Posts by Drew Meyers

I published the 177th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate yesterday at the Virtual Results blog – head over and check out this month’s winners! The September CoRE will be hosted by Kris Berg, at her San Diego Home Blog. Submit your best September article here before the submission deadline of September 26th Midnight Pacific time!

Most of you  likely know I managed the Carnival of Real Estate from when it was founded back in 2006 up until sometime in 2008, and as a result, it will always hold a special place in my heart. The CoRE was started to be a means to discover great blog content from the RE.net. [...]

According to Wikipedia: Social search or a social search engine is a type of web search that takes into account the Social Graph of the person initiating the Search Query. When applied to web search thisSocial Graph approach to relevance is in contrast to established algorithmic or machine-based approaches where relevance is determined by analyzing the text of [...]

You’ve probably seen the news that Zillow is going to be the exclusive provider of listings to Yahoo! Real Estate, as well as be the exclusive seller of ads to agents and brokers for inventory on YRE. What is the significance of the number 2 and 3 sites in the real estate joining forces? The [...]

Those who know me know that I’m a big fan of a strong voice when blogging. As I’ve told many people, I can find information anywhere so what I really gravitate towards are people who write and personal and passionate in their writing. I’m working on a new Blogging Training Course for YouReach Media and [...]

It’s HERE!! WordPress 3.0 is now available in its final version for download! [via Zengy]

It was just announced that WordPress 3.0 Release Candidate 1 is now available for download. I’ve been anxiously awaiting WordPress 3.0 for awhile due to the possibilities it will enable for real estate sites and it’s nice to see that they are nearing completion of the final release version. You can download it HERE if [...]

I’ve now touched on the importance of building trust and the most important factor to keep in mind when building your sphere. With this post (my 3rd and final post on “sphere building”), I wanted to explain HOW I go about networking/sphere building/relationship building on a regular basis. As I said before, networking is a [...]

Okay, I guess I lied yesterday when I said this was a two part post — I’m splitting the topic of “sphere building” into three posts because it’s such a large and important topic. Yesterday, I posted about the importance of building trust as a way to build your sphere. Today, I wanted to take [...]

I always hear people telling agents that “building their sphere” is the most important thing they can do for their business. I certainly agree and often tell agents the same thing myself. Particularly for those in the real estate business, the amount of money you make is often directly related to how large your network [...]

I’m hoping the final version of WordPress 3.0 is close to completion (the Beta came out a few weeks ago) and I wanted to take a few minutes to touch on two of the cooler possibilities for agent and broker sites opened up by the release of 3.0. As you may or may not know, [...]

For the real estate professionals reading this looking to get a leg up on the competition and put together a complete website and social media strategy (& get it implemented), this blog post is for you. A broad range of companies and individuals servicing the real estate industry have put together a “Real Estate Web Marketing” [...]