Tag Archives | James Packer

Unsolicited Mail – Dead on Arrival

By on February 10, 2011 in Design, Legal, Marketing, Real Estate Agents, Soapbox

For a few years now I have been writing about unsolicited marketing materials landing in your traditional mailbox and how the tides of environmental change will eventually outlaw this practice. Casting my mind back to 2004, I remember arriving in Sydney and actually being quite shocked at how much of this junk was floated around [...]

James Packer, Nine, Yellow Pages

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Dumb and Dumber Real Estate Awards 2008

By on December 19, 2008 in Newspapers, Soapbox

Well what a year it has been, with just about every major company in the real estate and classifieds market vying for entry into this years awards. So how do you make our dumb and dumber awards? Well quite simply, you make a schoolboy mistake, try to cover something up or worse still knowingly do [...]

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MyHome lives again!

By on June 12, 2008 in Portals

Perhaps we were all a little hasty with the demise of MyHome. It was announced today that Shane Dale has taken over MyHome and is now the sole proprietor. MyHome now will become a free listing website, although whether this is short term or long term I am not sure. It seems that Mr Dale [...]

James Packer, MyHome, PBL, Shane Dale

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An Interesting article in the Australian today!

By on March 15, 2007 in Soapbox

From the Australian: “A STOUSH has erupted between Australia’s largest real estate franchise and the new property sales web site myhome.com.au, which is backed by James Packer, as tensions build in the increasingly competitive online classifieds market.” I cannot have whole article but click here to read it….be careful of some of the things being [...]

James Packer, MyHome

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