Author Archives: Todd Carpenter

How homebuyers use the Internet in their home search

I get this request all the time: @tcar can you link me to the # of buyers who started their search online in 2006? Thanks! — Chris Smith (@Chris_Smth) February 1, 2012 NAR creates a yearly Profile of Homebuyers & Sellers with this information. If you’ve ever heard an industry pundit saying something to the…

Ummm… Sorry about that

Well that was embarrassing… Joshua Dorkin – @jrdorkin @tcar Your Twitter account is going insane posting old blog posts . . . Chad Huck  – @ChadHuck .@tcar is blowing up the timeline! Drew Meyers – @drewmeyers @tcar what is going on with your feed? Bob Wilson – @bob_wilson @tcar polluting my stream with ancient…

The number one question we get before the conference…

Every year we get the question via Twitter. Is it #NARdiego? #NARlando? #NARleans? What’s the official hashtag on Twitter for the annual conference? 2011 is no different: Ric Dizon – @RicDizon @nik_nik What hashtag is being used for NAR? #NAR #Narpediem #NARAnnual #NARAnaheim #NAR2011 I’ve also heard #aNARheim, but that’s a good list. Nicole Nicolay…

Show them where you sit before you tell them where you stand

Everyone has an agenda. An ax to grind. A position. A bias. Everyone. Those who pretend they don’t, often have the strongest biases. Those who lie to themselves that they’re unbiased, often have the most devious biases. I’ve noticed a lot of hidden agendas surfacing lately. All agendas eventually do. People try to hide their…

If Mariana Wagner drove off a cliff, would you follow her?

My friend Mariana Wagner is one of those people who has backed up her blogging and social media efforts with something few can claim at the same caliber. RESULTS. The Wagner Team is doing great, and a good bit of her business is generated from her online efforts. When real estate agents ask me for examples…

Why most group blogs inevitably jump the shark.

David Armano’s post on how to be amazing reminds me of one of my favorite Henry Ford quotes: “If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.” One of Ford’s…

I love this.

I like Ferrari’s take on transparency

One of the great things about living in Chicago is seeing quarter-million dollar cars parallel parked on the street. I snapped this today because it made me think about transparency in a web 2.0 world. Ferrari uses a transparent engine cover on many of its cars. What they are saying is that the car is…

A New Sticker for my iPad

I paid good money to have that ninja drawn for me. Most people have only seen the head. It was my old Twitter avatar. The text all comes from my whiteboard album on Facebook.

Touching the clouds

One of the amazing things about living in Chigago is that I tend to forget just how tall all these buildings are. Every once in a while I’m reminded why they call them sky scapers.

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