This was a comment about the hyper local landscape from Greg Fischer in the TurnOn Facebook Group yesterday (moderated by 1000Watt): Yesterday, I met with two different people who are creating hyper-local media assets. One is further along than the other. Its starting to feel like…

Social objects is not a new concept, and has been discussed here on Geek Estate by both Ines and myself. But we’ll talk about it again since Hugh Macleod wrote an awesome post. I’m with Hugh when he says this: The hard currency of the…

It’s been a while since I’ve written here on Geekestate and to those lacking fresh marketing tips, I am truly sorry. The last 6 months have been interesting with regards to SEO and internet marketing under the iron fist of Google, to say the least….

Silos are great. At maintaining the status quo. At being predictable. Silos hold grain. Get emptied. Get refilled with more grain. Over and over and over. A very predictable pattern. Silos suck if you are focused on growth. Sure, you can build more of them. But…

The bottom line is that you don’t know the best way to accomplish a goal until you try several different approaches of reaching the same goal. In the web world, that process is generally referred to as “A/B Testing”. A few months ago, I created…

I’ve been wanting to cover international real estate technology in detail for quite some time, but have never gotten around to it until now. PropertyFeast in India paid for a sponsored post via the Press Release submission tool built into this site (their Press Release is already…

Bill Taylor, the founding editor of Fast Company, gave a compelling keynote at the Texas Christian University’s Neely School of Business 75th anniversary dinner.  He talked about constant reinvention, long lasting change, and the art of disruption. But the topic that resonated with me the…

How Much Real Estate Will I Sell if I’m on the First Page Google I just saw this as a search query in my Google Analytics. Meaning at least one person is out there trying to figure out the answer. Of course, we all want…

I grew up in Chicago and kids had to choose between the White Sox or the Cubs as their favorite team. Since there has only been one World Series winner between both teams since 1917, choices are not the best. Anyway, my team was the…

This morning I was sitting in my office when a newer agent that I am friendly with popped in to say hello.  Naturally, we got to talking about how each of our businesses are doing and I loved what he shared with me.  It was…