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The Way We Look for Things Is Changing (opens the original)
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I used to be a buyer for a catalog company.An actual catalog company.I filled containers. Managed projections. Figured out what merchandise was going where and how much of it we would need months before anyone actually bought it.And catalogs were huge.If you are of a certain age, you probably remember the JCPenney catalog. The enormous one. You flipped through it, folded pages, circled things, went back to things you had already looked at five times. It wasn’t just a way to shop. It was part of
Anyone Can List a House (opens the original)
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Anyone can list a house.They can count the bedrooms, measure the square footage and upload the photographs. They can tell us there are quartz countertops, hardwood floors and a roof that was replaced three years ago.All useful information.But none of it answers the question a hesitant buyer is really asking:Why should I spend my money on this home?Not just: Is it worth the price?But: Why this house? Why this neighborhood? Why this version of my life?That is where real marketing begins.A house is
The Wrong Channel (opens the original)
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Football season is starting. My son’s already back at practice, we caught the preseason games, and last week I spent twenty minutes trying to figure out which app, which subscription, which channel would actually let me watch the games I wanted to watch. It shouldn’t be that hard. It never is, and it always is.It reminded me of something else I’ve been living with for the past few months: trying to find a home.I’m looking to buy in the next year, and I’ve been searching real neighborhoods, real
The Driver (opens the original)
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If you read “The Reset,” you know where I land on stagnant listings: putting a house on MLS isn’t marketing it. But I left you with a question, not an answer. So let’s actually answer it.Every listing that’s sitting has the same problem underneath it, whether it’s $300,000 or $3 million: nobody’s asked who actually wants this house. Not houses like it. This one. Most agents skip that question entirely and go straight to the tactics — better photos, a price cut, boosting the post. All of that mig
The Reset (opens the original)
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I found a bookstore in Tampa this morning I didn’t know existed. I was in the area early, errands already half-done, and I wandered in on a whim. The woman who helped me might be one of the nicest people I’ve ever dealt with in a retail setting, period. They run little community events out of the place. It was, without question, the best part of my Sunday.I’ve always read a lot. But there was a stretch — when life got too full, too structured, too much of everything at once — where I stopped com
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