Month: December 2009

31 Dec Consumers are Looking for More than Listings, they are Looking for a Place to Live. Does Your Website Help them Accomplish that Goal?

Posted at 12:54h in Lead Acquisition, Websites by Drew Meyers

I'm participating on a panel discussion at Real Estate Connect in New York City on Leveraging the Wide Open Web to Create a Rich User Experience: Consumers are looking for more than a house; they are looking for a place to live. The panel is...

31 Dec Real Estate Tweets, Aggregated

Posted at 05:20h in Identity Management, Twitter by Ryan Hinricher

A couple of months ago I was using Twitter search and discovered Deed Street. Deed Street is an open micro-blogging platform which offers aggregation of real estate Tweets using the "^" tag on Twitter. The site, which was launched in September, requires a user to...

30 Dec Missed Opportunity in Social Media Marketing: The Rental Market

Posted at 15:48h in Lead Acquisition, SMM by Drew Meyers

Ever since Zillow launched rentals a few weeks ago, I've becoming more and more convinced that social media marketing in the rental market is a significant missed opportunity for real estate pros as a means to build a future book of business. It's a given...

30 Dec Palm Pre Apps For Real Estate

Posted at 14:13h in Mobile, Palm Pre by Tony Kawaguchi

After 10 years of using the old Palm OS on my Treo, I've switched over to this year's new Palm Pre. It's a beautiful little phone, much smaller than the iPhone but with some pretty great features and capabilities. I've had about 3 months on...

30 Dec The Anti Comment Spam Manifesto

Posted at 13:04h in Blogging by Justin Bartlett

No one likes comment spam. Here's a humorous look at comment spam and a couple of rules to help avoid being a comment spammer. Be nice, this is my first attempt at a whimsical post :D Get a gravatar. The field that says “name”, well,...

30 Dec SEO – Building High Quality Backlinks Quickly and Easily

Posted at 11:14h in SEO by Justin Bartlett

Ladies and Gents, boys and girls, you are in for a treat. I am feeling particularly magnanimous this holiday season and figure this year I’m going to dish out some incredible ways to build backlinks. As you all know, Search Engine Optimization, especially when it come...

28 Dec What's The Difference Between WordPress.com and WordPress.org?

Posted at 15:33h in Blogging, Wordpress by Drew Meyers

What's The Difference Between Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org? This question came up several times at RE BarCamp a few months ago, numerous times with individual agents I've spoken to, and again when I spoke at the Coldwell Banker Bain Tech forum, so I thought I'd address...

23 Dec A sneak peek inside Diverse Solutions dsIDXpress WordPress plugin

Posted at 16:21h in Company News & Analysis, IDX, Widgets, Wordpress by Jay Thompson

Last night, Diverse Solutions announced their new plugin, dsIDXpress (currently in beta testing). I've been fortunate to be an early tester of this plugin, and can sum its potential up in one word: Awesome. Radical. Kick ass. OK, that's four words. Work with me...

23 Dec dsIDXpress is Available in BETA

Posted at 14:27h in IDX, Wordpress by Drew Meyers

Last night, Diverse Solutions announced their dsIDXpress wordpress plugin is now available in BETA. Their demo site can be seen HERE, and if you want to be a BETA tester, you can sign up here. From what I have seen and heard, this seems like...

23 Dec What Did You Do in 2009 That Made A Huge Difference?

Posted at 11:53h in IDX, Marketing, Search, Websites by Jeff Manson

Reflecting back on the past year. I came up with three things that made a huge difference in my business. I would like to share them with you and here what you did in 2009 that made a huge difference. 1. Made the real estate search...