Real estate blog entries tagged with zillow by Matt Heaton (Timu Corp - CEO, ActiveRain

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zillow: Why lead aggregation is a dead business model in real estate - 12/12/06 02:27 AM

One of my first posts on ActiveRain was title, The downfall of the "Lead Generators" and I wanted to revisit the topic. Over the last several months I've heard lots of people question whether companies like Zillow, Trulia, Move and Google will switch to a lead generation model as opposed to advertising once … (45 comments)

zillow: Another real estate bubble... - 12/09/06 05:39 PM

No, I'm not talking about the housing bubble that's been center page in the media for the past couple years. I'm talking about the bubble in listing aggregation services that is very quickly inflating to huge proportions. Everybody and their cousin is working on some scheme to aggregate listings at a … (8 comments)

zillow: Zillow now allows homeowners to modify data - 09/20/06 12:45 PM

This morning I received an email from Drew Meyers over at Zillow about a pretty substantial update to their site or as they call it "Z2". I'm sure the hope was that I'd blog about it on ActiveRain and contribute to Zillow's Internet buzz, it worked. Whether you like Zillow or … (23 comments)

zillow: Carnival of Real Estate - 07/31/06 11:56 AM

A few weeks ago a new website was launched by Zillow at http://www.carnivalofrealestate.com/ The basic idea is each week they will choose someone to host a "Blog Carnival" that highlights the best real estate related blog postings made by bloggers over the previous week. There are also "Blog Carnival" sites for … (5 comments)

zillow: Innovators and Aggregators - 07/04/06 02:00 PM

I was just looking over the finalists for the 2006 Inman News - Innovator Awards. One thing that struck me how many of the companies are "Listings Aggregators". Listing aggregators are companies that pull together real estate listings on a national level and present them to consumers. Three that I see prominently mentioned … (3 comments)

zillow: The downfall of the "Lead Generators" - 06/30/06 08:14 PM

The other night I was reading a post on Joel Burslem's real estate marketing blog which I replied to but also felt like would make a good topic for this blog. Basically he was questioning the advertising revenue model that Zillow has adopted and wondering if it made more sense for them to … (6 comments)

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