In the latest version of talent war within the real estate industry, Trulia nabbed Todd Carpenter to be their Senior Manager of Industry Engagement. This follows Zillow’s recent big name hires of Bob Bemis and Jay Thompson. Who’s the next big name that’ll be in…

Have you heard the term “author rank” yet? If not, you’re going to start hearing it soon if you follow the online marketing and SEO industries at all. What is it? From Google’s Agent Rank patent. The identity of individual agents responsible for content can be…

I was scanning my feedreader today, and saw the news that Alain Pinel, a well known brokerage in the Bay Area, launched a redesigned website with Onboard Informatics Lifestyle Content. Great. A brokerage finally invested in their web presence. Alain Pinel is well known, so…

You want to reach residents in your local geographic area, right? Build WeekendSherpa, specifically tailored to your geographic area. What is WeekendSherpa? WeekendSherpa is a free weekly email newsletter giving you insiders’ recommendations on the best outdoor pursuits exclusive to California. It’s a drop dead…

How many of you are working on building hyper local communities for your neighborhood or city? I’ll take a guess and say “everyone” (at least to the agents and brokers reading). How many of you understand community building? I’m guessing the answer is “not many”….

The web is shifting toward minimalism. Less is more. Chris Smith — and probably many more — agree with me. I really like the latest wireframe revision for Geek Build. But it’s more of the same. It’s bloated. It’s the norm in the real estate…

We’re inching closer and closer to actually designing and developing the 6 Geek Build sites. I just took some feedback into account, and made a revision from the first of the two wireframes I posted last week. You can also take a look at John…

How Can a Real Estate Website be Successful? I saw this question in Geek Estate’s WP stats as a source of traffic to this site. It’s such a simple answer, that I’ll spend the 2 seconds it takes to answer it. Want it badly enough….

I have a random question for the TRUE geeks today. For those with experience building and running WordPress multisite networks, I wanted to get your feedback on your opinion of which IDX solution is best for a multisite instance powering dozens of sites on different…

The steering committee has discussed the theme framework decision, and decided on Genesis (affiliate link) as the recommended theme framework for Geek Build 2012. Why? As you can see based on Ricardo’s post, any of the premium theme frameworks can be used effectively for a…