Taming the wild email inbox

In conversations with many of you over the past few weeks I have discovered that email inbox overload is a real problem for us. Some of the issues raised were: I didn’t receive the email you sent I did get it but I couldn’t find it later It was there, but not it”s not there…

facebook virus prevention tips

Recently subscribers to facebook have been receiving emails from people in their networks that at first glance appear to be legitimate invitations. However, if you should click on the link in the email it will take you to a site that will attempt to install a Trojan horse program on your computer. Should that happen…

Track your URLs with BudURL

Have you ever received an email from someone that contained a long link that broke across several lines? And then when you tried to click on it, it was broken. I sure have, and, I have even sent a few of those myself. Services have popped up all over the Internet to solve that problem…

Curing the Microsoft Outlook Blues

Wow!  It must be in the air or something!  In the past 5 days I have had no less than 5 requests for help on how to do various chores and tasks in Microsoft Outlook.  Normally I go for months without someone asking about Outlook, so this is a bit of a surprise. I thought…

Happy Birthday to RealtyTechBytes!

I started RealtyTechBytes on January 20th, 2008 as a place where I could do product reviews, provide information on tech tools that I think will be helpful to real estate agents, and to have a parking place for information related to the classes that I teach. Since that time I have posted 72 times on…

Social Marketing tipping point

Well, November 4th has come and gone and we have a new President-Elect.  I can honestly say that from my perspective the elections couldn’t have come a moment too soon as I was truly weary of the many propositions, issues and races. But, the Presidential race held my attention right to the very end.  I…

Opportunity knocks…

In my 22 plus years in the real estate business I have never seen such a strong opportunity for buyers to invest in real estate.  There are any number of factors that have all come together in a “perfect storm” of opportunity for buyers.  Interest rates are still low enough to be affordable by many,…

3 money saving web sites that you have never heard of…

Lately it seems like my money runs out before the month runs out and I have been looking for ways to economize.  Being the geek that I am, I turned to the web and did some searching.  Here are some interesting web sites that I think will help you save money and maybe even put…

Beat the frozen cell phone blues!

I had occasion to be on a conference call with two colleagues late last week and one of them was late to the call.  When he finally arrived, he was pretty exasperated because his TREO had locked up on him sometime before he was due to get on the call and he was forced to…

Free WiFi – almost anywhere at almost anytime

Well, I’m back from my vacation on Maui, and tomorrow the real world of work is back…and I am excited about it!  You might think I am being facetious to say that I am glad to be going back to work, but truth be told, I really enjoy my job!  I enjoy doing training classes…