Last Tuesday we held the Vancouver Real Estate Technology Meetup at Ceilis Irish Pub. We ran it in a little different format this month. We had 3 tech savy Realtors on stage with me to have a question and answer period about the technology they…

Hi Guys, wanted to stop by and let you know I have returned from my “hiatus”, so to speak. I took some time to move from Northern California to Southern California (Long Beach), as well as start 2 BRAND NEW (eek!) Internet based businesses surrounding…

StudioNow has teamed with NewCondosOnline.com to create & deliver video content with their network of video professionals for condo listings and developments advertised on NewCondosOnline. From the press release: StudioNow, the premier online video creation platform, today announced it will provide high-quality video marketing and…

For those who haven’t heard of REBarCamp (where have you been??), you must have missed the San Francisco REBarCamp in July. As background for this post, I suppose it would help to explain what “RE” BarCamp is: BarCamp is an international network of user generated…

Yahoo! has some interesting findings regarding how online engagement influences the agent selection process, which will be presented at the upcoming NAR Conference. The session will be titled “Building an Online Presence in a Fragmented Market” and it will be in the Convention Center on…

Geekestate blog is number 53 in the Global Edge list of top 100 “Most Powerful Property People”. The list was compiled by using the search term “real estate blog” and “property news”. Other notable inclusions are Real Estate Shows, Active Rain, Zillow Blog, Trulia Blog,…

Amongst the many qualities of a successful real estate agent is their ability to have a rock solid and comprehensive listing strategy to present to their prospective sellers. In recent years, the push to follow the web 2.0 revolution and feed your listings to every…

Visiting Coldwell Banker on an iPhone now directs you to the iPhone version of their site. My initial thoughts on their iPhone site are similar to Joel’s review. It is certainly easy to browse listings and pull up a listing detail page to see more…

We have a great view from our offices in downtown Seattle. This Saturday I set up my digital camera to take a series of time lapse photographs to record a sunset before the grey clouds return for the winter. This video is the very rough…

There are a number of free tools out there that can help you market yourself and your listings through the use of social media. Whether it’s posting an item on Facebook, blogging on Active Rain, uploading a video to ZIPVO (my employer), or posting a…