Secrets of a successful real estate agent

By the time you read this, January 2022 will be in the books  One twelfth of the year is gone! So here is a question for you: have you achieved one twelfth of your 2022 financial goals? If you haven’t, then maybe you need to take a look at how you are getting business.  You’ll…

What I would do if I was just starting out today!

Just the other day I was asked by a woman who just got her license what I would do if I was just starting out today.  This was my answer. She wanted my take on what I would do to be successful in today’s real estate market.  That’s a really good question, but at the…

Jerry Kidd

How to generate your own Internet leads

Are you paying for leads?  If so, why not generate your own? I’ll hazard a guess…it’s too hard to generate  the volume of leads that Zillow can give me.  Or, I don’t have a clue how to go about building a lead generator.  Or Even If I did build it, how would I get people…

Jerry Kidd

The BEST way to find new real estate buyers and sellers

With the start of the new year, you may be exploring new ways to generate business.  Maybe you are good with your tried and true methods of lead generation, but maybe you want to raise your game when it comes to creating CMA’s, neighborhood reports and more. Before you spend any money on that latest…

Jerry Kidd

New Years Resolutions for real estate agents!

As I write this, it is New Years Day, 2022. The past few years have been difficult to say the least. But many of us have actually thrived in the Covid environment and have learned new ways to keep on truckin! I think the Grateful Dead may have said it best from their 1977 song…

Jerry Kidd

Here is a way to send mass text messages!

Have you ever wanted to send mass text messages?  It is possible to do it by adding phone numbers, one at a time in to the “To” field of the text app on your phone, but that can get to be tedious, and especially so if you want to send another message to that same…

Jerry Kidd

Get a better email signature

I’ll bet that you have an email “signature” that is automatically applied to each email that you send. Most likely someone in your company did it for you and it probably looks pretty good! But, what if you wanted to change it up?  Can you easily do that or do you have to go through…

Jerry Kidd

Planning on a real estate sales seasonal slowdown? Not so fast!

Thanksgiving is this Thursday in the US. Traditionally this holiday marked the seasonal slow down of real estate sales.  The number of new listings dropped because most sellers wanted to enjoy the holidays without the aggravation of staging, showings and generally living in a fish bowl during this time of year. However, a recent blog…

Jerry Kidd

The best $19.95 you will spend this year!

The National Association of REALTORS® recently published the 2021 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers and made it available online for purchase. REALTOR® members can purchase it for $19.95 (Plus Tax) while everyone who is not a REALTOR® pays $199.95. So why would you want to buy this?  Here is why: This report provides real…

Jerry Kidd

Retargeting 101 for Real Estate Agents – What It Is and Why You Should Be Doing It

It goes without saying that your prospecting system, which is the process that guides a prospect, taking them from stranger to client, is one of the most important, and effective assets in your marketing arsenal. If you want to take your marketing conversions to a new and exciting level, your systems will need to include some…