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Drew Meyers

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I'm a Community Relations Specialist at Zillow.com (See My Profile)

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Zillow Officially Launches the Zillow Mortgage Marketplace

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Tonight, Zillow officially launched the Zillow Mortgage Marketplace!
I’ve been at Zillow for over 2 years, and this defintitely is the release I’ve been most excited for since Zestimates launched in February of 2006. When talking about this product with close friends and family (I know, I spilled the beans to a few people early), the […]

Zillow is Starting it’s Venture into The Mortgage Industry

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

At Zillow, we’re getting close to unveiling the consumer-facing mortgage product we hinted at quite some time ago. The news tonight is that lenders can now sign-up (veryyy soon) — lenders CLICK HERE. We’re still a few weeks from launching the consumer piece of the product, so we can’t provide details of exactly how it […]

Transforming Customers into Evangelists: The Art of Listening and Engagement

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

I’d encourage everyone interested in social media and marketing to read Brian Solis’ post — Transforming Customers into Evangelists: The Art of Listening and Engagement. I live and breathe this social media stuff every day at Zillow, so it really resonated with me. There’s many good take-aways, but here’s one that I particularly agree with […]

Zillow is Awakening

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Stay tuned for updates on the Zillow Blog
Update: Zillow is now Live with Zillow Smart Search (among other things)

Seattle Startup Index for December

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

I’m glad to see my employer, Zillow, is number 3 on Marcelo Calbucci’s Seattle Startup Index for December.
Also, a congrats has to go to the guys over at ActiveRain for making the list this month.
[via Brier Dudley’s blog]

“Blogmenter”

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

You might not understand this post unless you work at Zillow, but I thought I’d share it anyway — and maybe I can “coin” a new word with this post. Blogmenter.
Blogger + Commenter = Blogmenter.
Definition: An active participant in the blogosphere who enjoys blog commenting much more than blogging.

There are numerous bloggers out there […]

Zillow Adds Neighborhood Pages, Discussions, Polls, and Wiki Enhancements

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

So, Zillow (my employer) is at it again — and I’ll be keeping track once again.
Make sure to tune into the Zillow Blog for updates.
Update @ 9:42: Zillow is now live again!
Update @ 9:57: Check the Zillow Blog for an overview w/ links!
There are a couple primary features being added to the site tonight (site […]

Zillow Remodel…

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

In case you were not aware, Zillow is undergoing a remodel…stay tuned for what’s behind the curtain.

It Sure is a Great Time to be in the Internet Industry (especially if you’re a developer)

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

I thought this was an interesting article in the New York Times titled “In Fierce Competition, Google Finds Novel Ways to Feed Hiring Machine.”
This quote by Alice Yu-shan Chang (successfully recruited by Google) was easy for me to relate to:
Being in an environment where you are going to learn a lot is the most important […]

Zillow Adds Profiles, Home Q&A, Tell Us It’s for Sale, and EZ Ads

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

So…we are doing a Spring Remodel on Zillow.com (should be completed shortly).
11:15 pm Update: We are now LIVE!! Check out the Zillow Blog for more info — or just go look at the new features for yourself!
11:28 am Update: Zillow’s Jeff Somers posted “Zillow’s New Free Marketing Tools for Agents” on his Active Rain […]

Sprucing & Fixing…

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

Stay tuned…
Update: Zillow is back online - check it out for yourself (hint - if you have a home posted for sale, check the bottom of the details page of your listing).  For more information, please see the Zillow Blog post.

Zillow Coverage - One Last Article (I lied..two)

Saturday, December 9th, 2006

It’s been a wild & exciting couple days to say the least. I just wanted to wrap up my coverage with another interesting article (meaning it has CONTENT & is not JUST links like many of the other articles I’ve come across) that I have found…
Cathleen Collins at BloodHound writes a very in depth post, […]

Zillow Coverage - Day 2

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

So, you’ve probably heard, Zillow launched some new features last night. I just woke up and it looks like blog chatter is going full steam. I kept track of stories last night and I’ll be adding links to this post as I have time today, so here we go (times noted are when I updated […]

Zillow Adds For Sale Postings, Make Me Move, and RE Wiki

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

So…this is exciting stuff to say the least–Zillow is launching a new version of our website tonight (in process)! Personally, I think this is the most exciting thing we’ve done since we launched in February. So-what’s included in our new feature set??

Agents and owners can post homes for sale–for FREE.
Added a real estate wiki that […]

Personal vs Business Blogging

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

So, most of the regular readers of this blog probably know I’m a dual blogger–I blog here as well as on the Zillow Blog. I thought I’d take a minute to highlight some of the differences between personal blogging and business blogging.
Personal:
The main reason that I started my own blog was that I wanted […]

Zillow Featured on the Scoble Show

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

Robert Scoble visited the Zillow offices several weeks ago, right before the Blog Business Summit. He posted two videos filmed during his visit on the Scoble Show today–one with our CFO & VP of Marketing, Spencer Rascoff, and another with 4 of our talented developers.

Today at the Office

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

It’s always fun when Robert Scoble shows up at your office. With the Blog Business Summit conference the next 3 days, it was hectic trying to wrap up loose ends prior to being OOF the rest of the week. Since it is a blogging conference- you can bet I’ll be posting both here and on […]

Momentum Growth Conference- Online Advertising Podcast

Sunday, October 22nd, 2006

If you are a business/web junkie- you’ll probably find this podcast interesting. The online advertising panel discussion that took place at the Momentum Growth Conference features Toby Trevarthen of AOL, Payam Zamani of Reply!, Rob Solomon of Sidestep, and the CFO/VP of Marketing of Zillow (my employer) Spencer Rascoff. It’s about an hour long if […]

Business Benefits to Blogging

Monday, October 9th, 2006

Business blogging seems to be a hot topic recently, so I thought I’d dive a little deeper into the business benefits to blogging. Particularly if you are a Web 2.0 company, it is a huge mistake not to have a corporate blog. I touched on the subject over on the Zillow Blog with a ”Why do […]

Corporate Blogging - Engaging in the Conversation

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

There is a new “When blogs work” post on Businesspundit that I just came across. Rob mentioned that he is less enthusiastic about blogging than he was a few years ago because the quality of the conversations has decreased. However, there are still conversations occurring, such as the one that resulted from this post about PeerSight. […]

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