WordPress is not rocket science. Like anything else in life, it can be learned in time. There are all kinds of people out there on the speaking circuit telling agents to build their own WordPress blogs. But, before you dive in to WordPress.org and start…

Actually, no we won’t. At least not here. If you want to read about Facebook’s new Social Deals program – head over to Techmeme where there are dozens of articles linked such as Greg Sterling’s. There’s plenty of commentary to entertain you for a good…

Remember that the topic for this week’s #retechchat is FACEBOOK ADS! If you want to participate in #retechchat this evening, there are a few options: Follow the #retechchat hashtag Add a search column to Tweetdeck for the hashtag #retechchat Join Tweetchat under #retechchat (recommended approach) Tune…

“What do I write about?” and “I don’t have time to write” It’s the classic content problem. I hear those two sentiments almost daily from real estate agents around the country. Once you have a blog or website (ideally, they should be integrated into one…

From the Syndication To Real Estate portals PDF paper from Clariety Consulting after showing examples of Trulia, Zillow, and Yahoo! promoting other agents over the listing agent on listing detail pages: Trulia, YAHOO!, Zillow and others would claim that their ad treatments are no different…

Zillow just announced a long term deal with ListHub syndication network. This is just smart business — in my mind, another strategic deal to combat the IPO questions they’ll get from investors. And, as a shareholder, I like it. It means they don’t have to…

For the second week in a row, the #retechchat Monday evening discussion was off-the-hook-awesome. This week, we tried to start an hour early at 6 PM PST to give east coasters a better chance to tune in, but ended up doing a full 2 hours…

Wow, what an awesome 2 hour #retechchat discussion last night on Mobile Marketing. I’ll come back to this and post a short recap and link to the archive of the discussion, but for now, I wanted to post a short survey to see what we…

Speaking of mobile marketing (the topic of tonight’s #retechchat 90 minutes from now), I just got the following email from Diverse Solutions: Diverse Solutions is excited to announce our new mobile IDX solution!  Combining the search and lead capture features of our IDX products into…

Reminder to tune into tonight’s #retechchat — it will be at 6 PST instead of the previous time of 7 PST in order to give east coasters a little better opportunity to tune in before their bed time. The topic this week was supposed to…