Bill Lublin

Housing News

In a recent conversation during the Virtual ReBarCamp, Joe Ferraro was talking about the future of real estate brokerages, which he thought would be...

Social Media

With the recent conversation about different lists of “influential” real estate people to follow on twitter, there was renewed discussion about what constitutes an...

Green Live & Work

Being charitable is one of the three things I think are most important in how we conduct our lives. If you are healthy, you...

Housing News

Real estate agents and real estate brokerages are obsessed with their websites. We spend hours on thinking about them, discussing them, and attend seminars...

Housing News

Real Estate salespeople are usually optimists. They want to believe that things are getting better, and with the low mortgage rates, buyer demand, and...

Housing News

Yesterday, I attended the 2nd Annual ReBarCamp San Francisco Its just over  a year since I attended the first one in San Francisco, just...

How to

Sometimes Writing is Tough There are a lot of reasons for not writing – and people all over the Internet write about them and...

Housing News

The implementation of the Home Valuation Code of Conduct (HVCC) impacts a number of stakeholders in the real estate industry. And as with the...

Business Marketing

Technology has always fascinated me. Not so much for the gears and circuits and construction of it, but the uses and abuses we put...

Housing News

What’s the Story? My Social Media career began when Jim Duncan and Liz Luby spoke in front of an NAR sub-committee about blogging. In...

Social Media

I love toys I mean I really do. I don’t even think its a “guy thing” since I hang out with women that seem...

Housing News

You do probably.. In an arena that is mainly agent centric, let me take an unpopular position – most real estate agents actually benefit...

Ethics

New Restrictions? After the Mid-Year meetings in Washington , a change was made to Standard of Practice 15-2, and a new standard of practice...

Opinion Editorials

Perception is Not Reality Last week NAR held their Mid-Year meetings in Washington, as they have for many, many , years. And during those...

Social Media

Yesterday Benn Rosales wrote a post about NAR’s reaction to what he termed (properly) NAR’s first real engagement after their appointment of Todd Carpenter...

Media Coverage

It’s my Fault (With a nod to a well know blogger who has a propensity for using latin, I would explain to those readers...

Social Media

Highlights

Social Media is hot! If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you probably are familiar with the benefits of permission based marketing and...

Ethics

But it Seems There is a “Me” The concept of teams in real estate is not a new one, but it is open to...

Business Marketing

I like Seth Godin I really do. I think much of what he has written about marketing is nothing short of genius. And I...

Business Marketing

It Started Last Year In February 2008, I had the honor of chairing the Short Sale Working Group appointed by President Dick Gaylord. A...

Business Marketing

How Big is Your… …following? Is it more important to have a lot of people following you on Facebook or Twitter, or a smaller...

Economic News

Foreclosures Aren’t New REO properties have been part of the real estate landscape for many, many years. Foreclosure loomed large in melodramas in the...

Opinion Editorials

Remember When… …the real estate market was booming and the big question was “Is there a real estate Bubble?” And then the real estate...

Ethics

What Makes You Professional? There is a lot of discussion about what makes people professional. We have the Code of Ethics to help us...