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Benn Rosales
Founder of Agent Genius Magazine, national real estate opinion site. Benn’s focus has always been improving the consumer experience by working to improve the real estate industry, so needless to say he’s not scared of controversy, standing out or making an impact. He dreams of a life where sleep isn’t physically necessary and a Starbucks barista makes house calls in order to focus more on helping you and your startup to capture and build on the moment.
By Benn Rosales on July 29, 2010
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again that you cannot purchase social media in a box. I’m not saying you cannot complete the purchase by blowing your money with the nearest ninja, but what I am saying is that delivery will never take…
Posted in New Media |
By Benn Rosales on July 14, 2010
This was the big question until today… ever wonder why your result is more timely, chalked full of direct information, yet ranks below a larger media site? Well, maybe it’s because someone at Google likes the media site more than they like you, personally. Or maybe that…
Posted in News | Tagged google, page rank, scandal |
By Benn Rosales on July 9, 2010
Zillow announced late this evening that it has inked a deal with Yahoo! Real Estate to expand Zillow’s real estate search to Yahoo! property hunters. This deal also extends Zillow’s Premier Agent product offering to Yahoo!. The number two and three most popular real estate…
Posted in News | Tagged Realtor, Realtor.com, Trulia, Zillow |
By Benn Rosales on July 9, 2010
Virtually on a daily basis we’re asked directly if a self-hosted real estate website is better than an out of box solution such as Active Rain or Posterous, and we directly answer, practically speaking, it is a rent versus own debate.
The setup
This debate spans…
Posted in Marketing | Tagged activerain, Debate, posterous, website, Wordpress |
By Benn Rosales on May 11, 2010
Eggs in one basket…
…seems to be the latest lesson learned in the real estate industry when it comes to using any type of online media to promote yourself and your business, thanks to technical issues that rendered a major blogging platform useless. The outage…
Posted in Marketing | Tagged Real Estate, Social Media, Ubiquity |
By Benn Rosales on May 1, 2010
ActiveRain 404
ActiveRain users are lined up to complain about recent outages that seem to have plagued the blogging platform for what some users say “months.” But according to a video statement released by ActiveRain via Twitter, the problem has only been recent. The 59…
Posted in News | Tagged activerain, blogging |
![Tax credit dying, let’s celebrate the good news [OPINION]](http://agentgenius.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Fireworks_Preview-2-150x150.jpg)
By Benn Rosales on April 29, 2010
Stop crying already!
Yes (for the umpteenth time), the $8,000 tax credit is ending this week and it’s a blessing sent from above. Why do I say this? Not just because the country has been hanging from the teet of the federal government since the…
Posted in Opinions | Tagged housing, real estate tax credit, TARP |
![Redfin reaches profitability, $60M revenue if conditions hold? [VIDEO]](http://agentgenius.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/redfin.png)
By Benn Rosales on April 26, 2010
Interview
Michael Arrington at TechCrunch sat down with Glenn Kelman, CEO of Redfin over the weekend and discussed both the past and the future of Redfin. What you’ll find past the disruptive title is a very matured pitch from Kelman where the traditional industry…
Posted in New Media | Tagged Redfin, techcrunch, Video |
By Benn Rosales on April 15, 2010
WordPress for iPhone OS
WordPress for iPhone OS has now been optimized to work beautifully with iPad. It’s easier than ever to moderate comments and create or edit posts and pages. All you need is a WordPress.com blog or a self-hosted blog.
We didn’t forget…
Posted in New Media | Tagged Ag, ipad wordpress app, iPhone, statistics |
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Who in the heck is Larry and why are you paying commenters
By Benn Rosales on July 14, 2010 | 16 Responses
Welcome to 2010 and the aftermath of the blog explosion. It doesn’t surprise me in the least that snake oil salesmen are selling SEO for real estate, blogging for real estate professionals, and copywriters’ copy. I guess what does surprise me is how much money…
Posted in Coaching | Tagged commenting, paid blogging, real estate blogging | 16 Responses