Solid Earth

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

An early morning Google search for “real estate predictions 2012″ resulted in 6,890 pages worth of related content. That’s really amazing to me. That’s a decent sized crowd at a tractor pull. By contrast, the approximate current enrollment at Harvard. Or, the number of brain cells I placed in harm’s way on New Years Eve. Almost [...]

Jealously is an ugly thing.   But, to be honest, I am really jealous that I can’t attend this event. In November, Solid Earth will be attending Seattle Interactive 2011, a conference for technology innovators that always draws a diverse crowd with a great panel.   CTO Robb Dempsey and COO Leslie Cobb will be [...]

Next up – Apalachicola (aka: Franklin and Gulf Counties) on the lovely Florida Gulf Coast. Ahhh, rough life I have. Gloria (and her sweet office kitty, Holly) welcomed me with open arms (and paws) introducing me to the Board of Directors. We jumped right into business (and a plate of pastry delights) talking about everything [...]

As we discussed at the Summit this year, Bill and I are dividing and conquering…reaching out to our customers individually as your personal ‘account representative’. And so it begins…the first leg of my ‘Tour de List-It customers’ included the Tuscaloosa, Franklin and Chipola Associations. After almost 1,200 miles I had some GREAT visits! It was [...]

July was quite a month for me and my relationship with I-65. Despite having just seen most all of you at the user summit in June, I’ve been out and about more this month than I have in my history at Solid Earth. This is an exciting time for all of us and we have [...]

Back from New Orleans. NAR is always a great time for re-connecting with clients and seeing our vendor friends like the great folks at Courthouse Retrieval Systems. We’ve been attending NAR for a long time and we have yet to come away disappointed. It’s interesting to consider that at one time, we’d enter the tradeshow [...]