Jerry Kidd

Secrets of getting new clients revealed! Prospecting Tips for REALTORS®

According to REALTOR® magazine “prospecting is the lifeblood of any successful real estate career. It’s that simple. The more people you come in contact with, the more listing and sales you can achieve. All it takes is a plan and some persistence.” To help you achieve that plan they offer the Prospecting Tool Kit at:…

Jerry Kidd

Things to do when there is nothing to do – Updated for 2019

Last April I wrote an article about things to do when you have nothing to do, and it was well received by my readers! I thought that I’d bring it back around again and add a few and change a few.  What follows is the 2019 version! Every once in a while we have one…

Jerry Kidd

How to answer the question of What Tech Tool Should I buy?

Since I often write about products that I think will help your business, occasionally competing products will be featured in the weekly postings. Of course this leads to the question: “Which one should I buy/use/get? That’s a great question so I thought that I should spend some time this week outlining how I choose a…

Jerry Kidd

The Best free CRM for real estate agents

I have yet to meet the real estate agent who doesn’t like free stuff!  After all, we are constantly shelling out for E&O, desk fees, lock boxes, MLS access, Board Dues, franchise fees, phone bills and other tools that we need to run our businesses.  No wonder that free stuff is so popular! One of…

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Beat the email bloat the easy way!

I happened to be helping an associate with his iPhone the other day and saw that he had over 12,000 UNREAD emails in his email inbox! How does this happen?  His explanation was that most of those were spam that he received as a result of online shopping, online inquires and so on. When I…

Easy way to calculate due dates

One of the issues that comes up when we write contracts is determining what dates things like contingency removals and inspection time frames actually occur on. Fortunately, there is a quick solution.  If you were writing the contract on your computer, just go to https://www.timeanddate.com/date/dateadd.html to start with the date of the contract and add…

Jerry Kidd

A new way to write that Out of Office Message

OK.  It’s pretty much the middle of summer and we are still taking some vacations. Many of us are afraid to let our clients know that we actually take time off, but come on, do you really want people to believe that you are available 24/7?  To me that broadcasts scarcity and that you don’t…

Another colossal waste of time and money bites the dust!

Last week was Inman Connect in San Francisco.  This is billed as the best real estate technology conference on the planet.  Until you get the Inman Connect Conference in New York City in January.  Then THAT conference is billed as the worlds best real estate technology conference. In my opinion both shows are no where…

Stop the bookmark madness!

I’ll bet that if you go to your favorite browser and look in the Bookmarks folder that you’ll find tons of bookmarks that you created.  You probably created them so that you wouldn’t forget the website . But, then you forgot to look in the book mark folder for it or it got buried in…

Do you know what personal data is being stored about you?

Have you ever wondered what kind of data is being stored about you? If not, you might want to consider learning about it! With data breaches occurring with awful regularity, knowing what information is being stored about you by some of your favorite websites could be important if they get breached! Many companies will make…