Eric’s background is rooted in the rental and real estate industries. He founded metro Detroit’s Urbane Apartments in 2003, after serving as senior vice president for a major Midwest apartment developer. He established a proven track record of effectively repositioning existing rental properties in a way that added value for investors while enhancing the resident experience.
He also established The Urbane Way, a social media marketing and PR laboratory, where innovative marketing ideas are tested. Eric has been featured in
Entrepreneur Magazine and Business Week Magazine.
You can connect with Eric_Urbane on Twitter.
Eric also writes regular articles for the following publications;
Multi Housing News
Social Media Examiner
Search Engine Guide
Web Site: http://urbaneapts.com
The Michigan winters here can be brutal. Cold, snowy and grey. One thing missing for most of the winter are the ever growing stable of Food Trucks around town. With a 50 percent drop in sales, it makes being open in the winter pretty tough. One Food Truck operator, Dago Joe’s decided to offset the...
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There seems to be a lot of clamoring about the upcoming Food Truck Rally in Royal Oak at the Ye Old Saloon on South Main Street. The restaurant owners are quick to criticize the Food Trucks and Carts as opportunists that will come and go wherever the crowds may sway them. They also tout about property taxes that go with...
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Happy New Year! Is 2012 your year to become an entrepreneur? It could be, I sure have no regrets about taking the plunge, albeit there have been many twists and turns, ups and downs and a few sleepless nights. That said, there is such a feeling of freedom once your business matures enough to provide steady cashflow. That...
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Wow, 2011 is coming to a close this week, it has been in interesting year for us at Urbane. It was a year of ideas and things to come. We have several entrepreneurial ventures that we will be involved with in 2012 that we are pretty jazzed up about. One of which is to expand our social reach here at...
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Here is another Saturday “Cool Stuff” Idea from our cool Urbane Life friend, also a noted speaker and author Michael Angelo Caruso. Michael will be providing interesting Cool Stuff Ideas here every Saturday going forward. We hope you find them helpful. If you see Michael around town, tell him you saw him here first, we will give you secret gift, really we...
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A side bar conversation broke out last week after a Facebook post from local entrepreneur, Henry Balanon, founder of Bikbot, an iPhone and iPad App development company. The post targeted an article titled Troubled Startup Color Loses Cofounder Peter Pham. The gist of the conversation with Matt Dibble, another local entrepreneur and founder of Final Five Productions, a video...
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Here is another Saturday “Cool Stuff” Idea from our cool Urbane Life friend, also a noted speaker and author Michael Angelo Caruso. Michael will be providing interesting Cool Stuff Ideas here every Saturday going forward. We hope you find them helpful. If you see Michael around town, tell him you saw him here first, we will give you secret gift, really we...
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Entrepreneurship can be defined as “one who undertakes innovations, finance and business acumen in an effort to transform innovations into economic goods”. This may result in new organizations or may be part of revitalizing mature organizations in response to a perceived opportunity. The most obvious form of entrepreneurship is that of starting new businesses (referred as Startup Company); however, in...
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I am an avid reader of Seth Godins work. Much of what he writes about is that everyone has a shot, or at least the ability to take a shot, but they don’t. They fall short because they are afraid. I certainly saw this daily when I had a real job, and worked for the man everyday....
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Here is another Saturday “Cool Stuff” Idea from our cool Urbane Life friend, also a noted speaker and author Michael Angelo Caruso. Michael will be providing interesting Cool Stuff Ideas here every Saturday going forward. We hope you find them helpful. If you see Michael around town, tell him you saw him here first, we will give you secret gift, really we...
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Here is another Saturday “Cool Stuff” Idea from our cool Urbane Life friend, also a noted speaker and author Michael Angelo Caruso. Michael will be providing interesting Cool Stuff Ideas here every Saturday going forward. We hope you find them helpful. If you see Michael around town, tell him you saw him here first, we will give you secret gift, really we...
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Entrepreneurs are always thinking about the next big thing, always plotting and planning something in the back of their minds. We have a few new ideas we are working on at the Urbane Lab too, and it occurred to me, How Much Time Does It Take To Hatch An Idea? When we launched Urbane Apartments, the first recollection of the...
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