I recently made my first significant contribution to the ongoing Z, T, R saga, which I urge you to read and consider here.  Though it was posted on another source, I thought it was significant enough that I did not want GEB readers to miss…

Is your business sailing along smoothly? Free from competition or challenges? If you’re in real estate (and truthfully – any business) then the answer is likely no. Not only no, but not anymore and probably not ever again. The real estate landscape has changed, and…

I grew up in Chicago and kids had to choose between the White Sox or the Cubs as their favorite team. Since there has only been one World Series winner between both teams since 1917, choices are not the best. Anyway, my team was the…

This morning I was sitting in my office when a newer agent that I am friendly with popped in to say hello.  Naturally, we got to talking about how each of our businesses are doing and I loved what he shared with me.  It was…

Take a look at the brand new McMillin Realty site. It’s by far and away the best example of a minimalist design for a brokerage site that I’ve seen. I personally absolutely love the “Did you know that McMillin Realty can also help you with…” call…

If you have followed Geek Build 2012 you know we had a designer working on TheClearwaterBeachLife.com home page design, which will be used as a template when building our custom theme for the Genesis Framework (affiliate link). Last week the designer finished up her work and…

A few weeks ago I wrote a post titled Where are the real estate young guns? that highlighted a few very successful (and one might add “tenured”) bloggers, agents, and marketing mavericks in the real estate industry. Their stories are inspirational and serve as a benchmark for…

It was about a year ago today that I accepted admission into TCU’s MBA program in Fort Worth. It was a very tough decision for me at the time because I had also just decided to launch a real estate brokerage. I weighed the advantages/disadvantages…

SAD DAY today when I was looking for one of my favorite real estate blogs (FOREM), and it was nowhere to be found. Where have the bloggers gone? I suspect  two things: mother companies like Inman or Zillow want to go in a different direction. …

I just hit the upgrade switch to the latest version of the Disqus commenting system. Let me know what you think in the comments… FYI that you can request an invite for the new version for your own site from this link.