Decades of images in television, magazines and online media have conditioned real estate buyers and sellers to expect and respond to strong visual images. Sellers want good photos of their home while buyers naturally pay more attention to homes marketed with strong visual images. The…

As with the Part 1 of the “Exploding Myths” series, the issue of what defines a lead, particularly a lead from a blog, is an issue heating up big time in the RE.Net. This post at the Bloodhound Blog by Jeff Brown already has 70…

The 54th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted at Realty Thoughts — take a look!

When Drew told me of GeekEstate, I was told I could blog about anything geeky & real estate related. He said I could even blog about the Trulia API, if I wanted to. So I decided to take him up on the offer. In the…

Over the last 12 years I have worked closely with real estate professionals to help them get the most out of web-based technology. During that period of time, I have seen any number and style of real estate “technology” vendors come and go. It would…

Want more traffic to your blog? Sad because no one ever leaves comments? Maybe these tips will help… Blog Traffic: Apart from consistently good writing, the single best way to drive traffic to your blog is to link to other blogs in your posts. This…

Many home buyers — 70% according to the California Association of Realtors study — use the internet as an integral part of the home-buying process. They aren’t just looking for homes, they are looking for agents too. In an age where buyers and sellers are…

Disintermediation – now there is a ten dollar word. “Disintermediation” basically means to “cut out the middle man”. There are a lot of people out there that feel the free and transparent flow of information on the internet will make the role of the real…

I’m very pleased to announce that GeekEstate Blog has added another regular contributor — Jay Thompson, a Realtor(R) for Century 21 Aware Realty in Phoenix, who maintains the popular PhoenixRealEstateGuy blog. In the announcement post, we mentioned that “we’re certainly interested in finding several “geeky”…

I had a superb time at Real Estate Connect last week in San Francisco. It was great to put a real human face to the names I have only read, e-mailed, and spoken with over the phone over the past year. Anyway, enough rambling from…