Back in the 2006-2009 while working at Zillow, I remember being literally excited to see what the real estate blogging community (aka the “RE.net” or “real estate blogosphere”) had published. Every morning, one of the first things I did at my desk was check my…

Are the following true statements for you? You love your city, and desire that everyone to see your city in a great light when they visit. You seek to get your branding in front of relocation buyers as early in their process as possible. If…

Walk Score has always been at the forefront of delivering a digital representation of a neighborhood’s walkability to consumers.  From a standardized scoring system to interactive maps showing entertainment, dining, transit, and retail options, the Walk Score system has become a standard metric for many…

To Create an Internet Presence that can not only “Cast a Wide Net” and Capture an Interested Consumer, but also “Network” and Communicate with itself there is no better model than the “Hub & Spoke. However, we need to make a slight Adjustment to the “Simpler” Model…

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from the folks at Bigger Pockets. Sometimes blogging isn’t fun. It’s not often you hear that, but I’m being real here. Sometimes you sit down at the computer and just think to yourself, “I don’t want to write…

I thought I was full of it.  It was a week before Christmas when everyone was preparing for the happiest season of the year, and here I was writing a scathing open letter to my home country’s President on why he should start preparing for…

Drew blogged about Google Author Rank back in April, and the rate of authorship markup adoption has been steadily increasing since then. It’s ridiculously easy to add the markup in WordPress and Google is dangling a pretty big carrot for us all: Better click through in…

High quality guest blogging is certainly a proven strategy for link building. I’ve long thought guest blogging is one of the best link building strategies you can engage in, and to be totally honest, I’m shocked more real estate agents don’t do it regularly. Where…

Have you ever got a direct message on Twitter asking you to retweet something? Did you retweet it? How about a message on Facebook asking you to like a page? Did you like it? Maybe even an email asking for an opportunity to guest-blog on…

It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to. So says, the late great Jean-Luc Godard, one of many influential thinkers highlighted in Austin Kleon’s “Steal Like an Artist.” I picked up the short, pithy (and visually arresting) book mostly because the…