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…

I’ve decided to carry on with Drew’s “Links for Geeks” feature. I’ve identified a few gems from my feed reader that perhaps you haven’t seen in the past week. How To Set Up a Self Hosted WP Blog Steve at Zeek Interactive (The Company Behind…

What the heck is a Barcamp? I’ve been helping answer that question for a couple of years now. Luckily enough, you will find a plethora of information on the REBC web site. The short of it? It’s a free event where people show up and…

We all know the benefits of a killer domain name, but the online real estate market is so crowded and competitive it seems that all the great names are taken.  Instead of just placing a backorder for a domain and hoping, take a look at…

Perfect for busy, on the move real estate agents – Line2.com adds a second line to your iphone and allows you to make calls over 3G, Wifi and Cellular. From their website: “Line2 adds a second number to your iPhone that works over 3G, WiFi…

I’ve started putting together a few WordPress tutorials and thought I would share.  This is a fantastic plugin that allows you to show introductory text, and the user can expand the text (on the same page) if they want to read more.  This way, you…

Today’s feature: An interview with Real Estate Webmasters CEO Morgan Carey about the SEO benefits of indexable IDX.  He reveals hard data on the resulting increased traffic, and the ability of individual agents to compete in the elusive quest for search results. There’s been a…

As a new regular feature of Geek Estate blog, we will be shining a spot light on select real estate technology events. If you know of a technology related real estate event, please add it to the calendar. Our first featured event is RE Tech…

I would love to get some real hard facts from agents that are actually tracking stats with goals through analytics. Not just agents that think one way is better than the other based on their feelings and their comfort level, but real data. Most likely…

I just watched today’s Whiteboard Friday from Rand at SEOMoz and this week’s high level point is that brand power is going to lead to better SEO, and I certainly agree. If you have a stronger brand, you’re more likely to get a link, get…