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.
What is the most important part of your computer? Is it the monitor, the keyboard, the hard drive? How about the memory? Maybe it’s the operating system or maybe it’s your email program. I’ll admit that all of those are key components of your computer, but in my opinion, the most important part is your…
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I have a confession to make. I like to print things. I enjoy reading things on line, but when something really gets to me (both in a good way and in a not so good way) I want a hard copy of it. Consequently, I am often found doing copy and paste from websites and…
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Last April I wrote a two part series about finding new clients using social tools, and in Part Two of that series I talked a little bit about working with only those people that you like. Here are links to those articles because I think that you should quickly review them as they will set…
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The other day I was having a conversation with a new client (I consult with small businesses to help them market their business via social media) about using social tools in their business. When I asked them why they wanted to use social media. I got a strange look from them. They asked me to…
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Yesterday I went shopping with my two grandsons. They had received some Best Buy gift cards as Christmas presents and those gift cards had been “burning a hole” in their pockets ever since. The oldest grandson had no trouble picking out what he wanted which was a WiFi adaptor for his xbox 360. We looked…
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If you aren’t a REALTOR®, this week’s post may be of little value to you, but go ahead and take a look anyway. And if you ARE a REALTOR®, this is one that you REALLY need to read all the way through. (And click on the links too!) To start with, if you haven’t downloaded…
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I’ve recently been running some hands on classes that required the attendees to do some preparation work before coming to the class. One of the students was struggling with a few of the assignments and I knew that if I could just show him the proper things to do, that he could get back on…
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Happy New Year! It’s the time of year that we run around wishing each other happiness for the new year. I love this custom because it’s one of the dates in the season of many religious holidays that I think that we can all agree upon. When I say Happy New Year to you, I…
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Last week I talked about being visible via blogging, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. And I alluded that there was a caveat to doing so and that it wasn’t what you might think. For years now I have been concerned about what I perceive is the lack of focus or direction that most real estate websites…
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This week’s post is not about technology. or about the latest and cool web site, or even about how to do something. Instead I want to toss out a thought that I have then ask you some questions in return. This blog reaches over 600 readers via RSS feed, quite a few more subscribe via…
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