Jerry Kidd

Over 300 ways to make 2015 your best year ever!

If you are reading this then it’s safe top say that the first week of 2015 is in the books already! Only 51 more weeks to make something happen this year! For this week’s post I thought that I’d give you an easy way to mine the nuggets that this blog contains.  I am sure…

Jerry Kidd

Free 2015 business planning resource for REALTORS®

As I write this it is December 26th, 2014. I have spent much of the day today thinking about business planning for real estate agents.  My thought process has pointed me in the direction of searching for resources that I could tell you about. My original plan was to compile a list of resources that…

Jerry Kidd

Google ups the ante on mobile search – is YOUR site ready?

With Ninety-two percent of buyers using the internet in some way in their home search process and 50 percent of buyers using a mobile website or application in their home search, getting found via a Google search is critically important. (Source: NAR 2014 PROFILE OF HOME BUYERS AND SELLERS, page 6) Reread the above sentence.  Did…

Jerry Kidd

Read this book to have a fabulous 2015!

I like to read.  My tastes include historical fiction, science fiction, military fiction and suspense thrillers.  That’s just on the fiction side of things.  I also like to read non fiction which includes biographies, popular physics, computer how to books and books on marketing topics. But, some of the most useful books that I read…

5 EASY ways to get the most from LinkedIn

One of my favorite social sites is LinkedIn. I say this is because usage is especially high among people with college degrees, higher income earners and people between 50 – 64 years of age. (According to Pew Research Center) If you think about it, some of the people most likely to be selling their homes…

Take charge of your Facebook Privacy controls once and for all

OK, this post is going to be short and hopefully sweet! Are you one of the many people who are concerned about online privacy, and more specifically Facebook privacy?  If so, you are not alone.  It seems like the social networking giant is continually making changes as they respond to one issue after another.  While…

Jerry Kidd

10 Email Marketing Tips for real estate agents

In case you haven’t noticed, social media has gained momentum at astonishing rates over the past few years. While a lot of agents are scrambling to catch up and ride the social media bandwagon, they are ignoring another powerful form of marketing that is proven to generate results: email marketing. Despite all the hype about…

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How to find find your target audience on social media platforms

One of the best ways to increase your real estate business is by advertising.  We’ve known it for years and have utilized it in many different formats with varying results. When I started in real estate print advertising was king.  We ran ads in the Sunday Real estate section of the local newspaper and daily…

Jerry Kidd

2 Things you MUST do before buying that new phone!

Rumor has it that Apple will release the iPhone 6 on September 9th, and if you are thinking that you might like to “upgrade” your old phone to the latest and greatest from Cupertino, then you are probably eagerly awaiting that date. Me too!  But, there are some caveats that I thought I’d share with…

Jerry Kidd

A fix for social media privacy issues

Every so often I like to revisit my online privacy settings to see what I may be sharing and to whom I may be sharing it.  This usually entails going to each of my social sites, digging around until I can find the privacy controls, and then checking the settings. This really wasn’t that much…