Drop dead easy Facebook fanpage creation!

On March 11, 2011 Facebook was supposed to kill the ability for new fan pages to add a Static FBML tab to fan pages.  For reasons known only to them they did not actually kill that ability for a few weeks. You might be saying so what or who cares right about now.  And, I…

Microsoft Fixit Center

It’s been a long time since I fired up the Windows Installation on my iMac at home.  In fact it’s been several months.  During that time I just haven’t had the need to use Windows as I am perfectly happy with the Mac in it’s native configuration.  Because it had been months since I last…

Teach Your Parents Tech! (Or Teach yourself)

My passion these days is showing small business owners how to use the new web based tools to grow their businesses.  And yes, real estate people are small business owners. I really enjoy showing people how Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and Twitter have real world business applications and are not just for wasting time. Arguably, the…

THE most important software on your computer is…

What is the most important part of your computer? Is it the monitor, the keyboard, the hard drive? How about the memory? Maybe it’s the operating system or maybe it’s your email program. I’ll admit that all of those are key components of your computer, but in my opinion, the most important part is your…

How do you find your ideal client?

Last April I wrote a two part series about finding new clients using social tools, and in Part Two of that series I talked a little bit about working with only those people that you like.  Here are links to those articles because I think that you should quickly review them as they will set…

A tale of two geeks who backup AND restore!

Recently a friend and I experienced similar computing “disasters.  We both had iMacs that were approximately 3 years old and both of them experienced hard drive failures.  Don’t draw any conclusions about the reliability of the iMacs as that isn’t the point of this article. A conclusion that is fair to draw is that hard…

What ARE they saying about YOU?

On September 5th, I wrote about Nutshell Mail which aggregates everything social into an email. Today I want to briefly tell you about Social Mention which does a similar thing, but goes further to help you understand your reach and the sentiment that you evoke among your social graph. I’ve included a screen shot of…

QR Codes and Microsoft Tags (Oh my!)

   Recently I saw the topic of QR Codes and Microsoft Tags come up in a group that I follow. A few of the members were using one or the other and others had questions. So, I thought it would be a good topic for this week’s post on RealtyTechBytes.   What is a QR…

Free tech support when you need it most

How many times have you been working away on your computer or phone and ran into a problem?  And there was no one around who could help you solve it? Even if it only happens once, that’s one time too many!  Luckily, there are some pretty nifty resources on the web that could help you…

10 Tips for Getting Traffic Through Social Media Sites

Web 2.0 sites and social media are already here (and have been for some time). Experts predict that this trend will only grow. That means if you don’t start using social media now – today – you’ll be left behind. Here then are 10 tips for using social media to drive traffic to your sites……