As of January 1st, fellow Geek Estate contributor Mike Price is now the social media manager for Diverse Solutions. From my understanding, he’ll still be running MLBroadcast, but will spend a bit less time on it. Or just work a lot more. This hire makes…

Are you looking for cost effective ways to grow your business in 2009? Tired of spending tons of money on print advertising? Here are 5 tools to consider adding to your world to help you grow your business. 1. Twitter – a great way to…

I don’t know about you, but I’d love 2009 to be the year that a “techmeme for real estate” was unveiled. Do you think my wish will be granted?

It’s been a fairly holiday week in the RE.net, but here are a few posts worth taking a look at: No Links? Why Blog-Social Networking is Marketing Too! My 2008 Blogging Revelation: Blogging to Consumers Opened My Eyes Guest Post: Happy Holidays, Mercenaries! Love, The…

Here’s a few geeky links I thought others might enjoy: TomTom Enters Online Mapping fizber.com Partners With condo.com How to Create Your Own Search Engines for Your Blog or Website SEO Efforts Measured and Directed New dsSearchAgent Features – Zillow Co-Branding

I had the chance to send Myron Lo, ZipRealty’s Director of Product Strategy, a few questions to learn more about the thought process behind their latest release adding Realius community estimating technology to their listing detail pages. Below are my questions and his responses: Q:…

It looks like ZipRealty is the brokerage that will bring community estimating to the general public. ZipRealty has always been one of the most progressive brokerages, so the fact that they are the first brokerage to add community estimating technology to their web site is…

I attended the Legal Counsel Seminar at the National Association of REALTORS® convention in Orlando in November. One of the speakers there was Marcel Bryar, deputy general counsel and vice president at Fannie Mae. He spoke about Fannie Mae’s efforts to prevent foreclosures, handle short…

We’re happy to have the CoRE back here at Geek Estate this week. What was I looking for? As you may or may not know, I’m a huge fan of a strong personal voice, so that was a high priority in my selection process. I…

With a fair number of agents and brokers likely planning web site redesigns in 2009 in order to stand out from the competition, I’m going to start spending as much time as I can gathering insights from agents and brokers going through the redesign process…