Michael Roebuck's Blog

A while back I had written about the company that was buying my name as well as other employees on Google Adwords. It seems as if they realized what they were doing and have now stopped. My rantings went into a little about how you could manipulate the keyword suggestion tools and how other companies were optimizing web sites for bogus keywords. My good friend and co-worker, Karl Ribas had commented that his personal favorite was when we manipulated the keyword suggestion tool to show results for the key phrase, "Michael Roebuck Bobbing Head Doll." Because of this, people were optimizing pages for that phrase.

Well, it's now probably at least 2 years later and a few optimized pages still exist for the keyphrase, "Michael Roebuck Bobbing Head Doll."

Maybe I was wrong in thinking that I had inflated the keywords. Perhaps people are actually trying to buy a Michael Roebuck Bobbing Head Doll!

Well, wait no longer! A Michael Roebuck bobbing head doll now exists! These precious collectables are not available in stores and can not be ordered online yet. Orders are being taken and will be available soon!

These collectables are sure to only go up in value and make a great gift and conversation piece. Notice the fine detail and exquisite hand painted likeness of the one and only Michael Roebuck.

Get on the waiting list now and be sure you are one the first to have your very own Michael Roebuck Bobbing Head Doll!

Later today....

After I had posted this blog, I received numerous alerts and notices that the Ninja Death Squad already had a collection of Michael Roebuck Bobbing Head Dolls. Apparently, because they were so rare, they didn't publically display their collection until now. You may view the collection by visiting this link: Bobble Head Mania.

If you'd rather stay away from those bad people (I don't blame you) and not visit their web site of doom, I have stolen their photographs and posted them below:

Leave it to the Ninja Death Squad to pull this off. Hmmm..... Whatever shall I do to retaliate? Perhaps this was payback for my joke.

Some of you may remember my post titled, "You've Come A Long Way, Baby." I rambled about us selling our house and some of the problems I was having doing some research. Well, I'm sorry to say that the house is still for sale. I've not been very pleased with the work my Coldwell Banker realtors have done and asked them to remove my house from the market and I might go to another realtor. Before removing, they wanted to talk with me and justify why I should stay with them. I agreed.

I have two Coldwell Banker realtors working for me. They are both well aware that we want to sell the house fast. We have an accepted offer on another house and want this one gone ASAP. I believe we have followed virtually every bit of advice they gave to make our house more appealing. Including removing all our personal photographs and anything that "personalizes" the house. Try explaining to 5 children why we removed all the pictures and replaced them with fake plants and other foo-foo decorations. Our house is a well lived in house, not some uppity grandma's where you can't touch anything.

Anyway, the Coldwell Banker realtors came to my office and pleaded their case. I'm not very pleased but I agreed to stay with them a bit longer and even ended up lowering the price. I want results!

Before leaving, my Coldwell Banker Realtors had a great idea to help sell the house. They wanted to have some T-Shirts made up with a picture of the house on it. I don't know what I was thinking, or smoking, but I agreed to have the family wear t-shirts at the upcoming 4th of July fireworks celebration. Lot's of people to see the shirts. I must have had some sense because I told them not to make me one.

The T-shirts were delivered Monday.



Would you wear something like this? If I was thinking fast enough, I should have suggested my Coldwell Banker Realtors families wear the t-shirts. I did manage to get the family together for a family portrait.



I even got my daughter to pose for a single shot. No real reason for this other than I might need it when she gets older and I need pictures to embarrass her.



Here's the money shot. How could you not buy a house from this beautiful baby!



Anyway, who would have guessed that the secret weapon to selling a house is in T-shirts! Now if I can get the family to wear the t-shirts everywhere they go this house is as good as sold!

Have any of you sold a house? Is it easier with T-Shirts? Any other ideas that we are missing? If any of my readers have a secret tip to selling houses, please let me know. I'll pass them on to my Coldwell Banker Realtors.

Now, Buy My House!!

I was sitting here getting ready to blog about another topic when I came across a few pictures still on the camera. No, not Christmas pictures from last Christmas, but a few pictures from the eBay live conference in Las Vegas.

Oh, Las Vegas. My beautiful wife and I renewed our wedding vows and the eBay conference was very informative. But we found a few other landmarks as well. Particularly an Oxygen bar. Apparently, when I need a boost, I can go sniff Oxygen for a while.



When not puffing air, Carrie can be found winning the big bucks at her favorite slot machine.



And when not winning us lots of money, we could be found at the RA nightclub.



Ok, so we never made it to the nightclub. I only brought tennis shoes and they had a dress code. But we managed to have a great time anyway. I'd go into detail but hey, What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas!