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Trace - who has written 49 posts on BrokerScience.

Trace Richardson is the founder of LeadPress and an entrepreneur and consultant specializing in technology, web design and lead generation. He is a licensed California Real Estate broker and a former equities trader previously holding the Series 7, 63, 55 and 24 securities licenses.

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LeadPress Offers $250,000 Reward!

Posted on 06 May 2009

If you can prove you are one of these people and back up your claims, LeadPress will pay you $250,000!
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Check LeadPress out on LeadCritic

Posted on 06 April 2009

We did the Carpool Confessions series on LeadCritic with Mike Ferree.  We chatted about a lot of things including REBarCamp Los Angeles, Twitter acquisition rumors, mortgage leads and more.
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The Changing Face of 4506T’s and Lock Periods

Posted on 08 January 2009

This is a guest post written by Clarion Mortgage CEO, David Marr. Originally distributed as an internal email to LO’s, it has been reformatted to read as a general market commentary without addressing specific bank or loan scenarios.
Yesterday not the first of many complaints came to me regarding an important issue that will only [...]

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BrokerScience Issues Ben Behrouzi Coup de Grace

Posted on 21 November 2008

Wow! Yesterday was quite the blowout for Ben Behrouzi and DotNext Inc. First, TechCrunch stated the obvious and sad truth about LeapFish, then Ben and his employees were then caught red handed calling themselves “geniuses” in the comments section of the same article by IP address tracking and finally, Ben Behrouzi was reduced to name [...]

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LeapFish and Ben Behrouzi Spam Techcrunch. What’s new?

Posted on 20 November 2008

Ben Behrouzi has hit an all time low for himself and his new startup LeapFish in front of Silicon Valley and the world. After Techcrunch declared LeapFish as “another meta search engine no one will ever use” his employees were caught red handed making shill comments praising LeapFish and calling it “genius”. Classic. This puts [...]

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LeapFish / DotNext CEO, Ben Behrouzi Defeated

Posted on 04 November 2008

On October 22nd, 2008, Ben Behrouzi / Eperks /LeapFish’s atorney, Ronald J. Cook filed for dismissal of their complaint against Vlad Zablotzkyy. This is yet one more embarrassment for Ben Behrouzi in addition to the public humiliation and ridicule that has already befallen him and his dieing brand ePerks, at the hands of the Real [...]

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BrokerScience Homework: Setting Goals

Posted on 22 June 2008

School is out for summer, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t work to be done. I would like to revisit one of the simplest, yet most powerful tools for progressing in your career and life: Setting Goals.
That’s right, we all know about goal setting, realize the importance that setting goals can bring to measuring and [...]

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Dear Realtor.com: This is How You Communicate With Your Users

Posted on 21 June 2008

Redfin suffered about the worst occurrence a datacenter can endure, fire. They still beat Realtor.com by 12 hours with only 5 hours of downtime compared to Realtor.com’s 17 hours of downtime or 53 hours of downtime if you include the 36 hours of in-action before going offline for 17 hours after  their blog was hacked. [...]

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Posted on 21 June 2008

UPDATE: The Real Estate RSS Icons are now located at LeadPress.
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BrokerScience Disclosure

Posted on 20 June 2008

BrokerScience is not affiliated, related or endorsed in any way, shape or form to or by the National Association of Realtors (NAR).
You can find the National Association of Realtors at Realtor.org.
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