Skilpad.Com Community Blog

Sometimes our marketing representatives are asked by estate agents to explain in simple terms how we manage to get all of the properties from their websites onto Skilpad.Com Property Portal as if by magic.

Gloria, one of our marketers, has come up with the best simple answer. “Our little skilpaadjie crawls around your site and brings your listings across to ours”.

And our skilpaadjie crawls so quickly nogal!

Skilpad lovers at Addo

Well, we were certainly in for a big surprise when we went to the Addo Elephant National Park yesterday. Not too many elephants about, but lots of mountain tortoises. And we learnt for sure that November is tortoise mating season. Go Skilpaaie!

Skilpad to Skilpad

Skilpad.Com is busy rolling out throughout South Africa. Here one of the Skilpad.Com team members Andre exchanges views with a well-qualified local in the beautiful Karoo countryside near Steytlerville. The local’s viewpoint? “Ja-Nee. One step at a time will take you all the way to your goal of changing the way that property is searched and advertised in South Africa.”

What do you think?

Isn’t it refreshing that even in tough times, good people out there manage to see the lighter side of things? The new stock market terms below actually reached us via a New York banker.

CEO –Chief Embezzlement Officer.

CFO– Corporate Fraud Officer.

BULL MARKET — A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius.

BEAR MARKET — A 6 to 18 month period when the kids get no allowance, the wife gets no jewelry, and the husband gets no sex.

VALUE INVESTING — The art of buying low and selling lower.

P/E RATIO — The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the market keeps crashing.

BROKER — What my broker has made me.

STANDARD & POOR — Your life in a nutshell.

STOCK ANALYST — Idiot who just downgraded your stock.

STOCK SPLIT — When your ex-wife and her lawyer split your assets equally between themselves.

FINANCIAL PLANNER — A guy whose phone has been disconnected.

MARKET CORRECTION — The day after you buy stocks.

CASH FLOW– The movement your money makes as it disappears down the toilet.

YAHOO — What you yell after selling it to some poor sucker for $240 per share.

WINDOWS — What you jump out of when you’re the sucker who bought Yahoo @ $240 per share.

INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR — Past year investor who’s now locked up in a nuthouse.

PROFIT — An archaic word no longer in use.