Posts by Geordie Romer

I’ve been to 3 Real Estate Barcamps in the past year. Seattle, Portland, and then Seattle #2.
This isn’t nearly as many as some of the vendors like our friends at Zillow or Altos have attended, but I feel like I have a feel for what a Real Estate Bar Camp can be.
I love the ad-hoc [...]

Back at Portland’s Real Estate Bar Camp I was intrigued by a discussion led by Galen Ward of Estately about how to increase conversions on real estate websites. How do we take visitors to our blog or website and turn them into closed sales?

I’m not sure we came up with any hard and fast rules [...]

Have real estate agents missed the boat when it comes to using social media? At what point does it stop being work and just become a hobby?

I do believe that social media marketing (SMM) has a place in the modern sales repertoire, but not at the cost of other more efficient programs. It seems to [...]

When I was attending Real Estate Bar Camp in Seattle I had the good fortune to meet a number of the crew at Zillow including Rich Barton, Spencer Rascoff, Drew Meyers and David Gibbons. Spencer was especially friendly and inviting and remained so even after he found out that I was Geordie Romer not Geordy [...]