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.
Are you paying for leads? If so, why not generate your own? I’ll hazard a guess…it’s too hard to generate the volume of leads that Zillow can give me. Or, I don’t have a clue how to go about building a lead generator. Or Even If I did build it, how would I get people…
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With the start of the new year, you may be exploring new ways to generate business. Maybe you are good with your tried and true methods of lead generation, but maybe you want to raise your game when it comes to creating CMA’s, neighborhood reports and more. Before you spend any money on that latest…
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As I write this, it is New Years Day, 2022. The past few years have been difficult to say the least. But many of us have actually thrived in the Covid environment and have learned new ways to keep on truckin! I think the Grateful Dead may have said it best from their 1977 song…
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Christmas 2021 has come and gone! Next up is New Years eve and the start of 2022. With that comes the reality almost two full years of COVID-19. I think that we are all suffering from COVID-19 fatigue and could use some levity So, let’s have a little fun! I found a cool service that…
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Keeping it short this week, but I did find a couple of freebies that you might to be useful! First is something called Greety. This free service will let you upload a short video greeting from YouTube and “marry it” with a cool holiday theme! Create and send a personal video Christmas card Simply fill…
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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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