Opinion

Should News Corp Buy Out the REA Group?

by Simon Baker on 18 February, 2012

in Company News, Opinion

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Rumours are in the market that News Corp is running its eye over the REA Group with a view to buying out the minorities. Should they do it?

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Great PR: How Portals Do It (Part 3)

by Simon Baker on 18 February, 2012

in Marketing News, News, Opinion

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This is the third article in our series and looks at how a portal has to be organised to deliver great PR.

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Great PR: How Portals Do It (Part 2)

by Simon Baker on 16 February, 2012

in Marketing News, Opinion

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In Part 2 of our series on PR, we interview Charlotte Ashton of AB Property Marketing in the UK and look at how some portals are using PR.

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Tension Between US Portals and Realtors

by Simon Baker on 13 February, 2012

in Marketing News, Opinion

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1000WattConsulting has written an excellent article on the continuing tension between realtors and the property portals – primarily Zillow and Trulia.

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Great PR: How Portals Do It (Part 1)

by Simon Baker on 10 February, 2012

in Marketing News, Opinion

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Great PR can generate strong traffic at low cost to a portal. This article looks at how the best do it.

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Franchise Sites Becoming More Like Portals

by Bill Striker on 20 October, 2011

in Features, News, Opinion

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Many franchises are now taking their online presence extremely seriously and developing their websites with much of the functionality of property portals.

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Is the Sales Team Tuned in with Marketing?

by Bill Striker on 11 October, 2011

in Features, News, Opinion

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One of the key ingredients of marketing planning and execution is to ensure your sales and industry marketing teams are absolutely in lock step.

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What is behind iProperty Group’s strong results? As Chairman, I thought it would be good to give you my perspective on how the business is travelling and where it is heading.

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How VSEs Benefit Property Portals

by Property Portal Watch on 1 July, 2011

in Features, Opinion

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From travel reservation comparers and hotel offer aggregators to large online directories to find a dream home, vertical search engines are one of the fastest growing services on the Internet.

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Today’s front page of The Financial Review, Australia’s leading financial newspaper, carries the heading “Real Estate Agents Revolt”. Should REA Group be worried?

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