Ever since Zillow launched rentals a few weeks ago, I’ve becoming more and more convinced that social media marketing in the rental market is a significant missed opportunity for real estate pros as a means to build a future book of business. It’s a given…

What’s The Difference Between WordPress.com and WordPress.org? This question came up several times at RE BarCamp a few months ago, numerous times with individual agents I’ve spoken to, and again when I spoke at the Coldwell Banker Bain Tech forum, so I thought I’d address…

Last night, Diverse Solutions announced their dsIDXpress wordpress plugin is now available in BETA. Their demo site can be seen HERE, and if you want to be a BETA tester, you can sign up here. From what I have seen and heard, this seems like…

Especially given how tech savvy the Geek Estate readership is (and since this blog is hosted on Media Temple and experienced an outage earlier today), I’m curious — what web hosting provider do you use to host your website(s)? Please take the poll below to…

I can’t believe there have already been 168 real estate carnivals, but the 169th edition is now upon us and yours truly is at the helm once again. The last CoRE hosted here at Geek Estate Blog was Holidays with the Geeks (#121) — and…

Does Google ever stop pumping out awesome imagery (see cities in 3d)? If their new Perspective Imagery is any indication — the answer is no. Even though this imagery is very similar to Microsoft’s Birds Eye View, it’s another possible source of imagery for real…

I just got a DM from fellow Geek Estate contributor Josh Ferris and thought it best to just answer the question publicly rather than privately given that it’s a question I myself had awhile back. Question: “what plug-in did you use for the author sidebar…

The new REW IDX map search is due out in January — here are the new map features: Polygonal parameter searches (with drawing tool) Spherical (dragable / resizable) radius searches IDX custom search builder (customize your OWN search) Schools / ammenities overlay Streetview enabled New…

A friend of mine, Aaron Moore, has been a real estate agent in Seattle since October of 2006. However, he hasn’t had ANY web presence whatsoever until about a month ago. After numerous scoldings by me for his lack of a website and social media…

Interesting in how you can get mentioned in the local news? Or how the Vancouver Sun is using social media? Or what the future of news and newspapers looks like? If so, you might enjoy the video embedded below from the November Vancouver Real Estate…