Happy Holidays from FOREM

Wishing all FOREM readers a very happy holiday season. 2008 was one of the busiest years on this blog. Traffic keeps growing month by month and RSS readership recently cracked the 5K mark. Thank you to all visitors for your feedback, comments and questions.  Heck I’ll even take the occasional insult every once and a while [...]

Answers Answers Answers

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. - Voltaire I’m a big fan of engaging consumers online and answering their questions as a marketing strategy (see Impart your Wisdom with Answers). It’s not a new strategy, not particularly inventive, but it is effective. Really, it’s win-win all around. For consumers they get what [...]

Use Google Friend Connect to Quickly Add Community to your Site

Late last week I added Google Friend Connect to this blog (if you followed @jburslem on Twitter you would have seen my tweet asking for people to help me test it out). I did so after Google  made the service widely available to all web site owners. Friend Connect is part of the Open Social movement [...]

One Very Compelling Reason to Upgrade to a Trulia Pro Account

Agents can now change the linked web site of their listings on Trulia to their own web site. A common request from agents on Trulia.com is to change the linked web site for their listings, so the listing points to their own web sites. When we receive multiple listing submissions for a property, we aggregate the [...]