Want to increase productivity? Cut costs? Maximize the safety and security of your data? If so, you’ll want to learn more about two key trends that have hit the real estate industry: cloud-based real estate CRMs and running a paperless business. Cloud computing can equal…

A few links from around the interwebs that may be of interest to some of you: Top Agent Network scoops up domain name PocketListings.net and CEO Alexander Clark Cozy purchases Landlordology REach applications for 2014 are open – apply HERE Seth Godin – “But What if…

I just came across this “Sign up for GaryVIP” link today on Facebook. It seems to be a test of Twitter’s Lead Generation Cards they announced earlier this year. The question for me, is what happens on Gary’s end when someone shares an email address…

Rand Fishkin’s first white board friday of 2014 is a great topic: What Should I Put On the Home Page? The topic is fitting given I had a conversation with an agent from the Geek Estate community earlier today and we discussed this exact topic….

I love this commercial… Why? It paints a picture of where well established technology titans began. Skype, TripAdvisor, Shazam, and Shutterfly. They all began in obscure places across the globe as little more than an idea is some crazy entrepreneurs head. And Dell found the…

Yesterday I wrote about going deep on content in 2014. Today, I found an amazing example of deep local content certainly worth highlighting. Raziel Ungar in Burlingame, CA. There are teams and brokerages scattered across the country who have done good work in the local…

Does Anyone Use Facebook to Search for a Real Estate Agent? I’m not convinced the answer is yes. No one has ever told me they found their agent on Facebook. And, if the answer is no, who cares if N-Play has 250,000 agents in their…

I believe amazing local content is one of the best long term strategies to generating organic, high quality traffic to your site. I’ve written about hyper local blogging and the content problem (clarifying post here) multiple times. As you know from my previous writing, one option…

Crowdfunding seems to be creeping into every vertical as a viable fundraising option. The most well known platform is of course Kickstarter. Kickstarter for real estate agents? From Brad Inman’s 2014 predictions: 4. An investment opportunity to buy equity in individual top-producing real estate agents…

I’m going to give the first 4 people who schedule a call using the following link from Clarity.fm, 30 minutes of my time for free: https://clarity.fm/drewmeyers/geekestate I offered a similar deal a few years ago ($5 instead of zero), as part of Startup Weekend Amsterdam —…