One of the ways that we, as real estate professionals, can distinguish ourselves from the thousands of others in our market are is by having great knowledge of our area. For us, knowing about housing prices, what’s available and what has sold is easily accomplished through the MLS. Sad to say, it’s also available to…
By now I am sure that you have a Facebook personal account. And, if you are serious about using the social networking giant in your business you also have at least one Facebook business page. Having a business page is no guarantee that you will get any business or leads though. You need to have…
How many passwords are you juggling these days? How many different logins? What about the question of which login and password did you use with which website? I often wonder if I am the only person going slowly nuts trying to juggle all of this and still be effective at what I do, and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
