photo credit: Sirinyay If you are coming to REBarCamp/Phoenix, (and why not?) here’s your chance to connect with others on the increasingly popular social network http://foursquare.com Personally, I joined a while back and then didn’t do anything with it.  Since SXSW I’ve been experimenting with different…

For the real estate professionals reading this looking to get a leg up on the competition and put together a complete website and social media strategy (& get it implemented), this blog post is for you. A broad range of companies and individuals servicing the…

Drip email campaigns seem to be one of the big marketing ideas agents are using these days… Agents are actually taking the users that are signing up on their websites to receive new listing email alerts of new properties and placing them on a drip…

For the WordPress developers, I think you’ll be happy to hear the long awaited WordPress 3.0 has been released in BETA form. The most notable component of the 3.0 upgrade is clearly WordPress and WordPress MU now sharing one code base (instructions for those who…

This Week’s “Links For Geeks”. Zillow Launches An iPad application. New Yahoo! app “sketches” the future of real estate search Why should you care about an API? Leading MLSs Form Association to Seek ‘.MLS’ Top-Level Domain Location, Location, Location (A post regarding GeoFencing and More)

The following is just my personal opinion.  How you use Twitter is entirely up to you and as far as I’m concerned, you are right. With that said, assuming you are in sales, or in the “engagement” business I believe in the AutoFollow.  I set…

I agree with Joel that Facebook is kind of a big deal and I wanted to get some feedback from the Geek Estate audience. It’s now a given you should have a Facebook strategy. For the agents and brokers reading this, how are you using…

The question constantly being asked by agents within my brokerage is, “how do I use social media websites like Facebook and Twitter for real estate lead generation?” At a recent Inman conference I had the pleasure of sitting in on a presentation by Bill Tancer…

I wanted to share something with you today that is really, really cool. It’s Mobile Tagging: the Interactive 2D Barcode Reader from Microsoft. What if your potential customers (both buyers and sellers) were walking around with a 2D barcode scanner in their pocket? Well, they…

If you’ve spent any time at all in the real estate social media and tech space, you’ve run into Mike Mueller. I remember my first time very well. He pointed a video camera at me (without warning) and started interviewing me at an event in…