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.
One of the ways that you can utilize your social media accounts is to post interesting information about real estate. Doing so on a regular basis helps to position you as a knowledgeable person on real estate topics. But, you can only post so much about your new listings or your open houses or your…
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Have you used up all the storage space on your iPhone or iPad? If so, you may start to have all sorts of problems that can cause baffling behavior. It’s hard to delete things from the phone unless you use iTunes , but it can be difficult to use and iTunes won’t do anything about…
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If you are a user of Microsoft Exchange server (as most people working for a large company are) then you probably use Outlook on your desktop or laptop. The main advantage to using Outlook has aways been its tight integration with Outlook Calendar and Outlook Contacts. No need to switch to separate apps to look…
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You may have had this happen to you. You are working away at your computer when a pop up appears telling you that your computer is infected with a nasty virus and all that you have to do is to click on the indicated box and technicians will swoop in and fix your problem. For…
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In years past I used to carry a laptop, portable scanner and portable printer with me whenever I took a trip. I had a nice Tumi bag that held everything very nicely. But, it was heavy and in order to use it all, I had to go through the setup and boot up process. Times…
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I am one of those people that loves to find new technologies and check them out. I am always looking at things and asking myself the question “How could this be useful to a real estate agent?” Asking that simple question often leads me to recommend some products that are directly useful to agents as…
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If you are reading this then it’s safe top say that the first week of 2015 is in the books already! Only 51 more weeks to make something happen this year! For this week’s post I thought that I’d give you an easy way to mine the nuggets that this blog contains. I am sure…
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As I write this it is December 26th, 2014. I have spent much of the day today thinking about business planning for real estate agents. My thought process has pointed me in the direction of searching for resources that I could tell you about. My original plan was to compile a list of resources that…
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I’ll keep this week’s post short as I know you are probably crazy busy right now with holiday preparations. But, you really do want to read this all the way through because I have a heck of a deal for you! I was recently asked to evaluate a number of CMA products for one of…
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For as long as I can remember I have been intrigued by the process of finding new clients. As a real estate agent back in the mid-80s I had to find a steady stream of new people who needed my services. Then, as now, the competition was strong…there seemed to be too many real estate…
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