Archive for November, 2009
Sometimes I have really bad ideas. This week it was thinking that I could give our clients an early idea of what the houses were like that we were going to show them the next day. Their computer was on, so I simply asked to use it to sign on to the NWMLS to show them pictures of the houses.
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$45,000 – that’s the amount Bikes, Blues and Barbecue Motorcycle Rally was able to donate to local charities last week. It comes at a time when many worthwhile causes are in great need due to the economic downturn.
The recipients include such well-known names as Big Brothers & Big Sisters, Habitat for Humanity, Humane Society of the Ozarks, Muscular Dystrophy, and the Jones Center for Families. Several more non-profit groups perhaps not as widely known but equally worthwhile include Peace at Home Shelter, Fayetteville Public Education Foundation, Horses for Healing, and CASA of Northwest Arkansas.
Bikes, Blues & Barbecue was not able to make any donations in 2008 because of expenses incurred to enlarge venues and other one-time expenses so it’s wonderful to see the rally back in the black.
Since 2000, BBB has given more than $500,000 to local charities.
Kudos for all you do!
For more information:
http://www.bikesbluesandbbq.org/charities.htm
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Great news. The deadline for early bird registration for next year’s Real Estate Connect conference in New York has been extended for another week.
Plus if you register use the coupon code FOREM and you’ll save an extra $100.
Connect is by far the leading technology conference in Real Estate. There’s always a fantastic line-up of speakers… and next year is no different. Just take a look at the list of some of the folks who will be speaking there.
Dennis Crowley
Co-Founder, Foursquare
Jason Fried
President, 37 Signals
Saul Hansell
Tech Reporter, The New York Times
Max Ventilla
Zoo Director, Aardvark
Chris Pearson
Founder, Personified & DIYThemes
Vanessa Fox
Entrepreneur, Ignition Partners
If you’re serious about real estate technology and you’ve never been to a Connect conference – you don’t know what you’ve been missing. I’ve had the honor of being involved in many of these conferences and I’m hoping I can make it out to New York in January.
Full deets - Inman News Real Estate Connect runs January 13 – 15, 2010 at the Marriott Marquis Times Square in New York. You can check out the entire program here.
Full Disclosure: Real Estate Connect is produced by Inman News, which owns the Future of Real Estate Marketing blog.
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I was getting on a plane this morning so I was only able to tweet this news.
Brian Boero at 1000Watt Consulting sums it up best.
Now, today, search engine land reports that Google has taken this one step further to include a unique page for every listing that includes photos, a map (including Street View) property details, directions, transit information and more. It’s a listing detail page, basically.
I wrote back in July that “the game’s about to get interesting” (see Google Gets Serious about Real Estate Search). Today, with the launch of Place Pages for real estate, it just did.
It’s live right now in Australia. So we’ll wait and see when and if it gets announced State-side. But if I were Move or Trulia or any of the other property search portals worldwide, I’d be nervously crossing my fingers this stays in the southern hemisphere.
Read more about it at search engine land.
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