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.
I’ll bet that if you go to your favorite browser and look in the Bookmarks folder that you’ll find tons of bookmarks that you created. You probably created them so that you wouldn’t forget the website . But, then you forgot to look in the book mark folder for it or it got buried in…
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Do you like to use all of Google’s free services? Gmail, Youtube, Maps, Search and many others? Most of us do, but did you know that every time that you use one of these services, Google captures a bit more information about you? You get to have free access to these services, but there is…
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Lately I have been working with some agents who want to generate more Seller and Buyer leads. The trouble is, they don’t like any of the traditional methods of lead generation and they don’t have the capital to invest in buying leads. So, unless something else turns up, they are pretty well skunked. Then it…
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Have you ever wondered what kind of data is being stored about you? If not, you might want to consider learning about it! With data breaches occurring with awful regularity, knowing what information is being stored about you by some of your favorite websites could be important if they get breached! Many companies will make…
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So I got this interesting email today from a company called Centriq, based in San Francisco. Here is the gist of it: Are you a Real Estate or Service Professional? Centriq is the one app that helps simplify ownership. Think of it as the Ultimate User Guide, specifically for your home and your things. Sign…
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School’s out and summer is almost here so I think that it’s time to double down on business generation. A lot of families are headed out on their summer vacations, so the number of people actively involved in house hunting will probably diminish somewhat, but those that are still looking are going to be heavily…
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2018 is almost half way over! In just a few short weeks we’ll be into July and from there Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas will be upon us before you know it! I bring this up because it’s already time to review what you are doing to generate business. Things to look at are the…
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Lately I have been reading some of the “marketing” language that real estate agents are using on their listings placed on the MLS. What I see is a lot of agents just listing all the FEATURES of a home. While this seems like a reasonable thing to do, there are two major problems in doing…
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I found a fun little, online tool that scratches an occasional itch. Sometimes we need to send pictures to a client or to another agent. Wouldn’t it be cool if we could dress them up a little before we send them? Screely instantly turns your screenshot into a beautiful image that you can share on…
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A few weeks ago I told you about a way to stop robo callers (https://realtytechbytes.com/stop-robo-callers-in-their-tracks) that was provided by my carrier, AT&T. It worked pretty well for what it did but today I want to tell you about an app that will actually help you fight back against the robocallers. It’s called RoboKiller. It does…
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