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…

I am always looking for new effective ways to drive more traffic to my site and help others do the same, so I wanted to explore the most effective ways to do that without organic search engine rankings. Not everyone can get in the top…

Part 2 of the Social Media in Real Estate podcast is now available for your listening enjoyment! Marc Davison, Jeff Turner and Bill Lublin take a look at where social media has been and where it’s going as it relates to the strategy of real…

Augmented Reality wants to play a part in mobile real estate search tools. Does it have a place as a primary search tool or a secondary feature?

Last May on my own real estate blog I made a plea to Apple and GE to team up and finally release eKey for the iPhone platform.  Finally I believe that day is getting close.  This morning I found this link in my email from…

I had the opportunity recently to engage in a fantastic conversation with 3 thought leaders. Their knowledge and experience regarding the impact of technology, the web and social media as it relates to contemporary real estate professionals generated over an hour of thought provoking views…

Please join me in welcoming our newest GeekEstate blog contributor, Chris Raines of Cevado Technologies. Chris Raines – Cevado Technologies,  CEO and Co-founder – Along with his business partner Cliff Bonnell-Jones, formerly of ABCnews.com and NFL.com, his company has been able to leverage technology and marketing expertise …

The iPad 3G came out last week and a few people I know were waiting to buy until the 3G version came out. I assume this was the case for many buyers. Of course the 3G model has a $14.99 per month service fee for…

I’m hoping the final version of WordPress 3.0 is close to completion (the Beta came out a few weeks ago) and I wanted to take a few minutes to touch on two of the cooler possibilities for agent and broker sites opened up by the…