“Rich in Time,” or, Making Lemonade Out of Un(der)employment No, they don’t have a lot of disposable income — that’s kind of the whole point, actually. But it turns out that the nation’s 20 million-plus un/underemployed represent a huge, untapped market — and companies with a recreational and/or social networking angle are catching on. Apple...Read More
Who Will be the “Google” of Wall Street?Anyone else feeling a sense of deja vu here? The last time a corporation — U.S. or otherwise — inspired as much sheer disdain, disgust, and outright hostility as Goldman Sachs does now was Microsoft almost 20 years ago. At the time, Microsoft was beginning to practically gush...Read More
A Case of, “If it ‘Aint Broke? . . .”” Are would-be home Buyers sitting on their hands for the same reason I’m still using my (almost) three-year old Palm Treo? Granted, I’m not the typical cell phone buyer. As a Realtor, I want my cell phone to have an infrared sensor so it can...Read More
Bing vs. Google: No Pay, No Play It is a bit of an understatement to say that this blog’s rank on Technorati, one of the third-party sites that track such things, has bounced around. In the almost two years that I’ve been blogging (yeah, it’s a verb), Technorati has ranked City Lakes Real Estate Blog...Read More
The Twin Cities’ 40th Best RE Blog? Really?? Run a Google search on “Twin Cities’ best real estate blog” and what do you find? Not this blog. At least, not in the top 25 hits (“City Lakes Real Estate” was actually 40th as of this morning — at least before this post pushed it up...Read More