I’ve been a licensed real estate agent for over 23 years. For most of those years I have been licensed as a broker. I have spent over 15 years as a manager of real estate offices. One of my four primary roles in that position was to train agents. (The other three primary roles of…
I was poking about on Google today, in a behind the scenes sort of way and somehow ended up looking at Google Directory. Google Directory? I didn’t know that Google had a directory. Like most of us, I know Google as a search engine par excellence, but as a directory? Who knew? What’s the difference…
Unless you have been on vacation on Mars for the past year, you have heard about Twitter. You may know that Twitter is a micro-blogging service that allows you to post messages limited to 140 characters. This messages are called Tweets and can theoretically be seen by every Twitter user. Of course a person would…
Do you have an iPod or an iPhone? If you do, you are half way there to creating a pocket sized method of delivering your listing presentation or property tours. Instead of lugging your laptop to listing presentations (Note: You may still want to take your laptop if you fill in contracts online) you can…
As I write this, it’s been just about one week since I attended my first REBarCamp in San Francisco. It’s taken about a week for me to fully internalize all that occurred in about 8 hours on a sunny August day in the City. You may be asking yourself “what is a REBarCamp?” For questions…
I wanted to buy my first house in 1984. I had absolutely no clue about how to go about the process, so I started by going to open houses. I met lots of real estate agents, but sadly, none that I trusted enough to want to “hire”. So, I started taking real estate courses at…
As real estate agents we have learned how to work away from our offices and to provide our services wherever the customer happens to be, at their home, their office or even at a local coffee shop. One of the factors that has contributed to that mobility is the nearly ubiquitous presence of WiFi. Although…
Many of you know that I am an ePro Certified Trainer, and as such I have been able to offer you a $25.00 discount when you sign up for the National Association of Realtors® ePro course. I have always felt that having an ePro was a very smart move for all Realtors® for a variety…
In the first part of this series, I told you how I came from the PC world to the Mac world. In the second part I told you about the “gotchas” that are part of the process. This week I want to tell you about why it’s all worth it. Aside from the very…
Last week I confessed that I am mostly a Mac guy these days and told you how that happened to me. This week it’s only fair to tell you that the journey was not without issues, some of which are still with me. The most obvious thing that I had to deal with was learning…
