If you are a real estate professional in the greater Seattle area and looking to further your business in 2011 — there are two events coming up that you don’t want to miss, RE BarCamp on March 3rd and Agent Reboot on March 9. Having…

Congratulations to my good friend Dale Chumbley for blogging for 365 days straight; I think it’s safe to say his 365 Things to Do in Vancouver campaign has paid off for him (today is Day 365). Here’s a short video interview with Dean Ouellette at…

I’m as big a fan of email communications as the next guy, but emails must be sent with my permission. Or I have to know the person emailing me. Or heard their name from someone at least. Or be able to find out how I…

I know there are many real estate pros out there who know they should be on a WordPress.org platform, but haven’t made the switch yet. But what is making the switch going to cost you — both in dollars and in time spent? Well, let’s…

Geek Estate contributor Tony Kawaguchi is running a social media/SEO experiment to give away an iPad. If you want a chance to win a brand new iPad (who DOESN’T?), head over to his blog and get the details. Right now, his Facebook page has 60…

…for great marketing tactics. Watch the short video embedded below, from none other than fellow Geek Estate contributor Jay Thompson. THIS is an example of great creative marketing by an agent or broker without a huge ad budget. What are you doing to generate buzz?…

Most of the posts on this blog center around blogging, WordPress websites, IDX plugins, social media, iPhone apps, and other “real estate tech” tools. But we don’t spend much time talking about online advertising, which, if you have a website that converts traffic to contacts…

This morning’s Tweet from Zillow’s CEO Spencer Rascoff caught my attention: Zillow’s record January: 15.7 million unique monthly visitors, up 75% year-over-year. Thanks to each and everyone one of you! This seems to be a clear indication that Zillow is growing fast (13 million unique…

As part of talking to agents about our new predesigned sites, I’ve been asked several times what domain name to use for an agent site. There are 3 main approaches to picking a domain name in my mind: Use your own name as your URL….

As a result to being subscribed to Jay’s post about why he deleted his blog posts from ActiveRain (here’s the specific comment) — I learned that ActiveRain has recently changed their pricing from $39 per month to $89 per month for their Rain Maker program….