If you look in the upper right corner, you’ll see we hit a milestone here at Geek Estate today — 1,000 RSS subscribers!! Thank you to all the great contributors, commentors, and readers that have made it all possible.

Real estate is “location, location, location!” And, website or blog search engine visibility is “content, content, content.” Don’t get caught up in hiring SEO (Search Engine Optimization) “Gurus” who promise top search engine positions in a hurry. A few may be able to do some…

About a month ago, I shared some thoughts from Seth Siegler regarding the website redesign project he was undertaking. In that post, I said that anyone working on a  redesign or planning to in the near future willing to share their thoughts could e-mail me…

Hi Everyone, The Coach here!         Haven’t spoken in a while, my apologies for that. I (Like so many others) was a little distracted by life and the “curve balls” in can throw you 🙂 Thus the moral of my (short) story today….As a Father…

…you can win $500 for writing about it! Onboard Informatics announced the Lifestyle Search Essay Contest earlier this week. The topic? Imagine the real estate search of the future and tell us about it. The winner gets a $500 American Express giftcard, so what do…

Vancouver realtor Kye Grace takes matters into his own hands and creates a 72 hour open house where he will be live-streaming video, posting to his blog and keeping everyone updated on Twitter. It is a unique idea that has gotten the attention of the…

I’m not sure about you, but I haven’t quite been able to grasp what’s happening in California with all of the data sharing proposals and MLS merger announcements that have been hitting the wire in the past year. I’ve now heard of Quattro, CARETS, and…

The actual process of buying real estate in emerging markets like Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua and Belize is similar to the US, and fairly straight-forward. But finding the right property, at the right price, is an altogether different proposition. There’s no Zillow to help you…

Just when you think you’re catching up with technology with a website or blog, you find that there is now a requirement for video on your site. It’s not a legal requirement, but one of demand from the consumer and your site visitors. Video on…

Rob has a follow up post to the virtual brokerage post I mentioned earlier this week — check it out.