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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Version 1 of The Geek Estate Pro Forums Is Live

Version 1 of The Geek Estate Pro Forums Is Live

Version 1 of the new real estate forums of “Geek Estate Pro” are located here – http://geekestateblog.com/pro/forum/. If you already have a user name and password to Geek Estate as a past author or current Virtual Results client, you can login via the login module…

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YouRealty – Legit Claims or Just A Shiny Object?

YouRealty – Legit Claims or Just A Shiny Object?

Jeff Turner is right — YouRealty is making some big claims. Uploaded with Skitch! Can they deliver on those bold claims? Or are they the real estate industry’s latest & greatest shiny object? For their sake, let’s hope they change the real estate game. If…

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Real Estate Tech Question: Getting Nationwide MLS Listing Data

Real Estate Tech Question: Getting Nationwide MLS Listing Data

When it comes to building real estate websites, listings are kind of important. Just kind of. That is true whether you are an agent/broker trying to be relevant to buyers & sellers in your area or a serial entrepreneur trying to build the next national…

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An Awesome Landing Page? No, Not Really

An Awesome Landing Page? No, Not Really

I won’t link to this, but if you Google any part of the following text and you should be able to easily find this landing page for “Altura townhomes” Recently a friend of mine wrote a blog about the Altura townhomes in Bothell. Personally, I…

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Geek Estate is Under "Re" Construction

Geek Estate is Under "Re" Construction

If you’re thinking Geek Estate Blog looks a bit different than last time you checked it, don’t worry — the internet is not playing tricks on you. It is different. This site is indeed under construction, or “re”construction as we’ll call it. There are two moving parts…

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A 1 Month Blogging Content Strategy For New Real Estate Bloggers

A 1 Month Blogging Content Strategy For New Real Estate Bloggers

Are you just getting started with blogging? Just getting started with WordPress? Have no idea where to start with regards to generating content? Well, this post is for you. Here’s an outline of a 1 month content creation strategy for a new real estate blogger…

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In The Works – Geek Estate Pro: A WordPress & Internet Marketing Community Forum

In The Works – Geek Estate Pro: A WordPress & Internet Marketing Community Forum

What technology problems do you run into on a regular basis and how do you solve them? How do you decide which CRM to use to grow your business? How do you add a listing to your website? What do you need to do to…

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MyBlogLog Gets the Ax

MyBlogLog Gets the Ax

It’s a sad day, MyBlogLog which made its name by helping bloggers build communities around their blogs and giving bloggers insight into where people are coming from and what they are clicking, is being discontinued. I fell in love with MyBlogLog immediately after learning about…

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The King of Linkbuilding: WordPress.org

The King of Linkbuilding: WordPress.org

We all know “linkbuilding” is important to getting your site to rank highly in the search engines. I just randomly decided to check the inbound links to WordPress.org since they just released WP 3.1 today — and I think I found the king of linkbuilding…

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WordPress 3.1 Is Here

WordPress 3.1 Is Here

Today marked the release of WordPress 3.1. New features include: Redesigned linking workflow – this makes cross linking to old content MUCH easier than it used to be A new admin bar Post Formats support which allow for different styling for different types of posts…

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