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Facebook is great. Admittedly, I’m there a lot. I have a busy life and I love people, so FB allows me to keep in touch with the people I love despite my schedule. And I’m eager to see what FB might become soon. When the IPO happens, an already really well-funded Facebook will become even [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I recently returned from a client visit. I won’t give away the location, so let’s just call this the typical Association/Board setting. Beautiful building full of capable and dedicated Staff eager to serve the membership. As I lay out this scenario, imagine it taking place at your own local Association/Board building. Maybe you work there. Maybe you [...]
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 [...]
Big thanks to Anne Gardner at the Charlottesville Area Association of REALTORS for spearheading their MLS renewal with Solid Earth. We’re thrilled to still be providing valuable software services to CAAR and we promise to continue to work hard to earn the business. Thanks again to everybody in Charlottesville!
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 [...]
I saw some blog traffic recently about our occasional use of a chartered airplane. I got the impression that the writer was implying that we had become a little too big for our britches, as my grandmother would have said. Well I don’t usually respond to that sort of thing, there is enough negativity in [...]