Posts by Tony Kawaguchi

Absolutely amazing new map technology will soon be released from Microsoft. You must watch this video to understand how Street Slide could make you stop using Google Maps. Think about it – you could make a street level tour of a neighborhood for a potential buyer and incorporate it into your listing for people who [...]

The Google domination of all things online continues, as they announced that you can now open and edit all Microsoft® Word files that you receive as attachments in Gmail. From the Google blog: “You can now view them with a single click — no need to download, save, and open files with a desktop application [...]

MapQuest recently released its own free voice navigation app for the iPhone and BlackBerry. From the website: “The MapQuest 4 Mobile downloadable application provides easy access to Directions, Maps, and Local Search. With MapQuest 4 Mobile you also have the ability to integrate your saved maps and directions on MapQuest.com to the MapQuest 4 Mobile [...]

Today’s feature: An interview with Real Estate Webmasters CEO Morgan Carey about the SEO benefits of indexable IDX.  He reveals hard data on the resulting increased traffic, and the ability of individual agents to compete in the elusive quest for search results. There’s been a lot of chatter about some of the newer listing scrapers [...]

I saw this on Lifehacker last week, a great Google Map tool for real estate. Google Map buddy allows you to easily print out wall-sized satellite views of  a neighborhood for your listing, or make a full-page street map of the neighborhood for a buyer.  I can think of a few real estate applications for [...]

Last week we found that even in this pretty techy community, many people are not relying heavily on the web for their closings.  I have a theory that it’s all about the follow up, or lack thereof.  Let’s find out.

After hundreds of changes and experimentation with various email campaigns, I offer the 7 most important things I’ve learned about drip campaigns for real estate

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 the Pre, and below I highlight the apps that have [...]