Month: December 2008

30 Dec 5 Tools To Grow Your Real Estate Business In 2009

Posted at 17:16h in Blogging, Marketing by Stephen Jagger

Are you looking for cost effective ways to grow your business in 2009? Tired of spending tons of money on print advertising? Here are 5 tools to consider adding to your world to help you grow your business. 1. Twitter - a great way...

30 Dec Will There Be a Techmeme for Real Estate in 2009?

Posted at 16:31h in Blogging by Drew Meyers

I don't know about you, but I'd love 2009 to be the year that a "techmeme for real estate" was unveiled. Do you think my wish will be granted?...

30 Dec Links for Geeks – December 30th

Posted at 16:07h in Links for Geeks by Drew Meyers

It's been a fairly holiday week in the RE.net, but here are a few posts worth taking a look at: No Links? Why Blog-Social Networking is Marketing Too! My 2008 Blogging Revelation: Blogging to Consumers Opened My Eyes Guest Post: Happy Holidays, Mercenaries! Love, The Idealists The Case...

22 Dec Links for Geeks – December 22nd

Posted at 11:46h in Links for Geeks by Drew Meyers

Here's a few geeky links I thought others might enjoy: TomTom Enters Online Mapping fizber.com Partners With condo.com How to Create Your Own Search Engines for Your Blog or Website SEO Efforts Measured and Directed New dsSearchAgent Features - Zillow Co-Branding ...

16 Dec Q&A With Myron Lo at ZipRealty

Posted at 05:55h in Websites by Drew Meyers

I had the chance to send Myron Lo, ZipRealty's Director of Product Strategy, a few questions to learn more about the thought process behind their latest release adding Realius community estimating technology to their listing detail pages. Below are my questions and his responses: Q: What...

15 Dec ZipRealty Integrates Community Estimating Technology from Realius

Posted at 19:05h in Company News & Analysis, Websites by Drew Meyers

It looks like ZipRealty is the brokerage that will bring community estimating to the general public. ZipRealty has always been one of the most progressive brokerages, so the fact that they are the first brokerage to add community estimating technology to their web site is...

15 Dec Can MLSs help Fannie Mae help the market?

Posted at 15:15h in Listings Syndication, MLS by Brian Larson

I attended the Legal Counsel Seminar at the National Association of REALTORS® convention in Orlando in November. One of the speakers there was Marcel Bryar, deputy general counsel and vice president at Fannie Mae. He spoke about Fannie Mae’s efforts to prevent foreclosures, handle short...

15 Dec Holidays with the Geeks – CoRE #121

Posted at 13:56h in General by Drew Meyers

We're happy to have the CoRE back here at Geek Estate this week. What was I looking for? As you may or may not know, I'm a huge fan of a strong personal voice, so that was a high priority in my selection process. I...

12 Dec Q&A With Seth Siegler about the Redesign of his ShopCharlestonRealEstate.com Web Site

Posted at 16:44h in Websites by Drew Meyers

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...

12 Dec Feedfuze – Managing Your RSS Feeds

Posted at 12:15h in Blogging, Communication by Brad Andersohn

Here's a great way to syndicate and manage RSS feeds like none other I've seen. Feedfuze allows you to create fuzes, then place them in containers to be hosted on your Blog or Website. Fully functional with editing capability. You can select which articles from...