Jerry Kidd, GRI, CRS, CRB SRES, ePRO a 39 year veteran of the real estate industry, has listed and sold houses, managed real estate offices, been the IT Director for a major Northern California real estate company as well as being the Training Director for yet another major Northern California real estate company .
Jerry earned his GRI early in his real estate career and then went on to earn his CRS and CRB setting the tone for a career-long focus on the importance of continuing education. Along the way, Jerry has earned three Microsoft certifications, MCP, MCP+I and MCSE, as well as one from Cisco, CCNA. Rounding out his list of technology certifications are two from COMPTIA, an A+ and a Network+, as well as the ePRO from NAR.
Jerry is currently a California State Certified Instructor for the SRES and GRI programs, presenting courses on working with seniors, listing techniques, technology and advanced technology applications. Jerry is also a NAR Certified ePRO Trainer, zipForms Certified Trainer and a DocuSign Certified Trainer.
Someone hit me up on LinkedIn this week asking for help with lead generation. Simple question. But here’s the thing — most agents asking that question are really looking for the holy grail. The one magic strategy that’s going to solve everything. It doesn’t exist. What does work is finding something you’ll actually do —…
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The Real Reason Your AI Results Are Disappointing You’ve tried the AI tools. Maybe ChatGPT, maybe Claude, maybe whatever your broker rolled out last quarter. And if you’re being honest? The results have been… underwhelming. Generic listing descriptions. Canned email responses that sound like a robot wrote them. Social media posts you’d never actually use.…
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Use the Tools You Already Have. Turn Your CRM Into a Money Maker. Part 5 of 5 If you have made it this far, congratulations. You now know the three buckets. Failing. Not enough conversations, no runway, no follow-up. Bogged down. Busy all day, broke all year. Succeeding. Boring systems, repeated daily. Now we get…
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Why Some Agents Succeed. It’s Boring. That’s the Point. Part 4 of 5 So far in this series we have covered two groups. The agent who is clearly failing. No pipeline, no runway, not enough conversations. The agent who is bogged down. Busy all day, broke all year. Now we get to the group everyone…
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Busy All Day. Broke All Year. Why Agents Get Bogged Down. Part 3 of 5 Part 2 was for the agent who is clearly struggling. No pipeline. No runway. Not enough conversations. Now we get to the bucket I see the most. The agent who is working. They are not sitting on the couch eating…
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Why Real Estate Agents Fail. And How to Stop the Bleeding Fast. Part 2 of 5 In Part 1, we talked about the “stats war.” Zero deals. Typical agent. Everyone arguing in the comments like it is the Super Bowl of spreadsheets. Here is the truth. The market does not care what the internet thinks.…
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The Real Estate Stats Are Confusing. Here’s What They Really Mean. If you have been in any real estate Facebook group lately, you have seen some version of this headline. “Most agents did zero deals.” Then you see another stat that says the “typical agent” did a bunch of sides. So which is it. Are…
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Why You’re Leaving Money on the Table (And How to Stop) Let me ask you something: how much time did you spend this week chasing cold leads? You know the drill—qualifying strangers from Zillow, following up on open house sign-ins from six months ago, nurturing leads that ghost you after the third email. It’s exhausting,…
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Compass + Anywhere just became one company. So… what now? If you’re a Compass agent, you felt the ground shift today, January 9, 2026. If you’re with a brand under the Anywhere umbrella (Coldwell Banker, CENTURY 21, Sotheby’s, Corcoran, ERA, Better Homes and Gardens, @properties, and more), you’re probably thinking: “Cool headline… but what does…
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The 2026 Squeeze Is Coming: Three Things Buyer Agents Better Get Right Welcome to 2026. The forecasts say modest rebound, not a boom. More transactions than 2025, but still payment-constrained buyers, stubborn sellers, and an industry that spent all of 2025 rewriting the rulebook—only to face whispers that some of those commission settlements might get…
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