There was a lot of talk last week about search last week in New York at Inman Connect. From my discussions (both at the conference and recent offline conversations I’ve had over phone/email), the overwhelming majority of agents and brokers do not plan to try…

Yesterday I wrote about going deep on content in 2014. Today, I found an amazing example of deep local content certainly worth highlighting. Raziel Ungar in Burlingame, CA. There are teams and brokerages scattered across the country who have done good work in the local…

Everyone knows agents and brokers have incredible knowledge about the communities they live and work in. Travelers, of course, could benefit from that deep knowledge (as I’ve written about). As could locals, who may not know the area as well as you or are looking to…

I just installed Momentum chrome extension, which I found via Nick Grossman’s Momentum post. When I open a new tab in Chrome (a task I do dozens of times each day), below is what I now see: a reminder for my one focus for today. What…

Sponsored Post Reminder: During the next 30 days, we are running a REW-Geek Estate challenge here to give away 15 of their $7,500 REW fully loaded premium sites (meaning waive all normal setup fees & pay nothing for the first 30 days), risk free (meaning you can cancel anytime…

Real Estate Webmasters is sponsoring Geek Estate for the next 30 days. REW has been around a long time and is consistently mentioned as a top tier web design/development firm in the real estate vertical. The biggest objection I hear from people about why they don’t…

Real estate franchises should get into the travel concierge business. Sounds crazy, right? I’m off my rocker (again), right? I know, I know — real estate and travel? How is it that it makes sense for a franchise to get into an industry they know…

We’ve covered Zillow Digs here before. I’ll be the first to say I think Zillow Digs is a brilliant strategic move by my former co-workers to repurpose the millions of photos they have collected over the years for an entirely different use case. As of…

I recently listened to Seth Godin’s podcast “Startup School” on iTunes and reflected on my last few years running a real estate business. Not too long ago, I made a commitment to open a brokerage in which I ended up testing many different strategies and…

I watched the PandoMonthly interview with Marc Andreessen the other night. One thing that caught my attention was when Marc said the following: AirBnB is transformational for real estate. Read that carefully. Real estate.  Not travel. It begs the question. What opportunity is AirBnB going…