One of my bosses in a past life had a saying: “He who toot-eth not his own horn, hear-eth not his own horn tooted!”.  So the purpose of this post is simple, and that is to toot my horn! Last  year I joined the Real Estate Photographers of America & International.  Earlier this year, director Alan Blakely sent out a call [...]

That little blue cube…the bane of the existence of virtual tour dealers  ever since mobile device use skyrocketed starting in 2006.  If you have an Apple iOS device (iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch) you know what I’m talking about.  When you see that cube it simply means (if I may use a Seinfeld reference) “No Soup For You!”.  Or if [...]

The above image is a snippet of an infographic on social media news site Mashable. That tells the story of how Real Estate Agents and home seekers use social media. The wow! part for me was that “73% of homeowners say they’re more likely to list with a Realtor offering to do video…”. Are you doing video? I’m in the [...]

Recently on The Today Show, Barbara Corcoran gave some tips for giving your home online click appeal. I’ll just go ahead and give you my favorite line in the dialog: After discussing best practices in copywriting, Barbara said: “Pictures are worth ten times the words!”. Here’s a snippet from the interview. Enjoy. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and [...]

If it's time to give your WordPress site an overhaul you can develop locally or "live" on the site.  If you are a "live" kind of developer but you don't want everyone else to be able to see what you're doing, then you can do that.   My preference is to use a theme switching plugin.  There are several plugins [...]