"Dear Technorati: Please Check Your Classifications"
Well, yes, as a matter of fact I can rattle off practically every player from the 1969 Minnesota Vikings' football roster, starting with Joe Kapp and Alan Page.
Still, I'm pretty sure that's not why -- at least according to Technorati -- this blog is ranked in the top 1,000 football blogs worldwide (#747 to be exact, as of this morning . . . )
Funny, I always thought this blog was real estate-related . . .
Top 100 -- Really!
In fact, going by Technorati's "authority ranking," this blog is now ranked just outside the top 100 real estate blogs -- in the world!
IMHO, even that is misleading.
As *Lloyd Bentsen might say if he were a blogger, "I've read most of the top 100 real estate blogs, put up more frequent and better posts than they do -- and they're no City Lakes Real Estate blog."
As for the occasional anti-Wall Street rant by yours truly, as Bill Maher would say, "But I'm not wrong . . ."
*If you're under 30, Texas Senator (and '88 Democratic VP nominee) Lloyd Bentsen famously put down Dan Quayle when the latter had the temerity to compare himself to JFK.
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Thursday, February 18, 2010
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
"New Rules": Sales Ads
Holiday "Sales" That Aren't
Comedian and talk show host Bill Maher has a segment called "New Rules" where he rails at hypocrisy and stupidity -- especially when practiced by large organizations. Maher's "New Rules" substitutes his own, more sensible standard.
In that spirit, I've got a "New Rule" for stores that advertise sales, holiday or otherwise:
In fact, Edina Realty has long had an internal policy designed to cut down on the number of agent "blast" e-mail's heralding price reductions on their listings.
To be forwarded to agents company-wide, the price cut must be at least 5%.
P.S.: Don't know if this is an "urban myth," but I just heard a plausible explanation for why air fares seem to magically increase the closer you come to booking your tickets (while on an airline site recently, I had a quoted airfare increase in between the time (30 seconds?) when I selected the flight, and input my credit card for payment!)
The explanation?
Software on your computer, called, "cookies," lets the airlines track you, so they can guess -- or literally know -- when you're about to buy. Call it high tech "bait-and-switch" (advertise one fare, substitute another when you're ready to pull the trigger). Assuming, of course, that it's true.
Comedian and talk show host Bill Maher has a segment called "New Rules" where he rails at hypocrisy and stupidity -- especially when practiced by large organizations. Maher's "New Rules" substitutes his own, more sensible standard.
In that spirit, I've got a "New Rule" for stores that advertise sales, holiday or otherwise:
New Rule -- stores can't advertise that an item that's normally $25 is "on sale" because it's marked down to $24.89 (or a grocery store item that's normally $3.89 is "on sale" for $3.79). If you want to scream "sale" to Holiday-weary shoppers, the "sale item" must be marked down at least 5%.
In fact, Edina Realty has long had an internal policy designed to cut down on the number of agent "blast" e-mail's heralding price reductions on their listings.
To be forwarded to agents company-wide, the price cut must be at least 5%.
P.S.: Don't know if this is an "urban myth," but I just heard a plausible explanation for why air fares seem to magically increase the closer you come to booking your tickets (while on an airline site recently, I had a quoted airfare increase in between the time (30 seconds?) when I selected the flight, and input my credit card for payment!)
The explanation?
Software on your computer, called, "cookies," lets the airlines track you, so they can guess -- or literally know -- when you're about to buy. Call it high tech "bait-and-switch" (advertise one fare, substitute another when you're ready to pull the trigger). Assuming, of course, that it's true.
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