It’s been a few weeks since I presented Curb Call, on stage at the Realogy / Retsly hackathon, the day before the NAR Expo in San Francisco. For those unfamiliar with it, it’s most easily described as “Uber for real estate”, where home buyers in the…

There’s one key component of real estate CRMs that’s often neglected – reports. The reporting functionality in a CRM is instrumental to better understanding your business and improving in the appropriate areas.  It’s one way to become a better REALTOR® and exponentially grow your business…

There are a lot of big ideas out there in the real estate industry, some of which are likely to slowly iterate from ideas into reality. There are even real day to day pain points still unsolved. AgentMatch is the current rage. Literally, rage. There is opportunity…

I’ve been trying to showcase more agents and brokerages that “get it”. To me, part of “getting it” means understanding business is about more than just the bottom line. It’s about giving back to your community. Here are two brokerages I came across recently worth…

I just bought the book Dave Crumby and Lani Rosales recently released — Real: A Path to Passion, Purpose and Profits in Real Estate (Kindle version) (affiliate links). I will report back with more once I’ve read it.

GitHub is a place where hardcore geeks socialize, and non geeks never ever venture. What is it, exactly? From Crunchbase: GitHub is a social network for programmers. Git is a distributed software management program created by Linus Torvalds, originally for the Linux Kernel Development. GitHub is…

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In our latest real estate tech interview, I’m talking to Todd Miller, the co-founder of Homing In. (I believe) they were the first app in the “Uber for Real Estate” category, though I didn’t know it existed until Todd commented on the Curb Call post…

Greg’s blown the lid on the Realty Alliance plan — Broker Strangelove: The scoop on the Realty Alliance’s (crazy) plan to rock the real estate industry (Inman’s follow up). Crazy? Or could the strategy work?

Picking a niche is important. We’ve talked about it here. Another niche you could focus on? Being the startup agent. What go me thinking on this? Aside from being a geek working on a startup myself (Oh Hey World & Horizon), there was an article…