Want a great example of a video highlighting a neighborhood? Well done, Phipps Realty.

It’s been a few weeks since I presented Curb Call, on stage at the Realogy / Retsly hackathon, the day before the NAR Expo in San Francisco. For those unfamiliar with it, it’s most easily described as “Uber for real estate”, where home buyers in the…

Picking a niche is important. We’ve talked about it here. Another niche you could focus on? Being the startup agent. What go me thinking on this? Aside from being a geek working on a startup myself (Oh Hey World & Horizon), there was an article…

Curb Call (Uber for Real Estate) — built by Seth Siegler at the Realogy hackathon. It got 2nd place. I love this idea…I’m not sure leads get any more qualified than someone requesting an agent to show them a house, right now. Who is going to…

I’ve had the pleasure of being friends with Eric Marke online for a few years now. Back then he was building agent websites for many users of popular Facebook groups for agents, now he’s built one of the best seller lead-gen systems around. HomeValueLeads.com has…

Here’s a niche angle to explore. Help investors aiming to capitalize on the marketplace AirBnB has built. Jon Wheatly bought an apartment with the sole goal to rent it out using AirBnB (via USV). It’ll take him 4 years to pay for the $40,000 (+$10,000 in…

I stopped into Starbucks on Monday morning before heading to the office and seated inside were 8 of my Agents conducting business. – Broker, Austin, Texas. The Realization This one visit to Starbucks prompted this very successful Broker/Owner to go back and conduct an internal…

AGBeat – Eight Austin real estate firms terminate listing syndication (PS: if you read AG, you should really join the AGBeat community page) Inman – 8 more Austin real estate brokerages turn off flow of listings to portals So, more brokers are shutting off the listings faucet to…

Creating a great name for your company can be difficult.  For start-ups and technology companies in fast-changing environments, it can be hard to find a stable moniker that represents what your company is today, and will still be appropriate years down the road. As someone…

Using Google AdWords to run a real estate pay per click campaign can be a highly effective way to generate solid leads. It is important, however, to follow basic steps in the structuring of your pay per click campaign in order to ensure success. Begin…