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.
The other day I was working with an agent at her computer in an attempt to do something that wasn’t too complex. Our conversation went something like this: Me: Right click on that and select “Save” Her: How do I right click? Me: Seriously? Her: Where is the right click button? At this point I…
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I’ve talked about Facebook privacy before and have highlighted a few tools that can help you gain control of your Facebook privacy. (https://realtytechbytes.com/three-websites-to-help-you-get-your-facebook-privacy-under-control) But, if you are like most, you probably said, “yeah, yeah, yeah Jerry. Why should I care?”. Perhaps you have nothing in your Facebook profile or your likes, or Apps, or your…
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Virtual property tours are a great way to market listings because they give an interested person a way to “see” the home without actually having to be there. Many home buyers like to view these tours because it saves them time by helping to eliminate homes that don’t fit their needs. The tours also help…
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There are any number of good ways to reduce unwanted junk mail from our email inboxes. Most of which work very well. But, I have never found a really good and easy way to reduce the amount of paper junk mail that I get at home. Recently I ran across a new company, PaperKarma, that…
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I am very excited to announce that I have joined Bradley Real Estate in San Rafael as the newly created Director of Technology, Social Media and Education! I have been following the growth of Bradley Real Estate for the past few years and have liked what I heard and saw. So when I ran across…
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MacWorld 2013 has come and gone for this year. I look forward to this show in San Francisco each year because it gathers, under one roof, all sorts of products, services and swag related to the Apple product line. Each year there is at least one product that I really like and feel that I can’t…
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I recently got a phone call from a long time business acquaintance, and friend asking me to please take a look at his latest project. Because of my blog http://www.RealtyTechBytes.com, I get requests like this quite frequently. In most cases I don’t report on them because they don’t fit my criteria of something useful to folks in the…
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Back in 2006 I discovered a really cool service called Jott. What made Jott cool was the fact that I could call Jott and dictate a message that Jott would then transcribe into text and then email to me. By programming The Jott number into my OnStar calling system in my car I was able…
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Last week I talked about having a clear call to action that would appeal to your target audience (here is the link in case you missed it: https://realtytechbytes.com/the-case-for-a-call-to-action). This week I want to expand on that concept and tell you how I think your call to action should be implemented. To start with, if you…
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I’ve been somewhat obsessed lately with calls to action. So much so that every time I visit a web site that is new to me, the first thing that I do is to figure out what their Call to Action is, and how they implement it. You might be asking “what is a call to…
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