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 – Increasing Website Conversion

#retechchat Topic of Discussion for Monday – Increasing Website Conversion

From the votes gathered, it looks like the topic of the next #retechchat is going to be Increasing Website Conversion — which happens to be a topic we know a fair bit about at Virtual Results. To participate in Monday’s #retechchat, here are a few…

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Chris Smith Joins Inman as Chief Evangelist

Chris Smith Joins Inman as Chief Evangelist

Chris Smith, better known in the RE.net as TechSavvyAgent (TSA), is joining Inman as their new Chief Evangelist. As many of you know, prior to this, Chris did sales for Top Producer (owned by Move.com) and was the face behind TechSavvyAgent (now @Chris_Smth). Now, he’s moving…

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Howsthemarket.com – A New App from 1000Watt Consulting

Howsthemarket.com – A New App from 1000Watt Consulting

How often do you get asked “How’s the market?” I’d wager a bet it’s just about everyday. The team at 1000watt Consulting has a new app going into BETA to help share your knowledge related to that question in the digital world – Howsthemarket.com (great…

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Debunking a SEO Myth about XML Sitemaps

Debunking a SEO Myth about XML Sitemaps

I was just reading Ricardo’s post over on the Diverse Solution blog about XML sitemaps. And I wanted to debunk a myth I’ve heard numerous times from agents across the country about XML sitemaps for everyone reading. XML sitemaps will NOT help you improve your…

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Transcript of Tonight's #retechchat – Blogging Content Strategies

Transcript of Tonight's #retechchat – Blogging Content Strategies

Another great #retechchat tonight, this time on the topic of Blogging Content Strategies. Here is the text document that I saved for those who really want to wade through the entire discussion: Download it HERE. Alternatively, you can view the discussion on TwapperKeeper under the #retechchat hashtag….

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Clarifying My View on the Content Problem

Clarifying My View on the Content Problem

Generating content is hard work. No doubt about it. I think we all understand that in order to get leads and clients from your web efforts, you have to attract traffic to your site. As I’ve said before, the best converting websites on the planet…

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#retechchat Topic for Monday is Blogging Content Strategies

#retechchat Topic for Monday is Blogging Content Strategies

The topic of #retechchat this coming Monday evening will be Blogging Content Strategies – a topic I personally enjoy quite a bit, and the biggest challenge to blogging that I hear from agents on a daily basis. The 2nd and 3rd choice for a topic…

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Interrupting Your Regularly Scheduled Programming

Interrupting Your Regularly Scheduled Programming

This has nothing to do with WordPress, social media, listing syndication, or anything else related to real estate technology. Today, I want to ask you to support for a boy named Jackson I don’t even know in person who is in the fight of his…

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#retechchat – Video Transcript

#retechchat – Video Transcript

Here is the transcript of tonight’s #retechchat discussion on VIDEO, which I saved into a text document for those who want to review it — retechchatVIDEO. I know it’s not ideal, but it’s better than nothing. Alternatively, you can view the discussion on TwapperKeeper under the #retechchat hashtag….

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#retechchat – Video Discussion in 1 hour

#retechchat – Video Discussion in 1 hour

#retechchat starts in an hour and fifteen minutes. This week’s topic is VIDEO. For those who want to participate, here are a few options: Follow the #retechchat hashtag Add a search column to Tweetdeck for the hashtag #retechchat Join Tweetchat under #retechchat (recommended approach) Look forward to…

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