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.
How well do you use Facebook? Twitter? LinkedIn? WordPress? If you are like most, you probably know enough to make basic use of these sites, but are you really up to speed and getting the maximum value from them? If not, you could search YouTube for instructional videos (Assuming that you watch the most recent…
Like this:
Like Loading...
Like this:
Like Loading...
Like this:
Like Loading...
It’s with some trepidation that I am writing about a tool that will provide a mobile optimized web site for for free. The trepidation comes from that fact that this tool, while being just short of fabulous, does not provide the entire mobile solution. It goes far enough though, that many of you won’t take…
Like this:
Like Loading...
I’ve been writing this blog for nearly 4 years now and I have tried to keep it focused on technology tools that are available now for real estate professionals no matter where they may live. And aside from a few excursions into sales techniques (and the occasional rant) I have been pretty good about staying…
Like this:
Like Loading...
Buying a new smart phone these days has suddenly gotten very complicated. Not only do you have to decide on a carrier before getting started, you also have to to decide if you want an iPhone, a Blackberry, a Windows phone or an an Android. The iPhone part is easier than the others, you only…
Like this:
Like Loading...
If you are through with the Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday madness, and if you still have about $20.00, why not splurge on something useful to your business? I am talking about you buying the National Association of REALTORS® Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers 2011. This is a 124 page document…
Like this:
Like Loading...
Happy Thanksgiving! I had time to kill before my brother and sister in law arrive from Southern California and the holiday begins, so I have spent the last hour or so looking for some on line “bargains”. I have found a load of of somewhat dubious websites that look like they were just set…
Like this:
Like Loading...
Recently I was reading Mashable and ran across an article entitled the “25 Worst passwords of 2011”. You need to click through on this and read it. Is YOUR favorite password on the list? You might want to read another Mashable article “5 Tools for Keeping Track of Your Passwords” if it is. I have…
Like this:
Like Loading...
I have not been one for sending Christmas cards. Oh, it wasn’t always that way, but about 15 years ago I stopped sending them. Not because of any “bah humbug” feelings, but more of a sense of saving time and money. I just didn’t have the time to sort through my list of names and…
Like this:
Like Loading...