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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Carnival of Real Estate #62

Carnival of Real Estate #62

The 62nd edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted at the vFlyer Blog. Congrats to fellow GeekEstate Blog contributor Michael Price for winning the carnival with a post on his personal blog — Real Estate and The Social Network Effect. Update: Being a…

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Links for Geeks

Links for Geeks

Here’s a couple links for geeks worth reading (or watching): Website analytics has been a topic I’ve meant to write about for some time on GeekEstate, but Erik Hersman at Future of Real Estate Marketing beat me to it — Statistics and Analytics: Tools The…

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Fantastic Way to Build a Brand – Produce an Online TV Show

Fantastic Way to Build a Brand – Produce an Online TV Show

True Gotham has built a fantastic brand as a valuable resource for anyone interested in the Manhattan real estate market. Doug Heddings, a Senior Vice President and associate real estate broker at Prudential Douglas Elliman, is the man behind the blog and covers topics ranging…

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List of Best Real Estate Website Technology Providers

List of Best Real Estate Website Technology Providers

[Update from editor March, 2017: I recommend contacting Caffeine Interactive if you’re looking for a semi-custom or full custom. Here’s one site they did for a client of mine.] I think it’s essential that every real estate professional have their own website. I did some research…

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Postlets – One Option to Syndicate Your Listings

Postlets – One Option to Syndicate Your Listings

Postlets is certainly one of the companies you can utilize should you wish to syndicate your listings around the web. Asher Matsuda and Raymond Chen started Postlets about 2 years ago as a side project — and are still plugging away with development while continually…

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Carnival of Real Estate #61

Carnival of Real Estate #61

The 61st edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is live over at Mortgage Insider!

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Persuasive Writing Tips for all the Bloggers

Persuasive Writing Tips for all the Bloggers

There has been an explosion of real estate blogging within the last 2 years, and the writing can range from posts that are thoughtful and well-written to those that are mind-blowingly bad. Great writing is hard to achieve, no doubt. It takes time, commitment, a…

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Put Your Photo on LinkedIn

Put Your Photo on LinkedIn

Since many real estate professionals use LinkedIn to network and farm for new clients, I thought it was worth mentioning that TechCrunch is reporting that LinkedIn is planning to allow individuals to upload photos of themselves starting Friday (tomorrow). I do find it odd that…

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Smart Advertising – Interactive Ads

Smart Advertising – Interactive Ads

While browsing Zillow Discussions yesterday, one ad just popped out at me. Upon seeing it, I was immediately compelled to click on it. Why? The ad was interactive; it allowed me to control the ad. Here’s the ad that I am referring to — browse…

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A New (Quicker?) Way to Blog

A New (Quicker?) Way to Blog

What do I mean? Audio and pictures rather than text — check out Sketchcast.com. I agree with the above embedded “sketchcast” that some ideas/concepts of blog posts are definitely better conveyed with graphics/pictures and audio rather than text. I know visual representations help many people…

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