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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Marketing Your Blog

Marketing Your Blog

I’m speaking on a panel here at Bloggers Connect titled Marketing Your Blog. I’m sharing the stage with 3 other great panelists: Erik Hersman, Principal, Zungu LLC Reggie Nicolay, Regional Technology Director, Fidelity National. He also writes at MyTechOpinion. Brian Rothenberg, Product Manager, Yahoo! Real…

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Would the Real Estate Blogosphere (RE.net) Benefit from a "Techmeme for Real Estate"?

Would the Real Estate Blogosphere (RE.net) Benefit from a "Techmeme for Real Estate"?

I, for one, think the RE.net would benefit and would love to see it happen. What about you? Check out my post on the Carnival of Real Estate blog for more.

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Don't Make the Mistake of Forgetting to Backup Your Blog

Don't Make the Mistake of Forgetting to Backup Your Blog

Most bloggers know blogging (read: good writing) is hard work and consumes a LOT of time. As a blogger who has spent well over a hundred hours creating content for both my blog and the blogs I contribute to on behalf of Zillow, I realize…

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40 Blogging Tips for 2008

40 Blogging Tips for 2008

Ken at Realivent put together a great post for you bloggers and wanna-be-bloggers — 40 Tips to Kickstart Your Own Blog in 2008. He broke out the tips into 4 categories: 10 Admin Tips During Blog Install 10 Resources for Themes and Designs 10 Links…

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Top 10 Photography for Real Estate Posts In 2007

Top 10 Photography for Real Estate Posts In 2007

Today, fellow Geek Estate contributor Larry Lohrman highlighted the top 10 posts from 2007 from his blog, Photography for Real Estate. If you are interested in real estate photography and figuring out how to utilize excellent photography to make your listings stand out from the…

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Helping You Improve SEO – Peter Quinlan

Helping You Improve SEO – Peter Quinlan

I’m pleased to announce a geeky colleague of mine at Zillow as a Geek Estate contributor — Peter Quinlan, who was recently brought on to improve Zillow’s SEO. However, though he’s new to Zillow, he’s certainly no stranger to the real estate tech world —…

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Want to View the Front Page of a Newspaper?

Want to View the Front Page of a Newspaper?

There’s been lots of commentary on future of the the newspaper business over the past couple weeks. But, the point of this post is not to throw my thoughts on the subject out there — it’s just to highlight a cool web site involving newspapers…

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Using Video to Make a Point

Using Video to Make a Point

Check out Daniel Rothamel’s video — episode #1 of “Real Estate in Black and White”. After watching this, I hope you get the message. [via FoREM & Agent Genius]

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9 Essential Principles for Good Web Design

9 Essential Principles for Good Web Design

Here’s another link for you geeks out there — particularly if you’re trying to design a user-friendly real estate web page that appeals to consumers. While a bare-bones, data driven site might get the job done — in my opinion, good web design is essential…

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Top 50 Real Estate Marketing Blogs

Top 50 Real Estate Marketing Blogs

Are you an agent looking for marketing advice? If so, International Listings has put out a list of the “Top 50 Real Estate Marketing Bloggers” worth checking out. It breaks out marketing blogs by type — general marketing, internet marketing, coaches, development properties, and marketing…

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