Doorsteps, which I’ve covered before just put out a new video… The bar to real estate marketing just got pushed up a notch. Bravo Michele and team. Bravo. PS: I’ll be asking Michele for some input when we embark on creating our own video for Oh…

Anyone out there trying to figure out the next social network of real estate? Active Rain seems to be the last social network of real estate that had any significant adoption, but has fallen off the map lately (3 years ago?). I think the time…

I’m happy to announce Mike Price is taking over as managing editor of Geek Estate Blog. Mike is certainly no stranger to Geek Estate — he’s been with Geek Estate since the beginning as a contributing author, acted as the managing editor in 2010 while…

I just talked about nailing local the other day. Today, NextDoor launched version 2 of their site. Good reminder that people are innovating, every single day in the local space. It may be a month from now, a year from now, or 3 years from…

I’d argue that real estate agents/brokers are in a better opportunity to nail local than anyone else (remember, you should be the local expert). For those who want to reach home owners in your own local area — read this post. It’ll get you thinking…

From one of my favorite movies of all time – Good Will Hunting. I can’t learn anything from you I can’t read in some fucking book I’m in that camp too. If I interact with someone who just wants to spit facts and figures and…

Greg Fischer just launched a new website, FWLocal.com. Yet one feature is surprisingly absent. IDX. It’s no secret most of “leads” from agent or broker websites are converted to contact information with IDX. So, is ditching IDX a risk? Sure it is. I’m guessing Greg’s…

Today DoorSteps announced that they opened their doors to consumers. If you read this blog regularly, you know I wrote about DoorSteps a few months ago. What’s the goal of the DoorSteps platform? According to founder Michele Serro… The goal (of the platform) was to ensure…

I wrote a piece about the Time Suck Economy on Geek Wire the other day, but it’s worth calling out here too. What is the time suck economy? Simple, exactly what it sounds like. The technology economy built around wasting people’s online time. A couple…

As promised, I am sharing the results from the survey regarding usage of real estate CRM’s that ran a few weeks ago. There were 60 total responses, 44 of which came from agents. The fact that 50% of people fell inside the “Other” bucket proves the…