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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…

Most of what is written here is somehow related to real estate technology. That said, I plan on posting more high level thought pieces or videos that in many cases will take you outside the real estate vertical for learnings. After all, we wouldn’t want…

Marc and I were chatting this evening about the lack of substantial discussions on the web over the past few years. The discussion started off by me mentioning the brilliance I see in AirBnB’s community sourced Hollywood & Vines video – yet all you get is…

For those developing apps, the “home” screen is the holy grail to be on that screen. But few apps ever make it. To the right is my “home” screen on my iPhone… No brainers: Calendar. Photos. Camera. Clock (alarm). Google Maps. Twitter. Facebook. Music. More explanation: CNN (frankly,…

If you follow this blog regularly, you undoubtedly have noticed I’ve written about relocation several times over the past few months. The reason behind that is because we’ve been exploring a “pivot” (a startup term for when you shift a company/product in a different direction)…