Glenn Kelman, Redfin and the Today Show; Short Version
Posted on December 18, 2007
Filed Under blogging, bloodhoundblog, Marketing, General |
Glenn Kelman is blessed with the genes of Harold Hill. After his coming out on Sixty Minutes - written about here, here and here - Kelman appeared last Friday on the Today Show to announce that he’d learned - scientifically! - that it indeed wasn’t a good idea to price a home too high. With limited respect to Meredith Viera and the MSM in general, the “Forget everything your real estate agent has told you!” is a little like a geek setting up a recipe algorithm and being introduced with “Forget what you’ve read in Julia Child, our next guest has found, turning conventional wisdom on its head, that white wine goes better with fish.”
I was going to write about it at length because the link was sent to me by a client and friend, which means it’s at the very least a topic of general discussion.
But: not necessary. Bloodhoundblog has been all over it, at its pithy finest. See here. And here. And here. Read the comments as well; in the latter, Glenn himself makes an appearance.
[Incidentally: I’m going to launch a series of posts on why real estate blogs matter, largely because they do. This is a good introduction: with the MSM you get press releases; blogs dig to the depth.]
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Harold Hill. Jeff, you kill me.
Oh, yes we got trouble…