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The Mobile App Craze

The Mobile App Craze

Helping you create an app with zero coding is what Mobile by Conduit‘s value proposition is. Yup, the app craze is on. Everyone needs an app. At least that’s what vendors want you to believe. What we’re quickly getting to, is app overload. Heck, we may…

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Meet the Real Estate Tech Entrepreneur: Robb Monkman

Meet the Real Estate Tech Entrepreneur: Robb Monkman

In our latest Meet the Real Estate Tech Entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with Robb Monkman of React Mobile. Since we are both tech founders in the Seattle area — I sat down with Robb for lunch last week in Pioneer Square to learn more about what…

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What EXACTLY is Your Mobile Strategy?

What EXACTLY is Your Mobile Strategy?

You might have seen the post (poll) I put up asking what your biggest pain point in your business is. Granted, only 16 people voted – but here are the results… One thing immediately jumped out at me… If no agents or brokerages need a mobile…

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Speaking of Q&A & Mobile…

Speaking of Q&A & Mobile…

You might have seen my post about the opportunity for a Zillow Advice experience, inside of an app. Yahoo! just revamped their Yahoo Answers offering, and it looks like mobile support is a huge component of that revamp. What’s new Product tour

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What is Your Biggest Need / Pain Point?

What is Your Biggest Need / Pain Point?

I’m curious, what is the biggest challenge in your business right now? Please take a minute and pick one of the following…

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Brokerages: Narrow Your Search

Brokerages: Narrow Your Search

If you’re a broker trying to figure out your unique value prop when it comes to search, go read Joel’s “Don’t build broad, build narrow” post on 1000watt. A few narrow search options to consider optimizing for. Find homes that are within… …X minutes of…

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Real Estate App Idea to Ponder: Zillow Advice, Inside a Native App

Real Estate App Idea to Ponder: Zillow Advice, Inside a Native App

A drop dead simple way to ask real estate questions, and get responses from real estate experts. In an app. On Zillow’s iOS app — there is no way to ask questions in Zillow Advice. Maybe they should just package that experience into a separate…

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There Are Agents Everywhere

There Are Agents Everywhere

I saw the following Century 21 commercial yesterday (yes, I know it’s from the Super Bowl last year) while watching the Seahawks game… What jumped out at me? Someone asks for a C21 agent in a parking lot, and the guy standing 20 feet away…

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Meet the Real Estate Tech Entrepreneur: Justin Shreve

Meet the Real Estate Tech Entrepreneur: Justin Shreve

In our latest Meet the Real Estate Tech Entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with Justin Shreve of Rentmatic.com. Here’s a bit more about him, from his own mouth… What do you do? I run Rentmatic.com. Rentmatic makes paying rent effortless for tenants and makes rent collection reliable and…

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Flyers – Print them yourself or have them printed?

Flyers – Print them yourself or have them printed?

This may be a bit of a departure from the typical post here at at Geek Estate. Sure, most of the time we’re talking about things like marketing, web hosting, IDX, syndication, how the internet affects real estate agents, CRM, mobile apps, etc.  So what am…

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