Get the latest real estate news right here. If you’d like to receive it monthly via email, just sign up. Howdy Redfinnians! Here at last is the round up of everything that moved this month in the real estate market. At Redfin, our agents are racing to keep up with all the folks who want… Read More
As part of Redfin’s brown-bag series, social marketing guru Michelle Broderick came by to talk about how to turn your brand into a party that everybody wants to join. Michelle knows a thing or two about marketing, having worked for Yelp, Yahoo, Continental and Real. And she knows how to be funny and charming. I… Read More
This Friday, at midnight, the Federal Home Buyer Tax Credit will expire for anyone not in contract at that time. The definition of “in contract” is a mutually accepted offer, fully signed and initialed by both the buyer and the seller. Anything less than this will not qualify, nor will anything signed even one second… Read More
Just a reminder that Redfin’s brown-bag program this week features Michelle Broderick, a savvy, new-generation marketeer who understands guerilla warfare, social marketing and viral programs better than your average bear. I think she was the one who came up with the “People Love Us on Yelp” stickers that you see in restaurant windows all over… Read More
Almost every event at Redfin can be divided into two categories: success-disasters and disaster-disasters. In a success-disaster, the best-case scenario is so unexpected that it results in a fiasco. The web servers crash under the load. The dog catches the car. The Democrats win Congress. You wear the same outfit Sunday morning as on Saturday… Read More
In addition to being Earth Day, April 22nd was also Take Your Child to Work Day. Originally designed as “Take your Daughter to Work Day” as a way to empower girls and women in the workplace, today’s version is gender neutral, and here at Redfin we had a perfect 50/50 split. Redfin is a fairly… Read More
There are many, many programs to learn from entrepreneurs, big-shots, CEOs and marketers. We should know as we’ve been hosting a wildly successful brown-bag lunch series out of Redfin’s Seattle office from March – May. Folks like aQuantive CEO Brian McAndrews, Google’s Roy Gilbert and the old Yahoo battle-axe James Slavet have agreed to talk… Read More
As part of our brown-bag lunch program on management best practices, the legendary Brian McAndrews visited Redfin Friday. Brian took aQuantive through the highs and lows, leading the company out of the dot-com bust and building it into the juggernaut that sold to Microsoft in 2007 for $6 billion. His talk on how to manage… Read More
Redfin published an essay in TechCrunch today, “To Steve or Not to Steve,” about entrepreneurs who impose their personalities on a startup. Redfin’s Matt Goyer read it first, to make sure it wouldn’t offend anyone. Matt’s an insightful soul, so I knew he would also appreciate the nuances of my argument. When he was done,… Read More
Sorry for the last minute notice but we need to cancel tomorrow’s (April 14th) brown bag with Roy Gilbert (former nuclear submarine lieutenant, currently a director at Google). We don’t have a new date confirmed just yet but we’ll let you know here when we do. And we are still on for Friday’s brown bag… Read More