Jerry Kidd

10 places to find cool things to post that will build your real estate credibility!

One of the ways that you can utilize your social media accounts is to post interesting information about real estate.  Doing so on a regular basis helps to position you as a knowledgeable person on real estate topics. But, you can only post so much about your new listings or your open houses or your…

Jerry Kidd

Free app can make old iPhones feel like new!

Have you used up all the storage space on your iPhone or iPad?  If so, you may start to have all sorts of problems that can cause baffling behavior.  It’s hard to delete things from the phone unless you use iTunes , but it can be difficult to use and iTunes won’t do anything about…

Jerry Kidd

Microsoft Outlook for iOS is finally here!

If you are a user of Microsoft Exchange server (as most people working for a large company are) then you probably use Outlook on your desktop or laptop.  The main advantage to using Outlook has aways been its tight integration with Outlook Calendar and Outlook Contacts.  No need to switch to separate apps to look…

Jerry Kidd

Get more referrals with ReferralRock

For as long as I can remember I have been intrigued by the process of finding new clients.  As a real estate agent back in the mid-80s I had to find a steady stream of new people who needed my services.  Then, as now, the competition was strong…there seemed to be too many real estate…

Jerry Kidd

Free Online OCR

Every once in a while I run across a picture that has a bunch of text in it that I would like to edit or copy.  I don’t necessarily want the actual picture, I just want the text so that I can use the content in something else. Other times I just want to grab…

Jerry Kidd

5 resources that will help you make more money before Christmas!

In a few days summer will be over.  The Autumnal Equinox is Monday, September 22, 2014 here in California, but as far as the real estate market is concerned, summer is over and the fall selling season is under way.  This is traditionally the last “push” of the year.  The time between now and Thanksgiving…

Jerry Kidd

Free newsletter can rock your real estate marketing!

I like free stuff.  I especially like free stuff that helps me in my business.  And I really, really like it when it helps me get new clients. Today I want to tell you about a free tool that you may not know about.  It’s called Housing Trends eNewsletter, and it has been around for…

Canva brings out your creative genius

I attended the Inman Connect conference in San Francisco this week and, contrary to my expectations, I came away with some great ideas. I also heard some unforgettable lines by some of the speakers. One of my favorite lines was “My favorite four letter word is FREE”. I like free, you like free, everyone likes…

Jerry Kidd

How to use Pinterest in real estate

Do you like to take pictures and wonder if there is a free and easy way that you could use those pictures to help your business? If so, have you looked at Pinterest yet? Pinterest is a social, photo and video sharing site, that has become one of the fastest growing social sites…ever. (According to…

Jerry Kidd

Take control of your PDF files the easy way!

I love to find cool, new web applications that actually do something useful.  When they are also free to use and cross platform as well I feel like I have won the lottery! Such is the case with smallpdf. smallpdf is a browser based tool that will work with any browser and with any Mac,…