I read a post today by Michael Wurzer titled “Is Data Free? Is There No Free Lunch?” at the FBS Blog. By the way, this is phenomenal blog if you have an interest in MLS-related topics. I am not completely sure what FlexMLS does, but…

GeekEstate Blog’s own Steve Jagger was featured on Inman TV and discussed marketing tips for real estate websites. Steve is the CEO of Ubertor, which builds websites for real estate professionals. Joel Burslem from Inman News interviewed Steve during Real Estate Connect. Here’s the video:…

Search is an amazing mechanism for gaining customers. You can do all kinds of advertising — newspapers, billboards, TV ads — but those take a scatter approach. Not everyone who sees the ads are interested in what you’ve got to say, but you hope to…

Pingdom is an “uptime monitoring” company. They monitor your website or blog (up to five different domain names) at user definable intervals and will notify you if your site is unreachable. Sometime yesterday, they announced they would be offering 1,000 free yearly accounts for Firefox…

In no particular order, here are 40 ways to make a great real estate agent website. 1. add a blog: write about you, your business, your expertise, your area, etc 2. write a good biography that talks about you, your education, past employment, places you’ve…

We all see those YouTube videos embedded everywhere across the Internet. Google has just implemented the same technology that allowed everyone to place videos onto their blog, myspace account, website, etc. to their Google Maps solution. Take a look at the official announcment. In case…

As with the Part 1 of the “Exploding Myths” series, the issue of what defines a lead, particularly a lead from a blog, is an issue heating up big time in the RE.Net. This post at the Bloodhound Blog by Jeff Brown already has 70…

When Drew told me of GeekEstate, I was told I could blog about anything geeky & real estate related. He said I could even blog about the Trulia API, if I wanted to. So I decided to take him up on the offer. In the…

Over the last 12 years I have worked closely with real estate professionals to help them get the most out of web-based technology. During that period of time, I have seen any number and style of real estate “technology” vendors come and go. It would…

Disintermediation – now there is a ten dollar word. “Disintermediation” basically means to “cut out the middle man”. There are a lot of people out there that feel the free and transparent flow of information on the internet will make the role of the real…