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.

Every year I look for one or two things to add to my arsenal of tools and I also look to get rid of the most under used or under performing ones.  I figure this will help my real estate  business stay fresh and continually…

I have a section of my Google feedreader titled “re-local-blogs” to keep me on the pulse of what local, aka hyper local, bloggers are talking about in their respective areas. Which bloggers are in that group? Heather Elias Jim Duncan Brian Copeland Greg Dallaire Teresa…

RentJuice is now part of Zillow. I love this strategic move by Zillow to get into the rentals market in a big, big way. Speaking of acquisitions, I wonder which real estate technology vendor will be next to be acquired? The likely candidates in my…

Geek Build 2012 is moving along nicely, and we now have an initial design concept ready for public comments and suggestions for revisions. We chose to use TheClearwaterBeachLife.com for our initial design, which will be finalized in Adobe Photoshop .psd format. Once this is complete we…

We have all been through the excitement of getting that alert via phone or email that we have a new lead on our site.  We immediately grin, day dream for a quick second of what it may hold in store for us, and head to…