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 was helping an agent delete some online accounts recently and several of them proved surprisingly hard to delete. After some searching around on Google for the answers, I bumped into AccountKiller. This site has taken it upon themselves to compile a listing of many popular online sites(and some that I never heard of) along with…
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A few years back I told you about an app that you could use to send greeting cards form your phone (https://realtytechbytes.com/a-nifty-way-to-send-those-christmas-cards) and towards the end of that article, I off handedly mentioned another app (Postagram) for sending photo postcards. My idea at the time was to use the apps in lieu of sending Christmas,…
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Every November the National Association of REALTORS® gets together to celebrate all things REALTOR®, debate issues, come up with new ideas and party like mad. All of which is only of mild interest to me. But, one thing does happen during this annual convention that I find absolutely essential to EVERY REALTOR®. And that is…
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From time to time I get questions about using Twitter in a real estate practice. Most of the time I discourage the use unless someone has already built a Twitter presence and has followers who can be the audience that user is trying to reach. Another reason that I discourage using Twitter, is that unless…
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Way back when I started in real estate, nearly 30 years ago, no one in my market area had a car phone, let alone a portable cell phone. Consequently, when we got in our cars we actually were able to concentrate on driving. These days we make phone calls while driving and some of us…
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I recently spent three weeks on the beautiful island of Maui! Going to Maui is something that I done every year and have done for the past 20 years. Maui is my place to go to reflect, recharge, and stimulate my creative flow. I haven’t always been able to do three weeks at a time,…
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Some time ago I stopped using business cards. Frankly, I was tired of carrying them and I was even more tired of having to either save the cards given to me or manually transcribe them into my contact manager. So, I’ve been looking for some “hi-tech” solution. In fact, I’ve written a number of articles…
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This week I want to tell you about an iPhone app that may be valuable to your clients. Often times we list homes for sale that a need a little TLC to get them ready for market. It’s amazing what a fresh coat of paint can do, but convincing the seller of the value of…
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I know that you have probably had your phone run out of battery more than once. It’s happened to all of us at one time or another. The solution has been to keep a spare charger and cable in our purses or briefcases and hope that we were near an outlet when the need arose.…
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Today I am high up on my soapbox. I want to rave and rant about about a pet peeve that I have and it’s one that you may have as well. You may have guessed from the title that I am talking about email. Specifically, I am talking about how email gets handled and why…
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