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.

Jerry Kidd

Give your clients a virtual paint job!

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…

Jerry Kidd

Cool way to make sure that your phone is always charged

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.…

Manage your email before it manages you!

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…

Jerry Kidd

Cool freebie whips PDF files into shape!

Did you ever ever run into this problem?  You scan some documents into a pdf and find out the resulting PDF file is too big to email?  Or maybe you created a flyer for one of your listings and “printed” it to PDF and ended up with a gigantic PDF file that’s once again too…

Jerry Kidd

Extremely cool way to send mass emails using Gmail (And it’s FREE too!)

I can’t tell you how many times I have had to “coach” real estate agents about the dangers of sending mass emails from their personal email accounts.  I understand why you would want to send your latest listing or fabulous newsletter to all 350 people in your farm via one email. After all, it is…

5 Ways to Use Pinterest to Get Leads

  There are several tools and features on Pinterest that can actively help you shape the path of your business in the interest of finding more people who may genuinely be interested in connecting with you. (For some statistics on Pinterest go to: http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/pinterest-stats/3/) Add Your Location The first step is to make your location known…

Low cost, effective way to get seller leads

Over the past two weeks I ran a little experiment to see if I could get leads on potential home sellers. What I wanted to do was to get names, email addresses and street addresses of people who MIGHT be interested in selling their homes. I had some parameters that I wanted to observe. It…

The absolute best way to ensure that you have WiFi wherever you go!

How important is it to you that you be able to connect to the Internet while working away from your home or office?  For me, it’s very important to have WiFi, so for the past 6 years or so I have been paying Sprint a monthly fee to be able use their network on a small…

Easy way to communicate difficult information!

I went to Inman CEO Connect last Tuesday in San Francisco. CEO Connect is part of the week long Inman Connect conference that takes place in San Francisco in August and New York City in January (Note to Brad Inman…really??? NYC in January???). I could not attend the actual Conference on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday…

Jerry Kidd

Just say no to Windows 10…for now!

I just got back from a summer’s worth of travel to Spain and then to Maui.  I had a great time at both destinations and really enjoyed the sights, sounds, smells, activities, people and of course the FOOD! While I was gone, Microsoft released the latest version of the Windows operating system, Version 10.  It…