An Amazing Example of a Minimalist Broker Home Page

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Drew Meyers

Take a look at the brand new McMillin Realty site. It’s by far and away the best example of a minimalist design for a brokerage site that I’ve seen. I personally absolutely love the “Did you know that McMillin Realty can also help you with…” call to action. Just the other day, I mentioned via email to the geek build participants I’d love to see the home page design with JUST search and a call to action that says “Not interested in searching homes?” that directs … Read More »

Geek Build 2012 – ClearwaterBeachLife.com Semi-Final.

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Daniel Bacon

If you have followed Geek Build 2012 you know we had a designer working on TheClearwaterBeachLife.com home page design, which will be used as a template when building our custom theme for the Genesis Framework (affiliate link). Last week the designer finished up her work and sent us the final Adobe Photoshop .psd file. The total cost for the work was $280, including a $30 bonus for additional work to the search box not included in the initial quote. Once we had the .psd in hand … Read More »

The real estate young guns

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Greg Fischer

A few weeks ago I wrote a post titled Where are the real estate young guns? that highlighted a few very successful (and one might add “tenured”) bloggers, agents, and marketing mavericks in the real estate industry. Their stories are inspirational and serve as a benchmark for anyone looking to make an impact in the real estate spaces. If you don’t follow “The Guard” yet – you should. But this is a new era and like Emilio Estevez says in the movie “we’re gonna show these guys … Read More »

An MBA in real estate

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Greg Fischer

It was about a year ago today that I accepted admission into TCU’s MBA program in Fort Worth. It was a very tough decision for me at the time because I had also just decided to launch a real estate brokerage. I weighed the advantages/disadvantages carefully, and although I knew that developing a company was going to require my full attention – I decided to move forward with the MBA program for a number of reasons.   I’m fascinated by education. I’m a terrible student … Read More »

Where Have All the Real Estate Bloggers Gone?

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Joe Salcedo

SAD DAY today when I was looking for one of my favorite real estate blogs (FOREM), and it was nowhere to be found. Where have the bloggers gone? I suspect  two things: mother companies like Inman or Zillow want to go in a different direction.  Or blogger cannot be sustained by the current business model.  My hunch is it’s usually the second one.  Bless you Drew, for trudging forward (and successfully.) I have been blogging for five years and I’ve stopped twice, for a combined … Read More »

Disqus Commenting System Updated

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Drew Meyers

I just hit the upgrade switch to the latest version of the Disqus commenting system. Let me know what you think in the comments… FYI that you can request an invite for the new version for your own site from this link.

Give your websites the best possible search tools you can, and of course that starts and ends with a great IDX.
- John Stanaland - Laguna Beach Homes For Sale

Sites today need to load extremely fast and visitors must be overwhelmed immediately by the Real Estate photos & images.
- Mark Zilbert - Miami, Palm Beach & Ft Lauderdale Homes

Make sure you are using social media purposefully; have your clients /sphere categorized into lists and follow their newsfeeds and strengthen those relationships by engaging them in everyday conversations to remain top of mind.
- Sue Adler - Short Hills Real Estate

Focus your time and efforts interacting with clients rather than learning every last tech tool available. Remember, talking to clients and sellings homes is what pays the bills at the end of the day.
- Lucy Kelts - Rancho Santa Fe Homes For Sale

No tool is more powerful than the telephone. Not the iphone, not an andriod. Pick up the old-fashioned office phone and call your leads!
- Grace Sergio - Chicago Homes & Real Estate