[Note from editor: The “Mastermind Showcase” highlights companies and news from members of the GEM. Today’s showcase: Miravel] Designing, manufacturing, and distributing Wall Gardens, Miravel helps people grow fresh food in urban environments. The Wall Garden leverages AI to adapt to its surroundings and automatically…

[Note from editor: The “Mastermind Showcase” highlights companies and news from members of the GEM. Today’s showcase: TestFit.] With 90% of drawn buildings never getting built, feasibility analysis is one of the biggest expenses in the conceptualization of building design. Embracing a data-driven approach, TestFit’s…

[Note from the Editor: This is a sample Geek Estate Mastermind Newsletter (#37), which was published for Mastermind members last week. It’s the second newsletter we’re publishing publicly on the blog, the first was the analysis of Knock a few months ago. We’re making this…

Caffeine Interactive, the development firm that handled the recent facelift for Geek Estate Blog, has re-designed their own homepage. I’m a huge, huge fan of the rustic/graffiti design aesthetics (they are based in Austin). You can look at their portfolio of work here. If you’re looking…

Here’s the home page of 360modern… How does a finished home page come to fruition? Brand, Value Proposition, and User Goals I don’t want to discuss value proposition & brand (which I touched on here & here) in depth in this article. That said, prior to “getting…

  Good Listing Photos Are Critical According to Realtor magazine, it is the number one thing buyers are looking for when browsing your website. When I reviewed some Hotjar recordings from my website, the thing that stood out right away was my photos were not…

The following video by Max Lenderman is worth watching… One thing that caught my attention: Good enough sucks Is your website great? Is your client experience great? Is your communication great? Or is it just “good enough“? I agree with Max. Good enough…actually sucks.  

I have a few nice listings coming up after the New Year and traditionally I would have just paid my photographer to put up a site.  He puts up a very basic site for $100 and it stays up for the year.  Not a bad…

A few months ago, I was looking for a fast, easy (and preferably, cheap) way to come up with a new business logo for a website I was creating. In my past experience with starting new real estate websites and business ventures, I used to shell out hundreds…

Of all the challenges in emerging real estate markets, quality content may be the hardest. Without an MLS, brokers and agents have no protection on their listings, so they are hesitant to include specifics such as unit address in fear of their listings being stolen….