About Drew Meyers

Founder of GEM Diamond. Zillow Alum. Real estate tech geek. Travel addict & former co-founder of Horizon. Social entrepreneurship advocate. Fan of Red Hot Chili Peppers.

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#retechchat Topic of Discussion for Monday – Craigslist

#retechchat Topic of Discussion for Monday – Craigslist

The topic tonight’s #retechchat is Craigslist. How can Craigslist be utilized to drive traffic to your website (where ideally you can convert them)? What are the best strategies to use? What kind of ads work and which ones fail? To participate in Monday’s #retechchat, here are…

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TIC TAC – How to Calculate ROI of Your Time

TIC TAC – How to Calculate ROI of Your Time

Here’s a great video by Darin Persinger explaining how to Calculate the ROI of Your Time. Thinking through your ROI is a hugely important activity for any business owner so as to spend your time on your most profitable activities (and hiring others to do…

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#retechchat Transcript – Role of the Individual Agent

#retechchat Transcript – Role of the Individual Agent

The topic of #retechchat tonight was the role of the individual agent. We discussed what technology agents should outsource, what tech an MLS should provide, brokerages and tech training, and a range of other topics. Here is the text document that I saved for those…

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WordPress Strategies for Real Estate Brokerages

WordPress Strategies for Real Estate Brokerages

It’s obvious agents are realizing the power and cost effectiveness of the WordPress platform. But brokers seem to be non existent in terms of developing comprehensive WordPress strategies. Here are two potential strategies for a real estate brokerage to take advantage of WordPress: A full…

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Here's How You May be Losing $8,000+ a Month. What Value do You Put on Your Time?

Here's How You May be Losing $8,000+ a Month. What Value do You Put on Your Time?

Here’s a video from Darin Persinger at Productivity Junkies that I thought I’d share — the topic is the how you are losing $8,000 per month. Yea, of course you don’t want to lose $8,000 a month, so watch the video. And if your time…

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#retechchat Topic of Discussion for Monday – Role of the Individual Agent

#retechchat Topic of Discussion for Monday – Role of the Individual Agent

It looks like the topic of the next #retechchat is the Role of the Individual Agent (as it relates to technology). What technology products should an agent invest in? What should they rely on their broker for? What should the MLS provide? 2nd place was “Craigslist”,…

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"Retargeting" – Are Any Brokers (or Agents) Using this as a Marketing Strategy

"Retargeting" – Are Any Brokers (or Agents) Using this as a Marketing Strategy

There’s a great post over at SEOMoz on the topic of “retargeting”. What is it? It is the form of marketing in which you target users who have previously visited your website with banner ads on display networks across the web I encourage you to…

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Top Producers in My Area are Not on WordPress – Why Should I Be?

Top Producers in My Area are Not on WordPress – Why Should I Be?

If I look at the very top agents in the company most aren’t using WP for main site, why should I? I received this question from John Ziemba on Twitter last week and wanted to address it here. It’s a question that I can’t answer…

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2nd Edition of 10 Minute WordPress SEO – Permalinks

2nd Edition of 10 Minute WordPress SEO – Permalinks

The 2nd edition of our 10 Minute WordPress SEO video series is up — this one on the topic of permalinks. Head over to the Virtual Results Blog and follow along for some good learnings from Jim.

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#retechchat Transcript – SEO

#retechchat Transcript – SEO

Another killer #retechchat conversation went down tonight, this one on SEO. I don’t have time to summarize the whole thing since I have a 3 hour drive ahead of me, but here is the text document that I saved for those who really want to…

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