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Jul 19
2010

Realtor.com: IPhone App Boosts Phone Calls to Realtors

Realtor.com has gotten 1.3 million downloads of its iPhone app, which launched in January. “It is the fastest growing app in the category,” President Errol Samuelson told Inman Real Estate Connect attendees in San Francisco last week. “The content is free; the attention is priceless,” he added, riffing on the MasterCard ad campaign. The iPhone …continue reading »

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Jul 14
2010

Redfin’s Glenn Kelman at Inman: 16 Markets by end of 2010

Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman told Inman Real Estate Connect attendees in San Francisco yesterday that his “customer first” brokerage is likely to be in 16 markets by yearend 2010. The site is currently in 12 markets and employs 100 agents. Redfin’s apparent progress is seen by some as evidence that the advantage goes to brokerages …continue reading »

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Jul 14
2010

Scoble at Inman: Location Represents Third Movement of Info

Blog king Robert Scoble, during a presentation at Inman Real Estate Connect today in San Francisco, said we’ve entered “the third movement of information” during the Internet era. All are necessary to boost appearances on Google, he told the real estate oriented audience. In 1998, we saw the introduction of the blog, he noted. In …continue reading »

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Aug 6
2009

Inman SF Connect: Realtor.com CEO Steve Berkowitz

For years, Realtor.com has been widely predicted to fail, even with an audience that is more than twice the size of its next closest rival. Its technology has been considered un-innovative, the quality of its customer service has been questioned, and pricing has also been considered out of line. But new CEO Steve Berkowitz, the …continue reading »

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Aug 6
2009

Inman SF Connect: Redfin’s Glenn Kelman

One of the big new ideas of the consumer resolutions during the past few years has been Redfin, a real estate service that provides consumers with comprehensive home buying tools and pays real estate professionals flat fees with bonuses based on the quality of their service as judged by consumers. The company, which is in …continue reading »

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Jul 24
2008

Inman: Social Media is Real, Mobile Will Be

Social media may not be worth much as an advertising medium right now, but it has become a critical part of real estate marketing, according to speakers at the Inman Real Estate Connect conference in San Francisco. “It is not just FaceBook or MySpace,” notes Sami Inkinen, Co-founder and COO, Trulia. “With Trulia Voices, you …continue reading »

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Jul 23
2008

Craig at Inman

Craigslist is arguably the number one real estate site with real estate-oriented page views in the “low billions per month.” So it makes sense to have founder Craig Newmark address the first day of the Inman Real Estate Conference in San Francisco. Newmark never reveals very much about the service, humbly referring to himself as …continue reading »

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