Mike's Corner - Web 2.0 For Real Estate Professionals

Jun 12, 2008

Seeking The Social Solution - A Podcast Interview with Founders of RealSeekr.Com

How many times have you groused about something that didn't work exactly the way you thought it should and proclaimed your ability to do it better? Have you ever acted on it? Grant and Gia Freer are Realtors in Florida that took action on their frustration with realtor.com by launching RealSeekr.com

After 18 months of development, Grant and Gia are crafting a residential real estate web destination that connects IDX data feeds, foreclosures, for sale by owner listings. blogs and just about every social networking tool under the sun, (including video conferencing) into a service that they believe will define what a real estate portal should be, one that connects consumers and real estate professionals in a tangible way.

Grant and Gia are passionate about their new endeavor and I appreciate the time they took to familiarize me with their product. I've invited some Realtor friends and clients that are advanced users of everything in the RE.net and social networks to check out RealSeekr and give us some feedback. We'll share that in an update soon.

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Labels: Gia Freer, Grant Freer, idx, realseekr, realtor.com, social networking

Jun 5, 2008

New Roundtable Discussion With Dustin Luther of 4Realz.Net

Last week I had the honor of participating in a roundtable discussion hosted by Dustin Luther of 4Realz regarding the DOJ/NAR, data display policies and more. It was a great hour of opinion and ideas.

Dustin has invited me to join in on another round table discussion tomorrow. This week we are going to take on the topic of Social Networking in the real estate profession. We will be discussing newcomers to the space like RealSeekr, Plurk, and MyDealBoook as well as stalwart applications such as Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation today at 4 PM PST.

Labels: 4realzed, mydealbook, plurk, realseekr, social media, twitter

About Me

Name: Michael Price

Location: Houston, Texas, United States

Mike has been involved with real estate technology and marketing solutions since 1995. As the president of a regional Internet service provider based in Houston Texas, he was instrumental in the early "wiring" of a large number of real estate professionals providing just about every aspect of Internet based services from connectivity to web development, programming, hosting and more. He oversaw the development of a number of pioneering technologies including some of the first searchable listing databases, web marketing and advertising strategies. After the acquisition of the ISP In 1999 he served as CEO of one of the first real estate application service providers. The company developed a system that allowed brokers and agents to manage almost all transaction aspects from listing to close within a secure web browser front/back office platform. In 2006 he recognized that new distribution and mobile technologies would offer new ways of exposing real estate content using new syndication tools via RSS and podcasting. Mike is an active speaker, blogger and participant in the real estate social media space.