I’ll be 100% honest — I’m sick of hearing about Pinterest. The site has been around over two years, but all of a sudden, everyone and their mother is writing about them. That said, I don’t want to discount the platform is an irrelevant platform…

Are you building a TRUE brand, or a business totally dependent on spending money to earn revenue? It’s a question each and every one of you should be asking yourself. Allow me to expand on the branding discussion I started a few days ago. Every business…

To recap the posts over the past week, here are the 6 participants of Geek Build 2012: Daniel Bacon – Domain TBD – focused on Clearwater Beach and Clearwater Sand Key | Geek Estate write up John Womeldorf – MrWilliamsburg.com | Geek Estate write up (steering committee domain name…

It’s true — the VAST majority of independent brokerages can’t afford to write a 7 figure check to the Zillow’s of the world. As Jay puts it: This could be the beginning of the end for small brokerages Or not. I’m in the “not” camp….

Realtor.com just announced an upgrade to their mobile app — with the primary new featured being ability to find listings with a price reduction, foreclosures, and recently sold properties. I’ll admit I’m not much of an apps guy myself, and certainly not in the market…

First, I’m going to take a wild guess and say that SEO has been on your mind recently. That’s just a hunch. Second, I’ll take a wild guess and say you already know SEO in the real estate vertical is expensive. Again, just a guess. If not?…

I was browsing AgentsOnline.net and came across this thread about Superlative. The post originated in 2007, but there was a response added about a week ago that I wanted to highlight warning of contractual obligations for website providers (and Superlative specifically): I too would not…

I recently came across a forum thread on AgentsOnline.net that I found interesting: Zurple, Boomtown, Tigerleads, Buyerlink Help! Ok I have added up the hours each week that I’m spending doing my own lead generation and it’s stupidly high. So instead of hiring an assistant…

A little over a week ago, Education.com launched their school boundaries project (submit your own press release for $49.95). The boundaries cover all 13,000 school districts in the United States. According to Education.com, “Currently, Education.com’s School Boundary Tool offers 100% coverage of school district information,…

Like the local data expert situation which I discussed awhile ago, agents and brokerages are also getting killed at the content marketing game. Why aren’t big, national brokerages pulling together content like this as a marketing tactic? Or even regional brokerages covering a few local MSA’s?…