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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.
Five books every real estate agent needs to read (to make more money in 2009)
We are knee deep in the holiday season and as I travel around real estate offices I see fewer of you around. My assumption is that you are out showing houses, looking at the inventory, meeting new clients and otherwise working on your business in order to be ready for 2009. One of the things…
Video Made Simple
If you’ve been to my "Tech Tools for Realtors®" or my "YouTube and You!" classes recently you have heard me talk about the line of video cameras from Pure Digital known as the Flip. The reason why I have been so high on these cameras is because they seem made for Realtors®. I am sure…
Black Friday
I don’t know too many people who haven’t been affected by the current US economy. The news has been all doom and gloom for far too long. Many of us are staring at the holiday season and thinking about how we can provide gifts for our family, friends, acquaintances and clients. Quite a few of…
Social Marketing tipping point
Well, November 4th has come and gone and we have a new President-Elect. I can honestly say that from my perspective the elections couldn’t have come a moment too soon as I was truly weary of the many propositions, issues and races. But, the Presidential race held my attention right to the very end. I…
Time to Turn Lemons into Lemonade!
One of the nice things about writing a blog is that you get to write the blog! What I mean by that is that I get to choose when I write and what I write about. I also get to choose to let someone else write if I want to, and today is one of…
Opportunity knocks…
In my 22 plus years in the real estate business I have never seen such a strong opportunity for buyers to invest in real estate. There are any number of factors that have all come together in a “perfect storm” of opportunity for buyers. Interest rates are still low enough to be affordable by many,…
3 money saving web sites that you have never heard of…
Lately it seems like my money runs out before the month runs out and I have been looking for ways to economize. Being the geek that I am, I turned to the web and did some searching. Here are some interesting web sites that I think will help you save money and maybe even put…
Beat the frozen cell phone blues!
I had occasion to be on a conference call with two colleagues late last week and one of them was late to the call. When he finally arrived, he was pretty exasperated because his TREO had locked up on him sometime before he was due to get on the call and he was forced to…
Free WiFi – almost anywhere at almost anytime
Well, I’m back from my vacation on Maui, and tomorrow the real world of work is back…and I am excited about it! You might think I am being facetious to say that I am glad to be going back to work, but truth be told, I really enjoy my job! I enjoy doing training classes…
