We began our foray into proprietary products with Real Estate Shows in 2003. In the years since, Zeek has become a stakeholder in and the engine behind several commercial entities.

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Real Estate Shows is the perfect example of how we approach product development. First we analyzed the existing solutions available to real estate agents to help them promote the homes they were selling. We looked at the end products, workflow, process, & pricing models and determined that a completely new model was in order. We pride ourselves on building solutions that solve real problems while making them easier to use at the same time.

In addition to Real Estate Shows, Zeek is currently a stakeholder in Prolebrity and Dumb Luck Games. If you have a product idea and think it could be a commercial success, we’d like to help, from start to finish.

A New Zeek Design Is Coming: The Wireframes

For those who want to play along, I thought I’d share parts of the Zeek.com redesign process with you. The first step – wireframes.

There’s More To A Creative Website Than Pretty Graphics

Creative design is subjective. Whether a site can handle a traffic spike created by a link from a highly influential website, like The Drudge Report is not.

Mistakes Are A Necessary Byproduct Of Creativity

We don’t get things wrong because we are uninformed and lazy and stupid and evil. We get things wrong because we get things right.

Cut Through The Noise With A Handwritten Note

I recognize the incredible value of a handwritten note and I suck at actually sending them. Greg Meyer, from Gist.com, does not.

We Need Better Listening Tools

It’s become routine for me to “tune in” to REBarcamps using Tweetgrid.com/irc. I set up the feed in the morning and let it run all day. I’m trying to look at signal vs noise. Here’s a video that looks at #REBCSTL.