Inland and only a few miles southwest of Miami, this $4.25 million estate in Pinecrest has an abundance of what waterfront properties lack — actual land. With almost one-and-a-quarter acres of landscaped Florida real estate, the 8,700-square-foot home has plenty of room to spread out into a four-car garage and a large outdoor swimming pool. The 7-bed/9-bath home has his-and-hers master bathrooms, marble and hardwood floors, a media room and a wine cellar with floor-to-ceiling bottle storage.

This week, several client meetings reinforced a vital truth:  Content marketing isn’t an arcane theory taught in expensive graduate schools that only billion dollar companies can use. In fact, great  content marketing is much more about brains than big bucks. Those client conversations took me back to lessons learned from more than a dozen case studies we featured in Get Content Get Customers .

RISMEDIA, October 23, 2009—(MCT)—For buyers, short sales are a way to get a bargain. For upside-down homeowners, they are a way to avoid foreclosure. But for pretty much everyone involved, short sales are not a way to buy a house quickly.  But short sales can be anything but short. Unless they work with highly skilled agents,  buyers and sellers can get frustrated if the process is protracted, which may lead to the deals simply getting abandoned.  Short sales—when houses sell for less than the mortgages owed on them—and foreclosures rise during tough housing markets.

It was autumn and another enjoyable trip to Michigan’s North Woods to spend a few days at the cottage on Mullett Lake in Indian River, a small town just 30 miles from the magnificent Mackinac Bridge at the tip of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, which connects the Lower and Upper Peninsulas of this amazing state. This is where Lake Michigan and Lake Huron collide into each other and become known as the Straits of Mackinac, pronounced Mack-in-aw.