Big Ole
One of the reasons I love this business is getting to visit our clients. Today, I had the pleasure of driving to Alexandria, MN, to...
Getting Unstuck With Ideas That Stick
One of the stickiest books of the year is Made to Stick by brothers Chip and Dan Heath. This book is everywhere, it seems. A...
Thinking of You
We’re fortunate to have MLS clients in Blacksburg, Roanoke and the Lexington-Buena Vista-Rockbridge areas of Virginia. You all are in our thoughts and prayers as...
Searching for . . .
Juxtaposition. Those interested in MLS may find interesting Pat Kitano’s observation in Commerical Real Estate is Opaque that, “Yet without an ‘MLS’ or other real...
Grabbing the Bull by the Horns
NAR CTO Mark Lesswing grabbed the RETS bull by the horns today to drive the process forward with deliberate speed. The RETS community voted to...
RETS Meetings Day One
The highlight of the RETS meetings yesterday was a demonstration by Frank Tadman of REInfoLink of a “data mapper” system he developed. REInfoLink is part...
What Do You Know About Swamp Coolers?
Is a swamp cooler the same as central evaporative cooling? Or are there spot swamp coolers? We’ll be wrestling with lots of questions like these...
Fabulous Photo Tours and Floor Plans
Check out VoiceThreads, which seems like a fantastic way to kick photo tours up a notch, or ten. And this approach is pretty cool, too....
Software is Hard
Caveat: This post might be me whining about how hard my job seems to me at times. I hope not but it might be, so...
What is Advertising?
Until recently, I’ve never cared about advertising in any way, except as I tried to click away from it on the rare occasion I watched...
What Makes A Home Valuable?
Larry Cragun’s post today, called Unique Features Make Homes Valuable, makes me wonder whether effective listing data standards are possible. How do you describe that...
RETS Meeting Next Week
Next week Jaison Freed and I trek off to Austin for the spring RETS meetings. Up first on the agenda is a mammoth (almost all...