Rain City Guide

For those of you interested in something outside of RE, you may find this interesting. Guy Kawasaki (a HERO of mine, even though I AM NOT and will not be a MAC user) wrote a great post last month about how easy it is to make millions of dollars with “user-generated, long-tail, Web 2.0, [...]

In some ways it is sad that both Ardell and Marlow declined to take part in the 60 minutes episode, but at least they can both blog about it afterwards… I find Marlow’s analysis of Redfin to be particularly fascinating for two reasons…
First, she debunks the idea [...]

Scenario: buyer says that they will be buying in 3 months. You say, perfect, let’s get you pre-approved so you’ll be ready by then. You believe the buyer until they call you 5 days later with the great news that they just bought new construction from a site agent! Aren’t you happy for them? 
But before [...]

We lost IT. We use to have IT and now we lost IT and now you can get it on ebay! This IT is that huge chunk of our commission that used to come from being the gatekeeper to the multiple. At a listing presentation our competition was only another agent that charged the [...]

A couple of weeks ago I blogged on a new real estate model where I try to match real estate agent strategies to the agent’s personality.  I call the different strategies ”games” (www.getstrategic.com/agents).  I’m going to share my progress with you, the highs and the lows to let you know how it is going since there’s no other company that I [...]

Ah, finally get to catch up on reading some RCG posts. What a prolific group this is! Makes you wonder just how important a degree in creative writing might become to the average agent in the future. I’ve been busy cuz I’ve been doing alot of recruiting these days.  So, when Eric, in a recent post  wonders about the mega agent [...]

We, here in the Seattle area, are in the unique position of seeing first hand, the coming of change. There is no place in this country on a parallel path with technology and the future, like the Seattle area. The hiring of Dustin Luther by Move.com is as significant as Realtor.com BECOMING Move.com It is [...]

It was wonderful to have some quality time with the Trulia last night and I had a blast chatting about real estate search with them.
Sami and Kelly were great sports and the group ended up spending about an hour and a half discussing Trulia’s business plan and how others (like RCG!) might plug into [...]