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		<title>5th Website Participant for Geek Build 2012 &#8211; John Stegner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My name is John Stegner and I have been an agent for the past 7 years, and expect I will be an agent until I get carried feet first out of my brokerage. I find the work very rewarding, more so than my prior tenure in the I.T. industry. Although I worked in a number of different verticals within I.T., the job that I enjoyed the most was as a consultant focused on information architecture and usability for ecommerce sites. When I left the tech &#8230; <a href="http://www.geekestateblog.com/5th-website-participant-for-geek-build-2012-john-stegner/">Read More »</a>]]></description>
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		<title>25 Facebook Marketing Tips for Real Estate Professionals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to CheckFacebook.com stats for Feb. 19th, Facebook bragged a staggering 792+ million users worldwide with the United States in the lead with 155+ million users. Many businesses have thrived thanks to this giant social network, including Real Estate professionals. However, in order to win a game, you must not only learn the rules but stick to them as well! This article is dedicated to Real Estate professionals who strive to take their Facebook pages to the next level. Let&#8217;s discuss 25 tweetable (140 characters &#8230; <a href="http://www.geekestateblog.com/25-facebook-marketing-tips-for-real-estate-professionals/">Read More »</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Locked into a Contract with Your Website Provider?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was browsing AgentsOnline.net and came across this thread about Superlative. The post originated in 2007, but there was a response added about a week ago that I wanted to highlight warning of contractual obligations for website providers (and Superlative specifically): I too would not recommend anyone to Superlative.com after my experience with them which I am still dealing with. Long story short, I signed up for service in July of &#8217;09 when Superlative&#8217;s Regional Account Manager visited our real estate office. Afterwards, I exchanged &#8230; <a href="http://www.geekestateblog.com/are-you-locked-into-a-contract-with-your-website-provider/">Read More »</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Geek Build Steering Committee Decision &#8212; Mr. Williamsburg Domain Decision</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following question was posted by John Womeldorf at the end of his introductory post: Given that Mr Williamsburg is my primary brand, should my primary domain be MrWilliamsburg.com? Or should I 301 redirect that domain to http://williamsburgsrealestate.com and simply redesign that site with the new branding in mind? The steering committee has discussed the question amongst ourselves and made a final decision. We&#8217;ve chosen the domain name mrwilliamsburg.com to be the domain for the website redesign. Our reasoning is two fold. First, John would like Mr Williamsburg &#8230; <a href="http://www.geekestateblog.com/geek-build-steering-committee-decision-mr-williamsburg-domain-decision/">Read More »</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geekestateblog.com/geek-build-steering-committee-decision-mr-williamsburg-domain-decision/</link>
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		<title>4th Website Participant for Geek Build 2012 &#8211; Jason Richards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My name is Jason Richards and I have been working in the real estate industry for over 10 years. My experience spans across all aspects of real estate including industrial, office and residential investment, development, entitlement and brokerage. My career began  primarily on the commercial side and has since evolved to my residential brokerage. I am the broker/owner of Novi Real Estate Company here in San Diego. Having grown primarily through referrals in the past, it wasn’t until about 1 year ago that I began &#8230; <a href="http://www.geekestateblog.com/4th-website-participant-for-geek-build-2012-jason-richards/">Read More »</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geekestateblog.com/4th-website-participant-for-geek-build-2012-jason-richards/</link>
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		<title>Is Your Brand Rented or Owned? And The Zurple Business Model</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently came across a forum thread on AgentsOnline.net that I found interesting: Zurple, Boomtown, Tigerleads, Buyerlink Help! Ok I have added up the hours each week that I&#8217;m spending doing my own lead generation and it&#8217;s stupidly high. So instead of hiring an assistant to help with that and having to deal with payroll, taxes, them not showing up etc, I&#8217;m thinking of outsourcing the lead generation portion of the business. My time is much much better spent actually working leads than generating them. &#8230; <a href="http://www.geekestateblog.com/is-your-brand-rented-or-owned-and-the-zurple-business-model/">Read More »</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geekestateblog.com/is-your-brand-rented-or-owned-and-the-zurple-business-model/</link>
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		<title>Education.com Launches School Boundaries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A little over a week ago, Education.com launched their school boundaries project (submit your own press release for $49.95). The boundaries cover all 13,000 school districts in the United States. According to Education.com, &#8220;Currently, Education.com’s School Boundary Tool offers 100% coverage of school district information, but about 55% of school assignment information for particular U.S. home addresses.&#8221; You can see the boundaries here or get their free school boundary widget here. Having overseen the release of the neighborhood boundary project at Zillow a few years ago, I &#8230; <a href="http://www.geekestateblog.com/education-com-launches-school-boundaries/">Read More »</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geekestateblog.com/education-com-launches-school-boundaries/</link>
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		<title>3rd Website Participant for Geek Build 2012 &#8211; Greg Fischer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My name is Greg Fischer and I want to build the best real estate brokerage in Fort Worth, Texas. Fort Worth is a beautiful and dynamic city which is experiencing incredible growth. I am thrilled to be launching Fischer Real Estate Services and look forward to providing expertise, advice, and service to those moving in the Fort Worth area. I&#8217;ve been involved in real estate for 6 years and absolutely love working with people to find or sell their home and helping them to close the deal. My &#8230; <a href="http://www.geekestateblog.com/3rd-website-participant-for-geek-build-2012-greg-fischer/">Read More »</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geekestateblog.com/3rd-website-participant-for-geek-build-2012-greg-fischer/</link>
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		<title>17 Ways to Protect your SEO During a Website Redesign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Redesigning your website is no small endeavor. Most likely you’re redesigning it because it’s not as effective as it should be. When clients describe their existing websites to me, they are often embarrassed and don’t want me to look at their old site. It’s almost as if they’re happy no one visits it. While I hope this isn’t the case with your site, the fact is a lot of people are struggling to get their businesses noticed because of bad websites. Your real estate website &#8230; <a href="http://www.geekestateblog.com/17-ways-to-protect-your-seo-during-a-website-redesign/">Read More »</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geekestateblog.com/17-ways-to-protect-your-seo-during-a-website-redesign/</link>
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		<title>An Example of Brokerages Missing the Content Marketing Boat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like the local data expert situation which I discussed awhile ago, agents and brokerages are also getting killed at the content marketing game. Why aren&#8217;t big, national brokerages pulling together content like this as a marketing tactic? Or even regional brokerages covering a few local MSA&#8217;s? Mining listing data for interesting data and photos to attract consumer traffic is not that hard. It serves two primary purposes &#8212; interesting content for consumers AND link bait as one method of link building. It works, or I assure &#8230; <a href="http://www.geekestateblog.com/another-example-of-brokerages-missing-the-content-boat/">Read More »</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geekestateblog.com/another-example-of-brokerages-missing-the-content-boat/</link>
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