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real estate technology: Sneak Peek - 50 Websites in 50 Minutes - 02/16/11 03:46 PM
I haven't been on Active Rain in awhile. It isn't that I wasn't thinking about my old friends here. I missed you all a lot. I even tried to resurrect Carnac more than once, but found it absolutely impossible considering the growth of Active Rain and the fact that 99% of the 200,000 members wouldn't even recognize Carnac. I suspect that some of the new folks would think I'm a wise ass rather than a really nice person with a sense of humor that offends occasionally. (Ok, more than occasionally.) Oh, how I miss the ginzu knives, moderator dart boards, and the spatulas from Spatula City.
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real estate technology: 60 Websites in 60 Minutes - 06/05/10 08:31 PM

I've been selling real estate in Ledyard CT for over 33 years. I've had good success, sold a bunch of houses, won some awards, and as a result have been invited to speak at a number of real estate events including RE/MAX International Conventions, Inman Connect and regional conferences.
Lots of speakers at conventions and conferences will tell you how to sell real estate and use technology in your business. Unfortunately, many speakers have never actually sold real estate. I'm not a professional speaker and I didn't sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night but I do sell real estate and … (43 comments)

real estate technology: And so it began.... - 09/04/06 08:18 AM
The last 10 years have brought revolutionary changes to the real estate industry especially as it relates to technology.  I'll never forget the first website I built in 1995, the same year as Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 1.0 and Windows 95.  Of course, there were very few people looking online for information about real estate.  My site was more of a resource - a link I could email potential customers with information about the area.  As far as finding my website, search engines were still in their infancy and Google  wasn't officially born until 1998.
It is hard to believe that only 10 … (7 comments)