Carnival of Real Estate #57
The 57th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is live at Valparaiso Indiana Home Builder – Northwest Indiana!
Latest articles
The Most Important Marketing Photo of A Home
The most important photo of a home is the front exterior. The reason is that time and time again the listing agent is required to choose a single photo that is either featured most prominently (as on web sites) or the only photo (as in…
Realtor.com — Blogging for the Masses?
Recently Realtor.com announced a free blogging platform is now available for their 1.4 millionish members. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — REALTOR.com, the most comprehensive real estate listings Web site, today announces the introduction of Featured Blog and “Let’s Talk Real Estate!,” a new blogging…
The Power of Search
Search is an amazing mechanism for gaining customers. You can do all kinds of advertising — newspapers, billboards, TV ads — but those take a scatter approach. Not everyone who sees the ads are interested in what you’ve got to say, but you hope to…
Text Message Listings Tool Delivers
I had the pleasure of interviewing Dylan Schleppe, Austin entrepreneur who launched DriveBuy, a real estate tool that allows home buyers to quickly and efficiently get detailed listing information by simply sending a text message from their cell phones. I’ve been using Dylan’s system for…
Blogging Lessons via Selling a Home – 9 Tips from Darren Rowse
Darren Rowse at ProBlogger published a fantastic post early this morning titled “9 Lessons You Can Learn about Blogging from Watching Me Sell My House.” Darren gives his 1st hand experience of his home being on the market for the last 4 weeks & how…
How the Industry Changed While I was in Iraq – Part 1/4
In 2005, I was a Colorado Springs real estate broker who had just sold a Keller Williams franchise five months before and opened a new private brokerage with the first 18 agents. I was having the best year of my career brokering real estate –…
New GeekEstate Blog Contributor – Brian Wilson
I’m happy to welcome Brian Wilson to the GeekEstate Blog team. Brian Wilson is a real estate broker/owner in Colorado Springs, Colorado with Real Living Professionals. He is also launching a real estate internet site called Zolve.com in September 2007. I had the pleasure of…
Treo Video
I love everything about the iPhone, when it comes to real estate I have to be a realist. The defacto smart phone in this business is the Palm Treo. It’s ability to interact with the Supra lock box via its infrared connection have made it…
#1 Real Estate Photo Distraction – Converging Verticals
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…
