How to Annoy your Visitors While perusing real estate blogs today, I came across one that had implemented a chat feature. In and of itself, this...
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 home sellers...
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 for a...
Photo Credit FAIL The financial market is melting down. LIBOR was up this morning. The “Credit Crunch”. Short sales. Foreclosures. The list goes on and on....
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 since I...
Photo Credit Missy Caulk wrote a nice post on Active Rain over the weekend “introducing” Agent Genius to the many many real estate professionals that read...
Stumbled across this interesting video on YouTube…
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 “protect the...
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” — action...
Photo Credit Template Sites Suck I was stumbling through the Internet today and wound up on a post written by a vendor that supplies custom (well,...
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 launch this...
#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 about anyone...
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 a Las...
How cool is this? Inman News announces Innovator Awards finalists In the Blogging category. Nominees are: Blog 1000Watt Blog AgentGenius Big Picture Blog FBS Blog Homegain...
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 specific properties...
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 tool for...
“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 accurately the...
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 had problems...
The title of this post is part of an actual photo caption in an active MLS listing from somewhere in California. Is the agent trying to...
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 before on...
I don’t know. Just seems wrong to me.
Trulia just implemented Google Maps Street Views into their home search, “just solds”, and property records. Google Maps Street Views is currently out in about 40...
Vlad Zablotskyy, author of the “Go Beyond MLS” blog has received a Cease and Desist letter from ePerks — a company that signs up agents (and...
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 buy a...
Your New Brokerage Business Model Sucks! This is the basic message I got from my broker when I told him the lovely bride and I were...
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