Kinda sad, but I just unsubscribed…

…from at least 100 real estate blogs. Most common reason? They hadn’t been updated in at least 6 months.

Gahlord has a great DIY article on tracking your listings…

…for real estate professionals: Tracking print advertising with ListingNumber and Google Analytics

After firing CEO, REA Group reports…

…substantial growth: Revenues were up 45% to $155.6 million EBITDA was up 56% to $36.6 million. I was recently alerted to Simon Baker’s business blog, My CEO Life, that is just awesome in terms of insight.   Most relevantly, his post from a few weeks ago talks about the day he was fired as the [...]

Banish the monsters!

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Do you want your own “avatar” to show up next to your name when you leave a comment on 4realz instead of one of those cute monsters? I’m using a tool called gravatar to provide the “avatars” so simply sign up for a free gravatar, upload the image of your choice, the dustinluther.com backend (with [...]

Listing study by Roost hits TechCrunch and…

..brings out a who’s who of online real estate companies.  Don’t miss out on the comments!

How much value do you get out of listing on Craigslist?

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One of the websites I mentioned at the Inman presentation a few weeks ago was listing number.   One of the most interesting elements of the site is just how trivial it can make tracking ROI of an agents marketing spend… and along those lines, the folks behind Listing Number just published their first set of [...]

A Wisconsin Realtor gets 18 months (probation) for criminal defamation…

… after writing on ActiveRain that another Realtor was linked to the Russian mob. *note: I added the word “probation” into the title to be more clear!

When a tree falls in the forest…

Been way too swamped with a consulting project lately and haven’t had a chance to blog much (or send out my weekly emails). However, that doesn’t mean interesting things haven’t been happening.   Here’s just a sliver of the things that have crossed my path recently: Brendan gets $3M in funding for MyFrontSteps!  A huge, public [...]

"In fact some lawyers would rather see their name…

…at the top of search results or on the back of a phone book than have a reputation as a trusted and reliable authority in a niche area of the law.” Notorious Rob has some interesting insight around how to use social media…

I missed this news a few days ago that Terabitz…

… continues to move towards a more backend technology play as oppose to a front-end consumer destination site.  I think that’s a smart move by them.