Jerry Kidd

Cool backgrounds for video meetings!

By now you MUST have participated in at least one Zoom meeting. If not, congrats to you, but most of us have had to endure far too many of them! I always like to have an interesting background to amuse myself and the others on the call, and I told you how I do it…

How to change your background in Zoom

It seems like everyone is doing Zoom calls these days! If you aren’t sure what Zoom is, the quick answer is that it is a free, online, video conferencing platform. You simply go to Zoom.us (zoom.com works, too) and sign up for a free account.  Once you have done that you can download the desktop…

Jerry Kidd

10 TIPS TO STAY POSITIVE WHEN EVERYONE AROUND IS GOING CRAZY

I don’t know how you are doing with the shelter in place edicts that much of the world is experiencing so I thought this would be something useful! Staying positive when the world is going crazy is one of the best ways of surviving the tide and making it out of the storm. However, this…

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A quarter of the year is almost gone!

If you are reading this then it’s safe to say that the first quarter of 2020 is almost in the books already! Only 39 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…

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Tax Tips for REALTORS®

Well it’s that time of year again!  April 15th, the day taxes are due to the IRS is about a month and half away. I thought that I’d curate some tax info for REALTORS® as this week’s post! There really is only ONE authority on US taxes and that is the IRS.  If you are…

Easy and low cost way to send those Just Listed and Just Sold postcards!

Imagine this, if you will.   You KNOW that you should probably send out postcards around your new listing.  Often times a new listing in a neighborhood will spark another home owner to put their home on the market, so sending out Just Listed postcards is a proven way to get the word out to…

A unique plan for 2020!

Well the first two weeks of 2020 are almost in the books!  How is it going so far? Are you working your plan or are you still wrapping up the holidays? But, maybe you are wondering what the plan for 2020 is going to be.   If that’s you, read on. I recently received an…

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Data Detox Kit

Lately I’ve been thinking about online/digital safety and privacy.  Mostly because this blog was hacked recently and it was being used to host phishing websites! This caused my hosting provider to suspend my account until I managed to find and remove the malware!  It hasn’t been a fun experience and I’m not sure that I…

Jerry Kidd

Got a new iPad? Updated your old one? Read this to get the most out of it!

Christmas is a few days away as this is being written and I am thinking that you may be getting a new iPad as a gift!  It will come with the new iPadOS and of course it will have the latest hardware. Even if you don’t get a new iPad, the new iPadOS has a…

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Crush it in 2020 with one of these plans

By the time that you read this Thanksgiving will have come and gone and we will be on the final countdown to 2020! So, it’s really time to start thinking about next year’s business! I have spent the better part of a day doing some research to find what I think are the best resources…