PDF Creation for Free!

It’s 10 PM at night and you need to get a document that’s on your computer to your client. Unfortunately, the client does not have the software on her computer that she needs in order to open the document. And you don’t have the software that you need to convert the document to PDF (Portable…

Presto delivers the goods!

So, I had a problem. My 84 year old father lives in the heart of Appalachia in the little town of Whitley City, Kentucky. I live in Danville, California, nearly 2800 miles apart. Mail service between the two areas can take up to a week, and fax services tie up phone lines for lengthy periods…

Jott, Jott, Jott!

You have got to get Jott, I am making this post to my WordPress blog using Jott, go to www.jott.com for details. listen Jott is a great tool for real estate agents.  To start with, it allows you to call a number and and record a message for yourself or anyone else whom you have…

10 Minute Email

No, this post is not about writing an email in ten minutes, but it is about having an email address that only lasts for 10 minutes! You might be saying to yourself “What good is that”?  Well hang on for a bit and I will tell you…actually, I’ll let the owner of the web site…

Powerful, Personal, Portable Printing

You may have noticed that my last few posts have been on topics that lend themselves to working away from the office. If you did notice that, congratulations to you! Because, that’s exactly what the focus of these posts have been. There are a few other areas to explore in order to have you set…

The end of fax as we know it?

Last time around I spoke of using an online fax service and extolled the virtues of leaving your fax machine in the dust.  But, as I ended up, I told you that in order to use such a service that you would somehow have to get the document to be faxed onto your had drive. …

It was the best of fax, it was the worst of fax! (with apologies to Charles Dickens)

One of the most helpful tools in our business has been the fax machine.  Next to the telephone, this has probably been the single biggest productivity tool that we have used in the past 20 years.  I don’t need to belabor all the ways that faxing has benefited us and the way that we do…

“Drop” that file!

Have you ever wanted to send a large file to a client or even a friend or family member, sat through the long upload via email only to get a message back that the recipient’s email system could not process the file because it was too large?  Or had someone tell you that they couldn’t…

r u all thumbs?

These days most of us find that we are spending more time working from our cars, our clients home or business, Starbucks or anywhere that’s not in our office.  So, most of us have invested in Treos or Smartphones of some sort because these phones allow us to keep up with email or check the…