With marketing images you want to do everything you can to focus the viewers attention on your marketing message. Everything that distracts the viewers attention needs to be eliminated. The “message” in the photo above is the backyard and patio of this home. There are…

Welcome to the 56th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate. Since the authors of GeekEstate Blog are geeks who love technology, I decided the Carnival w/ The Geeks should have both a “geeky” winner and a non-geeky winner. With the great photoshop images that…

I’m excited to take the reigns as a fill-in host of the 56th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate this week. The carnival, which I’ll finalize shortly, will be posted soon enough — but, I thought I’d post the runners-up for your early morning…

“Elegant in its simplicity” is a good way to describe the suite of web based software tools from Chicago based 37 Signals.Com. From their home page: “We believe most software is too complex. Too many features, too many buttons, too much confusion.” Have you used…

Pingdom is an “uptime monitoring” company. They monitor your website or blog (up to five different domain names) at user definable intervals and will notify you if your site is unreachable. Sometime yesterday, they announced they would be offering 1,000 free yearly accounts for Firefox…

In no particular order, here are 40 ways to make a great real estate agent website. 1. add a blog: write about you, your business, your expertise, your area, etc 2. write a good biography that talks about you, your education, past employment, places you’ve…

We all see those YouTube videos embedded everywhere across the Internet. Google has just implemented the same technology that allowed everyone to place videos onto their blog, myspace account, website, etc. to their Google Maps solution. Take a look at the official announcment. In case…

When you are choosing a camera to use for real estate photography there are two key considerations: Does the camera have or can you adapt it to have a wide-angle lens? Can the camera be used easily with an external flash? These two factors are…

I’m very pleased to announce that Larry Lohrman is joining the regular contributors on the sidebar at GeekEstate Blog. Larry is a professional photographer specializing in real estate photography and 360VR. In addition, he is the founder of the Photography For Real Estate, a blog…

There was a fantastic discussion at Gnomedex (the “Blogosphere’s Conference”) last weekend led by my colleague, Vanessa Fox, that touched on a very interesting & important subject — How Much of Your Digital Identity Do you Control? Specifically, she talked “about how the more you…