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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 [...]
At Solid Earth we have our Rituals. Some of these rituals are deeply entrenched in our culture, while others are still on their way to that deep place of the daily thoughts and doings around the office. These rituals come in many forms and each person has their approach to the ritual, which makes it [...]
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 [...]
Well I thought Part 3 was the end of this series, but something happened last week that sparked another thought that I need to share with you. I had a most interesting client lunch. To my left was the outgoing MLS Chair, to my right was the incoming MLS Chair. What a valuable time we [...]
I love music. I’ve been a music fan all my life. So, back in 1999 when a 19 year-old Shawn Fanning created Napster I freaked. All of a sudden, here was this gigantic library of songs sitting there on the Internet for me to download as long as I wanted to sit, click and wait. [...]
As I enter the week where members of my team along with a few select clients will be attending Seattle Interactive Conference I find myself pondering the idea of inspiration. Where does it come from? How do we gather and process what we hear/see/think? What do we do with it once we’ve been inspired? I [...]
At the end of my last post, I asked the (hopefully thought-provoking) question, “Who are we going to look to as we anoint the leaders to bring MLS organizations forward?” Since this is my last post on the subject before NAR, let’s get down to it. So far I’ve talked about MLS in 2012. This [...]
As I was saying in the first entry of this series (and thanks for all the feedback), we are devoting loads of brainenergy here at Solid Earth HQ on where real estate technology is headed. I’m writing this series of posts to give you an indication of what Solid Earth is thinking and doing. Thanks for [...]
Routines are important. Doctors and specialist talk about the importance of schedules and routines from the time we are babies. Routines about when to eat… to get enough sleep… to get enough exercise. Routines also give our brain the freedom to think about something else while we “routinely” go through the motions to get something [...]
I majored in Advertising in college. I had two minors. One was history and one was graphic design. One of my advanced design projects was to re-create the calendar. Yes, the calendar. That matrix of numbers that places a label on our every second on Earth. Our professor told us to pick a month and [...]