If you have not wasted enough time playing Mansion Impossible, I got a new one for you.
My Sustainable House is a game, but super educational about the building a greener home process. Have a little fun, learn a little bit and if you are up to it, come back and post your score. I got a [...]
You need to check out this cool site. It is called Trulia Hindsight. Trulia is a real estate search site that puts together cool gadgets and tools that I sometimes spend my spare time playing with. Am I nerd? I think geek. But if you have someone helping you buy or sell a house, don’t [...]
Things that you will see while driving around Madison, Wisconsin.
Take a virtual tour of the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile at their site.
Here is a video of the Oscar Mayer Weiner Song via Oprah, gospel style.
The last few weeks, I have been putting up music videos with “Home” as the theme.
This week is “Home” by Marc Broussard. ENJOY!!!
Related Video Posts:
Home by Michael Buble
Coming Home by The 88’s
You can’t buy happiness
Make it a great day
Rent or Own
Real Estate TV Ads: Boring, Boring, Boring
Why are Real Estate TV [...]
After meeting with a FSBO another for a listing appointment and then meeting with a FSBO to chat about the real estate market and give them insights and tips on getting their home sold, I had to go grocery shopping for a dinner party tonight.
I headed to Copps Food in Monona. By the way, if you [...]
The downtown Madison area is located between two lakes.
Lake Monona and Lake Mendota.
This is a photo I took today from the Lake Monona side. Over looking Lake Monona, you can see the downtown Madison area, including the Monona Terrace and the Wisconsin State Capital building.
The Monona Terrace is the building front and center in the [...]
Last week I mentioned that I liked The 88’s song, Coming Home. Their song plays in a Target commercial. Lets keep the trend going. Here is “Home” by Michael Buble.
Related Video/Posts:
You can’t buy happiness
Make it a great day
Rent or Own
Real Estate TV Ads: Boring, Boring, Boring
Why are Real Estate TV ads [...]
Did you take our quiz yesterday?
If you answered TRUE to 8 or more questions, your home for sale has definitely helped another home sell.
If you answered TRUE to 5-7 questions, you might want to re-examine your marketing, price, staging and other things. You can read here, about our 10/20 Rule and how many showing you [...]
I mentioned that I liked the Target ad and the back ground song in that commercial. This is the band, The 88 that are performing the song called “Coming Home”.
Related Video/Posts:
You can’t buy happiness
Make it a great day
Rent or Own
Yesterday I wondered why do real estate company TV ads suck so bad?
I started skating around the blogosphere ( I figure if you surf the web, you skate the blogos) looking for answers. Over at FoREM, Joel Burlsem wrote,
Real estate ads have become so generic they’re forgettable. Same boring messages. Same boring situations. So who’s going to [...]
Quick.
Name a memorable real estate TV ad. Got it.
Was it clever? Was it funny? Did it convey emotion?
Oh. You can’t even remember one. That’s because real estate TV ad’s suck almost as much as real estate logos. I don’t know if executives at the top just refuse to hire good firms to help with promotion [...]
I think Realtor cliche’s are funny. I have been as guilty as anyone in using them, but I am going to strive to eliminate them from my marketing.
What is a Realtor cliche? I wrote a post awhile back and had some great comments added to some Realtor cliches, but in general, it’s a line that [...]
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The City of Madison recently got new trash bins refuse carts. Madison Guy from Letter from Here explains:
It wasn’t any old bin. Mayor Dave explained that it was our “new tan refuse cart” (to go with the new trucks with the robot arms). To make sure I knew the message [...]
I recieved this email in my inbox this morning,
Darin -
My name is Rick Berg and I got your name from a reporter at The Capital
Times (Mike Ivey) who is doing a story today on the sluggish Dane County
real estate market.
I’m filling in for Mitch Henck (WIBA, 1310 AM) on Wednesday morning and
wanted to spend an [...]
I said earlier,
“Days on Market has nothing to do with a Buyer’s Market or Seller’s Market.”
It doesn’t? Not really.
What you can see in the Dane County Days On Market chart below is that single family days on market are fairly reasonable, a little over two months. But there are always two markets going on in a [...]
The Madison Real Estate News Week In Review…
…will return after the UW Badger football season.
I will be posting Madison real estate news and reviews during the week though. I just don’t want to have to compete against Badger football on saturdays.
Until the Weekend Weedout returns, catch up on some past happenings that may or may [...]
We are getting to launch a number of new things at Edyn and it’s going to be very time consuming. So, I sat down to redo my schedule and try to find an extra 15 hours in the work week. As I’m reorganizing and time blocking my new week I came across this blogsite with [...]
A little while back I wrote about retiring the marketing line Priced To Sell.
Seth Godin, master marketer, author and blogger put up on his Squidoo site a list of overused business cliches.
On the other hand, the vast majority of buzzwords exist for one reason: to hide. By obfuscating, lying, confusing or just plain avoiding the issue, [...]
No Weekend Weed Out For Madison real estate today, instead some info on the Madison Wisconsin Roots Festival.
The show is taking place today at the Capital Brewery.
The line up is:
Acoustic-2:30-3:00pm (Mike Droho)
Blues-3:30-4:15pm (Cash Box King)
Rock-4:45-5:30pm (Mighty Short Bus)
Reggae- 6:00-6:45pm (Natty Nation)
7:15pm- 8:30pm (Willy Porter)
Yesterday I wrote about how I think the marketing phrase Priced To Sell is stupid. I questioned what else would it be priced to do. We came up a with few things.
Priced To Sit On The Market And Expire From Listing Contract
Priced To Cause Frustration Between Realtor and Seller A Month On The Market
Priced To Make [...]
You’ve read the real estate ad.
“This home is priced to sell!”
What else on Earth would it be priced to do?
I’m sure I’ve used this Realtor cliche at some point and time. I vow not to do it again though. It’s stupid.
Priced to sell!!! Is this is the most creative, best marketing line we can come [...]
I sat for a long time trying to figure out what to write. I wanted to make the 100th post special. It’s not going to be, but I had to write to get it out of the way.
I am amazed that we have hit 100 posts already. Edyn Real Estate’s vision is to make the [...]
As a Realtor I spend a good deal of time on a computer. I look for property on the MLS for my buyers, I read and write email, I fill out contracts, I read and write blogs, etc. etc. So I might have missed a snowstorm here in Madison.
There can not be any other explanation for the pictures [...]
Ya’ll get two posts today. That’s just how we roll sometimes. We are givers at EDYN. We give ’til it hurts. Granted they are short and this one isn’t really a post, but more of a question.
When do you think The Gardyn will recieve its 10,000 visit. At the time of writing this we have [...]
This home has two for sale signs! The MLS shows that it is for sale by one of brokers that has a sign in the yard. Not sure why the other for sale yard sign is there. If I’m a buyer I would be really confused about what phone number to call.
My blog allows me to see what key words people type in to find my blog. I have another blog that is dedicated to helping real estate agents and sales people with their business and career called More Listings | More Sales.
Someone found the More Listings | More Sales blog this morning by using Google, Dog [...]
I’m going to be taking the day off today to hang out at the lake with my girfriend, her brother and my nephew and do some wakeboarding.
My nephew is going to be a senior this year in high school and will soon be leaving for college. I might not be able to spend as much time [...]
“Madison is a great place for a kid to spend the summer,” said Mayor Cieslewicz. “From the Goodman Pool to our many parks to the Overture Center, there is plenty to do, and it’s all free or very affordable for families from all walks of life. With gas prices higher than ever, there’s no need [...]
I would think a Divorce Attorney card would be the most thrown away card in all of business cards.
If you met a Divorce Attorney at a networking event and took his card and stuffed it in your pocket or purse and forget about it, then your spouse some how came acrossed it, you’re probably going to have some explaining to do [...]
If you were to call my phone 608-333-5915 and got my voicemail, you would hear me end my voicemail message with “..make it a great day!” I have ended my voicemail with “…make it a great day!” for close to five years. I have realized that you can’t have a great day unless YOU make it [...]
I love cornbread. I just love it. I just do. I would take cornbread over a piece of chocolate cake or a slice of apple pie. I don’t know why. I just love cornbread.
That is my taste. I can understand why someone would want something different than cornbread. That is their taste. Every has different [...]
We all have had over 3,000 hits! In just a little over 6 weeks The Gardyn has attracted more visits than we could have ever hoped for at this point and time. Thanks to everyone who drops by. It is our vision to make the real estate industry transparent for you through innovation, education, and [...]
Awhile back we posted about EDYN figuring out our Mission, Vision, Values and Belief. We have it.
Mission
To build communities, connect lives and assist in life’s transitions.
Vision
We make the business world transparent for agents and the real estate industry transparent for the consumer, through innovation, education, and information.
You can read everything on our Mission/Vision page. Now, we just [...]
Is this like a Real Estate Agent and their client? Maybe even a Real Estate Broker and their agents?
Sourced: You Tube From: www.bringtheloveback.com
Madison Real Estate News Week In Review
Back from a great training event from speak John G. Miller, the author of QBQ! The Question Behind The Question, we are interested in catching up on what has happened since we left Madison in the middle of the week. So what is the news that may or may [...]
After looking at so many homes you lost count. After meeting with mortgage lenders. After open houses on Sunday. After many late night searches on the internet. After doing neighborhood drive arounds.
You have found the one. The one home that is worthy of you sitting down to write an offer with your agent.
After all this time [...]
Video: Three Amigo’s Source: YouTube
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