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.
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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With Ninety-two percent of buyers using the internet in some way in their home search process and 50 percent of buyers using a mobile website or application in their home search, getting found via a Google search is critically important. (Source: NAR 2014 PROFILE OF HOME BUYERS AND SELLERS, page 6) Reread the above sentence. Did…
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Every once in a while I run across a picture that has a bunch of text in it that I would like to edit or copy. I don’t necessarily want the actual picture, I just want the text so that I can use the content in something else. Other times I just want to grab…
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I like to read. My tastes include historical fiction, science fiction, military fiction and suspense thrillers. That’s just on the fiction side of things. I also like to read non fiction which includes biographies, popular physics, computer how to books and books on marketing topics. But, some of the most useful books that I read…
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While noodling around the Apple App store recently, I ran across a cool little iPhone app (sorry Android users) that aims to make life a little easier for real estate agents. It’s called Real Estate Agent Assistant and it is offered by AppEzzy, an app developer who has quite a stable of apps for sale.…
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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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Recently I received a Facebook message from a former co-worker telling me about her new venture. Since I was vacationing at the time, I didn’t spend any time checking it out. But today I did. Here is the message: Remember that company that we talked about over a year ago? It just went live! This…
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I’m about 75% of the way through a kitchen remodel. I’m also about 90% of the way through a floor replacement project as well. To say that my life at home these days is chaotic would be an understatement at the least! The reason that I tell you this is because the disruption has got…
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