Blogging category archives

One of the better panels at Inman Connect tackled the issue of marketing your blog. Moderated by Joel Burslem the panelists included:
Erik Hersman, Principal, Zungu LLC
Reggie Nicolay, Regional Technology Director, Fidelity National & Author, MyTechOpinion.com
Brian Rothenberg, Product Manager, Yahoo! Real Estate
And none other than GeekEstate’s own: Drew Meyers, Community Relations [...]

First of all, I loved all the coverage of Inman Connect New York last week. Between all the blog posts, message boards, and live Twitters, it allowed me to feel like I was there listening to the speakers myself. Bill Wendel as RealEstateCafe used Twitter during the conference to ask questions via proxy, very nice [...]

As a follow-up to Drew’s marketing your blog post, I thought I’d re-cap of some of the main points that I touched on during Wednesday’s Marketing Your Blog panel at Inman Real Estate Connect.
Moderator Joel Burslem kicked off the discussion with the question “how do real estate bloggers compete with major online real estate sites [...]

I’m speaking on a panel here at Bloggers Connect titled Marketing Your Blog. I’m sharing the stage with 3 other great panelists:

Erik Hersman, Principal, Zungu LLC
Reggie Nicolay, Regional Technology Director, Fidelity National. He also writes at MyTechOpinion.
Brian Rothenberg, Product Manager, Yahoo! Real Estate

I certainly don’t feel marketing a blog is rocket science, but as a [...]

I, for one, think the RE.net would benefit and would love to see it happen. What about you?
Check out my post on the Carnival of Real Estate blog for more.

Most bloggers know blogging (read: good writing) is hard work and consumes a LOT of time. As a blogger who has spent well over a hundred hours creating content for both my blog and the blogs I contribute to on behalf of Zillow, I realize the importance of regularly backing up that content. Don’t let [...]

Ken at Realivent put together a great post for you bloggers and wanna-be-bloggers — 40 Tips to Kickstart Your Own Blog in 2008. He broke out the tips into 4 categories:

10 Admin Tips During Blog Install
10 Resources for Themes and Designs
10 Links to the Most Popular Widget and Plugin Lists
10 Tuning Tips for Real Estate [...]

Drew and I were discussing the need to get more mortgage and lending professionals involved with Geek Estate. I am lucky enough to have a friend and former colleague that works with the on-line lender, RMC Vanguard Mortgage Corporation out of Houston Texas. RMC employs a great deal of technology in their business and Matt [...]

A picture may be worth a thousand words to you and I but an image is meaningless to search engines until you describe it to them. In this simple video, Matt Cutts from google explains how to use the alt tag to ensure that search engines index your image content. If you’re trying to lift [...]

Are you an agent looking for marketing advice? If so, International Listings has put out a list of the “Top 50 Real Estate Marketing Bloggers” worth checking out. It breaks out marketing blogs by type — general marketing, internet marketing, coaches, development properties, and marketing tools.
Thanks to International Listings for including GeekEstate Blog on the [...]

The first thing I learned after trying to Jott to Word Press, is that it goes live!  If you don’t know what I’m talking about, check out my last post on Jott.  After I Jotted, I went over to my computer and saw that my new post was already up.  It didn’t place my Jott [...]

So, this is my first attempt to use the Jott function in my list Jawbone to [...]. Basically, I set it up to– I setup a contact as the WordPress function and I just down(?) dragged(?) and it says if you wanna Jott and I say WordPress and now it’s probably all of these I’ve [...]