A New Era for Lead Generation

Lead generation involves identifying and attracting potential customers. Executing well centers on collecting lead information, which, in smart setups, feeds a sales and marketing funnel that engages these leads with smart, relevant content. Through various acquisition practices — organic awareness, events, direct mail campaigns, PPC, social media, etc. — businesses grow email lists that become […]

What is Performance Content?

The world is awash in content coming at us from all angles, increasingly in video, emails and the all-pervasive Tik-Tok-ification. For this deluge of information to be effective requires an absolutely smart, engaged focus on what it’s saying, to whom, and, most importantly, why. While digital marketing as a whole typically focuses on promotion, performance […]

Zillow Group, content marketing and syndication

Amy Bohutinsky is the 10th the most powerful person in real estate. Zillow Group’s former chief marketing officer and now its chief operating officer, her vision and execution helped catapult the Seattle-based giant to tremendous growth and an anticipated $1 billion in revenue in 2017.

ICNY Wrap

Another Connect down. Brad and the Inman team keep executing, and expanding, the conference into a must-attend event in residential real estate. By all accounts, Hacker Connect — the technologist-focused event, which debuted on Monday — was a success, but left many exhausted who faced a week straight of the endless connecting that Connect stimulates.

Machine learning + the great CRM integration

Customer relationship management platforms are amazingly powerful and increasingly central to everything real estate agents do. That’s why there’s a glut of them in the market — Contactually, Follow Up Boss, Top Producer, Chime, Firepoint, Wise Agent, BoomTown, Commissions Inc. (CINC), Kunversion.

Dispatches from Content Marketing World

More than 3,000 people have converged upon the resurgent rustbelt, gritty city of Cleveland, to dream content marketing dreams at Content Marketing World, the largest convention of its kind in the nation. Those dreams include finding, by some miracle, the magic bullet data that unassailably convinces execs of the long-tail, expensive, time-intensive, difficult-to-prove ROI of creating, distributing and measuring content.

Managing editor of Swanepoel T3 Group’s Trends Report and Power 200

I’m excited to announce that I’m joining the premier residential real estate consulting and strategy firm Swanepoel T3 Group, led by industry luminary Stefan Swanepoel, as managing editor for two of its core annual publications: the Swanepoel Trends Report and the Swanepoel Power 200.

Moving to Boulder, brief hiatus

HageyMedia blog is taking a mid-week break as we relocate to Boulder, Colorado! It involved an epic road trip in a loaded-down Subaru Impreza from Oakland, California through a friend’s ranch outside Reno to the long, desolate Highway 50 across Nevada and Utah, punctuated near the end by the majesty of Canyonlands National Park’s Island in the Sky district outside Moab, Utah.