Amongst the many qualities of a successful real estate agent is their ability to have a rock solid and comprehensive listing strategy to present to their prospective sellers. In recent years, the push to follow the web 2.0 revolution and feed your listings to every…

Trying to figure out where to advertise listings on the Internet can be is a daunting task.  If you went to every website that displayed real estate listings and added just one listing to all of them, well, it’s not really possible.  With new listing…

Let’s break away from the traditional mold and talk about online listing services in Sweden (where I live). Among the first to display listings online Already in 1996 it was possible to search for houses on sale using Internet through the Bovision service. (The service was a…

When considering obtaining optimal face-time for your listings in classified sites, we commonly think in-terms of selecting values from a drop-down list, a checkbox…number of baths, bedrooms, garage size, lot size, mountain or ocean view, etc…equally true from perspective of (a) adding a listing and…

I’m not sure how many people saw the news that Google Spreadsheets can now be edited by anyone, but the concept of a a wiki-style spreadsheet caught my attention. You now no longer have to “invite” people in order to have them contribute and edit…

Some weeks are just better than others when it comes to reaping the benefits of Blogging and Blog-Surfing. Over the past 5 days I have found MakeUseof.com, a fantastic post by Matt Rathbun, and a web 2.0 tool that every stinkin Realtor/Real Estate Agent/Anybody in…

Yesterday on my personal blog I wrote of the concept of going “Viral” as it pertained to a recent segment I was featured in on a local news program regarding how the Internet is effecting Real Estate in the California Central Valley. Well that clip…

Back in January, you might have read the news of the upcoming common data standard that Yahoo!, Zillow, Trulia are working on, and I have an update to share — there is significant progress being made!! There’s a big meeting today down at Trulia’s offices…

It seems like yesterday the University of Phoenix Stadium (Home of Arizona Cardinals) was heavy in construction. Now it’s poised to serve as home to Super Bowl XLII with both teams landed and engaging practice here as of Monday. The event (along with the FBR…

A few weeks ago Michael Wurzer of the Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO) posted an open letter to the Yahoo!, Google, Zillow, and Trulia (David Harris touched on this here on GeekEstate too) requesting that we adopt and contribute to the RETS 2.0 standard. From…