I wanted to congratulate fellow Geek Estate contributor Steve Jagger (and his friend Shane Gibson) for releasing a new book in the Amazon store for $25 — Sociable – “How Social Media is Turning Sales and Marketing Upside-down” I haven’t read the book, but Steve…

Taking a look at blogs around the internet there’s really one factor that sets the good ones apart from the bad, and that’s simply the depth of discussion on the content (posts) on that blog. Beyond the content on the blog itself, the template, et….

There are some great IDX providers and some not so great ones; some expensive and some cheap (or free). At one of the sessions at RE BarCamp NY last week, the following question came up: Is having no IDX search on an agent or broker…

Every couple years SEOmoz surveys top SEO Professionals to get their thoughts on current search engine ranking factors. The result is a document detailing the opinions of leading SEOs on what works and what doesn’t when it comes to search engine optimization. When looking to…

Last Monday, Stacey Harmon (Pango Group’s Director of Social Media) and Myself, were blessed with a unique opportunity to host a “Meetup” for the Jan 4th 2010 Virtual BarCamp (VREBC) at First Team Real Estate in beautiful Costa Mesa Ca.                 As one of the…

I was searching the Geek Estate repository recently and saw the significant number of iPhone application reviews for real estate professionals on the market.   I’m salivating over them as I write this and often wish my Blackberry would magically turn into an iPhone.  I haven’t…

It’s been a bit longer since my last Project WordPress post.  Holidays, work, & other excuses kept getting in the way of blogging. Back on track, and I’ll post a bit about theme selection.  Theme selection is obviously personal, so this post is intended more…

After hundreds of changes and experimentation with various email campaigns, I offer the 7 most important things I’ve learned about drip campaigns for real estate

In my post a few days ago resulting from a spammer annoying me, I said I’d have a comment policy posted by the end of the week. I didn’t want to disappoint, so here it is — Blog / Comment Policy for Geek Estate Blog…

There is a question in Zillow Advice from Kathy Toth that I want to throw out to the tech savvy audience here on Geek Estate: What closings did you have in 2009 from social media; what sources and how many units. What ROI? Any feedback…