Drew Meyers and I spent an hour with Eric Bramlett discussing the ins and outs of the Displet IDX and how the Geek Build participants may apply it for their new real estate sites.  Below is the totally unedited conversation between the three of us…

We claw, scratch, fight, pinch, kick, and do just about anything else to be high on the lead food chain.   There are countless posts, articles, and columns offering advice on how to get real estate leads and where to get them.  But what is seldom…

I have recently gotten to know a real estate professional named Michael Pannell that has made a big mark on Dallas real estate through the use of the Internet.  His team generates 220+ deals per year and 97% of it comes from organic search engine…

A positive byproduct of my quest to revamp my personal website is that I came in contact with some great companies that will be the innovators of tomorrow’s real estate tech industry.  One website designer and custom IDX provider that caught my eye in a…

I have noticed a big increase in agents awareness of the need for a great real estate CRM.  It seems like the industry is no longer satisfied with what has been popular for many years and is now demanding more. I know I’m not, which…

At a recent real estate marketing conference that I attended, they pushed the idea of building multiple community sites that are laser focused on one area to compliment your big central site.  I thought the idea was interesting and worth consideration but I am not…

For a weeks I have been searching high and low, attending webinars and a two day marketing conference, scouring through forums, spending countless hours on the phone with vendors, and countless more Googling everything and anything I could think of to reinvent my site that…

When I say the words “real estate auction” what comes to mind?  If you are like most others, you will think of a distressed sale where there may be a deal to be had. It also creates a sense of urgency.  You may feel like…

Are you a listing agent?  I sure am not.  Rather, I am a marketing agent.  I don’t list property.  I create strategic marketing plans.  I directly influence the sales process on behalf of sellers. The word “listing” completely devalues the work of an effective real…

I have been networking with agents over the last few weeks about marketing their business online.  Despite the fact that they all came from different backgrounds, ages, genders, and just about anything else you could think of, there was one commonality amongst them all, which…