope For Homeowners?
- 08: Mortgage Market Week in Review - on a Wednesday?
- 08: It’s a great time to be a Realtor or a lender — if you’re a good one. At BloodhoundBlog Unchained in Orlando, you’ll learn how to dominate your market in the dark days ahead
- 07: McCain promises housing price supports…
- 07: Does Your Home Equity Have 4 Wheels?
- 07: Following a trail of breadcrumbs from an internet-enabled cell phone
- 07: More WP security fun…
- 06: My GPhone Will Be Delivered on 10/22
- 06: And Now, No Reason to Root At All
- 05: Please Come Again
- 04: The Life
- 04: Other types of credit may be feeling the crunch, but home mortgages are still readily available
- 03: Bloodhound Blog Radio: Living in a Post-Bailout World
- 03: Mortgage Market Week in Review
- 02: Deregulation is the New Regulation
- 02: Making the Riccelli bet to take away the fear of trying something new
- 02: 2009 started yesterday…
- 01: Zillow.com creates a directory of real estate agents who can’t sell
- 01: A Look past the hyperbole of “The Great Depression”
- 01: It Takes The RIGHT Kind Of Village
- 01: How To Guarantee A Plethora of Future Bailouts:
September 2008
- 30: VA and FHA Higher Loan Limit Extension Through 2011: The Main Street Bailout
- 30: A Quick Primer on Liberal & Conservative Economic Theory
- 30: No One to Root For…
- 30: Tom’s Top Ten Reasons He Doesn’t Like the Bailout….
- 29: Wachovia Fails… Did You Notice?
- 29: Front Seat to History
- 29: Update on the Bailout - Part II
- 29: An Update on the Bailout….
- 29: Get your piece of the pie! Sign up to sell your own distressed assets to Big Mother
- 28: In a declining market, buying a short sale is too tall an order
- 27: Promoting Affordable Housing
- 26: Some Details on the WaMu Buyout
- 26: Mortgage Market Week in Review - to Bail or not to Bail?
- 26: The Mortgage Dance Continues
- 25: Keep Your Hands & Feet Inside While the Ride is in Motion
- 25: Ever See Or Hear Of A Tornado Touching Down On An Entire Continent?
- 25: Project Bloodhound: Online Reputation Management: “It’s in the Google”
- 24: “Buy when there’s blood in the streets”
- 24: You know, I was wondering….
- 23: Break Up The Banks
- 23: Project Bloodhound: Viva Las Vegas pays out in Black Pearls
- 23: Federal Bailouts, World Crisis… What About Little Ol’ Me?
- 23: Roderick T. Long: “The vast regulatory apparatus that emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was thus specifically campaigned for by the business community.”
- 23: Newt Gingrich: Kill the Paulson Plan. Hard.
- 23: Funny, ha ha
- 22: Wall Street bailout plan to include more than bad mortgage debt: Feds to absorb unpaid bar bets, inadvertently laundered postage stamps, unredeemed soda cans and insufficient tooth-fairy disbursements
- 22: Bloodhound Blog Radio Interviews Matt Padilla, author of Chain of Blame
- 22: The Vanderwell Proposal - “Project Rebuild Banking”
- 22: What happened? “Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac exploded, and many bystanders were injured in the blast, some fatally”
- 21: Where Do You Draw the Line?
- 21: San Diego Housing Industry Outlook For 2009
- 21: This endless election season may give the real estate market time to self-correct before new legislation can make things worse
- 20: Outwit. Outplay. Outlast. Hmmm…
- 19: … Reality Steps into View … No Longer Living Lies in Paradise
- 19: Mortgage Market Week in Review
- 19: Alex, I’ll Take “Terrifying” for $1000
- 19: Will The Democrats Endorse Hank Paulson’s Mortgage Bailout Plan?
- 19: How Wall Street’s Meltdown Helps Main Street’s Housing
- 18: Nice going: Richard Nixon gave us wage and price controls, George Herbert Walker Bush brought us the Americans with Disabilities Act and George Walker Bush has unleashed unrepentant Fascism upon America
- 18: Like Drunks In A Singles Bar, Right Before Closing Time…
- 18: Alex, I’ll Take “Hypocrisy” for $800
- 18: Pressing news from the world at large: We will survive
- 18: I’m off to see the wizards, the wonderful wizards of blogs
- 17: Project Bloodhound - Advice Needed
- 17: Bloodhound Blog Radio Hosts Matthew Padilla
- 17: Alex, I’ll Take “Irony” for $600
- 16: Life as a big, unchained hound in a big, unchained world…
- 16: No sharks allowed! The predictable consequences of government regulation of the financial markets
- 16: The Last 36 hours…
- 15: Leveraged Loser Loans Lead To Loss of Liquidity
- 15: Bloodhound Blog Radio: Nehemiah Down Payment Assistance Program
- 15: Tom Johnson reports on hurricane clean-up efforts in Houston
- 15: Programs for the Pessimist
- 15: So what does this mean to the real estate markets and real estate professionals?
- 14: If You Are A Home Builder - You Have A Problem
- 14: Fannie and Freddie fall to foreclosure, but, still, lenders lend
- 13: A Bloodhound’s arrogance stumblin’ on the heart of Saturday night
- 13: Some Days It’s Not Worth Chewing Through the Restraints
- 13: It’s The Weekend, Right? Time For Another Deal.
- 13: Listing real estate the Bloodhound way: Working like a dog to achieve specific marketing objectives
- 12: “Success” Sung in a High C
- 12: Attention Old Fart Brokers: Listen to the Young Farts!
- 12: Notes from the Peanut Gallery
- 12: Mortgage Market Week in Review
- 12: Washington Mutual: The Spiral of Death
- 11: Listing real estate the Bloodhound way: How we do open houses
- 11: Rate-a-Realtor is for Ding-a-Lings
- 10: Once more unto the breach for Vlad — and for your right to free speech
- 10: Zillow.com launches Mortgages Unzipped, a new consumer-focused lenderblog
- 10: Why should Realtors come to BloodhoundBlog Unchained in Orlando? To learn the Bloodhound art of marketing listings, for one thing, as an expression of an attainable moral perfection
- 09: Every now and then…..
- 09: Nehemiah and AmeriDream May Be Restored By End of the Month
- 09: A reprieve for seller-paid down-payment assistance programs? Brian Brady has the inside track
- 09: San Diego City Attorney Aguirre’s “Sanctuary” Best Left For Fairy Tales
- 08: Notes on Inbound Link Text
- 08: Bloodhound Blog Radio: What the Fannie/Freddie Bailout Means to REALTORS
- 08: Moral Hazard Revisited…..
- 08: Fragments Shored Against Our Ruin
- 08: Sneak peek: Screen shots from the forthcoming REST for iPhone app
- 08: Update on Fannie and Freddie
- 08: Zillow increases advertising relationship with failing Newspapers…will this help either party?
- 07: How we got to this place…..
- 07: Excerpts from the Press Release about the Death of Fannie and Freddie…..
- 07: Would that it were so! BloodhoundBlog is temporarily in the Technorati’s top 1,500 weblogs…
- 07: Introduction to “A consumer’s guide to the divorced real estate commission” — the eBook
- 06: A Eulogy….
- 06: August was a great month for real estate sales, but when 40% of buyers are pushed off the playing field, home prices could plummet
- 05: Quick update on the rumors….
- 05: Mortgage Market Week in Review - Jobs….
- 04: The Kids Really Are Different…
- 03: Project Bloodhound: Are you talking to me? Connecting to your community and avoiding the echo chamber.
- 03: RealtyBaron.com comes up with something new: Commission hedging
- 03: The Belly To Belly Dilemma: Questions YOU Must Answer
- 02: Tech talk: Chrome, a theoretical MacTablet, session tracking and a cheap and reliable phone-based amanuensis — is that too much to ask?
- 02: To Whom Shall I Pledge My Allegiance?
- 01: We’re eating ourselves
- 01: It’s September 1st: Do you know where your next paycheck is?
August 2008
- 31: Prom night in Dayton: Politicians pucker up, but I’m keeping my assests close to home.
- 31: With its new iPhone application, Trulia.com is taking on-line real estate search to the streets
- 30: Adam Brickley - Do you know him? You should.
- 30: Living in the cloud, Part I: Rethinking our email strategy
- 29: Zillow.com: The “REconometrics” Firm of the Future?
- 29: Mortgage Market Week in Review…..
- 29: Power Is Down in Phoenix
- 28: Every picture tells a story: Orphaned lockboxes…
- 28: Understanding RE Web 2.0 - btw Where are my meds?
- 28: Five for the road: iPhone apps for the real estate road warrior
- 27: Racing the Clock on DPA Programs: Will The Dems Save the Day?
- 27: Going to ground, clearing cobwebs, finding balance: I’m back in the saddle again.
- 27: You can’t commit to anything if you can’t commit to yourself…
- 27: L.A. Times sells Real Estate now…
- 27: Project Bloodhound: If your web site sucks — fix it
- 26: The First Rule of Fraud Club Is, Don’t Talk About Fraud Club
- 26: Why Are We Wasting Our Time?
- 26: Clash of the Titans: Women shriek and children cower in blood-spattered suburban enclaves — when Realty.bots collide…
- 24: With a new iPhone application and support for other mobile devices, Trulia.com is pushing the Realty.bot race into the cloud, but its new free weblogging platform may put ActiveRain under a cloud
- 24: BloodhoundBlog sports new iPhone theme: All the dog, half the drool
- 24: Escaping Room 101…
- 23: Is it sink, swim, or just taking a deep breath to find buoyancy?
- 23: Buy low? Sell high? You can’t sell high for now, but prices are low enough that a buy-and-hold strategy could pay off handsomely
- 22: One for the dogs, one for my baby and one more for the road
- 22: Aufedersein Lip Syncher!
- 22: OODA Redux: Marketing is What You Do, & Who You Are.
- 22: Mortgage Market Week in Review
- 21: Rhapsodizing the iPhone: A full day of my chaotic life, hours of phone time, a trip to Pleasantville — and I could not love it more
- 21: iPhone euphony: When you hear the beep, hang tough
- 21: Splendor versus squalor: The part you throw away
- 20: “Shoot the elephant in the room before he breaks all the furniture?” Yes, because even if we don’t always do well by doing good, we must always do the right thing — even when no one else is watching.
- 19: Unchained melody: Swordfishtrombones by Tom Waits
- 19: HomeGain Releases AgentView, a RE 2.0 Rifle. Will it Fire True Or Shoot Blanks?
- 19: Pricing Analysis is Greek to Me
- 19: Content development in the new model (aka: Jessica is Right)
- 18: Bloodhounds Don’t Belong In Politics: But I’m here anyway..
- 18: Just because a Realtor® can do something, does it mean that they should?
- 18: I Can’t Swim
- 18: It Takes More Than Comps to Beat the Competition
- 18: Kodak’s new Zi6 hand-held video camera is pricey and comes with no memory, but if it’s QuickTime HD native, it might be worth it
- 18: Are we looking for (link) love in all the wrong places?
- 17: Looking for Volunteers - Not-for-Profit Realtors
- 17: Give me your money, Part II: Emergent investment opportunities in the recovering real estate market
- 16: Paradise lost. Or, how serving up cake can kill you.
- 16: What went wrong in the real estate market? We told homeowners to treat their homes like securities investments — and they did…
- 15: My blossoming love affair with flexMLS, the new MLS system adopted by the Arizona Regional Multiple Listings Service
- 15: Mortgage Market Week in Review
- 14: Is An Educational Session A Sales Pitch? Of Course It Is.
- 14: BloodhoundBlog Unchained has a home in Orlando for a twelve-hour event — and the price for tickets just went up to $199
- 14: I fear the Geeks, especially when bearing gifts.
- 13: A Proposal to Improve Mortgage Lending….
- 13: In Need of Migration Assistance - Please!
- 13: Give me your money, Part I: Sell locally, market nationally and build a real estate brand that actually means something to consumers
- 12: The “MLS 5.0″ Manifesto: Everyone working in hi-tech real estate must oppose this vicious plan with every fiber in your being
- 12: Introducing Jessica Wynn Horton, a once and future mega-producer
- 11: Unchained lullabies: Splendor, squalor and war…
- 11: Unchained Speakers, Ribak and Brady, on HomeGain “Ask The Experts”
- 11: May You Live In Interesting Times
- 11: Is It Harder to Get a Mortgage?
- 10: Dogs in Disneyville: The BloodhoundBlog Unchained curriculum in Orlando and how it will differ from next Spring in Phoenix
- 09: Redemption is egoism in action: In support of Mike Farmer, even if other people are criminal, I am not — but I will not cause them to become good by becoming a criminal myself
- 09: Caption this photo: President Bush at the Olympics
- 09: There’s more to the mortgage relief bill than just mortgage relief
- 08: Friday Afternoon Fun: Can anyone tell me what the hell this bowl of tossed jargon-salad says — if anything?
- 08: Mortgage Market Week in Review
- 08: How You Gonna Keep ‘Em Off Of The Web, And Make Them Watch N-B-C
- 07: Unchained melodies: Take Five
- 07: Sleazy Option ARM Advertisements
- 06: A-C-C-O-U-N-T-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y Find Out What It Means To Me
- 06: Know Nothing, Do Nothing Fed Inspires Confidence and Encourages Faith
- 06: The just-exactly-how-dumb-are-you Realtor-spam of the decade: RECS wrecks twenty-six reputations for only a buck
- 06: Utopia, Eureka, Eugene!
- 05: The Fed Translated….
- 05: Truth, Damn Truth, and Consumer Reports
- 05: More Baseball Stuff: Steroids & Subprime.
- 05: My next journey…a personal note.
- 04: A Realtor’s Life: Deeply Spiritual and Cheesier
- 04: Another real estate model, a less-radical variation on a current theme that can work within the present regulatory context: A national franchise of real estate franchisors, each of whom is committed to sustaining the value of the brand
- 04: Understanding How .250 Hitter Out Earns .325 Hitter
- 04: The New Real Estate Model - Part 3.2: Patrick, Dunne & Purcell, A Real Estate Firm
- 04: The New Real Estate Model - Part 3.1: The Solution
- 02: New FlexMLS system is a bold stride into the twenty-first century for Phoenix-area Multiple Listings Service
- 01: Mortgage Market Week in Review
- 01: Are You Making Music?
July 2008
- 31: Generation Jones: Angst Filled Baby Boomers Are A Great Market For Realtors
- 30: Ironically, Ironman is Just a Man
- 30: Before They Get It, Make Sure They Get It.
- 30: Bloodhounds and the Bar: Introducing Chuck Marunde
- 30: The New Real Estate Model - Part 2: Super Teams
- 29: LA Times…the 1st of many?
- 29: I slipped my DISCo in Orlando: Psychometric analysis that’s actually simple enough to be useful
- 29: A Decidedly Low-Tech Philosophy for Real Estate Success
- 28: The Buck Stops Where?
- 28: Unchained in Orlando: Scouting Disneyville for the perfect location
- 28: A Little Afternoon Fun
- 28: The New Real Estate Model - Part 1: Disbrokeration
- 28: What Has Your Local Association Done For/To You Lately?
- 27: Do You “Knol”? Utilizing a new Google Offering
- 27: Just when you thought Microsoft Internet Explorer couldn’t possibly suck any worse, it finds a way to suck with WordPress 2.6
- 27: A real estate sign of the times: Our first custom yard sign printed in both English and Spanish
- 27: What’s the obstacle to a paperless, iPhone-able real estate transaction? The sclerotic real estate industry itself
- 26: Any BloodHounds looking for a lead in Ghana?
- 26: The Youth Myth: Why It’s Hip To Be Square in Real Estate Brokerage
- 25: Mortgage Market Week in Review
- 25: Russell Shaw at StarPower: “Decide you’re going to do it.”
- 24: The Epic Battle Ensues: Realtor vs. Realtwhore
- 24: Open sourcing and spiking the punchbowl with anarchism. REBarCamp is birthed as a user generated unconference and it absolutely rocks!
- 24: Black Pearl from StarPower: Buy gas
- 23: The Top 7 Things Every Home Buyer Should Know…..
- 23: What’s better than a hokey faux-video photo-based virtual tour? How about a FREE hokey faux-video photo-based virtual tour?
- 23: There aren’t enough advertising dollars for Zillow.com to go IPO, but adding Google Street View makes the site a little more useful
- 22: Dan Kennedy InfusionSoft Tour: Four Cities in Four Days
- 22: What’s the difference between BloodhoundBlog Unchained and a trade show like Inman Connect? Nothing but the chains…
- 22: Moral Hazard….
- 22: Do you work like a Georgia Bloodhound? I have a no-fee referral in Columbia County, Georgia
- 22: WordPress for iPhone application released overnight
- 22: Gulp… I AM a VENDOR!
- 21: I Kissed Dating Goodbye
- 21: Twitter: The high school musical
- 21: Introducing Thomas Hall: “It ain’t all Big Hair and Cadillacs”
- 21: Bearing the sacred mantle of insolence in the Parliament of Whores: Win one of two free sets of BloodhoundBlog Unchained DVDs in “The just-exactly-how-dumb-are-you Realtor-scam of the week” contest!
- 20: Here’s One Way To Rid The MLS Of Overpriced Listings
- 20: Project Bloodhound: Marketing into open hostility, blank indifference or firmly-entrenched error: How do you get people who already don’t intend to listen to you to listen anyway?
- 19: Project Bloodhound: What’s A Little More Change? Choosing a New Broker Based on Social Media Involvement!
- 19: Project Bloodhound: Great debaters: Making the most of comments with conversations, and controversy
- 19: Unchained melodies: Everybody here is a cloud
- 18: Will NAR’s Latest 3-Letter Word Be Another Failure?
- 18: Unchained melodies: Divorcing the commissions slays the NAR vampire
- 18: Project Bloodhound: Write with a reader in mind — but write to that reader’s mind
- 18: My Mind Share Mis-management Manifesto
- 18: Google Search Volume & Mind Share
- 18: Mortgage Market Week in Review
- 17: What’s Seattle’s WalkScore? Dood! It’s a $56 fine!
- 17: Project Bloodhound: Passion, Authenticity & Connecting with Others
- 17: Project Bloodhound: Writing for the archives: “See that fella over there? He’s 20 years old. In 10 years, he’s got a chance to be a star. Now that fella over there, he’s 20 years old, too. In 10 years he’s got a chance to be 30.”
- 17: Todd Kaufman: More bad news.
- 17: How to tell a hawk from a handsaw…
- 16: Shrieking hyperbole? It’s genius! “A challenge is accepted!”
- 16: Listing real estate the Bloodhound way: Custom yard signs in English and Spanish
- 16: Is Hyper-Transparency A Cover For Mediocrity ?
- 16: Listing real estate the Bloodhound way: Teaching home sellers how to pay attention to marketing techniques, tactics and results
- 16: Apprehending the financial implications of owning an iPhone 3G
- 16: Greed is Good, but Greedy?
- 16: Why aren’t the Dinosaurs extinct already?
- 15: The Disappearing (Stressed) Middle Class — Where Are They Going?
- 15: Don’t learn all the wrong lessons about creative mortgages
- 15: Brainstorming - an attempt to tap the collective wisdom of the readership….
- 14: Update on the Fannie and Freddie Issue
- 14: Dead Dinosaurs Walking
- 14: Jay Thompson in U.S. News & World Report: “Do You Need an Agent?”
- 14: Realty dreams: Moving wisely ever cloud-wise, we approach the day when we can do anything from anywhere without lugging anything
- 14: Let’s Do Some Survivin’: 5 FREE Things To Do Right Now To Ensure You Can Survive This Here Real Estate Market.
- 14: The Mortgage Dance? EZ: Just Follow The Bouncing Ball.
- 12: Meano Geno
- 11: Google may not love BloodhoundBlog, but Technorati does
- 11: I don’t need to show you any stinking badges! I’m a Zillow All Star!
- 11: Mortgage Market Week in Review - Fannie and Freddie
- 11: Agent Shot By Angry 73-Year-Old Former Client
- 11: 5 Minutes On “Why Now Is A Good Time To Buy”
- 10: Localism.com’s Top Management Address Active Rain Member Concerns
- 10: The iPhone 3G goes live tomorrow — with over 500 dedicated apps already available at the iPhone store
- 10: Estately.com is now the San Francisco treat
- 09: Localism.com: It’s Not Just For Surfers
- 09: As good as a link: How would you like to “co-brand” with Zillow?
- 09: Content is king: The future of internet search is heuristic
- 09: An introduction from the banking “Pup”
- 09: Gagging on the Kool Aid: Active Rains rolls out new Localism.com
- 08: BloodhoundBlog Unchained DVDs shipping; watch your mailbox
- 08: Let me introduce to you the one and only Dr. Beatrice Rowles, Real Estate Coach
- 08: Organic Gardens, Solar and Public Transportation- Oh My!
- 07: IndyMac Bank To Close?
- 07: Attention Realtor association wannabe geeks: All monopolies suck by definition, so you must open up our forms to multiple vendors
- 07: Being a part of Social Media does not mean contributing to the 3,000 advertising messages the average person recieves everyday.
- 06: Head in the cloud: This week’s new iPhone is the first strike at a universal remote control for cloud computing
- 06: Friday is iPhone day: Do you know of anyone who is building a paperless real estate contracts-processing application for the iPhone?
- 05: You Just Don’t Get It — Get This! — There’s The Door
- 05: Musical chairs: You can buy a home on leased land for a bargain price, but you must be prepared to sell before the music stops
- 04: A suite in the Augustus Tower with a view of the South Strip, a bucket of ice and a bottle of Old Bushmills — and a gorgeous blonde I was lucky enough to marry… But if you take away everything except Cathleen, we’ll still have a wonderful anniversary
- 03: Project Bloodhound: Opening Windows to Vent Some Steam
- 03: Yankee Doodle Dog: This weekend only, tickets for the BloodhoundBlog Orlando Unchained Social Media Marketing event are only $99
- 03: Mortgage Market Week in Review
- 03: Trulia Pulls Down User Agent Cloaked Redirects
- 02: Do you work like a Bloodhound? I have a no-fee referral in Cary, NC
- 02: Project Bloodhound - a question from one of the pups….
- 02: Farewell Countrywide: How The Bank of America Merger Will Keep Wells Fargo As The Mortgage Origination Leader
- 02: Video from the BloodhoundBlog Unchained DVDs: Introduction to The Way of the Farmer
- 02: FedSpeak July 1, 2008
- 02: We’re off to beat the Wizard…
- 02: Lead Generation — Quantity Or Quality? Whatever Works For You
- 01: Away, and in the dirt…
- 01: Not to beat a dead horse…
- 01: Making the pack: How to break your way into BloodhoundBlog
- 01: Project Bloodhound: Picture this: A big wall of text.
June 2008
- 30: Project Bloodhound speaking in tongues: To whom am I speaking?
- 30: How I avoided deleting 23 different cliches for an introduction by taking the easy road and just saying Happy Birthday.
- 29: How Can The San Diego Union Tribune Compete Against Bloggers? Build SDBackyard.com and Invite Them To Contribute
- 29: Wordpress Plugins- Like Shopping at WalMart
- 29: BloodhoundBlog at two: The scene of the real estate scenius
- 29: Project Bloodhound: URL Structure
- 29: Happy Birthday Bloodhound Blog
- 28: Dancing on bridges: Apprehending great real estate webloggers…
- 28: No static at all: Can Big Brother at the radio station foretell the future of the real estate industry?
- 28: Just wanted to drop this off….
- 28: How Do You Take Your Blog From a Sloppy Joe to a Decadent and Delightful Dish?
- 28: In the battle of the baseball cards, the biggest shoe-box wins — but Realtors who master the art of marketing homes will be fine
- 28: Shout out a toast to life abundant — and caption this photo
- 28: You probably won’t sell your home for an above-market price, but even if you do, the home still has to appraise for that price
- 28: Farewell
- 28: Understanding the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org plus a little bit about custom domain names
- 27: The just-exactly-how-dumb-are-you Realtor-spam of the day: Inman’s non-ad ad might be extortion, but at least you’re invited to help them betray their own advertisers — for a fee, of course
- 27: Mortgage Market Week in Review - the Fed Translated….
- 27: Friday Haiku
- 27: Casual Friday: Caption this photo
- 27: Project Bloodhound: How to make Google your weblog’s best friend
- 27: Project Bloodhound: How to write headlines for your real estate weblog posts that deliver the goods — and deliver Google results
- 27: How to Use Twitter to Dominate Local Real Estate
- 27: Cloaking is Against Google’s TOS, Trulia. (And other SE’s as well)
- 26: Listing real estate the Bloodhound way: The marketing power of a custom yard sign is not the color, not the photography, not even that it is custom-made — it’s the text on the sign that stops traffic
- 26: Project Bloodhound: The question I should have asked a year ago
- 26: Project Bloodhound: How to write a question post that gets answers
- 26: Elections Really DO Have Consequences
- 26: Project Bloodhound: And they called it puppy love
- 26: Unchained melodies: You don’t own me
- 26: Estately.com in San Diego: Map-based search in a land without rain
- 25: Custom Signs and Brake Lights
- 25: Listing real estate the Bloodhound way: Apprehending all of the marketing objectives of single-property web sites
- 25: With Yahoo in Google’s posse, can Coldwell-Banker be next?
- 25: Down Payment Gift Programs: Yea or Nay?
- 25: As a personal favor…
- 24: Housing Rescue Plan Passes Senate Smell Test
- 24: Listing real estate the Bloodhound way: A marketing quiz to shed light on the full value of the Coffee Table Books we make for our listings
- 23: If you commit yourself to delivering a premium listing, trying to cheap it out will instruct you in the previously-unknown 23rd Immutable Law of Marketing: Anti-marketing is worse than no marketing
- 23: Inmanically Incorrect: Vendors Are Tools
- 23: The just-exactly-how-dumb-are-you Realtor-spam of the day: Showing Beacon not only cures that nasty excess income problem, it makes you look even dumber than your clients had feared
- 23: BHB and Real Estate’s OODA Loop.
- 22: The world you find is the world you’re looking for…
- 22: WordPress Security - More important these days.
- 21: Technorati 599? Now they’ve got my attention…
- 21: Investors are coming back to the Phoenix rental home market — and with the right business plan they’ll make money
- 21: Redefining Mortgage Disclosure
- 20: The just-exactly-how-dumb-are-you Realtor-spam of the day: Effection might come at a high price, but at least it’s fleeting
- 19: Speaking in tongues: Parsing structured data on the fly
- 19: The just-exactly-how-dumb-are-you Realtor-spam of the day: Piggy-back riding through the grave-yards of real estate
- 18: Who wants to play the ProjectBloodhound game? Teri and I are avid to inflict some excellence on a few hapless volunteers, provided you will pitch in your own unique Social Media Marketing skills
- 18: The just-exactly-how-dumb-are-you Realtor-spam of the day: Are you dumb enough to spend $1,200 a year for a phone number?
- 18: Roger that…
- 18: Missing The Opportunity To Achieve Excellence
- 17: Contra Cammarosano: “You will know when BloodhoundBlog has attained its goals when there is no more carney-barker jive to be found anywhere in real estate.”
- 17: A Different Business Model For Your Consideration
- 17: BloodhoundBlog evangelism: How, by working together, we are going to reinvent real estate representation, convert the best real estate professionals to the wired life and put the bums out of the business
- 17: Ultra Basic GTD (Getting Things Done) for Solo Warriors.
- 16: Zillow Mortgage Must Verify Consumers To Become A Marketplace
- 14: Don’t hang Vlad Zablotskyy out to dry: Making a donation to his legal defense fund is what matters most right now
- 14: Buzz Bissinger Blasts Bloggers
- 14: Short Sale Trouble: How To Avoid It!
- 14: Speaking in tongues: A very simple A/B switch for testing the pull-power of landing-page variations
- 14: Price matters — but so does everything else: When buyers come to see your home, they’re looking for reasons to reject it, not to buy it
- 13: Rainmakers Everywhere But Not A Drop Of Water In Sight
- 13: Sun Tzu takes the art of war to Mr Roger’s Neighborhood while the RE.net creates pablum pimps who deal in warm fuzzies
- 13: Social Media, Facebook, Identity and Complex Relationships
- 12: Why National Real Estate Listing Sites Suck….Reason #1
- 11: The story of Greg’s life right now in six words
- 10: How are you gonna keep ‘em up in your vertical real estate search portal when the future of home search is horizontal — and Google’s?
- 10: The fall and rise of a real estate titan: “Tony has the most valuable asset known to man: unwavering spirit and confidence in himself”
- 10: You Control Way More Than You Think
- 09: Canadian Housing Crash Could Induce More Investing in America
- 09: iPhone 2.0 debuts with faster 3G wireless and a built-in GPS system — and a $199 price tag for the 8GB model. Video? Flash? Javascript? Ask later, but third-party apps also debut on July 11. [Updated]
- 09: Support the Vlad Zablotskyy Legal Defense Fund: A real estate weblogger is being throttled by corporate bully ePerks.com. The free speech rights you will be fighting for are your own…
- 09: Are You Driving in the Left Lane, but Only Going the Speed Limit (or less)?
- 07: Every Day Is A Good Day To Invest In Phoenix Real Estate
- 07: How the bank robbed Bonnie and Clyde
- 07: Has the Phoenix real estate market turned the corner? It’s too early to tell, but May’s results suggest we may be nearing the bottom
- 07: Is ePerks.com’s Ben Behrouzi, infamous for trying to censor a real estate weblogger, stealing content from Mervyns and Chevron?
- 06: I can think. I can wait. I can fast.
- 05: The Meltdown Culprits are Finally Punished
- 05: On Becoming A Real Estate Agent (and other things)
- 05: Planning to retire at 50? Good on ya! Have you made plans for living a hundred years beyond that? In a world that changes like dreams?
- 05: Real Estate Marketing Channel Dominance Theory - my truth.
- 04: Cinderella’s memories of the zoo
- 04: An Unchained expostulation: Guess who is not coming to Inman?
- 03: Chaos, Order, and Noble Corruption
- 03: 3 Hours On Blogging, Sponsored By The Chicago Association of REALTORS
- 03: Who Should Use EIUL’s — 401(k)’s Aren’t Cutting It For Most
- 03: Mitch Ribak: It’s The Contact, Not The Content
- 03: And Wachovia Completes the Gang of Three
- 03: Real Estate Video: My Love Hate Relationship
- 03: What does Zillow.com understand that Trulia.com is missing? “Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn.”
- 02: Phoenix real estate market news: May rocked
- 02: BloodhoundBlog in the terrible two’s and the me-me-me meme
- 01: Being a Trust-Player
May 2008
- 31: Who’s a Mortgage Fiduciary?
- 31: Imagineering Unchained Orlando: The All-You-Can-Eat Buffet
- 31: Looking for the bottom? Real estate speculators are establishing the bottom-dollar price for lender-owned homes in Phoenix
- 30: 1.0 = !.0 For Most Agents — What Old School M.O. Works For You?
- 30: Are you a professional practitioner or just an order-taking lackey? How to list a home for sale like you own the damn place
- 30: True Confessions of A Real Estate Broker
- 29: Damn-straight department: “Greg Swann I believe has a better understanding of where the real estate industry is going than most people out there right now.”
- 29: Mortgage Rates Higher at the End of May
- 29: Agent branding is good, but Trulia.com is still deliberately hi-jacking street addresses, frustrating the interests of sellers
- 28: What Hi-Tech Tool Helps Agents/Lenders The Most — Bottom Line Most
- 28: A Little Tough Love: We Don’t Get Paid For Tryin’ — We Get Paid For Doin’
- 27: All roads lead to Rome, but where three roads converge, the trivia that is yet another meme game is to be found
- 27: As much as we love to make custom yard signs for our listings, we keep an inventory of our favorite sign in stock
- 27: NAR/DOJ settlement: “A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing…”
- 27: Building Content for Others …when is it right?
- 26: Unchained melodies: Drive On by Johnny Cash
- 26: The Unchained Originator: Ken Stampe
- 26: Memorial Day 2008 - Taking A Long View
- 24: Taking it to the man: BloodhoundBlog Unchained in Orlando
- 24: Brian Brady does a BloodhoundBlog Unchained post-mortem on Real Estate Radio USA
- 24: What happens when Google stops ranking you for all of your very best search terms? Nothing — if you’ve built your blog right
- 24: Lil’ ol’ social me: my name is mike and i like you
- 24: Phoenix real estate conference teaches Realtors and lenders the brave new world of internet social media marketing
- 24: Was BloodhoundBlog Unchained so much work that it made you sick?
- 23: How much is that Bloodhound in the window?
- 23: Unchained at the sign printer: How we make our custom yard signs
- 23: Unchained Hunting: A Video Summary
- 23: To Sir, with love: A rundown of the links in the Unchained chain
- 22: Exposed, Exposing & Exposure of Capitalism’s Inherent Blessing
- 22: Profiling our Zillow.com profile: Using landing pages and photos to try to create a compelling long-copy ad for our brokerage
- 22: What I unearthed at Unchained
- 22: Google Juice? Yeah…That Hits the Spot!
- 21: UNCHAINED: Constructive Criticism
- 21: Black Pearls: Controlling your own destiny in your hi-tech real estate practice: Three simple rules for dealing with technology vendors
- 21: Satire is an evermore difficult and demanding art. Why? Because the world around us is often so risible as to be beyond parody…
- 21: Memo to ePerks.com: You idiots! Trying to censor a real estate weblogger is a poor way to defend your reputation — such as it is…
- 21: What happens when a lion of the industry sticks his head in the lion’s own mouth? Glenn Kelman joins BloodhoundBlog as a contributor
- 21: The Secret Hunger
- 20: BloodhoundBlog Unchained: Commencement news, and then to bed
- 20: So How Does Your Lender View You As A Customer?
- 20: BloodhoundBlog Unchained: Brian Brady on The Way of the Hunter
- 20: Unchained voices: Video clips from the conference and after-hours events: “It’s been like learning more than my brain can fit”
- 20: BloodhoundBlog Unchained: Greg Swann on The Unchained Epiphany
- 19: BloodhoundBlog Unchained: Real Estate Website Makeover…
- 19: BloodhoundBlog Unchained: The Way of the Farmer…
- 19: BloodhoundBlog Unchained: The Way of the Hunter…
- 19: BloodhoundBlog Unchained: The Unchained Epiphany…
- 18: Kevin Wilhelm on the first day of BloodhoundBlog Unchained: “Today was the first day, which was meant to be a bonus day. But if it ended today, it would be worth the money, period.”
- 18: BloodhoundBlog UNCHAINED Social Media Marketing Conference brought to you by Zillow.com- We start tomorrow
- 18: More BloodhoundBlog Unchained video: The antediluvian trickle
- 18: Flip videos from the Heard: Unchained and ready to learn
- 18: Rare AND well-done
- 17: Number 1 Expert and Opt Out Web Template Widgets - Why put your website clients at risk?
- 17: The Flip digital video camera makes illustrating real estate ideas fast, convenient and fun
- 17: Real Estate Enlightenment
- 16: What to expect on Sunday at BloodhoundBlog Unchained
- 16: UNCHAINED Agenda; It’s Gonna Be Hot…
- 16: A link letter: Instead of a post by a man too scattered by the winds
- 15: No-fee referral: I need a Bloodhound-style listing agent in Boston
- 15: So Far Twitter’s Just Not Worth The Effort
- 15: It’s a 42 Game Season
- 14: Mike Wallace interviews Number1Expert and Trulia?
- 14: Going Postal — From The ‘You Can’t Make This Up’ File
- 14: TruliaTracking.php: Keeping track of the Trulia.com nofollow controversy with a widget for the rest of us
- 14: Are You So Successful And Busy That You Are Pushing Business Away?
- 14: Example: Being Effective With A Small Budget
- 14: Number1Expert/Trulia Widget Link Count Correction
- 14: Success is Knowing Who Your Friend Is
- 13: Marketing Is Religion
- 13: To Z or Not To Z?
- 13: One-hand solid-state video cameras like the Flip are a fantastic resource for both real estate documentation and video podcasting
- 13: When the weather in Phoenix is bad…
- 13: An Example Of Contrarian Marketing As It Relates To Real Estate
- 12: Using YouTube video cameras to create text plus video landing pages
- 12: UNCHAINED PodCatcher: May 12, 2008
- 12: #1 Myth In Real Estate: Agents Don’t Know Why They’re Failing
- 12: Are you an investor looking for a rental home that will stay rented? Buy a home that’s worth living in
- 12: How A Realtor Can Work With A Real Estate Investor
- 12: The Joker is Your Ace in the Hole
- 12: Trulia Widgets — a deeper look
- 11: Put Voicemail Testimonials On Your Blog Or Website: Audio Editing For SalesPeople.
- 11: Unchained Interstitials: Join in all the Unchained games?
- 11: Number1Expert Re-Launches as Number2Expert
- 11: Updates From the Ivory Tower
- 11: Sometimes Ticking People Off Is Exactly The Intent
- 11: Three Words Speak Volumes About The Power Of Social Media Marketing
- 11: Why do we link in the Web 2.0 world? Not because a link is a footnote, and not because a link leads to more information. Not to give link love, and not to build the community. The purpose of a link is transparency: This is the truth and here is proof.
- 10: So…You’re Coming to Phoenix
- 10: At last, a use for video in real estate that I don’t hate: Using the Flip video camera to collect and post video testimonials
- 10: Glenn Kelman Is Speaking at Bloodhound Blog Unchained Social Media Marketing Conference Brought to You By Zillow.com
- 10: Are There More Than 50 People Blogging In Real Estate?
- 10: An Open Letter To Russell Shaw
- 09: Brian Brady at today’s Unchained preview show: “If your clients are already on LinkedIn, someone else will introduce me to them”
- 09: Bloodhound Blog UNCHAINED Social Media Marketing Conference brought to you by Zillow.com tickets go to full price tonight
- 09: Thinking myself out of business: a lone real estate agent faces the future
- 09: Listing Remarks Haiku
- 08: Two BloodhoundBlog Unchained warm-up events Friday in Phoenix
- 08: I’m in Business to Make Money
- 08: Twitter - as good as bail money?
- 07: What would it look like if home buyers actually shopped for value? An illustration of my kind of internet lead
- 07: A celebration of Western Civilization and the Scientific Revolution
- 06: Bidding farewell to Russell Shaw
- 06: Trulia Widgets: Truliamazing Trojan Horse(s)
- 06: The War Against The MLS Continues | The MLS Must Fall!
- 05: Arizona Short Sales: Who Are You Working For?
- 05: The Realty.bot shuffle: Trulia.com’s response to complaints about nofollow tags on partner-supplied content seems truly atrocious
- 05: Do You Have Faith? — Belief? — Or Do You KNOW?
- 05: The Simple Way To Get Personal Emails From Your Blog’s Readers
- 05: Tom Waits dates for everyman: Glitter and Doom Summer tour will start at the Orpheum Theatre in Phoenix on June 17-18
- 05: How Do You Spell MLS?
- 05: Oh yeah?
- 04: Do you want to make sure your home will sell? Little things matter
- 03: HR 5830: Here Comes The Bailout Act of 2008
- 02: Unchained, unplugged and off the clock…
- 02: REALTOR.com to Provide Upgrades for All
- 02: Want to be the greatest real estate agent in the world? You’ll need a solid plan, a lot of hard work, a little luck — and a web site. For the latter, you can compete for the site Eric Blackwell won in the “Greatest Real Estate Agent in the World” SEO contest.
- 02: Friday Haiku
- 01: Louis Cammarosano to Speak at The BloodhoundBlog Social Media Marketing Conference brought to you by Zillow.com
- 01: Is The Growth Of Media Good For Realtors?
- 01: Sure, Jonathan Miller Can Value Your Home, But Can He Cook?
- 01: Oh, Canada! Your Zestimates are baking: Zillow.ca is in the oven
April 2008
- 30: Who’s the greatest real estate agent in the world? That’s a title I’m willing to compete for. But the winner of the “Greatest Real Estate Agent in the World” SEO contest is BloodhoundBlog’s Eric Blackwell
- 30: It’s The End Of The World As We Know It And I Feel Fine!
- 29: HomeGain.com adds a weblogging platform for its clients
- 29: Truliamazing tricks of the trade: don’t link to your trusted partners
- 29: Have You Seen Some Of The Answers On Trulia Voices?
- 29: A disturbing Reality - desperate builders doing immoral things
- 28: The new Google Toolbar Page Rank for BloodhoundBlog…
- 28: Save a House, Ride a REALTOR®
- 28: The unchained epiphany: Working in the Web 2.0 world is not mastery of technology but the celebration of your own independence
- 28: Inside the Liar’s Loan - How the Mortgage Industry Nutured Deceit
- 28: The Real Definition of Insanity In This Market
- 27: The challenge for Realtors and lenders in the future: How do you sell to consumers who don’t want to be sold?
- 27: Update On New Data Standards for Listing Displays
- 27: The smarter agent emerging: standards out of experimentation
- 27: Gen X, Gen Y, And the End Of The Traditional Real Estate Business Model
- 27: A Picture Is Worth A Million Words
- 26: An NAR Challenge
- 26: “Here’s something four-year-olds know: Media that’s targeted at you but doesn’t include you may not be worth sitting still for”
- 25: Soaring to Success the Low-Tech Way
- 25: Making Nothing out of Something or Something out of Nothing
- 25: REALTORS are Important To An Originator’s Success…Sort Of.
- 25: Are you being misled by the media? As my grandpa used to say, “Don’t believe anything you hear and only half of what you see”
- 25: We First Warned You About LendingTree A Year Ago
- 25: The National Association Of Realtors Announces That The Typewriter Is State Of The Art Technology
- 24: Actions speak louder than words, so let your actions say this: “I intend to do more to earn your business.”
- 24: Another Happy Customer
- 24: What Did Carol Hian Do Wrong?
- 23: That’s not a bug, it’s a feature…
- 23: A Little Chin Music
- 23: Estately.com gets $450K angel round funding, and it is barreling right down California’s throat
- 23: Sometimes Change Need Not Be Subtle
- 22: engenu public beta test goes live: If you want to explore the software BloodhoundRealty.com uses to build our web pages and web sites, this is your opportunity to deploy engenu on your own web server
- 22: Cleaned by Capitalism: Our professed love of nature is an artifact of our enormous prosperity
- 22: Is It A Great Time To Buy, Or Just A Great Time To Be A Buyer?
- 21: I love freedom too much to be silent
- 21: Is The Short Sale Dead?
- 21: Nobody wants to watch SNL reruns on Turner Movie Classics
- 21: Eye On The Ball, Folks…Hug Your CPA Today…
- 20: Calling All Women
- 20: Don’t Listen To The Arrogant Attention Whores — Just Skin Your Cat
- 20: The Odysseus Medal competition will be postponed this week
- 20: Will Realtors be disintermediated by on-line tools? Probably not, but tech-savvy Realtors will supplant those who do not adapt
- 19: Marketing performance: BloodhoundBlog is the last place crybabies should go when they need to have their boo-boos kissed, and, therefore, it is the last place to go looking for crybabies
- 19: Warning: It May Not Be a Good Idea to Drive Agents Out of the Business
- 18: It’s Raining Soup. Why Are You Starving?
- 18: Spring fever renders me unfit to tackle big issues facing Web 2.0 and the real estate industry, so we get to play in the mud instead!
- 18: The practical value of living by abstract principle: “I do not compromise with bullies and I would rather spend fifty thousand dollars on defense than give you a dollar of unmerited settlement funds.”
- 17: What do gambling, pornography and real estate have in common?
- 17: Is managing your URL structure enough to achieve Truliamazing long tail search results in your target market?
- 16: Who can reinvent real estate marketing? At MikeCanDoIt.com Mike Rohrig howls like a Portland Bloodhound…
- 16: Making A Case For Blundering Nincompoopery
- 16: Raising the Bar or Bellying Up to It?
- 16: If 90% of the Buyers Go Away Will 90% Of Realtors Go Away As Well?
- 16: Sometimes The Listing You Don’t Get Is The Best Listing Of All
- 16: A Special Sunday Session at BloodhoundBlog Unchained: Russell Shaw UNPLUGGED (And: Why I’m Going to Win My Pricing Battle With Greg)
- 16: Introducing Chris Johnson, New Market Survival Enthusiast
- 15: A Bourse is a Bourse and Zillow Mortgage is a Marketplace and Never the Twain Shall Meet
- 15: Just When You Thought It Couldn’t Get Any Worse
- 14: The Odysseus Medal: “This stuff is simple to learn. No heavy lifting.”
- 14: Is Eric Blackwell the best father? The best friend? He could be on his way to being named Greatest Real Estate Agent In The World
- 14: It’s 10:00AM; Do You Know Where Your Realtor Is?
- 13: Integrity — It’s more than just a word…
- 13: Are You Still Waiting For Her To Come Back?
- 13: “It’s the difference between grabbing junk food from the drive-thru and sitting down with people you love for a leisurely and lively dinner.”
- 13: The Odysseus Medal competition — Voting for the People’s Choice Award is open
- 13: Fully-Clothed In The Valley Of Transparency
- 13: The REAL Team Eric - and what my boys teach me about marketing…
- 13: Zillow.com’s Mortgage Marketplace brings anonymous apples-to-apples mortgage rate quotes to consumers, free consumer leads to lenders
- 13: Doom and Gloom Win Again: Real Estate Is Dead
- 12: There Is No Joy In Law School; Marty Ummel Has Struck Out
- 12: Preview the New “FLEXMLS” System Coming to Arizona in July 2008
- 12: Big News on Data Standards
- 12: What Would You Do?
- 12: The Anatomy of Generating a Lead Using an E-Book
- 11: Unchained Melodies: Tom Waits performing “Clap Hands” and “Time”
- 11: Nordstrom, Dave Liniger, RE/MAX and Web 2.0
- 11: A Sign of the Times
- 11: A deeply philosophical discussion of the flame war that will not be happening at BloodhoundBlog
- 11: Barry Cunningham is Full of Crap
- 10: Consider “24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot” and then tell us in detail how the world is going to work 15 years from now
- 10: Just Like Tom Waits’ Blues
- 10: The Anatomy Of A Realtor-Less Transaction
- 10: What happens when a hi-tech entrepreneur sells real estate in Silicon Valley? Introducing Steven Leung, our newest contributor
- 09: Unchained Melodies: Pink Martini — Amado Mio
- 09: What Is a Good Free Gift To Give Them?
- 09: Working with engenu; a painless geek tool even an ‘I’ can love!
- 09: “Our role will remain strong, firm, indispensable. All we must do is adapt.” Wanna bet? The dinosaurs of the pre-web world of business will be supplanted, not disintermediated
- 08: Does This Describe You?
- 08: What Do Washington Mutual and Barry Bonds Have In Common?
- 08: 80,000 Members And Only 300 Have Anything To Sell?
- 08: Redfin.com wakes up, smells coffee, staples galoshes to forehead: Now Redfin buyers will be able to see homes in an almost-normal way
- 07: What a Seller / REALTOR relationship should NOT feel like.
- 07: The Odysseus Medal: “It makes no difference what has happened. That is the past. Live in the future. Create it.”
- 07: Who knew? It turns out condotels stink as a real estate investment
- 07: I Want To Be A Lister - The Listing Presentation - The Objections
- 06: The Odysseus Medal competition — Voting for the People’s Choice Award is open
- 06: Can’t wait? “Coming soon: superfast internet”
- 06: Isn’t This All Getting More Than A Bit Tiresome?
- 06: What Do I Do Now?
- 05: Please Show Me How You Disintermediate Results and Superior Expertise
- 05: Ask the Broker: What relationships must be disclosed in a real estate transaction, and what are the consequences if they aren’t?
- 05: Zillow Mortgage Bourse: How To Acquire Long-Term Clients
- 05: Looking for a bargain in Phoenix real estate? Add some elbow grease to your money and go for a bank-owned home
- 04: Countrywide Loss Mitigation–A Lesson In Ineptitude.
- 04: Can you top this? From listed to closed in 184 hours
- 04: Zillow Mortgage: I’m Still Looking for the Yellow Brick Road
- 04: All In a Day’s Work for Real Estate Agents: Humorous & Heartwarming Stories
- 04: Zillow Mortgage Marketplace: One Way Transparency Like A Bad Online Dating Site
- 04: Because of who I am, because I will not keep my mouth shut, I might understand better than most of us what it means to be an American
- 03: Proof-positive that the answer to everything can be found on South Park: What internet monetization strategy makes the most sense?
- 03: Black Pearl Marketing Minute: Want to learn how Zillow.com bakes a sweeter, tastier browser cookie? Scratch the FUD from your recipe
- 03: NAR News From the Legal Front
- 03: Heard on Broad Street: “Zillow.com may in fact be reinventing — and perfecting — Capitalism”
- 03: Zillow Mortgage: I Wasn’t First, So I Want to Be Last
- 02: Zillow.com takes advertising demographics to never-before-seen places
- 02: Zillow.com’s long-awaited mortgage lending service offers anonymous customized loan quotes to consumers, affording loan originators the opportunity to compete transparently for free mortgage leads
- 02: Black Pearl Marketing Minute: How did Brian Brady get to be Canada’s Favorite American Mortgage Broker?
- 02: Blogging other Realtor’s listings: Selling houses by selling history, details, ideas, lifestyle — selling the story of the home
- 02: If Your Neighbor Throws Potatoes At You Is That A Disclose Issue?
- 02: I am not a blogger
- 01: State-mandated licensing of interior designers is our only possible protection from life-threatening color clashes
- 01: Automated Valuation Models - My New Favorite
- 01: As California Goes, So Goes the Nation
- 01: The Odysseus Medal: “I feel like I too, am losing market share quickly in this wildly out of control time warp where one second I’m a kid and the next, I’m in my 50s selling real estate in a down market.”
- 01: Where Were You When The Real Estate Industry Morphed?
March 2008
- 31: Black Pearl Marketing Minute: A sneak peek at a BloodhoundBlog Unchained promotional radio spot
- 31: Hounds on the hunt: “You have created a monster…”
- 31: NAR Will Channel Data
- 31: ROI For 2.0/Social Media Marketing? So Many Questions So Few Answers
- 31: Bad Marketing Candy from RSS Pieces
- 31: The Theory Of Sales Relativity
- 30: Why chicks dig LA…and Dallas and Phoenix and Denver and…
- 30: Black Pearl Marketing Minute Hour: Your first six months as a real estate licensee — use your time now to make money then
- 30: The Odysseus Medal competition — Voting for the People’s Choice Award is open
- 30: Are you a Marketer, Advertiser or a Salesperson?
- 30: Listing real estate the Bloodhound way: Everything we do to list historic, architecturally-distinctive and luxury homes for sale
- 29: Facebook Made Easy: A Tutorial For Marketers
- 29: If you don’t have to sell into the current Phoenix real estate market — don’t. But what if you do have to sell…?
- 29: Flipping Homes: A Closer Look
- 28: Don’t blog your listings? How about this? Don’t try to pass sales call reluctance off as social media marketing expertise
- 28: Arizona Short Sales Not For The Faint of Heart
- 28: What’s Your Six Month Plan?
- 28: Want to join the cool kids at Bloodhound Blog Unchained? How about the freaks and geeks?
- 28: Gary Vaynerchuk: “Technology has finally been, like, the steel chair that goodness needed to destroy and beat badness”
- 28: Geno’s Wrong (bang a gong)
- 28: Surreal Times: Election 2008
- 28: Black Pearl Marketing Minute: Jeff Brown, discount lister?
- 27: Urbanologist Joel Kotkin: Why growth-oriented cities like Houston, Phoenix and Atlanta reflect the future of global commerce
- 27: Eyeball Marketing - Are You a Pioneer?
- 27: Black Pearl Marketing Minute: Using the synergy of the internet and low-cost printed promotions to sell your product, build your brand and give you an affordable — testable — marketing strategy
- 26: Did you miss out on the super-low Guerrilla-only price for BloodhoundBlog Unchained? The price is still low, but you need to act fast — Brian Brady wants to raise it again soon
- 26: The NAR Is A Sex Offender’s Best Friend
- 26: Jerry Rubin Died A Stockbroker
- 25: Less is More
- 25: Redfin.com beats the field again, this time in both Seattle and San Francisco: Buyers pay less and reap commission rebates, too
- 24: The Real Estate Bailout Act of 2008
- 24: Commission
- 24: While The National Real Estate Market Is Soft - Google Pay-Per-Click Real Estate Advertising Still Going Strong
- 24: “Not me. I’m a squirrel!” The internet is now officially perfect: Every episode of South Park is available online
- 24: The Odysseus Medal: “Lions in the wild seem about ten times more alive”
- 24: In the Metropolitan Phoenix real estate market, our long, slow slide in home prices is finally encountering demand
- 23: JP Morgan Ups Bid For Bear Stearns
- 23: The Short List goes to the dogs: Voting for the People’s Choice Award is open
- 23: Attention Google: Buy SearchMe.com right now!
- 23: Xavier’s destiny
- 22: SplendorQuest: Jesus Christ Superstar
- 22: Would You Hire Yourself?
- 22: An Open Letter to Agent X
- 21: Every Day a Birthday
- 21: 2008 Swanepoel Trends Report
- 21: Listing real estate the Bloodhound way: Virtual remodeling
- 21: Listing real estate the Bloodhound way: Photography
- 20: Hubcaps on breadcrumbs? How BloodhoundRealty.com builds single-property web sites — and why they sell homes
- 20: All things are ready if our minds be so: Author 21 doesn’t hold her manhood cheap, and goes once more unto the breach
- 20: HousingPanic ALMOST Got It Right: How To Overcome Commodization By Employing The Dollarization Discipline
- 20: Real Estate is Entertainment – Are You Entertaining?
- 20: What’s the future of residential real estate signage? I think it’s like the recent history of digital printing — only much, much bigger
- 20: Destination: Vertical. Zillow houses “hot or not” for homes
- 19: Rhymes With Ferry
- 19: Looking for long tail search results from your on-line real estate marketing efforts? Don’t clean up your breadcrumbs
- 19: RealEstateRadioUSA.com’s Barry Cunningham is going to show us all what it sounds like when a big dog howls
- 19: Zillow.com makes its first MLS-wide feed agreement and, in the process, disintermediates its first IDX cartel
- 19: Biz 2.0: Super Real Estate Companies
- 18: Bloodhound by Choice
- 18: Will the Fed Buy Mortgage Backed Securities In the Open Market?
- 18: Sean Purcell: A mind that glows, a passion that burns, a wit that sparkles — a life that pops
- 18: Your rental home in Phoenix will generate positive cash flow — but will it appreciate significantly in the coming years?
- 17: Stealing Bear Stearns: Joe Lewis Ain’t Pulling Punches
- 17: UNCHAINED: The Way of the Hunter
- 17: Rate Your REALTOR® - Why Are Agents Scared Anyway?
- 17: Ozymandias wept…
- 17: Introducing Dave Phillips, taking the lead role in a reenacted historical drama: St. Francis Xavier and the Bloodhounds
- 17: How to use engenu to reinforce your blog posts about listed homes you would like to sell, to build single-property web sites, and to achieve total global hyper-local long-tail search domination
- 16: Bear Stearns Employees Wake Up To Tenuous Employment Prospects
- 16: Unraveled by Unchained, or: Why I put a leash on my Spring Break plans.
- 16: The Short List is the delayed list, alas
- 16: Russell Shaw — the Portland-based technology blogger, not our Russell Shaw — shuffles off this mortal coil
- 16: The Future of Marketing: Intent and Content
- 16: Sunday Morning Tribute To Bloodhound
- 16: BloodhoundBlog is the number one real estate weblog? Technically true for a brief moment, but we still have some growing to do
- 15: As if the Dollar isn’t already tanking…
- 15: Paradigm Shift? Not Quite Yet
- 15: We try harder…
- 15: Confronting Death - The Last Lecture
- 15: Announcing my Obama Rodham McCain universal bumper sticker
- 14: What could be dumber than sticking a Flash widget on your real estate weblog? How about sicking two Flash gadgets there instead?
- 14: BloodhoundBlog is the most popular real estate industry blog, but for now we’re the fourth most popular real estate weblog overall
- 14: Web 2.0 Is a Fad?
- 14: Arrogance vs Confidence
- 14: Ashley Alexandra Dupree on AmieStreet.com: How To Profit When The Long Tail Search Is YOU
- 14: If you thought the iPhone rocked, just wait for the iPhone 2.0
- 13: Earned Media.
- 13: Where’s Ashley Dupree’s MySpace? With A Few Lessons From Martha Stewart, She Could Have Been America’s Sweetheart
- 13: Wow… Life stinks when you’ve got your head up your… community…
- 12: What REALLY matters…
- 12: Fun With Spitzer
- 12: Practical dual agency in real life: It is possible to have a fiduciary duty to your sellers — that you cannot get away from — that feels like a complete betrayal of your buyers. What then?
- 12: Appraisers - The Latest Target In The Circular Firing Squad
- 12: David Mamet: “Strand unacquainted bus travelers in the middle of the night, and what do you get? A lot of bad drama, and a shake-and-bake Mayflower Compact.”
- 12: Four photographs from a day spent looking at houses: Two of them are tragic — but the other two are infuriating
- 11: How do you get visitors to come to your home’s custom weblog? Shoe leather works well. Search engines? Not so much…
- 11: Amazon Recommmends wants to know: Why can’t we get a bead on you?
- 11: When the little things matter most
- 10: NAR and the Use of MLS in a URL
- 10: Save $100 If You Are Going To Starpower This Year
- 10: The Odysseus Medal: A breathtaking Daisy in the deserts of the mind
- 10: Hyper-Local Blogs — Mr. Purcell? You’re Officially Outed
- 10: Two words: Sprint iPhone
- 09: Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
- 09: When Times Are Hard - Nothing Beats A Free Peep Show
- 09: The Odysseus Medal competition — Voting for the People’s Choice Award is open
- 09: Principal Reduction : 2008 Buzzword?
- 08: Another record-breaking week: Is 2008 the Year of the Bloodhound?
- 08: Real Estate Web Site Extreme Makeover: If we help Russell Shaw get even richer, he might buy us drinks at BloodhoundBlog Unchained
- 08: Zillow creates the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
- 08: The Wile E. Coyote School of Mosquito Extermination — and why you need to put a condom on your trusting nature
- 08: Kevin Kelly will teach you everything he knows about the economics of abundance — for free
- 08: Real Estate Web 2.0: Epiphany — Thanks To Kevin Kelly
- 08: A Deficiency Judgement? In Arizona? Not Likely.
- 07: Do you want to know the best Black Pearl of all? When someone offers you a valuable jewel, show up to collect your prize!
- 07: My Real Estate Radio USA debut — and a reminder that the price for BloodhoundBlog Unchained tickets goes up at midnight tonight
- 07: Mortgage Complaint? Welcome to The World Of Consumer-Policing at Zillow Mortgage
- 07: When The Dog Bites The Hand That Feeds It
- 07: Fred Flintstone speaks: Listen to me today on Real Estate Radio USA
- 07: Zillow Nation? Zeelocation?
- 07: Zillow Mortgage: Zoriginators’ Delight or Bane?
- 06: Realtor Porn?
- 06: The NAR Has Caused Hell To Freeze Over
- 06: Do you want some earth-shaking news? In showing us a first tentative glimpse of its new mortgage lending product, Zillow.com may in fact be reinventing — and perfecting — Capitalism
- 06: The Art of Knowing Thyself
- 06: The Beat Goes On…and The Beat Goes On
- 06: No more web sites in the remarks section? ARMLS drops the hammer on the one little bit of the 21st century it was getting right
- 06: Unchained: Increasing Your At-Bats — Seeing Your Own Gold
- 05: Apprehending Realtor 2.0: Seven essential skills of the 21st century real estate agent . . .
- 05: Does the RE.net mean Real Estate or Resist Everything?
- 05: Tick tock: Time marches on at a Bloodhound’s lanky pace
- 05: Warning: Satire Ahead — Real Estate Therapy, The New Marketing Strategy
- 05: Mortgage Fraud: Did You Do It?
- 04: Oh, for goodness’ sakes! Nothing sells houses like houses, so of course you should blog listings — your own and other Realtors’
- 04: Redfin.com builds new listing oversight tools for sellers
- 04: The All-Spin Zone: The big news from the Inman News relaunch is that much of the RE.net is now in bed with Brad Inman
- 03: The $800,000 Crier
- 03: The Odysseus Medal: “Free has emerged as a full-fledged economy”
- 03: The Perfect Real Estate Relationship
- 03: Dress up that custom weblog you’ve built to help sell your home
- 03: Hate Twitter ? Become A Media Mogul With It
- 03: Bloodhound Lit: The art, science and business of writing interesting and profitable real estate weblog posts
- 02: Day of the Long Tail: How broadcasting lost its chokepoint
- 02: The Odysseus Medal competition — Voting for the People’s Choice Award is open
- 02: Say goodbye to Chokepoint Charlie: In a world without walls, free is the new green of the internet economy
- 01: Virtual Tour Videos on YouTube…a soon to be no-no…
- 01: People who write too much: One Bloodhound’s manifesto
- 01: Why’d Benn Have To Go And Do That?
February 2008
- 29: Speaking in tongues: Making more-professional-looking CraigsList HTML ads — even if you don’t know how to code in HTML
- 29: It is a mistake to think that the language of the bureaucrats is merely an ignorant, garbled jargon. They may not always know what they are doing, but what they are doing is not haphazard. It works, too.
- 29: A Season To Be Objective
- 29: If You Want To Be On HGTV, Read This
- 29: Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long as we shall live. Who speaks reason to his fellow men bestows it upon them. Who mouths inanity disorders thought for all who listen. There must be some minimum allowable dose of inanity beyond which the mind cannot remain reasonable. Irrationality, like buried chemical waste, sooner or later must seep into all the tissues of thought.
- 28: Pictures are Worth a Thousand Words, but what are your pictures actually saying?
- 28: How can you laugh when you know I’m down?
- 28: Bebop and the brain — Thelonious Monk’s career advice to working Realtors and lenders: “We wanted a music that they couldn’t play”
- 28: William F. Buckley — Requiescat in pacem
- 27: Don’t Cut The Granite
- 27: Wanna see how to win the BloodhoundBlog Black Pearl Diver’s contest? You’re not selling us, you’re selling you . . .
- 27: This is not for the contest — just tipping my hat
- 26: I’m Sick Inside Because Lani’s Sick
- 26: Why is Zillow.com sponsoring BloodhoundBlog Unchained? Discover the answer to that question for yourself by diving for Black Pearls — and win a link on our sidebar or even an Unchained scholarship
- 26: Brian Brady on RealEstateRadioUSA.com: Mortgages unchained
- 26: Rock Stars Aside (Please, Lord?) My Take On What Matters
- 26: Zillow.com announces its sponsorship of BloodhoundBlog Unchained
- 26: Once More With Feeling- Mortgage Rates Are Determined by Mortgage Bonds (MBS), Not The Ten Year T-Note
- 26: The Network — No Easy Duality
- 26: Some Well Deserved Kudos…for some friends.
- 25: Do you want to understand what Web 2.0 means in your own life? On the internet, Socrates would have lived
- 25: The language of real estate is photography; here’s how we talk in pictures with buyers, with sellers and with our vendor partners
- 25: A custom weblog can be your home’s 24-hour real estate salesperson on the world-wide web
- 25: The Network — Excellent Real Estate Agents Wanted
- 25: The Odysseus Medal: The art of rhetoric — and the rhetoric of art
- 25: Egoism in action: What should you do when a half-assed sock puppet makes a half-decent joke?
- 24: The Odysseus Medal competition — Voting for the People’s Choice Award is open
- 24: Has Web 2.0 Failed YOU?
- 23: Allow Me To Divert Your Attention For A Moment. . .
- 23: Practical Marketing With Twitter
- 23: Inheriting H.L. Mencken: “I might be rancid butter, but I’m on your side of the bread…”
- 23: Will the last one leaving BHB please turn out the lights?
- 23: Why does BloodhoundBlog have a comments policy? In order to prevent my property from being hi-jacked and our contributors and guests from being abused, insulted, maligned and harangued
- 23: Living up to the BloodhoundBlog mission statement: We’re everything you wish were in Realtor magazine
- 23: Bloodhound Blog Remains Open. What Would Beth Ask?
- 22: What’s a nice girl like you doing in a place like that?
- 22: Search Engine Guide is unleashed, but only the wild dogs are unchained
- 22: Long Beach Realtor Laurie Manny to Speak at Bloodhound Blog UNCHAINED Social Media Marketing Conference in Phoenix, AZ
- 22: PhotoDropper WordPress plug-in puts zillions of creative-commons-licensed Flickr photos just a click away
- 22: Working With Virgins
- 22: Don’t Panic Over Interrogatories
- 22: Like a Dog With a Bone — Vindicated By a Super Star — Hyper-Local Blogs Rock
- 21: Seth Godin to Realtors: Get great or get out of the game
- 21: Zillow’s Virtual Sold Signs go live: Are yours up yet?
- 21: I Hope Unchained Considers My Topic Wish List
- 21: Gene Simmons: Originality is Overrated
- 21: Defining disingenuousness: Am I beating a dead horse? Or am I staring down a headless high-horseman?
- 21: Speaking in tongues: Geek humor — idiomatic expressions in code
- 20: Anastasia in the light and shadow
- 20: Comments to Contacts to Clients: Bawld Guy Talking…at UNCHAINED.
- 20: Besides that Mrs. Davison, how did you enjoy the post?
- 20: What would you expect for the BloodhoundBlog Unchained keynote event? How about two sharp minds, two sharp wits, exploring two very different points of view — all for your benefit?
- 20: Is There Actually A Sky Up There Anymore?
- 20: It’s about RELATIONSHIPS….
- 19: Greg Swann Is Right
- 19: Vertigo by map mash-up: How to spin your way around the globe
- 19: Down Payment Assistance is another creative financing option you can deploy to make sure yours is the home that sells
- 18: The Light At The End Of The Tunnel Is Really An Oncoming Train
- 18: The Odysseus Medal: Amy Winehouse is not in the house
- 18: The Two Sins Writers Commit That Business Bloggers Can’t Afford
- 18: Three important real estate questions for an early Monday morning
- 17: Just as a reminder, the theme song for the upcoming BloodhoundBlog Unchained Social Media Marketing Conference is “I won’t back down” by Tom Petty
- 17: The Odysseus Medal competition — Voting for the People’s Choice Award is open
- 17: Highly linked
- 17: The Religion (Tyranny) of Niceness
- 16: Thanks to BloodhoundBlog’s readers for being a part of our biggest week ever
- 16: Be Polite and Kind. To Everyone.
- 15: Unchained Pioneers: Podcast with Brad Coy and Andy Kaufman on how they hope to benefit by coming to BloodhoundBlog Unchained
- 15: City of Los Angeles Tenant Relocation Assistance
- 15: Las Vegas Strippers Now Have A Prayer
- 15: The Results: Cautiously REALLY optimistic…
- 15: The training of the shrewd
- 14: We’re finally ready to start selling BloodhoundBlog Unchained tickets — and you can get yours at the special Guerrilla price
- 14: Choosing second-best could get you the best possible home
- 14: For Greg - My Take On Politics and Real Estate
- 13: The Odysseus Medal: Our own style of disintermediation brings us all closer to the liberty that is self-reliance
- 13: Are You Blogging For Speed?
- 13: Stash that cod-piece: I’m not waxed fruit and you are not a rock star
- 12: The Odysseus Medal competition — Voting for the People’s Choice Award is open
- 12: Greatest real estate agent in the Who?
- 11: She tried to make me buy a rehab…
- 10: More Macgravations…
- 09: Who is vulnerable to Zillow.com? How about TopProducer.com?
- 09: Los Angeles City Rent Control: Read it and REAP.
- 09: Best Efforts
- 08: Clients are people, too.
- 08: The Great Debates - Monday, Feb 11
- 08: Higher Loan Limits OK-ed by Senate
- 08: What will the NAR do with this?
- 07: Help raise funds for tornado relief and reconstruction: Post one of these buttons on your weblog
- 07: Folk Music, Blame and Fundamental Solutions
- 07: Choosing A Brokerage
- 07: Introducing Cheryl Johnson — finally
- 06: The Odysseus Medal: Always check snopes.com first?
- 06: Manipulating Blog Post Dates: The NAR Joins the Blogiverse
- 06: Avoiding McCain — in traffic, that is
- 05: Q: How many razors does one guy need? A: How many free blades come in the package? Or: Why we now have two color laser printers
- 05: Introducing Mike Farmer: Thinker, writer, buyer’s advocate
- 04: The Odysseus Medal competition — Voting for the People’s Choice Award is open
- 04: Back among the living…
- 03: Fair assessment of risk or Redlining?
- 03: No joy in Bloodville…
- 02: Understanding the Laffer Curve — Reality & Myth — What’s Next?
- 02: If Suddenly Your Phone Is Ringing Off The Hook…
- 02: A new way to howl: Announcing “The Long List of Odysseus Medal Nominees” — the weblog
- 01: Up Your Marketing Game
- 01: The upside of exclusives
- 01: M-soft bids for Yahoo! What does it mean for search?
- 01: If you’ve finally found your dream home — don’t dawdle
January 2008
- 31: What if buyers were never represented, but they paid the listing agent?
- 31: Who benefits from occupational licensing laws? The licensees, to be sure — to the detriment of the consumer
- 30: Big News: Ignore all that fine print, tear through all that red tape — Redfin.com supports Safari at last!
- 30: A Mastermind of Hucksters
- 30: Obeo, Baby, where have you been all my life? Why should buyers stop at virtually moving in their furniture when they can virtually redecorate — inside and outside — as well?
- 30: In The Business Of Personal Relationships, Database Marketing Is More Effective Than SEO Marketing
- 30: I hear rumors all the time
- 29: HELOCs Frozen: Preserving American Homeownership
- 29: Want to learn how to sniff out bias in the mainstream media? Follow your nose — all the way to Yosemite
- 29: Joe and Marge
- 28: Principles of Flight and Real Estate — Getting Off the Ground
- 28: JohnMcCain2008 is now following your updates on Twitter.
- 28: Write more
- 28: The Odysseus Medal: “A hopeless attempt to regain what she lost: her sense of trust and self-reliance”
- 28: The untapped powers of Street View on Google Maps
- 28: Which Candidate “gets” Subprime?
- 27: The Odysseus Medal competition — Voting for the People’s Choice Award is open
- 27: Selling your home in a declining market? The race is to the swift
- 26: How The Market Really Works
- 26: Watch Out! Here Comes Erin Brockovich!
- 25: Now If We Could Get General Motors To Build One…
- 24: So Mr. Buffet Gets Into Insuring Bonds…Then Mr. Ross Gallops In…Coincidence?
- 24: Conforming Loan Limit of $650,000, FHA Loan Limit of $729,000
- 24: Acting Is Hard…
- 23: Speaking in tongues: A universal contact form for real estate weblogs…
- 23: Is Roost.com roosting on the brass ring? Start-up Realty.bot comes to market with two firsts: MLS listings and a business plan
- 22: Housevalues.com Invades Activerain.com: Guerilla Warfare Needed
- 22: Amaze Your Friends : Why The “Surprise” Fed Funds Rate Drop Isn’t Impacting Mortgage Rates
- 22: UNZIPPED?
- 21: And Now We Shall Witness The Economic Self-Fufilling Prophecy
- 21: Activerain.com and HouseValues.com- The Ultimate Irony
- 21: The Odysseus Medal: “It’s not just about the lender, escrow officer, and agent doing their job; its about them doing their job as a team.”
- 21: Active Rain gets $2.75 million in funding — from HouseValues.com
- 21: Descriptive text as benefit, not feature
- 21: Whatever you do, don’t dance: Pinal county restaurant fined $700 a day for encouraging its patrons to dance outdoors
- 20: The Odysseus Medal competition — Voting for the People’s Choice Award is open
- 20: Ahem: Your goal is not weblog traffic, your goal is converted sales
- 19: Net-borne buyers create new burdens for listing agents
- 18: So I’m The Bad Guy, Huh?
- 18: Tuition Is Expensive At The School Of Hard Knocks
- 18: Real Estate Weblogging 101: Wringing actual commerce out of your commercial weblog
- 17: Five Times More Effective Than E-mail ?
- 17: Yesterday Twitter was a village; today it’s an exclusive gated community
- 17: Active Rain can’t catch a break…
- 17: What do you do about a $3 billion dollar foreclosure? You can take it in stride — or you can squish it like a bug
- 16: While Rates Are Low, Schedule Your Purchase Closing At Least 45 Days Out
- 16: Tear down those prayer tents, y’all — the world has been saved
- 15: 40 Tips for a Powerful New Year
- 15: Cameron Swann builds weblogs: My son wants to drive, so he’s ready to go to work
- 14: The Future of the Fishwrap Classifieds
- 14: Gannett’s onto us with Hyperlocals!
- 14: The Odysseus Medal: “What Zillow has done is build a business model designed to work from the ground up, a MySpace for your home…”
- 14: Network Solutions - I-CANN too hold your domain ideas hostage!
- 13: A Canadian magazine publisher instructs Loudoun County Tax Assessor Todd Kaufman — and all of us — on the American tradition of Freedom of the Press
- 13: Realtors — 2008 Is The Year Technology May Leave You Behind — Pay Attention
- 13: The Odysseus Medal competition — Voting for the People’s Choice Award is open
- 13: Happy New Year? Don’t mind if I do.
- 12: A Saturday night toy: Your file server as a linked hierarchy
- 12: The Blue Stained Dress…
- 12: Follow Mortgage Rate Movements On Twitter
- 12: Two-thirds of BloodhoundBlog’s pages were spidered and indexed this week — 1,900 pages in seven days
- 12: Seller financing can give you an edge over your competition in the Phoenix real estate market
- 11: Buying Countrywide: Why Bank of America is the WRONG Buyer
- 11: Want to get more done in the world of Social Media Marketing? Repurpose your content!
- 10: Unchained melodies: Is that all there is?
- 09: Zillow.com cultivates its garden with ten million new database records, improved home valuation algorithms and the adoption, with Trulia.com and other Realty.bots, of a RETS-compatible listings standard
- 09: Finally - I Have Something To Blog About Zillow
- 09: It’s weblogging-advice day at Inman Connect, and Seth Godin is wired into the godhead, as usual
- 09: The Trulia Publisher Platform and the hypothetical elastic mind
- 08: Steve Jobs and the fine art of managing expectations
- 08: Two dozen hounds on the hunt: Galen Ward joins BloodhoundBlog
- 07: The Odysseus Medal: “What would David Gibbons do?”
- 07: BloodhoundBlog.TV: Dustin Luther, Jeff Turner and Daniel Rothamel on the Inman Connect Conference and the state of real estate video
- 07: “Cat will mew and dog will have his day…”
- 06: The Odysseus Medal competition — Voting for the People’s Choice Award is open
- 06: To “concerned citizen,” who may or may not be a sock-puppet for Loudoun County Tax Assessor Todd Kaufman: The Bill of Rights exists to protect citizens from government, not the other way around
- 05: Loudoun County Tax Assessor Todd Kaufman has a friend…
- 05: Announcing the Odysseus Medal Long List of nominees widget
- 04: Speaking in tongues: A step-by-step guide to speaking in web sites
- 04: Keyword Jammed Posts are Polluting the “RE.net”
- 04: Heads up, folks: They’re not consumers, they’re his cousins
- 04: The Todd Kaufman Problem Is Your Problem, Too
- 03: Speaking in tongues for Morgan Brown: A quick and dirty contributors’ blogroll
- 03: Attention Loudoun County Tax Assessor Todd Kaufman and friends:
- 03: Want A Retirement The Equivalent Of House Arrest? Grandpa Economics Is Your Best Bet
- 02: Unchained melodies: Matrimonium unchained…
- 02: Speaking in tongues just for Cheryl Johnson: Building content-rich custom web sites in PHP
- 01: Goals! by Brian Tracy
December 2007
- 31: The People’s Choice Award: Real Zillow mortgage predictions, the real Fake Greg Swann and real-life traffic-building strategies
- 31: If a dog looks into a mirror…
- 31: RSS Feeds - The Full vs. Partial Conundrum
- 31: Mortgage Cicerone: Tony Gallegos
- 31: Can Loudoun County Assessor Todd Kaufman tell me what to say and not to say?
- 30: The Odysseus Medal competition — Voting for the People’s Choice Award is open
- 29: Unchained Social Networking: Setting Up a Facebook Profile
- 29: Attempted Censorship of a real estate blogger in Virginia
- 29: Updating WordPress for the New Year: Just because we’re living in an ethereal world, it doesn’t mean there’s no house-keeping
- 29: Best of the worst: BloodhoundBlog’s most popular posts for 2007
- 28: A potentially canonical list of weblog naming ideas
- 28: Thank You Seth: “Why not be great?”
- 28: Speaking in tongues: Dynamically updated lists of links in PHP
- 27: Unchained melodies — Fighter
- 27: Unchained Social Networking: Setting Up A LinkedIn Profile
- 27: Always a crisis?
- 27: Speaking in tongues: Presentable PHP in WordPress
- 27: Do Others Think Of You As An Expert? You Must Be Getting Results
- 26: Thinking
- 26: The Odysseus Medal: “Until we start fixing what is really wrong we’ll continue to struggle in quicksand”
- 26: Two changes to the About page to clarify BloodhoundBlog’s praxis
- 26: Time of the signs: Let there be light
- 25: Unchained melodies: Sing, sing, sing!
- 25: More Predictions for 2008 (Bigger, Better, Newer, Sparkle-ier)
- 25: Merry Christmas!
- 25: Peace On Earth
- 24: Unchained melodies: Christmas Eve Sarajevo 12/24
- 24: Spotting The Fake or The Real Greg
- 24: Florida First, Certainly California, Next Nevada,and Absolutely Arizona
- 24: Gifts of the Real Estate Magi, circa 2007
- 24: “Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?”
- 24: Unchained melodies: Voices carry
- 23: Mashable Predictions for 2008
- 23: Spoiler alert: Yet another post about you-know-what
- 23: Happy Holidays!
- 23: The Odysseus Medal competition — Voting for the People’s Choice Award is open
- 23: Haiku (is for) for thumbsuckers
- 23: Technology is a TOOL Not a Solution
- 22: Unchained melodies: Superstition
- 22: