Women: Real Estate Power-Buyers!

Women: Power-Buyers of Real Estate!At the end of last year, I blogged about the buying power of women in the real estate arena over on ActiveRain. Now, having just made a move from the country (where I own a farm) to the city (where I’m begrudgingly renting for the next 18-24 months), I’m even more firm in my conviction that women do the lion’s share of decision making in families. *I’m exhaused!*

Today, I get a couple emails in from a client with an emphasis on the buying power and the decision-making role of single and married females alike. One is from Inman News and the other is from the New York Times (I apologize if a registration is required to read it):

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How Low-Tech Can You Go? Weird (But Cool) Website

A recent pearl in the www — a website promoting an author’s book that is so low-tech, but so original and so cool that I don’t care that it breaks all the “rules” for websites.

Visit a book website that you won’t soon forget — using what’s available in the kitchen, a dry erase marker and flash to tell the whole story!

Writers are ALL creative people, even when out of their “customary” element!

Crushing on Obama Rides a Media Wave

The “new” media approach to self-publishing multimedia on the web is doing more in the political arena of late. This one, highly questionable presentation IMHO, has struck a cord on the web by using sex to sell the candidate. It’s produced by BarelyPolitical.com and is cute, albeit bothersome.

http://www.youtube.com/v/wKsoXHYICqU

And you thought Apple’s iPod had great fan-created multi-media stuff!

Company Offers to Clean Up Reputations on Google

Recently, Forbes released an article about a company offering “reputation defense” on Google, the world’s most popular search engine.

By carefully promoting positive PR on Google via SEO techniques to minimize the impact of negative Internet blogs, reviews and articles, this company accentuates the positive (to quote a favorite Disney song.) Is this the latest business model? Protection from online publication (Google-Bombing-style) and negative pieces on the first page of Google? Hmmmm.

I’ll bet that Bush’s PR guy would have been happy to pay the $10K price tag for this service last year. (The company, Reputation Defender, also offers reputation monitoring services for a much more reasonable monthly rate.)

It continues to be a brave new world (tomorrow) for service businesses that we don’t even know that we need (today) resulting from the impact of online activity (yesterday).

Increases in Show Me Marketing Techniques

Like.com - Another Step In Visual Online MarketingThe visual aspects of online marketing are growing as quickly as video streams and video podcasts. One of the coolest incarnations of this in a retail format is a visual “comparative” search engine. Surprisingly enough… I used it to search for that perfect bag.

I burned a good two hours of precious sleep time, but found that the set up was easy to use, enjoyable and quite comprehensive (I saw bags from several different angles, including the inside dividers, pockets and organizational highlights).

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