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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 August 14, 2010
What is burn out? Burn out is exactly that- burned out. Like a wick that has exhausted itself, the flame dies often leaving the shell of the candle.
How it happens to you: as you enter the office on Monday morning, you’re excited to begin the…
Posted in Marketing, Real Estate | Tagged professional burn out |
By Benn Rosales on August 11, 2010
It’s finally here. SXSW 2011 is fast approaching and it’s time to begin preparation for the 2011 panel. Last year, we held the first and only real estate panel at SXSW, packing the room full of developers, investors, and consumers seeking to discuss disruption in the real estate…
Posted in New Media | Tagged AG News, Real Estate, sxsw 2011, SXSW Interactive |
By Benn Rosales on July 30, 2010
In case you’ve been living under a rock, Domino’s Pizza has undergone a major transformation. From the ground up, (namely it’s pizza) it listened to the criticisms of its patrons, especially those that were less than impressed with its product- they learned from it, and…
Posted in Marketing | Tagged Consumerism, dominos, Real Estate, transaction management |
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 |
Realtors – how to get some buyers off of the fence right now
Translating Twitter speak and garnering retweets
Minimum commission policies: good or bad business?
The silver lining in the real estate sector – home prices are up
The top ten American cities for raising your family
Who in the heck is Larry and why are you paying commenters
By Benn Rosales on July 14, 2010 | 20 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 | 20 Responses