Archive for June, 2007

The 46th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is now live at Home Staging, Rants & Raves. Being the stager that he is, Craig Schiller did a fantastic job using colors to highlight this week’s winners, the “6 R-O-Y-G-B-V Color Finalists”. Take a look!

The next carnival will be held on Monday, June 18 [...]

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At BloodhoundBlog, we’ve complained publicly and privately about a recent trend in judging the Carnival of Real Estate. It is typified by these odious words: “In no particular order.” The mass of posts is winnowed down to a first cut, then anything making the cut is listed “in no particular order.”
This is probably intended to [...]

Here’s this week’s link post…
Investing
A Samuel presents The Great Spanish Property Podcast Debate posted at Nubricks.com.
Real Estate Market

Oliver Muoto presents Trulia Gets a Voice, Widgets and Funding posted at vFlyer Blog, saying, “Trulia News Summary”
Dan Melson presents Refinancing When You’re Upside Down on the Mortgage posted at Searchlight Crusade.
Dr. Housing Bubble presents Comparative Analysis of [...]

Only 1 Week left before prices go up! Sign up this week and your Bloggers Connect admission is only $99 ($129 after June 15th).
If you’re interested in real estate blogging, Bloggers Connect in San Francisco will help you learn from some of the best and brightest in the biz. This is also your chance to [...]

If you read the Carnival of Real Estate frequently, you know there are a ton of great real estate blogs out there. And if you’ve ever wondered what it takes to start your own blog, Inman News has organized an audio conference on Monday June 11 at 11am PST called “Building from the Ground Up. [...]

I’m a forum /message board / blog junkie. What can I say, it’s a sickness…
Yesterday, I ran across this comment on a real estate forum discussion on blogging:
“Blogs are the Pet Rocks of today. Everyone has one but they don’t really do anything.”
Hmmm….While I will agree that real estate blogging may be the [...]

Information As A Story
“The shortest distance between a human being and the truth is a story.” — Anthony DeMello
What’s the most important skill necessary to good blogging? I am starting to think it lies in the ability to tell a story. People need information, yet they desire stories; I think it’s possible to deliver [...]

This afternoon, I spoke with Justin Smith from the Christian Real Estate Network for the latest CoRE Podcast. He hosted the 45th edition of the carnival yesterday on his companies’ blog. It was a great chat - Justin is certainly passionate about helping real estate professionals market themselves on line. Additionally, like most other bloggers [...]

This morning, I caught up with Kevin Warmath, who hosted the 44th edition of the carnival last Tuesday, for the latest CoRE podcast. Due to hectic schedules last week, we didn’t have time to schedule a podcast until today. I’m very impressed with Kevin’s ability to attract clients from his blog — 2-3 phone calls [...]