Rain City Guide

You do with your comments!
When I give talks about the value of blogs, I always brag about how active the rain city guide community is, but I hadn’t thought to try quantify it until I saw John Cook’s post this morning.
Over the past 3+ years, we’ve had 30,802 comments from 1,744 posts!
This is an [...]

Thanks again to everyone who participated in today’s first episode of a Rain City conversation! I had a blast and definitely appreciated everyone who took part in both the conversation and the chat! You can listen to the episode below:

to bring you this video interview by Joel from Inman Connect. While I talk too much and too fast, some of you might find it interesting to hear a bit about the history of RCG as well as some more details on the idea of “linkation“…
Real Estate Video by - Real Estate Blogger

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Ever since I started my own blog, I feel like a virgin. It’s like I’m blogging for the first time. I feel so shiny and new. Although, there’s one thing I haven’t quite figured out. Perhaps the multi-bloggers out there can chime in. You see, I’m not quite sure where my blog begins and Rain [...]

In a comment the other day, I mentioned that I would write a post about the origins of Rain City Guide, and while my initial reaction was to talk about all the different influences that led me to think that blogging about real estate was a great marketing idea, I realized that (1) those influences [...]

I try to stay away from too much self-promotion over on RCG, but the last 24 hours have been too much and my head is starting to spin…
Greg Swan of the BloodhoundBlog:
This is actually our third swing at a real estate weblog. It was the example of Rain City Guide that showed me [...]

Our Home on Zearch
Our Home on Redfin

Our Home on Zillow

And despite the fact that we may not have Ardell’s magic open house touch, we are showing it on Sunday between 12 and 3PM as described in the open house listing on Trumba.
Update:

Our Home on Craigslist
Our Home on Google Base
More Info on RCG

I also [...]

Do you ever wonder how well your website and/or blog is doing in comparison to your competitors?
While there is not a great site on the web for getting accurate traffic statistics on competitors, Amazon does provides some stats based on people who are using their Alexa Toolbar. Rather than try to give total site [...]

Robbie has just released what may be the most addictive home search tool I have every used!
Search Tool Codename: Zearch!
Some obvious highlights include:

Dynamic map of color-coed listings
Geocoded Rain City Posts

I know the search is addictive because earlier today I showed this to a friend who is in the market to buy a [...]

I noticed that Robbie has been playing around with the back-end of the home search tool he has developed for Rain City Guide, and it reminded me that I’ve been wanting to highlight one of the cool feature. The search tool allows you to sort your listings based on the price per square foot…
And [...]