Data disaster blues and how to avoid them

Pop quiz! When was the last time you backed up your important data on your computer? You know, the IMPORTANT data like photographs, documents, your financial records…the stuff that would kill you if you lost it. What? Never? If that was your answer, you are not alone. Most of the people that I talk with…

Evernote, your online and offline brain

I’ve written about Evernote before, ( https://realtytechbytes.com/information-overload-solved/) but I wanted to give you an updated posting on it because several people have told me that they do not understand what the big deal is all about. Instead of typing 500 words, I thought I’d just do a short (8 minutes) video on it for you.…

Top Ten Realtor® Tech Tools – Part Two

Last week I gave you Part One which contained what I believe to be 5 of the must have tech tools for real estate agents.  This week I will continue with 5 more must have tech tools.  Truth be told, there are more than 10 tools that I think you should have (and have mastered)…

Top Ten Realtor® Tech Tools

Real estate agents are called upon to provide many services to their buyers and sellers.  The services can range from finding that perfect property for their buyers to marketing a home for their sellers.  At the end of both processes there is an escrow to manage (Hopefully!) with all of the attendant inspections, reports, issues…

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…