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Inman Real Estate Connect Preview

Next week is Inman Real Estate Connect in SF, also known as “The Brad Inman Fund Raiser”…. I kid..I kid.

I’m looking forward to the conference and being in San Francisco.

Looks like Brad and his team have put together another great agenda. I’m stoked to see Merlin Mann I enjoy his blog and look forward to hearing what he has to say. The Blogger’s Connect agenda looks promising too.

Also what struck me as interesting is Sherry Chris’s new BH&G franchise is “officially” launching. I’ve been following their blog and you can sense the great spirit of starting something new. Something I am totally in tune with as well. This industry needs new and aggressive companies to lead the charge. Good Luck to Sherry and her team!

There are a bunch of parties going on all over the city. If you’ve got something to announce feel free to post a comment or send me an email at vendor.alley@gmail.com and I’ll put up a post.

Follow us at www.twitter.com/vendoralley to get the latest of all after parties and events going on in the city.

See you there!

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All I need is a red guitar, 3 chords and the TRUTH!

So it begins…

Woolley | Robertson Group has found a home!

Check out below to see WRG HQ in action.

We’ve subleased which can only be described as a large cubical from a local architect’s office. Many thanks to Brian at AFFINITI ARCHITECTS!

We’ve got a desks, chairs, power, internet access, and ideas. What else does a new startup need??



Front Entrance

Lobby

WRG HQ!

Get to work Dan!

What’s in Dan’s backpack?

Greg in deep meditation

Landmark Communications sells The Weather Channel



What’s next for Dominion Enterprises?

This past Sunday. Landmark Communications sold The Weather Channel for a reported 3.5 billion.

Many of you may know that Landmark Communications also owns Dominion Enterprises, which in turn owns many real estate technology companies such as eNeighborhoods, Advanced Access, Number1Expert (Best Image Marketing), Homes.com, Harmon Homes Magazine (now Homes.com magazine), and Katabat.

These companies are under the “Dominion Homes Media” umbrella at Dominion Enterprises. Landmark has made it known that Dominion Enterprises is also up for sale.

So now that the biggest ticket item has been sold you’ll see Landmark kick it up a notch to unload their other properties.

eNeighborhoods alone has large contracts with some of online real estate biggest players including remax.com and all Realogy brand websites. eNeighborhoods technology is also used by many lage MLS providers for data aggregation and search tools. Not to mention their industry staple agent product.

It’s not clear if Landmark will peel off different divisions of Dominion Enterprises or try to sell the whole thing as one piece.

Here’s how I see it;

1. Homes.com has got to be the most intuitive url in online real estate. Which is a better url for online real estate; Cyberhomes.com, move.com, trulia.com, zillow.com or Homes.com? (Great Brand)
2. eN controls large enterprises wide technoology contracts with major franchisors and MLS providers. – (Great Customers)
3. When you add Advanced Access, eN and Homes.com together you must have the largest agent subscription business in real estate. (Great Cash Flow)

Sounds to me like a triple threat. And it’s up for sale!

It will be interesting to see who has the imagination and checkbook to make an offer.

Bill Foley? Rich Barton? Mike Long? Pete or Sami? Brad Inman? Buller? Anyone….anyone….

My favorite Founding Father…

Happy Birthday America! Better days are ahead!!

In honor of this great day I thought I would put a post together about my favorite founding father.

As a successful printer and a prolific inventor you might say that Franklin was America’s first vendor! Here are a few of many great quotes from Franklin!

“Drive thy business or it will drive thee.”
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

“Well done is better than well said.”

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