When starting a conversation, finding things you can relate to the other person is absolutely crucial. If two people have nothing in common, then building a relationship is going to be tough. Enter social objects. The Social Object, in a nutshell, is the reason two…

Who is getting quoted by the local media regarding real estate market trends in your area? I had a discussion about this topic with an John Payson at #REBCSEA last week and saw this tweet from Kristal Kraft — and I decided it’s worth a…

Fair Warning: for the advanced techies reading this, you’ll want to gloss right over this post. And I won’t hold it against you. How many of you have been added to a Facebook Group without your permission? It’s happened to me, and I’ve done it…

When it comes to real estate ad networks — Zillow has Yahoo! Real Estate & hundreds of newspapers. Trulia has CNNMoney. Realtor.com has MSN. Realtor.com just announced their deal with BlockShopper.com yesterday. I think, over the next 12-24 months, we will see a race between Zillow, Trulia, and Move (Realtor.com) to…

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Jeff Turner is right — YouRealty is making some big claims. Uploaded with Skitch! Can they deliver on those bold claims? Or are they the real estate industry’s latest & greatest shiny object? For their sake, let’s hope they change the real estate game. If…

When it comes to building real estate websites, listings are kind of important. Just kind of. That is true whether you are an agent/broker trying to be relevant to buyers & sellers in your area or a serial entrepreneur trying to build the next national…

As Google continues to evolve its algorithms in order to provide the most relevant search results (and maintain its dominance of the web), real estate professionals must adapt if they are to contend in the highly competitive RE.net world. Up until recently, for many SEO’s…

I won’t link to this, but if you Google any part of the following text and you should be able to easily find this landing page for “Altura townhomes” Recently a friend of mine wrote a blog about the Altura townhomes in Bothell. Personally, I…

If you’re thinking Geek Estate Blog looks a bit different than last time you checked it, don’t worry — the internet is not playing tricks on you. It is different. This site is indeed under construction, or “re”construction as we’ll call it. There are two moving parts…