January 31st, 2010
This last week I talked to two real estate photographers that have built area listing sites designed to reach home sellers with the message that good photography helps to sell homes ( John Quarles in the Birmingham, AL area and Dan Abraham in the Prince George, BC area). Area listing sites list part or all [...]
January 29th, 2010
If you watched Steve Jobs demonstrate the iPad Wednesday you may have noticed while he browsed through the New York Times there was little blue cube on the screen. This is what the iPhone operating system (the iPad uses iPhone OS) displays when it encounters a Flash component on a page. It’s saying, “I don’t [...]
January 28th, 2010
For those that may not have noticed Jeremy Esland’s thread in the PFRE flickr group recently, I think it is worth posting here again. This before and after gallery is from ampimage.com. The owner of the site, Ashley Morrison, specializes in interior and hotel photography. Ashley works with Marie McMillen an interior designer when shooting [...]
January 26th, 2010
I’ve been a enthusiastic DropBox user for some time and have been getting comfortable with the convenience of having important files accessible via a special drive in “the cloud”. In a previous post, I described how to use DropBox for photo delivery. After seeing Leo Laporte’s coverage of some of the new products this year at [...]
January 24th, 2010
Mike Miriello over at RealEstatePhotographyPodcast.com has decided to add a regular Q & A feature to his Podcast and Mike invited me to join him via Skype to discuss answers to questions sent to us via this Q & A form on his site. The way this will work is you just send us your [...]
January 22nd, 2010
Clark Dugger just sent me a link to an article in the LA Times today by James Rainey, titled “For photographers and graphic artists, not a pretty picture out there“. To me it feels like this article is written from the point of view of someone that has spent their career in print media and [...]
January 21st, 2010
Today I did a phone interview with Alison Rogers of CBS MoneyWatch.com for a blog post that she just put up on the Ask the Agent blog on the CBS MoneyWatch blog. This was one of those interviews that you don’t get to choose the questions, but I love having any opportunity to get the [...]
January 16th, 2010
Sometimes when you are doing marketing copy being painfully honest is the best approach. This marketing copy is brilliantly simple and unforgettable. This little commercial is a kick, but it’s just the “tip of the iceberg”. This commercial was done by Rhett and Link over at ilovelocalcommercials.com. These two guys show the power of a [...]
January 14th, 2010
I noticed that Reator.com released a iPhone app yesterday and downloaded it and used the app to browse through all the listings in the neighborhood I thought I’d take a look at the Realtor.com site directly. Since we quit using Realtor.com in about 2004 I’d not looked at Realtor.com for a very long while. I was [...]
January 12th, 2010
The holidays are wearing off and it’s hard to avoid the fact that it’s time to start engaging again. In the real estate world it’s still a relatively quiet time that’s perfect for education, reflecting and planning. At this time of the year I always like to spend some time reviewing what things I did [...]
