After a bit of thought and asking TechSavvyAgent and Matthew Shadbolt for their opinions, #reblogchat is being renamed to #retechchat so that we can cover topics outside of real estate blogging down the road. For instance, we may want to select real estate CRM’s, utilizing iPads…

[Updated 4/7/2011: #reblogchat will actually be named #retechchat to give us more flexibility to cover topics beyond blogging] I’ve been “attending” the weekly 1 hour #blogchat conversation on Twitter every Sunday evening (at 8 pm Central) the past month or so. It’s always a lively discussion…

Social media will NOT radically transform your business in the next 12 months. Or likely the next 24 months. There. I said it. Like anything else in life, success with social media takes time and effort. It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that social…

I recently came across a new website, Home Elephant, and wanted to spend some time explaining how it fits into the online landscape for a real estate agent.  This new social media site  is the Facebook for  Residential Homes and Communities. It is a place…

It seems everywhere I go people are talking about QR codes. When it comes to QR codes, where is the data that supports the hype? Here’s a comment by Chris Dowell on the Mobile Marketing post which is quite telling if you ask me: I have…

Realtors hold all the cards (MLS data), but are aggregators squeaking out the win? – photo credit Recently, a Hawaii MLS company (who asked to remain anonymous) audited Hawaii Life Real Estate Brokers and informed me of a few RETS rules and regulations we were violating. The…

Advertising real estate used to be easy. You put up signs in front of the property, held a few open houses and showed up to let people in when they wanted to check out the property. Life was good. Things began to get a bit…

Ready for some margaritas team with geeky real estate conversation? For those in the Orange County, Los Angeles, or San Diego area, there’s a Pre-Agent Reboot tweetup tomorrow evening that you should attend from 6 pm – 9 pm at Pablos Cantina @ The District at…

In the past, I always concentrated on optimizing my web pages for Google first, and Yahoo! and Bing second. That’s because Google’s competitors delivered a fraction of the traffic—making the search giant my go to source. But when Yahoo! threw in the towel and announced…

Selling real estate is a local game. Buyers in particular want to get a feel for a place. They want to touch, to get a feel for the environment and they want to see themselves not only in a home but in an area. We know virtual…