Search is an amazing mechanism for gaining customers. You can do all kinds of advertising -- newspapers, billboards, TV ads -- but those take a scatter approach. Not everyone who sees the ads are interested in what you've got to say, but you hope to...
I had the pleasure of interviewing Dylan Schleppe, Austin entrepreneur who launched DriveBuy, a real estate tool that allows home buyers to quickly and efficiently get detailed listing information by simply sending a text message from their cell phones. I've been using Dylan's system for some...
Darren Rowse at ProBlogger published a fantastic post early this morning titled "9 Lessons You Can Learn about Blogging from Watching Me Sell My House." Darren gives his 1st hand experience of his home being on the market for the last 4 weeks & how...
In 2005, I was a Colorado Springs real estate broker who had just sold a Keller Williams franchise five months before and opened a new private brokerage with the first 18 agents. I was having the best year of my career brokering real estate...
I'm happy to welcome Brian Wilson to the GeekEstate Blog team. Brian Wilson is a real estate broker/owner in Colorado Springs, Colorado with Real Living Professionals. He is also launching a real estate internet site called Zolve.com in September 2007. I had the pleasure of...
I love everything about the iPhone, when it comes to real estate I have to be a realist. The defacto smart phone in this business is the Palm Treo. It's ability to interact with the Supra lock box via its infrared connection have made...
With marketing images you want to do everything you can to focus the viewers attention on your marketing message. Everything that distracts the viewers attention needs to be eliminated. The "message" in the photo above is the backyard and patio of this home. There...
Welcome to the 56th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate. Since the authors of GeekEstate Blog are geeks who love technology, I decided the Carnival w/ The Geeks should have both a "geeky" winner and a non-geeky winner. With the great photoshop images that...
I'm excited to take the reigns as a fill-in host of the 56th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate this week. The carnival, which I'll finalize shortly, will be posted soon enough -- but, I thought I'd post the runners-up for your early morning...
"Elegant in its simplicity" is a good way to describe the suite of web based software tools from Chicago based 37 Signals.Com. From their home page: "We believe most software is too complex. Too many features, too many buttons, too much confusion." Have you used MS...
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