Since Greg welcomed me aboard BHB last week, ideas have been racing through my head.  What would I write about first? CRM execution tactics? Too predictable. Skinned cats? I’ll leave that to my favorite cat skinner. Then it occurred to me last night:  why not dive right in with an example of...

InterClick president Michael Katz had a nice writeup in MediaPost today entitled Ad Budget Crunch Puts Pressure On Supply Line. I believe that ad networks are going to be disintermediated in some capacity over the next few years and Katz sheds some light on this notion (from an opposite perspective....

It’s been fun dealing with years-old academic studies of the real estate market insisting that For-Sale-By-Owner marketing is just as good as listing with a Realtor. It might have been, during the boom, when any idiot could sell a house. But it’s been kind of sad to watch people in our c...

No.  Upon final rewrite, make that Lichtenstein, a  tiny cinematic metaphor freezing its alpine ass off smack in the middle of a much larger, tempestuous world money market.  I’ll declare the Swiss Franc my new currency—diminutive, but not to the point as to be completely overlooked a...

Can a man save his face, his ass, and his house at the same time? The moral and Big Board gods claim naught.  But still, rooting through the year end financial rubble atop my desk—the economic equivalent of the Gaza Strip, I consider the question (pondering Realtor that I am). I tally my Chri...

I’d like to introduce you to some really nice folks. Take a look: The couple on the left are the Anybodys, Jeff and Janice. Jeff is a middle-manager for GE. Unless he owns a Pizza Hut. Unless he’s a Civil Engineer for the county health department. Janice is a schoolteacher — or a s...

I edited 1,407 files in 1,407 folders on Friday. Not by hand, mind you. That would have been a tedious and error-prone path to an inevitable suicide for someone like me. No, I built a spider to do the job, and it took a surprisingly long time to run — almost four minutes. But I wanted to put t...

In a prior life, before becoming a licensed real estate professional, I was responsible for implementing supply chain technology in the discrete manufacturing arena - more specifically - the auto industry. Over a 7 month period, between 1998 and 1999, I made a temporary home in Sterling Heights, Mic...

It is my contention that a man has the right to drop an F-bomb in the privacy of his own Bluetooth as long as it is not: sexually suggestive or within 50 yards of an elementary school; in a restaurant within earshot of my wife before coffee and dessert have been served; or, if the suicide F-bomber h...

From The Wall Street Journal’s Op-Ed page: America Needs Its Frontier Spirit. Daniel Henninger spells it out. And quite nicely, I might add. An excerpt: The greatest danger in the current economic crisis is that the United States will lose its historic appetite for risk. The mood now is that r...