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Social Fresh St. Louis

Social Media Conference

What are you doing on April 19?

If you’re smart, you’ll be going to Social Fresh St. Louis. Unlike some other social media conferences that focus more on entry-level information, the Social Fresh series of events is centered around case studies and success stories.

From the St. Louis Social Fresh Page:

Social Fresh St. Louis is our fourth event of 2010. We have a host of big name national speakers combined with some strong local experts. It will be a full day of rich, case study focused content.

  

The sessions and speakers will strongly reflect all Social Fresh flagship events with big brands and real social media success stories, all specifically for marketing professionals. More case studies, less concept.

St. Louis will mark the second Social Fresh event I’ve had the honor of attending as a speaker.

If you want tickets, you better hurry up – Early Bird registration prices are good through March 2, 2010!

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St. Louisans more likely to cut home price than most of U.S.

This was not what I wanted to read today: according to Tim Logan of the Post-Dispatch, St. Louisans are more likely to cut home prices than most of the United States.

Citing real estate website Trulia, Logan discovered that the average price reduction in St. Louis (city) is 8%. Of all properties listed in St. Louis, 29% had at least one price reduction.

This, among many reasons, is why I’m glad I have Kevin Cottrell selling our house. He put together an amazingly detailed market analysis and we ended up pricing our house in such a way that we’ve had an almost non-stop stream of people coming to view the property (which, by the way, has it’s own website and Twitter account) since listing.

What did Kevin have to say about this article? Well, that most agents can’t price houses.

Glad we have one who can.

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Another redonkulous day in St. Louis

Today was the *third* day we cracked 70 degrees in November.

I’m not sure if or how we’ll pay for it later, but I don’t care about that right now. I don’t care because I was able to rake leaves & clean gutters in a t-shirt. I was able to walk around the Loop with my wife and daughter. I was able to have lunch outdoors with my dad.

So if we hit a few days of single digit temperatures in January, I’ll be oddly ok with that. Ok because we had awesome weather in the middle of November.

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Today is an awesome day in St. Louis

It’s an amazingly warm November day in St. Louis – in fact, RIGHT NOW we’re looking at 75 degrees. No joke.

Blues City Deli

Blues City Deli

So what do you do when it’s this nice in the front end of November? Well, we went to Blues City Deli for lunch and ate outside (with all of the other parents & babies). Later, we’re meeting some friends at Art Hill to hang out & maybe drink some wine or something. Who knows.

All in all, it’s a great day to be in St. Louis!

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Happy Anniversary

I’ve been married for 2 years today.

Kissing on Washington Ave.

Kissing on Washington Ave.

Damn, time flies.

Our wedding album is on Flickr. And our Honeymoon in Vegas album is, too!

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Why does Budweiser taste so good?

Yesterday a few friends of mine got together and headed down to the St. Louis world headquarters (at the moment, anyway) of Anheuser-Busch for a tour of the brewing facilities.  I took along my camera and snapped a bunch of photos for my out-of-town friends and family (and you, the random visitor who probably entered my site via a Google Search).

A lot of people rag on Budweiser and Bud Light for being, for lack of a better term, “swill.”  I’ll admit that I was one of those people, but that was before enjoing delicous same-day Budweiser in the hospitality room at the end of the tour.  When I asked our tour guide what made it so damn tasty, he replied – “it’s the water.”

The secret is in the St. Louis City water.

It’s a fact that St. Louis has the best water in the country (kiss it, New York!), so it only makes sense that Anheuser-Busch’s overall quality is directly tied to the fluids that quench the gateway city’s thirst.

As an aside, I thought that it was interesting that the tour guide kept bringing up Anheuser-Busch’s sustainability efforts.  I was unaware that Anheuser-Busch recycles 5 cans for every 4 they produce and that by using alternative energy sources, they are able to power roughly 10% of U.S. production.  It’s a far cry from the sustainability efforts of New Belgium Brewing, but it’s a great start.

You can view 47 photos of the St. Louis brewery as a Flickr photoset here.  Enjoy!

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