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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

Cazoodle Apartment Search

I ran across an interesting apartment site (and blog) the other day. I emailed back and forth with Arpit Jain and he explains the site with the following:
To help the users searching for rental apartments in a location, we are developing an apartment search engine that can automatically crawl thousands of apartment listings […]

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

RentBlurb.com Is Selling After 4 Years In Business

I just got off the phone with Aaron Hassen of RentBlurb.com. He is looking for a buyer of his regional rental site for the Orlando area which ranks pretty well on Google.
His site is done in PHP.
If you know anyone that is interested, have them contact Aaron on his contact form.
It is a little sad […]

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Google Calls RentVine A Safe Site To Browse

Just wanted my users to know that RentVine is clean of any suspicious malware according to Google. Always nice when Google has something nice to say about your site.
What would be cool is to put this in a seal format and place it on my About Us page to help with confidence for […]

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Where A Vantage Properties Advertises Their Properties

I posted this video over on my PmDave.com site but I thought people on this blog might be interested on how Wendy Frenzel at A Vantage Properties advertises her properties.
Very interesting tactic.
I also did a podcast with Wendy a while back if you want to listen to it.
Post from: Dave Dugdale RentVine Home Rental Blog

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Which Advertising Business Model Works Well For Rentals [Video]

Dan Daugherty from RentMarketer sits down with me and discussed which business models work well in different rental verticals.
Dan likes the fix cost ads (similar to RentVine) for single family homes and a hybrid model for apartments.
Post from: Dave Dugdale RentVine Home Rental Blog

Monday, June 16th, 2008

More People Searching For Houses For Rent In 2008

As you can see 2008 is a great year so far for people searching for “houses for rent” on Google.
Why is it so good, is it because the housing market?
Post from: Dave Dugdale RentVine Home Rental Blog

Friday, June 6th, 2008

SMX Advanced 2008 Roundup [Video]

Instead of doing a writeup like I did for last year’s SMX Advanced conference, I made a video so my friends at home could get an idea what the conference is like.
I can’t remember everyone’s name in the video (sessions I attended), but I think this list has it covered:
Roger Montti, Founder & Owner, MartiniBuster.com
Stephan […]

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Matt Cutts Take On Fabricated Link Bait [Video]

I have been interested off topic link bait the past few weeks, which is somewhat related to fabricated link bait, so when Danny Sullivan asked Matt Cutts about the 13 year old/hooker fake news story during You&A With Matt Cutts a couple of days ago, I took out my camera and video taped Matt […]

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Orlando Has A New Rental Site

Robbie asked me to mention his new site, even though Robbie is a competitor of mine I don’t mind giving him a plug for his new site in the Orlando area. Robbie comments here on this blog a lot and has helped me in the past.
His new site is called OrlandoRentalAds.com. Since I have a […]

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

What Type Of Renters Are You Looking For?

My friend last night was telling me about the type of renters he gets based off where he advertises. My friend has been a landlord for many years and many types of housing types.
One of his properties that is located close to Pearl Street Mall in Boulder Colorado that is easy to rent out because […]