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Yahoo: A “home” in a declining market
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008All along, I had a feeling this would happen.
Just like an unreasonable seller in a declining real estate market, Yahoo rebuffed the advances of a ready and willing buyer (Microsoft) numerous times. Reason? The offer presented by Mr Softee “shortchanged” Yahoo’s past stock value even though it came at a significant premium over current stock […]
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Self Perpetuation is a beautiful thing
Saturday, March 29th, 2008I was a late comer to the blogging party. About a year and a half ago, I found Active Rain and first discovered purposeful blogging. This was around the same time that most traditionalists were discounting this phenomenon as just a fad for ‘youngins” looking to waste some time on the Internet. And I […]
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Hate to code? Check out SquareSpace
Thursday, March 27th, 2008When I first came into the blogging world (seems like a long time ago), there was a period of time when I could not decide which blogging platform was best for my personal needs. Each option had positive aspects as well as negative ones and I could not find one that was just the […]
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“Count your blessings” or “Pursue perfection”?
Saturday, March 8th, 2008About a month ago, the Houston Association of Realtors released a revamped [consumer-oriented] website. I tried to cover this release as objectively as I could, trying to point out the positives and the negatives from a REALTOR’s standpoint. In an effort to get the point of view of other fellow agents I posted something about […]
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If Google could do this…
Saturday, March 1st, 2008Let’s just say that I’m having lunch with Sergei Brin and he asks me for my opinion on how to make Google Adwords better. (Official odds - 1 in 999999999999999999999999; look it up!). This would be my response:
RSS Feeds and Google Adwords!
Here’s why. We have been using Google Adwords for about two years now with […]
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House Swapping?! Hmmm..
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008According to a feature story on Yahoo’s home page yesterday, many folks around the country are turning to house swapping to move properties in hard markets. Originally a practice utilized primarily for vacation homes, house swapping works by matching relocation clients with similarly valued homes. Any difference in value is to be paid in cash […]
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