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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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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Carnival of Real Estate #60

Carnival of Real Estate #60

The 60th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted over at For Sale by Locals.

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Q&A With Christian Sterner at WellcomeMat

Q&A With Christian Sterner at WellcomeMat

WellcomeMat has certainly been one of the more talked about names within the RE.net whenever people are talking about online video. To date, they have focused mainly on connecting videographers around the country with real estate professionals looking for help creating video, though they certainly…

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Google's Real Estate Strategy

Google's Real Estate Strategy

The latest edition of Inman TV is definitely an interesting one given that it involves Google — anytime Google does anything, people usually take note given the scale that they operate at and the vast user base that they reach. Joel Burslem of Inman News…

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Inside Realius' Price Me Now

Inside Realius' Price Me Now

As I mentioned this weekend, Realius’ new Price Me Now was shown off at TechCrunch40 on Monday. They were ranked a 2.2 out of 4 in their “demopit” as part of TechCrunch40, though I think that’s a bit low (but to be fair, I didn’t…

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