The Real Group Blog

Amazing. Simply amazing. The power of the media that is.

The Business Times contacted us late last year wanting to do a story. It started off with the focus being the team rather than the product; with interesting angles slanting towards how the brightest ideas may occur not in big, pretentious boardrooms, but in messy garages occupied by “young-twenty-something-internet-punks”.

 Somehow along the way, the product started selling itself more and more (much to our delight) and the story eventually became a full feature about HomeSpace.sg, not the people running it. But hey, we ain’t complaining. Check out the article here.

Since the article was published on February 4th 2008, our site traffic doubled, SMS leads sent out via HomeSpace doubled and sign-ups TRIPPLED! We were very shortly asked to do another interview with Entrepreneur.com.sg. Article here.

The Real Group would like to thank Felda Chay for writing the article and tolerating our never-ending rants.

Today was incredibly tiring… spent the entire day shooting 3 of 5 of our rentspace viral ads… It was incredibly fun and the ads are hilarious… I dunno if my reputation is going to be affected by this but what the hell… Richard Branson has done crazier things.

A BIG thank you to all those who helped out in the ad production today. YY, Mike, Pang Ren, Shaun, Sara, Denise and Justin! You guys are awesome! We really really appreciate it!

The tech team is going to start working on RentSpace at the end of the week… So many people have been asking me about it.. Sorry for the delay, but we’re tied up putting some final usability tweaks to HomeSpace. That should be done by the end of this week, and then an alpha version of RentSpace should be out by the following week.