+ Wow, the Zillow acquisition of Diverse Solutions for $7.8 million in cash and stock is big big news for this industry. I’ve got a unique perspective on this announcement for a few reasons: At Virtual Results, we work extremely closely with Diverse Solutions. Their dsIDXpress…

The topic of last night’s #retechchat was WordPress Plugins. From last night’s discussion, here are a few great WordPress plugins that were mentioned: Yoast – WordPress SEO dsIDXpress Gravity Forms IDX Broker Here is the text transcript that I saved for those who want to read through…

[update: moved until Tuesday, Nov 1 at 6 PST / 9 EST] Tonight’s topic of conversation will be WordPress Plugins. What are the best plugins for a real estate website? What tricks do you use that most people likely don’t know about? Which ones should people…

The overarching question I’d like your feedback on is this: What Makes for a Great Sellers Page? For those who work the list side of the real estate process, how do you win listing presentations and convince sellers to hire you? I suspect a great…

The topic of last night’s #retechchat was Conversion Strategies. I missed the first 15 minutes of the discussion, but here is the text transcript from the last 45 minutes that I saved for those who want to read through the entire discussion: Download it HERE (best to…

Here’s a question from Tom Lipinski in Lake St Clair: What is the significance (or non-significance) of having a YouTube page/channel? What can YouTube do for me? One response from Chase Thompson on Twitter: @drewmeyers it has driven 100% of my business that hasn’t been referral…

Tom West, the central character in the Pulitzer Prize winning book “Soul of a New Machine” once said: “Not everything worth doing is worth doing well.” Back in the 70’s, Tom along with perhaps the finest company of computer engineers ever assembled sought to build…

Tomorrow’s topic of conversation will be “Conversion Strategies”. Given that conversion is how agents and brokers make money, it’s no surprise it is a popular topic that continues to receive votes, so we’ll cover it again. If you have questions, want to learn, or just lurk…

I think it’s safe to say every great real estate agent or broker website needs to have compelling community pages for each community in their entire geographic coverage area. What’s going to differentiate those community pages from everyone else? VIDEOS Here are a few examples…

The topic of last night’s #retechchat was “I am Not a Lead”. As you probably expected, there were no shortage of opinions on this subject. We all know no one likes to be thought of as a “lead” by anyone. As to how to avoid…