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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Introducing MyBlogLog "About Me" Widgets to the RE.net

Introducing MyBlogLog "About Me" Widgets to the RE.net

Over the past 2 years, I’ve seen numerous real estate blogs adopt the MyBlogLog Recent Readers widget — and I love the fact that so many use it. However, I have yet to see a real estate blogger adopt the new About Me widget MBL…

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Carnival of Real Estate #74

Carnival of Real Estate #74

The 74th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is live at Minnesota Property Investment.

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Why Guest Blogging & Leaving Breadcrumbs is a Good Idea — Because Anderson Cooper Does It

Why Guest Blogging & Leaving Breadcrumbs is a Good Idea — Because Anderson Cooper Does It

Last week, I mentioned that guest blogging is one way to market your blog. If you watch 60 Minutes regularly, there’s a good chance that you know Anderson Cooper (an employee of CNN) has contributed stories to 60 minutes every couple weeks for quite awhile…

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Why It Matters When Mortgage Guidelines Change

Why It Matters When Mortgage Guidelines Change

Dan Green, who authors The Mortgage Reports, put together a great video worth watching on the subject of “Why it matters when mortgage guidelines change.” null Link to video I’m certainly no mortgage expert, but Dan “dumbed” down the issue so regular consumers like me…

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50 Tools and Technologies from 1000watt Consulting

50 Tools and Technologies from 1000watt Consulting

Brian Boero, Partner at 1000Watt Consulting presented “50 Tools and Technologies to Help You” last week at Real Estate Connect and has published the slide deck for everyone interested. There’s quite a few interesting resources that I wasn’t aware of — such as Skitch, The…

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Carnival of Real Estate #73

Carnival of Real Estate #73

The 73rd edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted over at SanDiegOh.

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8 ways analytics software will help build a broader audience

8 ways analytics software will help build a broader audience

Reggi has a great writeup at MyTechOpinion for those interested in web analytics — 8 ways analytics software will help build a broader audience.

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A New and Improved BiggerPockets for Real Estate Investors

A New and Improved BiggerPockets for Real Estate Investors

I’m not involved in real estate investing and haven’t really spent much time on the new BiggerPockets site, but here is a good review by Scott Ficek at Minnesota Investment Real Estate.

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Welcome Peter Chiu to GeekEstate Blog

Welcome Peter Chiu to GeekEstate Blog

I’m happy to announce another contributor to the GeekEstate team — Peter Chiu from Yahoo! Real Estate. Here’s a couple words from Peter: I originally come from an engineering background at a startup company in NYC but I’ve always been interested in real estate. Recently…

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New Inman Logo

New Inman Logo

Inman is planning to launch a completely new website in the next month or so — here’s the new logo they unveiled today at the conference (which I think is a nice improvement). I’m looking forward to the launch of the new site, which will…

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