Jerry Kidd, GRI, CRS, CRB SRES, ePRO a 38 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.
Ever get so many emails that you are tempted to just go through and hit delete? No matter who sent them? Bad idea! I was tempted to do just that recently, but decided to take a more strategic approach and actually open a select bunch and scan them quickly. I am very glad I did…
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Have you ever wanted to send mass text messages? It is possible to do it by adding phone numbers, one at a time in to the “To” field of the text app on your phone, but that can get to be tedious, and especially so if you want to send another message to that same…
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I’ll bet that you have an email “signature” that is automatically applied to each email that you send. Most likely someone in your company did it for you and it probably looks pretty good! But, what if you wanted to change it up? Can you easily do that or do you have to go through…
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Thanksgiving is this Thursday in the US. Traditionally this holiday marked the seasonal slow down of real estate sales. The number of new listings dropped because most sellers wanted to enjoy the holidays without the aggravation of staging, showings and generally living in a fish bowl during this time of year. However, a recent blog…
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The National Association of REALTORS® recently published the 2021 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers and made it available online for purchase. REALTOR® members can purchase it for $19.95 (Plus Tax) while everyone who is not a REALTOR® pays $199.95. So why would you want to buy this? Here is why: This report provides real…
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It goes without saying that your prospecting system, which is the process that guides a prospect, taking them from stranger to client, is one of the most important, and effective assets in your marketing arsenal. If you want to take your marketing conversions to a new and exciting level, your systems will need to include some…
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Mark Zuckerberg recently rebranded Facebook as Meta. My initial reaction was “so what”? Who really cares what he does with his social media company? And also why should I care? Read on and you’ll see why I changed my mind. In his announcement he said “It is time for us to adopt a new company…
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Let’s do a little role playing today! Here is how we will do it. I’ll pretend to be a potential client looking to hire a real estate agent. Let’s agree that you and this potential client live in a desirable area where home values average around $1,000,000. In that area there are approximately 3,500 members…
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I’ve got some questions for you this week. See if you can answer them all and then share the questions and your answers with some one who can give you an objective analysis of them. Why are you a real estate agent? What was your motivation for becoming an agent in the first place, and…
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When was the last time you took a good look at the apps on your smart phone? If your phone is anything like mine, it’s loaded with apps that don’t get used. There is nothing harmful about having unused apps on the phone aside from the fact that they take up memory storage space. There…
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