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9 Real Estate Marketing Strategies to Expand Your Business

Up and Running

How to Do Your Own PR If You Can’t Afford to Hire an Agency. Disintermediation refers to the mindset where customers wonder whether they really need a real estate agent or not. Disintermediation marketing targets such customers to convince them of the value offered by a real estate professional.

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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

Both Sides of the Table

We had scrambled to get a product to market, built our first website, rapidly hired a technology team, raised our seed round of capital ($1.5 Everybody thought the real substance was going to come from B2B eCommerce players that would deliver “real value&# by disintermediating supply chains … blah, blah, blah.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Urs Cete, the Head of Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments , notes, “If you think you can provide just money, you will be disintermediated.”. Structure compensation like carry for your investment professionals so that they are competitive with the external market and you can hire the best talent.

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Artificial Intelligence: Implications On Marketing, Analytics, And You

Occam's Razor

Some companies, some of the times truly want strategic questions answered, and they hire a small platoon of Analysis Ninjas. The current crop of Analytics tools are getting better and better at the known knowns , the process of disintermediation of the humans doing that work is only going to accelerate… And then that work will disappear.

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All GMV is not created equal

A Crowded Space

Weak marketplaces suffer from disintermediation, pricing pressure, and destructive competition. At oDesk, we started with a 50%+ take rate but quickly lowered that to 30% and then 10% as we became more self-service and also wanted to lock up the market and prevent any disintermediation.

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The Great Fragmentation

aweissman.com

This is what Dale Stephens of Uncollege has been saying to me for a while - that education is being unbundled into its component parts: content, teachers, credentials,community, physical campus, mentors, hiring and network. They disintermediate incumbent industries but also do the same to any new attempts at re-aggregation?

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

According to Toni Schneider, a Partner at True Ventures, and a Team-Lead at Automattic, boundaryless teams confer a real advantage; “You can hire great people wherever you find them: Once your company is untethered from one physical location, your pool of available job applicants becomes the entire world.