Nothing like a bit of exciting news on an otherwise boring Monday to shake things up in the real estate industry. It was announced today that Zillow (my former employer) acquired Postlets, a free syndicator of real estate listings. The company was founded by Asher…

Remember, the 1st edition of #retechchat (formerly #reblogchat for all of a few hours) is this evening at 7 PM PST. The topic of conversation is “real estate blogging” — so come with your questions blazing. How to join? There are a few options: Follow…

The “365 Things to Do in [City Name]” concept worked for a few people like Dale Chumbley who made it the whole way though. What’s the the next big thing agents/brokers are going to try on Facebook to gain traffic and engagement? Here’s an idea…

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…