Affordability, foreclosures, mortgages: How to navigate tough real estate conversations in 2023
Having tough conversations about real estate can be difficult when the news isn’t ideal — but remember that your clients are asking you because they trust you and your expertise. By being prepared for these conversations, you are serving them when they need you most.
Quitting time? How brokers can help cash-strapped agents survive
In a market where listings are still scarce, a mid-career agent is having difficulties. What can the broker do for an agent in this position, who is completely strapped for cash?
BHHS CEO Christy Budnick is ready to dive into the spring market
As “motivator and chief encourager” of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, Budnick said she’s bullish about the upcoming year. Agents who get down to business will thrive, she added.
Brad Inman: Decision-makers, not experts, will forge real estate’s path
The Inman founder kicked off Disconnect in Palm Springs, California, on Monday by calling on real estate leaders to deliver a path forward through the rough patches ahead.
Rapattoni, Restb.ai advance MLS partnership, service tools
Industry solutions provider of more than 50 years, Rappatoni will leverage the full brunt of Restb.ai’s unique image intelligence capabilities.
Former KW CEO slams Gary Keller, calls brokerage ‘criminal enterprise’
Former Keller Williams CEO John Davis says he wants his claims decided through a public trial rather than arbitration. KW says Davis’s claims are “unsubstantiated, unwarranted, and disparaging.”
11 Ways to Make a Frozen Pizza Less Sad
Eating a frozen pizza for supper can feel a little like giving up, but you can’t deny the convenience factor, nor the nostalgic, juvenile appeal. It is, after all, still pizza. I would never judge or belittle someone for enjoying their freezer pizza au naturel, but a little adornment can do wonders for them. Here […]
Make Easier Mashed Potatoes With a Cooling Rack
I do not own a potato masher. I own a potato ricer, because it’s better at its job. Rather than chasing potatoes around the pot with a masher, I push them through the ricer, extruding them into tiny little bits that can be gently stirred into warmed dairy, reducing the amount of mashing needed, which […]
Find a Relationship by ‘Home Depot Dating’
Is it possible to go shopping for a life partner? According to the latest TikTok trend, it might just be: “Home Depot dating,” which has racked up more than 6 million views on the social media app, first started as videos of single women looking for eligible bachelors among the hammers, paints, and screwdrivers in […]
Stacks price prediction: STX is primed for the upcoming Bitcoin halving
Stacks price has soared in the aftermath of interest in Bitcoin NFTs with the launch of Ordinals. STX rose to an all-time high of $3.39 in December 2021. Analysts say the upcoming Bitcoin halving could catalyse fresh rallies for the token. Stacks, the Bitcoin layer that leverages smart contracts to enable decentralised finance (DeFi) and […]
Google’s Gary Illyes On Recovering From The Helpful Content Update
Gary Illyes from Google said in his Q&A session yesterday at PubCon that while recovering from a Google helpful content update is possible, you can’t always get back to where you were.
GoogleHas Its Own Way To Send Traffic To Publishers Through Bard/Chat
Google Bard and its chat-based search features that have yet to be seen in the wild may have their unique way of sending publishers traffic, unique from Bing’s AI Chat feature. According to some Twitter coverage of his talk, Gary Illyes from Google said this at PubCon yesterday.
Google Ads Adds Automatically Created Assets & Loses Some Location Targeting Settings
Google Ads now supports automatically created assets, and the new customer acquisition goal is fully live. But also, in March, the “Search Interest” targeting and “Presence or Interest” exclusion will no longer be available in Google Ads.
Google’s Gary Illyes: Authorship, Links & Disavows Less Important Than SEOs Think
Gary Illyes from Google gave a keynote and a Q&A session yesterday at PubCon and while the keynote was pretty vanilla stuff, the Q&A did reconfirm a lot of what has been said in the past around authorship, links and disavowing links.
