Month: March 2008

06 Mar Give a Realtor a "Fish" You Feed Them for a Day! But..

Posted at 20:08h in Marketing by TheRECoach

There is an Ancient Chinese Proverb that goes something like...

06 Mar Help Me Welcome Our Newest Geek – Eric "The Coach" Bryant

Posted at 18:09h in Blogging, Company News & Analysis by Michael Price

Please join me in welcoming the newest regular contributor to the Geek Estate Blog, Eric "The Coach" Bryant. Eric is the Director of Information Services at Prudential California Realty, a broker with 300 agents and offices located throughout the Central Valley area. Eric spends a...

06 Mar Coming Soon: Location-Aware IDX Apps

Posted at 12:00h in API's, IDX, iPhone, Mapping by Andrew Mattie

At the time of this writing, Apple is holding a press release to announce their API for the iPhone; you can check out the live feed here. They've announced a lot of really incredible stuff so far, but the part that I was most intrigued...

05 Mar Can You Sell A House and Move Using the Web Exclusively?

Posted at 11:16h in Communication, Marketing by Drew Meyers

One can accomplish a lot on the web -- but, can you sell your home and move to a new location using ONLY the web? To help answer that question, I ran across an interesting post on Proud Geek this morning -- A Moving Experiment....

04 Mar The Realivent Team has Been Busy

Posted at 08:35h in Links for Geeks by Drew Meyers

Here's some links for the geeks out there from the Realivent Team: New - EBlogLetter - Sending Newletters Using Your Blogposts Directly from Within your own Site Get Client Testimonials Directly from Your Blogsite PROPERTY BLOGSITES and FEATURED LISTINGS Widget - QUICK LINKS NAV BAR UPDATE Featured Blogsite -...

03 Mar Bird's Eye View Expansion

Posted at 15:06h in Mapping by Drew Meyers

Though it was announced last week, I just saw Matt Goyer's post mentioning a major update in Bird's Eye imagery, and thought the news worthy of passing along. Here are the US cities (counties or MSA's in some cases) with updated imagery: Etowah Co, AL Mobile Co, AL Monterey...

02 Mar Carnival of Real Estate #80

Posted at 23:34h in General by Drew Meyers

The 80th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted at Real Estate Tomato....

01 Mar Congrats on a Successful Inman Website Launch

Posted at 19:52h in Company News & Analysis by Drew Meyers

Congrats to the Inman crew for getting their new and improved website up and running! ...

01 Mar If Google could do this…

Posted at 01:18h in Google, Keyword Advertising, Marketing by Erion Shehaj

Let's just say that I'm having lunch with Sergei Brin and he asks me for my opinion on how to make Google Adwords better. (Official odds - 1 in 999999999999999999999999; look it up!). This would be my response: RSS Feeds and Google Adwords! Here's why. We have...