During the Spring of 2025, I put this prompt into ChatGPT: “Draft a blog post on realtor associations and financial sustainability during a time on potential consolidation, risks to the industry, negative media coverage, and potential loss of revenue from MLS decoupling and the removal of the NAR three way agreement” I deliberately wrote...
Where’s My Wow? Behind the rejection of an enterprise software sales pitch
Someone in my professional network once told me that his company had just declined to purchase a major enterprise software solution which, he admits, the company urgently needed. The software solution covered accounting, cash management, inventory control and procurement. All critical functions. It would have replaced their existing management software which was buggy and...
How my two least favorite words actually tell your story the best
I learned the word “curator” as a kid in elementary school while reading a fictional story about an art heist at a museum. The museum’s curator wasn’t happy about that. The word “curate” has since been used in many – too many – other ways. I thought it was an overdone example of storytelling...
Future proofing your web presence is not just a buzzword – it’s real leadership
The political business is rife with sayings of conventional wisdom that are either thought-provoking, like “Praise in public and criticize in private”, or darkly funny, like “If you want a friend, get a dog”, or both. A whole dictionary of sayings about leadership is also in wide circulation, like “If you are one step...
WP-API’s delay shows that the more things change…
I was going to write more about APIs and how they are not only the future of data on the web but also the future of data in real estate. APIs – in particular a flavor called REST API – allow for a universal way for devices, websites and databases to talk to each...