The best real estate contact management software and email marketing solutions offer Email Campaign Reports. These reports give you insight into your email marketing efforts; they provide you with data on who and how many people opened a mass email you’ve sent out, who and how many people…

Back in the 2006-2009 while working at Zillow, I remember being literally excited to see what the real estate blogging community (aka the “RE.net” or “real estate blogosphere”) had published. Every morning, one of the first things I did at my desk was check my…

In our latest Meet the Real Estate Tech Entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with Christian Sterner of WellcomeMat. I’ve known Christian for a long time, since the earliest days of WellcomeMat close to 7 years ago (has it really been that long?). I can tell you…

Lots of agents, brokers and real estate web masters are implementing Google authorship markup on their websites and blogs. It’s a great way to get increased visibility in the SERPs, improve CTR, boost your personal branding and claim your original content as your own. However,…

The days you wake up questioning what you’re doing. Why you started all those years ago. Why you’re grinding day in day out to earn your living. Why your recent strategy failed. Why finding customers is so hard. We’ve all had those days. Success isn’t…

In our latest Meet the Real Estate Tech Entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with Jonathan Aizen of Closing Time (prior Geek Estate coverage). I met Jonathan via his co-founder of Closing Time, Paul Knegten, whom I had coffee with several months ago while in New York. Here’s a bit…

I was up a little late last night reading a few articles I had saved over the last few days when I noticed a couple tweets from Tacoma agent Anne Jones about YouTube uploads. Since I was wide awake at the time I figured I would…

In our latest Meet the Real Estate Tech Entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with Peyman Aleagha of Website Box. I’ve known Peyman since my early business development days at Zillow, when I was trying to get data from the Zillow API into RealtySoft’s offering (Peyman’s prior endeavor…

We just heard from the folks at Realtor.com that they’ve renewed their agreement with MSN to be the sole provider of real estate listings and content for the media portal.  The agreement has been ongoing for 7 years, and strengthens one of their bases of…

Zillow is kicking off a new TV campaign… What do you think?