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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Curbed is Getting into the Listings Game

Curbed is Getting into the Listings Game

If you follow the Curbed blog, you probably saw Lockhart’s post today mentioning the new Curbed Marketplace. What is it? From their help page: It’s a place for sellers and brokers to post real estate listings, and for buyers to browse and search them. But…

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Real Estate Agent Hunting 2.0

Real Estate Agent Hunting 2.0

Recommendations from friends has historically been the way agents are chosen by buyers and sellers, but with the amount of information now available online, buyers & sellers are doing their research and reaching their own conclusions about which agent is best for them. The Washingont…

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SEO is Important — But Not at the Expense of Your Visitors

SEO is Important — But Not at the Expense of Your Visitors

Tim O’Reilly wonders (out-loud) whether linking to yourself is the future of the web — I hope not. He ends the post with two guidelines worth thinking through: Ensure that no more than 50% of the links on any page are to yourself. (Even this…

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Ubertor is Now Syndicating Video Content to YouTube and Vimeo

Ubertor is Now Syndicating Video Content to YouTube and Vimeo

Ubertor has launched a new feature within the control panel that allows real estate agents to upload videos to their Ubertor control panel and have them automatically syndicate out to our distribution partners. [via Ubertor]

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Learn About the Future of Local Video (for those of you in New York)

Learn About the Future of Local Video (for those of you in New York)

[via True Gotham]

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Welcome Chad Huck, Interactive Marketing Manager for CENTURY 21 Hecht Realty

Welcome Chad Huck, Interactive Marketing Manager for CENTURY 21 Hecht Realty

Please join me in welcoming the newest “Geek” to the Geek Estate family — Chad Huck, the Interactive Marketing Manager for CENTURY 21 Hecht Realty in North Carolina! I had a chance to meet Chad at RE Bar Camp down in San Francisco a couple…

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Real Estate Tech Podcasts

Real Estate Tech Podcasts

Here are a couple podcasts you should consider listening to (you can even listen to them in iTunes): Mike Price with Todd Carpenter on the topic of REBlogWorld Mike Price with Chris Koehler, CEO of Applied Real Estate Technology

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Do You Link to External Sites?

Do You Link to External Sites?

When it comes to your linking strategy, are you in the “Don’t Link to External Sites” camp? If so, Rand at SEOmoz has some points you might want to consider. And if that post doesn’t convince you that not linking out is a bad strategy,…

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Real Estate Blogs on the iPhone

Real Estate Blogs on the iPhone

Do you have an iPhone and read real estate blogs? If so, Dennis McGuire coded up a “blog reader” for the iPhone — http://www.irealtyblogs.com. The site pulls feeds from all Dennis’ favorite blogs from the RE.net into one. Currently, the feeds from the following blogs…

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Video from RE Bar Camp

Video from RE Bar Camp

Head on over to Zillow Blog for more background from David.

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