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Re: The Importance of Strategic Distribution

Spencer Rascoff — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:39:18 -0000

Hi,
Traveling on business all week. Might be slow on email.

Thank you,
Spencer

Re: My Web2.0 Keynote on Zillow’s Leadership in Mobile

Spencer Rascoff — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:54:10 -0000

Thank you!
I practiced twice in front of a small audience (once in front of our mobile team and once in front of our pr team) and a few times by myself. I got better each time, and probably could have been even better if I had taken the time to work on it more.

Re: My Web2.0 Keynote on Zillow’s Leadership in Mobile

Spencer Rascoff — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:20:02 -0000

Thank you drew

Re: Fascinating Look Inside A VC’s Brain

Spencer Rascoff — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 13:39:57 -0000

Airbnb is very cool. Company has a ton of buzz. Very cool product, and right up your alley! They're onto something big.

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Re: Longer Terms for Elected Representatives

Spencer Rascoff — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 12:25:17 -0000

Thanks for the comment Sam. The more I think about this issue, the more hardened my opinion about it.

Re: Curating Your Online Identity

Spencer Rascoff — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:42:47 -0000

Thanks Sam for pointing it out. And Drew for fixing it!

Re: Curating Your Online Identity

Spencer Rascoff — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:44:30 -0000

ha!

Re: Million Dollar Idea To Speed Up Airport Security Lines

Spencer Rascoff — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:27:25 -0000

Those people don't have to participate -- it's entirely opt-in.

Re: Introducing – spencerrascoff.com

Spencer Rascoff — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:25:36 -0000

Thanks dunes
Gotta find more time for blogging...

Re: Curating Your Online Identity

Spencer Rascoff — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:34:58 -0000

Jon,
This is my personal blog. It's not the place to air Zillow grievances. You can email me if you'd like.

Re: Curating Your Online Identity

Spencer Rascoff — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:09:26 -0000

Hi Drew.
Yeah, I'm not sure about about.me. I signed up for it just in case, and it seems to be catching on in tech circles, but we'll see. I'm pretty sure that AOL bought it a few months ago, which might help or maybe hinder its growth -- too early to tell.

Re: Further Changes to Geek Estate

Spencer Rascoff — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:11:41 -0000

Congrats Drew. It's great to have GEB in your trusted hands.

Re: Come on, Seattle, it's time to create some breakout startups

Spencer Rascoff — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:23:11 -0000

John,
Looks to me like Techflash needs to start producing its own list!

Re: After Hitting Profitability, Zillow Appoints Hotwire Founder Spencer Rascoff As CEO

Spencer Rascoff — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:20:24 -0000

Thanks everyone for your kind words. They're very much appreciated.

Re: Farewell, Joe…

Spencer Rascoff — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:06:47 -0000

See ya Joe. I always enjoyed talking with you. You will be missed.

Re: The Impact Of Traveling Abroad

Spencer Rascoff — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:27:08 -0000

Totally agree about Cambodia btw. Incredibly generous, kind-hearted people. A very special country with a tragic past, but the nicest people I've ever met.

Re: What the Zillow-Yahoo! Real Estate Deal Means to the Real Estate Industry

Spencer Rascoff — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:13:43 -0000

Looking more closely at the data, I think you might have meant visitors anyway, not visits.

Anyway, Realtor.com is still definitely bigger than Zillow.com (according to third party data, which I believe), but the reason I'm so excited about the partnership with Yahoo! is that Zillow can now pose a very credible alternative in terms of the exposure we can provide to advertisers.

Re: What the Zillow-Yahoo! Real Estate Deal Means to the Real Estate Industry

Spencer Rascoff — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:40:51 -0000

Hi Todd,

Spencer from Zillow here.

Don't confuse visits with visitors. They're very different, as I'm sure you know.

Zillow had 10.7 million unique VISITORS in June (according to our internal data from Omniture) but we had 21.5M unique VISITS in June. So if you're going to pull out a 17.5 "visit" number for R.com, I'm going to have to pull out our 21.5M number. Typically we (and others) cite unique VISITORS not unique VISITS, but since you dropped a 17.5M number, I had to give you our comparable stat...

The third party measurement companies show that the gap between Zillow.com and R.com is small, and rapidly narrowing. Comscore showed 9.47M unique visitors for R.com in June, 7.23M for Zillow.com and 6.928M for Yahoo! Real Estate. Based on this Comscore data, Zillow plus Yahoo Real Estate will be 41% larger than R.com; even if you haircut that by around 10% (the amount of our duplicated audience), it's hard to dispute the simple fact that Zillow is now very viable alternative to R.com for agents and brokers looking to gain massive exposure through advertising.

See you at Inman Connect next week.

Re: Jay Thompson Takes Over at Carnival of Real Estate

Spencer Rascoff — Sun, 23 May 2010 22:49:31 -0000

Congrats Jay!

Re: Login to Your Account

Spencer Rascoff — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:32:32 -0000

Thank you!

Re: Online attorney rating service Avvo scores $10 million

Spencer Rascoff — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:02:39 -0000

Congratulations to Mark and Avvo!

Re: Palm Pre Apps For Real Estate

Spencer Rascoff — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:30:45 -0000

Palm? What's that?

Re: Successful Exit for Daniel Petre on ReachLocal Australia

Spencer Rascoff — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:59:35 -0000

Another good post Niki. Thanks for writing this up. I saw the ReachLocal S1 but I didn't focus on the fact that they bought back their Australian operations.

Re: Barcamp or Bored Camp?

Spencer Rascoff — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:32:38 -0000

It's definitely hard to find the right content for REBarCamps because the audience is so diverse. Geordie is at one end of the bell curve in terms of knowledge. For every one of Geordie, there is one (or more) novice who has no clue about online marketing. So I agree with Geordie -- sometimes the content can be less than satisfying, especially if you attend several of these a year. Still, I think Courtney is right -- the social aspect is very important, and unique to REBarCamps. For me, it's an opportunity to meet in person many of the people whom I communicate with around the RE.net in various places like GeekEstate, twitter, and Zillow Advice.

In terms of specific suggestions for content, I'd personally like to learn more about the logistics of video blogging and podcasting. What software and hardware are needed to do these things well?

Re: Power to the Seller: The Unzillowing of Real Estate

Spencer Rascoff — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:06:50 -0000

Joe,
Yes an inaccurate Zestimate can be misleading. That's not the question before us though.

The questions are:
1. Does a specific MLS rule affect which listings will appear on Zillow. [No, because Zillow isn't a member of the MLS, nor do we get our listings from that MLS.]

and

2. Is a seller better off having their listing on Zillow or not.

The answer to the second question is an unequivocal yes. In fact, it's even MORE beneficial to the seller to have their listing on Zillow if the Zestimate is inaccurate than if it's accurate.