Comments on: Forget Real Estate 2.0. How about we try 1.5 for a while? http://www.realestatezebra.com/forget-real-estate-20-how-about-we-try-15-for-a-while Your Comprehensive Resource for Creative Insight and Commentary on All Things Real Estate Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: McKinley Marketing’s Blog Watchdog November 2008 | Ben Martin, CAE http://www.realestatezebra.com/forget-real-estate-20-how-about-we-try-15-for-a-while/comment-page-1#comment-194331 McKinley Marketing’s Blog Watchdog November 2008 | Ben Martin, CAE Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:36:12 +0000 http://realestatezebra.com/?p=677#comment-194331 [...] First, let’s step outside the association blogosphere to hear from Realtor-by-day, basketball referee-by-night, Daniel Rothamel, who goes by “the Real Estate Zebra.” Daniel is a smart and savvy real estate agent who loves social media. The trouble is, his clientele isn’t quite there yet. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t use social media in his market, but he has been forced to re-imagine how to get the results he needs with the tools he wants to use. [...] [...] First, let’s step outside the association blogosphere to hear from Realtor-by-day, basketball referee-by-night, Daniel Rothamel, who goes by “the Real Estate Zebra.” Daniel is a smart and savvy real estate agent who loves social media. The trouble is, his clientele isn’t quite there yet. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t use social media in his market, but he has been forced to re-imagine how to get the results he needs with the tools he wants to use. [...]

]]> By: fthead9 http://www.realestatezebra.com/forget-real-estate-20-how-about-we-try-15-for-a-while/comment-page-1#comment-191709 fthead9 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:14:02 +0000 http://realestatezebra.com/?p=677#comment-191709 Great idea, I've been telling clients that the key to success on the Internet for local real estate sites is establish yourself/site as the local market authority. Creating market reports and getting them out to potential clients/potential links is a great way to establish your market authority. Great idea, I’ve been telling clients that the key to success on the Internet for local real estate sites is establish yourself/site as the local market authority.

Creating market reports and getting them out to potential clients/potential links is a great way to establish your market authority.

]]> By: G. Dewald http://www.realestatezebra.com/forget-real-estate-20-how-about-we-try-15-for-a-while/comment-page-1#comment-191464 G. Dewald Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:01:20 +0000 http://realestatezebra.com/?p=677#comment-191464 You're so right on this Daniel. It reminds me that some years back I was an apprentice at a letterpress that also designed it's own typefaces: in metal. This was around 1998 or so. Working in letterpress was the conscious decision of the folks who owned the place. The work they did was outstanding. Are there newer and "improved" ways of printing a book? Sure. Are the "old" ways suddenly useless because of a new techology? Nope. Less arcane examples: Radio didn't make the telegraph obsolete (you can still send a telegram). Television didn't make the radio obsolete. The internet didn't make television obsolete (even though television is trying very hard to obsolesce itself). The written word didn't make the spoken word obsolete. When the thing being transported and exchanged is ideas, "old" technologies will continue to be effective and have a place much longer than the folks selling "the new thing" might have one believe. Technology is just codification of human interaction. And human interaction never goes out of style. Great post! You’re so right on this Daniel. It reminds me that some years back I was an apprentice at a letterpress that also designed it’s own typefaces: in metal. This was around 1998 or so. Working in letterpress was the conscious decision of the folks who owned the place. The work they did was outstanding. Are there newer and “improved” ways of printing a book? Sure. Are the “old” ways suddenly useless because of a new techology? Nope.

Less arcane examples:

Radio didn’t make the telegraph obsolete (you can still send a telegram).

Television didn’t make the radio obsolete.

The internet didn’t make television obsolete (even though television is trying very hard to obsolesce itself).

The written word didn’t make the spoken word obsolete.

When the thing being transported and exchanged is ideas, “old” technologies will continue to be effective and have a place much longer than the folks selling “the new thing” might have one believe.

Technology is just codification of human interaction. And human interaction never goes out of style.

Great post!

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