You may know that I teach a course for the California Graduate Realtor Institute entitled “Money Making Strategies for Success” (I co-authored the most recent revision). I also teach a course entitled “Technology Applications in Real Estate” for the same program, and I was the sole author of the most recent version. Invariably in each…
By now you have heard of Pinterest. This relatively new social networking site has been growing at a faster rate that any previous social networking site and is responsible for referring more traffic to websites than Google+, LinkedIn and YouTube…combined! Since I am not yet totally convinced of the value of Pinterest in our business,…
What is the most important part of your computer? Is it the monitor, the keyboard, the hard drive? How about the memory? Maybe it’s the operating system or maybe it’s your email program. I’ll admit that all of those are key components of your computer, but in my opinion, the most important part is your…
One of the best free tools on the web that you probably have never heard of is drop.io. Drop.io is a simple file storage and sharing site that you access with your web browser. You can upload up to 100 MB of files (for free) and share the customizable web address with any one that…
Everywhere you turn these days you are hearing about blogging and why you should be doing it. You may have even taken some classes on blogging or maybe you read some blogs written by others, but still haven’t been able to decide if blogging is for you. I am going to give you 10 reasons…
I sift through an incredible amount of information every day. I read 4 blogs (ChrisBrogan, Mashable, LifeHacker, ProBlogger) on a daily basis, others from time to time. I get e-newsletters from waay too many sources to list here on a daily basis, I read paper magazines about real estate and technology as they arrive, and…
In my opinion, one of the characteristics of a good real estate agent is the ability to listen to what their client/customer has to say and then to be able to translate that into action. Equally important is the ability to communicate information back to the client/customer. In the past we typically did that in…
I spend a lot of my time on the road going from office to office to teach classes. Most people know that the best way to reach me is by email or text message, but there are times when a phone call is the best way. The trouble comes when they call when I am…
