Do you know that the Realtor who you have your house listed with is actually still earning their living as a Realtor?

Dear Realtor, When I was growing up as a small boy in Connecticut, I often heard commercials from a local jeweler named William M. Savitt. Mr. Savitt had come to Connecticut and opened his business in 1919.

…but it just seems so unbelievable. It’s like a bad song that keeps going thru your head all day. I am going to give you a taste..remember that song..”If you like Pina Colada’s….yeah…hum that one all day! But this is much more sinister. Much more evil. It’s a “Mist” if you will that’s swallowing us [...]

I was reading a post on my favorite real estate social network and the writer was stating something I hear quite often. That you need to be very aggressive in making sure the bank does not reduce your commission. In fact the writer of the post I mentioned said:

“Given the level of uncertainty about short- and medium-term economic performance, it really doesn’t make sense to jump in unless you have a five-to-10-year horizon,” said Ben Feldman, 44, an independent consultant and a renter in Capitol Hill. Feldman’s quote comes from an article in the Washington Post that fosters some serious thought for those [...]

This from the “I Wouldn’t Believe It If I Hadn’t Seen It” file…otherwise know as the are you friggin kidding me section. I get a lot of grief because people say I pick on Realtors too much. But when you see this kind of crap in the news, what’s one to think? Ok, so I’m [...]

Do you want to separate yourself from most of the hacks in the Internet Marketing space? Real simple and remarkably easy to do. Run things like a business. Seriously, remove the word free from your vocabulary. Wonder why there is so much spam on Twitter, it’s free. Why is there so much spam in your [...]

I saw this commercial spot about a Tampa lawyer and as a marketer it made me realize how certain professions need to advertise much differently than others. Could you imagine if attorneys marketed like those in the Internet marketing space do? When I buy an Internet product or hire a lawyer, I want credibility not [...]

We’re going to engage on Twitter a lot more often now as a ton of our readers have been emailing us so I guess we are being dragged kicking and screaming into the world of microblogging. I’m going to ease into it with BlipFM…I understand it tweets your song list…all I can say is be [...]

My beloved laptop is on life support. I lost all graphics capability due to the fact that the Acer Motherboard and the graphics card are all wired together. There was an absolute brain fart if there ever was one. Nonetheless, my gian $3,000 laptop has been reduced to a paperweight. Absent planning a trip to [...]