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THU 17 APR

House on Redmond for Sale (3bd, 2,290sqft, $639,000) By Marcelo Calbucci

    I'm selling my house in Redmond. Since most readers of this blog are on the Puget Sound and a good number on the Eastside, maybe it'll work:

 

    The house has 3 bedroom and a bonus room, formal living and dining, kitchen w/ granite and new stainless steel appliances, family room, laundry room, master bath with walk-in closet, fully fenced yard, 3 car garage, great curb appeal, Cascade view, on the Abbey Road (Education Hill) neighborhood.

 

    Open House is Sunday (April 20th) 1-4PM.

 

    The MLS number is coming shortly. But you can find plenty of information on this site I put together (using Sampa of course):

 

www.redmond-house-for-sale.sampasite.com

 

    You can also check out this house on Redfin and Zillow.

 

THU 17 APR

25 Ways to Sell Your House Online (Web 2.0 house marketing playbook) By Marcelo Calbucci

 

    This is a list I've built over the last 2 months on ways for you to advertise your house for selling it online (and offline). I haven't tried most of those, but I thought it would be useful to share it.

 

1. Zillow (Mark it "For Sale")
2. Targeted Advertising on Zillow ($0.01 per impression)
3. Redfin
4. Craigslist
5. Trulia
6. Roost
7. MSN Real Estate
8. Realtor.com
9. TourVista
10. Google Base
11. House.info
12. Facebook Marketplace
13. Targeted Advertising on Facebook
14. Postlets
15. Windows Live Expo
16. YourListingOnTV
17. CyberHomes
18. Eppraisal
19. Create a site/blog on Sampa
20. Create a video tour and post on YouTube
21. Add pictures to Flickr
22. Flyer's on your company's kitchen/copy room
23. Comcast on Demand - Real Estate Listings
24. Email friends, co-workers and family
25. Send Letter to Neighbors

 

    Are there any other that I missed?

 

FRI 18 APR

Sampa back on track on the Seattle Startup Index By Marcelo Calbucci

 

    In case you haven't heard, Alexa changed the way it computes its Ranking. Sampa being a product for non-techies always suffered a lit bit on Alexa, since its ranking used to favor "tech-savvy" oriented sites. Because of that our Ranking moved from about 48,000 to 29,000.

 

    And to top it all off, there was a mistake on the March/2008 Seattle Startup Index in which Sampa's Compete ranking were way off, and I didn't even noticed back them and even blogged a technical explanation of why that was the case.

 

    Anyway, Sampa is now ranked at # 42 on the list. I'm pretty confident we can be at the top 20 by the end of the year.