Watchin the Wheels

Anyone who has been reading these posts should be able to tell that I am not a ‘millionaire.’ I hope that I am someday!! That being said, blogging on top of the ‘actual career’ is an arduous task… I am not a writer, but I have found blogging particularly engaging, though it is difficult to maintain because of the rigors of work.

This will be my last ‘Alex Beattie’s Luxury Real Estate Musings’ post.  The means do not justify the ends - as far as the amount of time proportional to personal benefits. I really enjoy going deep into my stream of consciousness and write - but this I will do in another form… but it will be a ‘personal media journal’… I hope to meet to meet everyone again in virtual reality! Peace - love - and Happiness !!!

I hope that someone finds a wau within them to continue this - all marketers need one… it is on the horizon and it will be a mandatory reflection of all walks…

I would like to thank every link that I either have linked to or has been linked from me… 

Until next time… perhaps you’ll find my personal blog someday in the CUIL search…I look forward to hearing from you…

Sincerely yours  - Good Morning!

alex

Form & Function in Online Marketing tactics

Yesterday I wrote about the iPhone and it’s imminent ubiquity. After I blogged, I read an article on a ‘free app’ that is also known as the nytimes… I will cite it later since I a ‘blogging’ on my iphone right now…the writer made a useless point about ‘how bloggers’ have nearly destroyed the written word … To this I cannot understand because it speaks to my point that I was making yesterday -

There is a huge media revolution that has been happening - and if you desire to be part of it - join in!!!

While I agree there are some grammatical atrocities out there (I am guilty of a few), the whole Internet isn’t that bad plus - the word ‘blog’ itself is not Daniel Webster approved…

The point… The generation that doesn’t pick up the ‘times’ (I do, by the way, I also pick up the WSJ, and enjoy content in both) - READING social blogs and online stuff - maybe they aren’t using a large heavy unabridged dictionary and strunk, but this is what’s happening - these are tomorrows leaders, inventers, teachers and millionaires … In sum, I try not to criticize what I cannot understand… I try and learn about it… Print will NEVER die, because there will always be people like me who like to use it, but if publishing a daily… just make sure people are allowed to use dangling participles however the choose.

Online Marketing changing quickly… get on board… the spaceship (not the boat)

Simple truths always prevail.  Number one… advertising has been morphing, changing and picking up where no one ever thought was possible… Number two… if you do not adapt to the changing ‘tides’ or should I say… ‘wind shear’ - you will miss the space vessel to the next advertising mediums…

I don’t profess to know exactly what forms they will take, but I do proclaim this: I still believe PRINT, especially ‘niche-oriented,’ ‘highly-targeted’ print, will remain a special commodity for agents/brokers to broadcast highly effective messages… BUT, if you don’t believe that ‘dynamic‘ content has presented a slew of broadcasting opportunities, than you missed the launching pad and ended up at the ports. (no pun intended if you know what ports are in regards to programming).

The larger point (being a self-confessed gadget junkie - I had a PSP, a Mini-Disc player, a DAT, all the latest and greatest of cell technologies, a phonograph, a plasma TV, a DVD, HD TV with 5.1 surround, a CD burner way before they were standardized, the 1st Generation iPod that now looks like a phonograph, a Handheld Mini Cam which still operates quite well… you get the point) is if you don’t have an iPhone, (and I am not promoting it), or if you weren’t interested in one, you at least saw the lines and the public interest.

I have one - I also love Apple stuff - but I have one (not only bc of my gadget illness), but I am in a career that requires it.  Everyday I offer marketing tools to agents / brokers, builders, etc.  This device is not really a phone (though that is what it is marketed as).  This is what our wallets, credit cards, computers, blogpads, iPods, books, televisions… are becoming… quickly… Don’t get me wrong - all of these things will still be around for a long, long, time… but so are TV’s with antennas, passenger trains, car phones, landlines, VHS tapes, cassette tapes, vinyl records, and record contracts.

I hope you get my point… I still love the sound of vinyland riding a train… but if you can get on an airplane and be in NYC in 2 hrs while listening to every vinyl record you owned without bringing a phonograph player… why wouldn’t you get on the flight?

Atlantis Magazine™ defines Resort Living and luxury property

It occurred to me today that if you have an ‘Island Resort’ than it must be luxurious… just a random thought for a random post since I have been so completely on top of this (joke)… but… maybe there are some living resorts that aren’t luxury … so, maybe the logic only goes one direction, like… Pitcairn - it is very famous or an ‘infamous’ island in the South Pacific… I bet it’s beautiful… not sure I’d want to hang out there - maybe though… can’t rule it out… but the Bahamas… I am all over it!!!

Planes, Luxury Homes and More Runways!!!

Luxury Real Estate again proves to be such a different animal than all else that is sellable.  As I previously posted, there is a property out in Gold Beach, OR for sale by Karl Nettgen of Century 21 Agate.  The property can be seen in the 13th Anniversary Issue of the duPont REGISTRY A Buyers Gallery of Fine Homes.  The property is truly unique and quite a bargain, as previously mentioned. 

The larger point, however, is that often in a (typical) real estate transaction, a stumbling block to the closing may be the amount of bedrooms or baths - In the case above, believe it or not, it is the distance from the nearest landing strip for a private jet.  I presume it should come to no surprise to many, but it seems shocking that one would look for a jet based upon the distance to an airport or place to land your flying SUV.

Thought this was kind of interesting…