Good news for 4 people – I’m offering an online marketing consultation for agents or brokers for $5 to the first 4 people to pay. Here’s the background as to why. I’m currently at Startup Weekend in Amsterdam working with a team building a platform that enables you…

Silos are great. At maintaining the status quo. At being predictable. Silos hold grain. Get emptied. Get refilled with more grain. Over and over and over. A very predictable pattern. Silos suck if you are focused on growth. Sure, you can build more of them. But…

If you care about your own SEO efforts, please please do yourself a favor and read this article on SEOMoz explaining how to utilize local events to build links. Happy monday!

The bottom line is that you don’t know the best way to accomplish a goal until you try several different approaches of reaching the same goal. In the web world, that process is generally referred to as “A/B Testing”. A few months ago, I created…

I’ve been wanting to cover international real estate technology in detail for quite some time, but have never gotten around to it until now. PropertyFeast in India paid for a sponsored post via the Press Release submission tool built into this site (their Press Release is already…

How Much Real Estate Will I Sell if I’m on the First Page Google I just saw this as a search query in my Google Analytics. Meaning at least one person is out there trying to figure out the answer. Of course, we all want…

Take a look at the brand new McMillin Realty site. It’s by far and away the best example of a minimalist design for a brokerage site that I’ve seen. I personally absolutely love the “Did you know that McMillin Realty can also help you with…” call…

I just hit the upgrade switch to the latest version of the Disqus commenting system. Let me know what you think in the comments… FYI that you can request an invite for the new version for your own site from this link.

I have a section of my Google feedreader titled “re-local-blogs” to keep me on the pulse of what local, aka hyper local, bloggers are talking about in their respective areas. Which bloggers are in that group? Heather Elias Jim Duncan Brian Copeland Greg Dallaire Teresa…

RentJuice is now part of Zillow. I love this strategic move by Zillow to get into the rentals market in a big, big way. Speaking of acquisitions, I wonder which real estate technology vendor will be next to be acquired? The likely candidates in my…