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…

Once upon a time…  as in yesterday The mighty Facebook decided in it’s infinite wisdom to eliminate the ability for a Facebook Page to set a landing tab for new visitors.  This is critical to many page owners as the preferred landing tab can convert…

Please join me in welcoming my friend Ken Brand to the GEB contributor team. Ken is the sales manager for Prudential Gary Greene Realtors in The Woodlands Texas. He’s a transplanted surfer originally from San Diego but naturalized as a Texan 🙂 I first met…

 With everyone wanting to maximize our ‘social graph’ when it comes to either building our real estate business or our personal brand, sometimes that can come with a price: privacy. Being that most everyone reading Geek Estate is on Facebook in some capacity, I wanted…