To those of us that have made our job, livelihood or passion around this modern day technology, most of this is pretty basic. We look to Mashable or other sites to see how they have improved upon it or what the latest “plugin” is to take us to the next level. But… what about the other 90% of the world? What about the 40+ consumer that doesn’t get it or doesn’t think that social media is anything more than a way for high school kids to bitch about their teachers and share pictures?
Happy Holidays from Matt and The You Factor
December 25, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Wishing all of you the Happiest of Holidays this season and positive thoughts for an outstanding 2009! ~ Matt Dollinger and Family
Tired of Christmas Music? – Try a Rockabilly Christmas!
December 23, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Real Estate 2.0 – The Migration to Real Estate Advisor
December 21, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Recently, even before the changes in the market, I began talking about what we can simply refer to as “Real Estate 2.0”. This “Migration to Real Estate Advisor” has been fostered by some wonderfully generous leaders of our industry including Marc Davison of 1000 Watt Consulting (www.1000wattconsulting.com ), NikNik and Reggie of My Tech Opinion [...]
Google Street View to Include BFE by the Year 2011 – says The Onion
December 16, 2008 By Leave a Comment
According to the really really smart people in charge of Google Maps (including Google Street View) they are in the works of covering every nook and cranny of the world by 2011. (Just kidding)
However, they have done a great job of increasing their overall view of the United States and the world by increasing their coverage map:
Turn Your Gmail Account into a Text Messaging Machine
December 13, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Big shout out to Joel Burslem from FOREM for sending out a Tweet the other day discussing Google Labs’ new process for sending text messages from your Gmail account. The full “How To” can be found on the Google Labs Official Gmail Blog here , but it’s easy enough. I even put together a quick video [...]
How to Develop an Obama-like Marketing Plan for Your Business
December 12, 2008 By Leave a Comment
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential. – Barack Obama If you are like me (and even if [...]
Away For Important Matters
September 10, 2008 By Leave a Comment
I will be away from blogging for the next months as I devote my free time to supporting my candidate for the 2008 Presidential Election. Please do your part for your country and regardless of your political affiliation, register to vote for this upcoming election. Matt Dollinger TheYouFactor.com
Altos Research – All the Stats You Need Delivered to You
July 25, 2008 By Leave a Comment
So I’ve already said that I’m a numbers junkie. Stats, trends and all of those numbers that horrify some people make me giddy with excitement. A number of months ago we at @properties released our 2007 Market Report based on micro-neighborhood findings here in the Chicago area. I talked extensively about our findings and what [...]
Review of Jott: Speech to Email, Text and More
July 23, 2008 By Leave a Comment
So, I have jumped on the Jott bandwagon. This free program for iPhone, Blackberry and Treo allows you the freedom of using your handheld to send Email or Text messages to your contact list with your voice. It has one of the most accurate voice recognition programs that I have seen in quite a while [...]