Last week’s post was pretty heavy, so this week I thought I should swing in the other direction and talk about something a little lighter. This came to my attention from two sources. Lillian Ng, an agent in our Opera Plaza Office suggested it to me, and two days later I received an email from a…
You say that you have a listing that isn’t selling? And the seller wants to know what innovative thing you are going to do next? And a price reduction just isn’t in the cards? Well, bunky, I may have an answer for you. I just became aware of a new property search web site with…
I have had an annoying pet peeve with computers and printers for as long as I can remember. Why is it that when you print a web page there is invariably one page that prints out with only a few lines of print on an otherwise blank page? Then there is the web page that…
“My client would never do that…” “That Web 2.0 stuff is just for kids.” “My clients don’t ________ (fill in the blank)” Have you ever said that? I hear it all the time as I travel about doing training classes. Every time I hear it, I wonder if I am hearing fear or…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I don’t know about you, but I use multiple computers all of the time. I have a desktop PC at my office and 3 desktop PCs at home. I also have a convertible laptop, a tablet PC and to round out the collection and to really complicate things, I have a new MacBook Pro.…
The World Wide Web is huge, and it continues to grow with myriads of new web sites appearing every day. There are web sites on every topic under the sun and in every language spoken by the human race. With such a bewildering assortment of web sites, how can you possibly stay current with the…
