Last June I wrote about GrandCentral, the online Voice Over Internet Protocol phone system that Google had purchased. At that time GrandCentral was in private Beta and the only way that you could use the service was if you were lucky enough to get an invite from Google. Fortunately for me I had received my…
For the last several months I have been engaged in researching a 5 part training course to teach real estate agents how to use Social Media and Social Networking to enhance their business. It all came to a head this weekend when I started to actually assemble the course from the mountain of data that…
One of the parts of our business that doesn’t get much attention is the part that deals with helping our buyer clients visualize how their furniture and belongings will look in the home that they are considering buying. How many times have you said to them as you show a home “Now, can you see…
Recently subscribers to facebook have been receiving emails from people in their networks that at first glance appear to be legitimate invitations. However, if you should click on the link in the email it will take you to a site that will attempt to install a Trojan horse program on your computer. Should that happen…
Have you ever received an email from someone that contained a long link that broke across several lines? And then when you tried to click on it, it was broken. I sure have, and, I have even sent a few of those myself. Services have popped up all over the Internet to solve that problem…
I have become tired of carrying business cards around. So much so that I have no idea where my box of business cards are stored. The whole concept of exchanging small bits of paper that ultimately end up in landfills bothers me, so I decided some time back to forgo the whole process. But, this…
Did you ever have one of those days where all of your carefully crafted plans just flew out of the window? Today was such a day for me. I was planning on getting a number of things done that got put off because I was out of town all of last week, but a number…
I sift through an incredible amount of information every day. I read 4 blogs (ChrisBrogan, Mashable, LifeHacker, ProBlogger) on a daily basis, others from time to time. I get e-newsletters from waay too many sources to list here on a daily basis, I read paper magazines about real estate and technology as they arrive, and…
Wow! It must be in the air or something! In the past 5 days I have had no less than 5 requests for help on how to do various chores and tasks in Microsoft Outlook. Normally I go for months without someone asking about Outlook, so this is a bit of a surprise. I thought…
I started RealtyTechBytes on January 20th, 2008 as a place where I could do product reviews, provide information on tech tools that I think will be helpful to real estate agents, and to have a parking place for information related to the classes that I teach. Since that time I have posted 72 times on…
