I’m sure most everyone is already familiar with Top Producer. If not, it is basically THE tool for agents to manage their contacts, set up action plans, and anything else you would need to do on a day to day basis. For anyone who doesn’t…

Last week, Techcrunch reported that Edgeio is shutting down. Edgeio was an online classifieds site that spanned housing, autos, jobs, merchandise, and jobs. The fact that they will be ceasing operations soon means there is now one less online destination where you can upload your…

Rodney Bartlett of Reachd.com interviews Vanessa Fox of Ignition Partners (formally of Google.com and Zillow.com). The main question.. what would Vanessa do if she was a real estate agent?

What would a good real estate photography setup be if you were purchasing today? CNET currently rates the Nikon D80 and Canon EOS Rebel XT as the top DSLRs under $1,000. Both of these cameras are in the top 5 best selling DSLRs in the…

Every real estate agent should at least be considering online video as a potential mechanism to advertise your listings and/or your personal brand. I’m no video expert, but we’re lucky to have a GeekEstate contributor who is — Michael Price. I asked him several questions…

Do you know what a stealth site is? Putting it simply, this is an unbranded, simple web page that you use to draw traffic to your site, or to generate leads. Many agents have multiple stealth sites that they maintain on a regular basis. I…

The real estate marketing photo above was done by Scott Hargis, a San Francisco area real estate photographer that does what looks to most like Architectural Digest level work but shoots entire homes for Realtors in 1.5 hours or less. Scott does this high quality,…

Trulia has introduced “Trulia Agent Featured Listings“. Here’s the highlights: Features: Photo & contact info. featured on your Trulia listings, as well as a new email tool enabling consumers to email property inquiries directly to your mailbox Totally new, enhanced property detail page embedded with…

I recently did an interview with a national business publication regarding consumer usage of the web in real estate. One of the questions I was asked is why the web has been become so important recently to the strategy of real estate professionals. The answer…

Setting up an XML feed for your listings is a great way to get added exposure for your listings by syndicating them to a variety of real estate portals. Since I’m helping support the coming Zillow Listings Feed program, I’ve had conversations with agents, brokers,…