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.

It’s Social Media, not Technology Media

I started my real estate career in Santa Rosa at the end of June in 1986 with Merrill Lynch Realty’s Waterfall Towers office.  I had completed the 3 week new agent training program offered by Merrill Lynch and had even completed all of the courses required to obtain a Broker’s license, although I only held…

4 different ways to find that lost email

A few weeks ago I wrote a post that showed you a way to tame your email inbox (here is a link in case you missed it: https://realtytechbytes.com/taming-the-wild-email-inbox/). If you did what I suggested that you do you have had an amazingly empty Inbox to look at at the end of each day because all…

10 Reasons to blog and 5 reasons not to blog for Realtors®

Everywhere you turn these days you are hearing about blogging and why you should be doing it.  You may have even taken some classes on blogging or maybe you read some blogs written by others, but still haven’t been able to decide if blogging is for you. I am going to give you 10 reasons…

Top Ten Realtor® Tech Tools – Part Two

Last week I gave you Part One which contained what I believe to be 5 of the must have tech tools for real estate agents.  This week I will continue with 5 more must have tech tools.  Truth be told, there are more than 10 tools that I think you should have (and have mastered)…

Top Ten Realtor® Tech Tools

Real estate agents are called upon to provide many services to their buyers and sellers.  The services can range from finding that perfect property for their buyers to marketing a home for their sellers.  At the end of both processes there is an escrow to manage (Hopefully!) with all of the attendant inspections, reports, issues…

Taming the wild email inbox

In conversations with many of you over the past few weeks I have discovered that email inbox overload is a real problem for us. Some of the issues raised were: I didn’t receive the email you sent I did get it but I couldn’t find it later It was there, but not it”s not there…

Beat the energy vampires in your house

I earned my EcoBroker Certification a few months back and had all of the best intentions to get started on “greening” my house right away.  But, with all of my energy being focused on developing my Stealth Marketing course and then delivering it, those intentions ended up in the place where all the socks go…

Have you staked out your piece of the Internet?

That’s an odd question!  What do I mean by that? The simple answer is that I want to know if you have a domain that you own.  Do you have an address on the Internet that you can use for your blog or website?  Do you have an address on the Internet that you can…

The Mechanical Turk Really Does Work

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…