Wow! What a ride!

About an hour ago I walked out of Move’s offices for the last time as an employee. For those of you who’ve been around RCG for a while, you’ll remember that I took a position as Director of Consumer Innovations at Move with great enthusiasm back in April of 2006. Taking the position was a huge deal for me and my family and now that I’ve decided to leave,

The amount I learned working with the people at Move was incredible. I enjoyed learning a tremendous amount about product development, marketing, PR, corporate development and much more in little over a year-and-a-half. I was laughing with another employee earlier today because we both felt we had gotten an MBA’s worth of education in an incredible short-time period.

Interestingly, I’m actually more bullish on Move now then at any time since I started getting my hands dirty at the company. The new members of the executive team are bringing on top-notch talent and starting to make some hard, but necessarily, decisions around product development and business models. My decision to leave had very little to do with the long-term prospects of the company and much more to do with the role that I would be able to play in these changes. (Plus, it didn’t hurt that some opportunities opened up in the world of consulting that were just too good to pass up.)

Talking of outside opportunities… Now that I’m no longer affiliated with Move, I plan to talk (a lot) more about ways that real estate professionals can engage consumers using online technologies. But rather than clutter up this perfectly good blog about Seattle real estate with my industry rambles, I’ve decided to focus those conversations on 4realz.net.

Please consider joining me on 4realz.net. I promise to be interesting enough that it will become a must-read (and a must-feed) for anyone interested in the future fringes of the real estate industry.

Posted: December 7th, 2007 under Site Info.
Tags: 4realz, blog, Moving to Seattle, position, real-estate

About the Author: Dustin Luther

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As the founder of Seattle's Rain City Real Estate Guide, Dustin lives to talk, discuss and implement about social media strategy to drive business. In following his passion, he founded 4realz.net Marketing Consulting and regularly speaks about social media strategies to real estate audiences.

Comments

1. Comment from Jay Thompson
Time December 7, 2007 at 4:56 pm

Best of luck to you Dustin!

“I promise to be interesting enough that it will become a must-read (and a must-feed)”

Of that, I have no doubt…

2. Comment from Greg Swann
Time December 7, 2007 at 4:57 pm

Oh, good grief. All set up and no punch line…

3. Comment from Jeff Turner
Time December 7, 2007 at 4:59 pm

It’s also time to update your photo here. Congratulations! I’m looking forward to seeing more of you.

4. Comment from kk
Time December 7, 2007 at 5:06 pm

may you always land feet first.

5. Comment from Galen
Time December 7, 2007 at 5:09 pm

Congratulations! More excitement ahead.

6. Comment from Dustin
Time December 7, 2007 at 5:10 pm

Thanks everyone!

Jeff: New photo huh? It’s about that time, isn’t it…

7. Comment from Greg Tracy
Time December 7, 2007 at 5:26 pm

Good luck to you Dustin… I look forward to following your transition into consulting (or whatever else you’ll be doing).

8. Comment from Tim & Lynn
Time December 7, 2007 at 5:47 pm

Dustin, wishing the best for you and family.

9. Comment from Rhonda Porter
Time December 7, 2007 at 6:09 pm

Wow, Dustin. Does this mean you are moving back to Seattle? Congrats! You are amazing.

10. Comment from Beau
Time December 7, 2007 at 6:33 pm

Can’t wait to hear more on 4realz.

11. Comment from ARDELL
Time December 7, 2007 at 10:13 pm

My best wishes to you and your family. You look a whole lot better without the duct tape on your mouth Give Anna my best please, and we’ll be reading intently to keep up with your changes.

12. Comment from Dustin
Time December 7, 2007 at 11:32 pm

Thanks again to everyone…

Rhonda: We’re definitely staying in LA for now. At some point, my wife is going to try to drag us back to the Bay Area, but I can’t see us back in Seattle at any point in the near future.

13. Comment from Lisa
Time December 7, 2007 at 11:38 pm

You’re a gentleman and a star. I suspect you’ll have quite a RE Tech following very soon.

14. Comment from Robbie
Time December 8, 2007 at 12:51 am

It’s like deja vu, all over again. Congrats on your new move.

15. Comment from Greg Perry
Time December 8, 2007 at 10:18 am

Dustin,
All the best on your new journey.

16. Comment from Drew Meyers
Time December 8, 2007 at 6:50 pm

Best of luck Dustin

17. Comment from rudy
Time December 8, 2007 at 8:34 pm

u can do it!

- waterboy

all the best…

18. Comment from Dustin
Time December 8, 2007 at 8:43 pm

19. Comment from Jerry Campbell
Time December 9, 2007 at 7:10 pm

Congrats Dustin - You’ll have to fill us in on the direction your consulting business will be taking you in. Thanks again for sharing your blog knowledge at the 2006 WAR ED Conference. That jump started my Northwest Living blog without a doubt. Good luck Dustin.