Jay Thompson

Highlights

How to Annoy your Visitors While perusing real estate blogs today, I came across one that had implemented a chat feature. In and of...

Highlights

Huh? From a press release by ForSaleByOwner.com: ForSaleByOwner.com today announced that it has become the nation’s first “by owner” real estate website to enable...

Residential

Photo Credit Seeking a Social Media Manager On or about October 8, the NAR posted a position on Monster.com. It appears they are looking...

Economic News

Photo Credit FAIL The financial market is melting down. LIBOR was up this morning. The “Credit Crunch”. Short sales. Foreclosures. The list goes on...

Point & Purpose

Photo Credit The Birth of a Brokerage It’s been six months since the lovely wife and I launched our independent brokerage, and six months...

Housing News

Photo Credit Missy Caulk wrote a nice post on Active Rain over the weekend “introducing” Agent Genius to the many many real estate professionals...

Social Media

Stumbled across this interesting video on YouTube…

Business Marketing

Image courtesy of feuilllu Is this “good copy”? From an actual Phoenix area blog post (I’ve changed the city and redacted the agent/brokerage to...

Conference Coverage

Inbox 8,907 My favorite formal session of Inman Real Estate Connect last week was the keynote address. Merlin Mann of 43Folders.com discussed “Inbox Zero”...

Business Marketing

Photo Credit Template Sites Suck I was stumbling through the Internet today and wound up on a post written by a vendor that supplies...

Product Review

Bringing Buyers and Sellers Together Online N-Play, “a real estate service company focused on bringing home buyers and sellers together online” released a beta...

Business Marketing

#3: Use Blogging to Become a Niche Expert Photo Credit: mag3737 “Your City Real Estate” isn’t the Only Search Term Out There! Ask just...

How to

Some of you may know Charles Richey. He is a wonderful person — one of the most giving-freely-of-his-time folks I know. Charles is in...

Opinion Editorials

How cool is this? Inman News announces Innovator Awards finalists In the Blogging category. Nominees are: Blog 1000Watt Blog AgentGenius Big Picture Blog FBS...

Business Marketing

Photo Credit: emily_grace Silly Technology? “Jennifer in Louisville” left a comment on Bill’s “Silly Technology” post saying: I personally find the individual domains for...

Business Marketing

Digg This John Lockwood over at ParticleWave has created a nifty little Digg-like site for real estate. Houssee.com’s mission is, “to be a promotional...

“Rain Storm, Union Square” by Childe Hassam. 1890. In yesterday’s post, Trulia Voices: It Never Ceases to Amaze, I rambled about how “points” (more...

Opinion Editorials

Yesterday, my cross-town friend and fellow Agent Genius contributor Jonathan Dalton posted a justified discourse on Trulia Voices gone wrong.  Since its inception, Voices has...

Business Marketing

The title of this post is part of an actual photo caption in an active MLS listing from somewhere in California. Is the agent...

Opinion Editorials

Your online reputation (off line too) counts. As a real estate professional, it is a huge part of your business. It’s been written about...

Business Marketing

I don’t know. Just seems wrong to me.  

Opinion Editorials

Trulia just implemented Google Maps Street Views into their home search, “just solds”, and property records. Google Maps Street Views is currently out in...

Public Relations

Vlad Zablotskyy, author of the  “Go Beyond MLS” blog has received a Cease and Desist letter from ePerks — a company that signs up...

Business Marketing

There are some truly lousy real estate ads out there. Don’t even get me started on the NAR’s “It’s always a great time to...

Opinion Editorials

Your New Brokerage Business Model Sucks! This is the basic message I got from my broker when I told him the lovely bride and...