by Bill Fowler
on April 20, 2012
in News, Philosophy
Take a second and scan through this great article from AGBeat published on Wednesday. Zillow has created Agent Hub, a services dashboard aimed directly at the individual agent – translation, “not the broker”. It’s another shot fired at the traditional broker model by a well-funded third party with no burden of rules and regulations. Read [...]
by CEOMatt
on March 16, 2012
in List-It, News, Solid Earthlings on the road, Spring, System News, Tech
So it’s been a rough week at Solid Earth. Over the last couple of years we have tried to communicate to our customers that transparency in our communication is critical. To deliver enterprise software well, our company must disclose everything to our customers: our capacity, our strategy, our mistakes and our successes. They need to [...]
by Bill Fowler
on February 23, 2012
in DS IDX, Gateway, News, Sales and Marketing, Solid Earthlings on the road
You know by now that I simply cannot write a straight-up corporate marketing piece. A blog after all, is a concept born out of the term “weblog”, which by definition is an online diary of sorts. The blog, once innocent, has since been turned into a less-than-subtle tool for corporate America to push their wares [...]
by CEOMatt
on January 27, 2012
in News, Solid Earthlings on the road, Spring
And on the second day of my road trip, I got to sit down for an in-depth discussion with ECAR Association Exec Mr. Cliff Long and MLS Exec Susan Beck. Cliff is a 39 year old powerhouse of a man with four kids. He was previously the Association’s Legislative Liaison but and he’s recently been brought in [...]
by CEOMatt
on January 25, 2012
in News, Solid Earthlings on the road
Thanks very much to Wendy Cusick Alley and Chuck Michaels for the time today. It’s so wonderful spending quality time with customers who really “Get It”. Pensacola was the first customer (outside of our hometown) to give us a shot and we’ll never forget that. Their consultant Steve Yanoviak from Management Advisorsdisagreed with their choice, [...]
by Bill Fowler
on January 19, 2012
in News, Sales and Marketing, Spring
Like most all Americans, once the Christmas holidays start I begin to peel away from the office and its contents both tangible and intangible and trade them in for last-minute shopping, traveling and some retrospection. This year for me and my family was a bit different. Since my beloved Crimson Tide was playing for the [...]
by Bill Fowler
on November 18, 2011
in Agility, News, Spring, Trade Shows
It was around mid-September when I saw the first Spring demo on a tablet. I stood there in our back room holding an iPad searching for listings on a beautiful UI. I knew we were on to something. I couldn’t stop smiling as I held the next chapter in the story of Solid Earth in my hands. [...]
by Bill Fowler
on September 28, 2011
in News, Philosophy
I met Mason Maynard and Pace Davis (Bridge Interactive Group) this year at the NAR Midyear Meeting and Expo. Actually, I met them at the Clareity Consulting party. Ok, actually I met them at the bar at the Clareity Consulting party. I recognized Pace as one of the panelists on stage at the syndication workshop [...]
by Lauren Johannesmeyer
on August 26, 2011
in News
While we understand that that’s highly unlikely, Solid Earth does want to let our customers in the storm’s path know we’re thinking about you. When Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, we were happy to help out our neighboring customers in Baton Rouge and Lafayette however possible. While we wish these things wouldn’t happen, we’re here [...]