Jerry Kidd, GRI, CRS, CRB SRES, ePRO a 39 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.

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…

Easy way for your clients to create floor plans

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…

facebook virus prevention tips

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…

Track your URLs with BudURL

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…

Drop those business cards

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…

6 cool websites to help your business

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…