by Jay O'Connell on April 29, 2009
The short answer to this question is yes.
A slightly longer answer would be, hell yes.
The third answer is, which isn’t an answer but just another comment I want to make, is that appeals to reason are a bad strategy for coping with a brand disaster. Developers often make the mistake of assuming that [...]
by Jay O'Connell on April 21, 2009
Cigarettes and Scratch tickets are sold together at every convenience store in America. Because people want them. They want them both at the same time. Buying a one in two chance of painful death by cancer, and, a one in a 27 kabillion chance of making some unearned cash.
Why? Because people think they’re lucky.
Here’s the [...]
by Jay O'Connell on April 17, 2009
I was talking to a friend the other day about what it was what The Boston Realty Hub was trying to do at our site at OnMarketBoston—trying to create a more transparent world. A world where people can get real information on the web, themselves, without having to work through an intermediary.
We’re a small company, [...]
by Jay O'Connell on April 13, 2009
Yup, that’s the new marketing phrase. Because we Got Real. We type it in, those real on market properties, normalize that data, geocode it, verify it; if a mistake slips in, our network of agencies calls us and makes us fix it, lickity split. (I’ve never typed the words ‘lickity split’ before. Sorry you had [...]