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.
At Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on Monday, June 5th, Apple CEO Tim Cook and friends gave us a full overview of iOS 11. In case you are unsure what that means, iOS is the software that runs your iPhone. It creates the user experience that you have when you turn your phone on and…
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Live video is currently an exciting topic among technologists and futurists and it’s widely expected that it will play a big role in the way we communicate online going forward. And for agents, live video is also very exciting. That’s because it presents us with an entirely new audience to market ourselves to, an entirely…
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I want to recommend a book this week. In the past I have recommended books, but they have all been real estate specific books. This one is not. The author of the book is Admiral William H. McRaven (U.S. Navy Retired) and is titled “Make Your Bed – Little Things That Can Change Your Life…
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Your NAR membership comes with some pretty good benefits. One of which is a partnership with Lenovo. Lenovo is the Chinese company that bought IBM’s laptop business some years back. If you are a die hard Windows computer user, then you probably can’t go wrong with buying a Lenovo computer. But you have to move…
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I just learned of a new member benefit that is available to all members of the National Association of REALTORS®. We already know that NAR offered free dot realtor domain names back in 2014 (https://www.claim.realtor) and a few of us took advantage of it. Recently NAR announced a new member benefit from real estate digital marketing…
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Just the other day I was having a conversation with one of my new agents about how to find new buyer or seller prospects. Since I knew that he was very conversant with using Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and LinkedIn, I suggested that he do some Facebook advertising to generate leads. His reply was that he’d…
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If you were in the market to buy a used car you’d probably go to CarFax.com and buy a report that would tell you a variety of facts about the car so that you could make an informed buying decision. You’d pay anywhere from $20.00 to $39.99 for the report and would consider that a…
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We used to live in the information age, but now we live in the too darn much information age! That’s a pretty bold statement, but here is what I mean. The Internet, more specifically the World Wide Web, has flooded us with information. So much so that we are constantly bombarded from the time we…
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It’s a well known fact that text messages get opened more often than emails and even better, they get opened nearly as quick as they are received. Not sure about that? Check your own habits! Don’t you always at least check to see who sent you a text message as soon as you receive it? …
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So you’ve heard the buzz and have seen the excitement and you want to get involved with Facebook Live. This is a great decision and one that can give you a great edge over the competition while helping you to connect with your audience in new ways. All that’s left to do is to get…
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