With a fair number of agents and brokers likely planning web site redesigns in 2009 in order to stand out from the competition, I’m going to start spending as much time as I can gathering insights from agents and brokers going through the redesign process…

More and more often, I am passing ‘for sale’ signs that have a rider with a vanity domain plastered on it and I think to myself, it’s finally catching on! Single-property sites are powerful, cost-effective tools to promote property listings both online and offline and…

Okay, the title is a bit dramatic. You would die without air, but you’ll live through not having IDX. Your business may not though. We’ve all seen the statistics many times. More than 80% of those in the real estate market use the internet to…

There are tons of free data sources for your real estate web site and I have one more to add to my list — Walk Score. If you’re not familiar with Walk Score, this is their description of how it works: Walk Score helps people…

I think most of you will agree with me that data is a critical piece of building a fantastic consumer destination — not only in the real estate vertical, but other verticals as well. In the real estate space,  buyers, sellers, and home owners are…

Websites are not dead. In fact, it’s a mistaken belief that a blog is not a website. It is just another way of organizing, updating and presenting content. A blog can be a part of your website, or it can stand alone and link to…

Diverse Solutions released a major upgrade this week to their IDX product — here’s a list of some of the new features: Search by school district Search by price drops Ability to search bank owned, short sale, and foreclosure listings Ability to search FSBO listings…

This is a brain teaser for the SEO geeks. Most SEO decisions require a trade-off and this one has me in analysis paralysis so I thought I’d ask a few friends for their advice. The question is this; is Zillow’s Blog more useful to Zillow…

So I’m trying out this new FREE Screen Capture software, called “ScreenToaster“, and I am thinking it has some real appeal to someone who does what I do (Coach Real Estate Agents about the Internet, remember!). Then, suddenly (as if I were actually thinking or…

…Who kept all his cash in a bucket. But his daughter, named Nan, Ran away with a man And as for the bucket, Nantucket… I’ll bet you thought it went differently, didn’t you? but this is the original limerick as it appeared in the newspaper…