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.
The long awaited day finally arrived on Friday, July 11th. The second generation iPhone (iPhone 2.0 or iPhone 3G depending on who is talking about it) went on sale at 8 AM. I had planned to go to an Apple store instead of an AT&T store for several reasons. Not the least of which was…
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Has the new Apple iPhone got you thinking that it’s time to part company with your old phone? Are you at the end of your contact with your current carrier and are thinking it’s time for a change? Or, maybe you are just fed up with phone or the carrier. If you answered yes to…
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According to a M:Metrics press release dated May 21, 2008, “AMERICANS SPEND MORE THAN 4.5 HOURS PER MONTH BROWSING ON SMARTPHONES…Social networking and commerce draw consumers into the mobile Web“ Why is this important? Given the huge popularity of the iPhone, Windows Smart Phones and the Treo line of phones, many Americans can now browse…
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I spend a lot of my time on the road going from office to office to teach classes. Most people know that the best way to reach me is by email or text message, but there are times when a phone call is the best way. The trouble comes when they call when I am…
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I don’t know about you, but these $75.00 trips to the gas station are getting to me. It would be more than $75.00, but Wells Fargo in it’s infinite wisdom, cuts me off at $75.00 and stops the pump. I have a 2007 GMC Envoy, which on a good day gets about 18 miles…
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At today’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference being held June 9-13, 2008, in San Francisco, at Moscone West, Steve Jobs announced the new iPhone 3G. This is the long rumored and long awaited successor to the iPhone. Although there are many cool new features, perhaps the most interesting to us as users of Microsoft Exchange…
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I’ve just returned from a week’s vacation down in Newport Beach and in preparation for this week’s posting, I discovered that I couldn’t find where I had stored something on my hard drive. I fired up one of this week’s little gems (Google Desktop Search) and soon had what I was looking to find. That…
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I’ve been on vacation since Friday afternoon. Actually, I spent all of Friday afternoon and part of Friday evening driving the 482 miles from Orinda, California to Newport Coast, California down the El Camino Real, otherwise known as US Hwy 101. During the 7, almost 8, hour drive I had plenty of time to reflect…
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A good explanation of how to know what computer tiuy if you are a real estate agent.
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In fact, don’t do anything in the office at all! Except to meet your clients who want to meet in the office, attend office meetings and other management required office attendance. Other than that, you need to be spending your time where the clients are…and I have a news flash for you…they aren’t in your…
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