So I guess at some point this year American Express came out with an online payment gateway, Accept Pay. From what I can see it looks like it kicks the crap out of pay pal – direct invoicing and receiving funds same day. Why wasn’t…

That’s where REBarCamp Sacramento was held. When Tamara Dorris reached out to me asking if it was possible to put together a REBarCamp in a month I said sure!  I told he I would be happy to build and host the Blog, build the Facebook…

Steve Jobs took the stage again at the annual Apple World Wide Developer’s Conference. As expected, details about the 4.0 release of the iPhone operating system were made. It’s now called iOS, a trademark they had to license from Cisco, that better represents the fact…

It was just announced that WordPress 3.0 Release Candidate 1 is now available for download. I’ve been anxiously awaiting WordPress 3.0 for awhile due to the possibilities it will enable for real estate sites and it’s nice to see that they are nearing completion of…

I’ve now touched on the importance of building trust and the most important factor to keep in mind when building your sphere. With this post (my 3rd and final post on “sphere building”), I wanted to explain HOW I go about networking/sphere building/relationship building on…

Okay, I guess I lied yesterday when I said this was a two part post — I’m splitting the topic of “sphere building” into three posts because it’s such a large and important topic. Yesterday, I posted about the importance of building trust as a…

I always hear people telling agents that “building their sphere” is the most important thing they can do for their business. I certainly agree and often tell agents the same thing myself. Particularly for those in the real estate business, the amount of money you…

When Eric Bryant wrote the original Kiss Your “RSS” Good-bye, he was referring to RSS feeds being a thing of the past as social networking sites like Twitter provided a filter for really good articles, “Kinda like a ‘Human Aggregator’”. I thought this was a…

Like you, I’m In and Out, on the Go, and in a hurry.  I need my important stuff handy wherever iGo and whenever I get there. I searched around for something REALTOR® friendly.  Something simple and affordable.  Something that works smooth-like-real-butter, on my desktop, my notebook,…

Zillow is proud to announce that Jay Thompson, AKA The Phoenix Real Estate Guy (and GEB contributor) is taking over the operation of the Carnival of Real Estate. For the few people out there unfamiliar with Jay, he is a pioneer in the realm of…