Rich Morrow a Real Geek will Discuss How to Relieve Our Tech Pain Points #rebcden
June 15, 2010 by Kristal Kraft
Filed under "I'll Be There" Interviews
Most people realize the best way to learn is to align yourself with those who know what you don’t and are willing to share their knowledge. Rich Morrow is a professional developer with a marketing background. He brings not just experience but his time-tested talent to Real Estate Bar Camp Denver.
It’s with great pleasure I welcome Rich a real Geek to #REBCDen…
Tell us a little bit about yourself, are you a Colorado native or what brought you to Colorado?
I’m a CO native who’s moved around quite a bit (Bay Area, Tokyo) & come back home 4 years ago. I’m a Web Developer by trade & have nearly 2 decades experience building top-shelf product for Fortune 500 companies like Amazon.com, FedEx, Nike, and Goldman Sachs.
Who do you work for and why do you enjoy your job?
Self-employed as an independent Web Developer & Business owner. My boss is a slavedriver.
What is your favorite tech tool for business? Why is it your favorite?
For small & medium businesses, I have two favorite tools — Drupal and Rackspace Cloud. Drupal because it lets me get sites up in days instead of weeks and it’s incredibly secure & well designed. Rackspace Cloud because it lets me host extremely scalable sites for ridiculous cheap (as little as $11/month).
What would you like to learn more about at REBC-Denver?
Pain points that Agents + other RE pros have when it comes to leveraging technology for their business, and how to better remove their roadblocks.
Title: Engaging, Sales-Driven Website Development + SEO
Synopsis: Building an extremely professional, results-driven site no longer requires a Developer, Designer and thousands of dollars. I’ll share 20-30 different design and functionality principles that anyone can easily integrate into their sites with CMS’s like WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla. I’ll share 5-10 different online tools & services you can use to get valuable free advertising and exposure for your site. Users who implement these principles soon find their sites on Google 1st page for some extremely competitive terms like “[STATE NAME] mortage” or “[CITY NAME] mortgage”. We’ll take one extremely successful Agent’s website & dissect it to show you exactly how they achieve success.
Title: Securing WordPress & it’s underlying LAMP stack.
Synopsis: A brief intro to some simple but effective things that individual WordPress site owners (and you don’t have to be a programmer) can do to keep hackers out of their site(s).
