My passion these days is showing small business owners how to use the new web based tools to grow their businesses. And yes, real estate people are small business owners. I really enjoy showing people how Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and Twitter have real world business applications and are not just for wasting time. Arguably, the…
DetailsTime for a little fun! You may have heard the term “infographic” being bandied about. It refers to a collection of facts on a topic that are presented in place of or in conjunction with the facts being discussed. While noodling around on the interwebs the other night, I ran across this one on the…
DetailsRecently I have been working both from my office PC and my iMac at home. (I keep a PC at the office for old times sake) and have had to move some big files back and forth between the two. I’m talking Gigabyte size files. Really big ones. Huge, in fact. I’ve been using LogMeIn…
DetailsLast Friday (March 11th) I was in front of my computer a few minutes past midnight. Even though I am usually up fairly late, that was a new level in “lateness” for me. I was up that late so that I could go online to apple.com and order an iPad 2. Having stood in line…
DetailsYou can’t avoid it anymore. It’s everywhere you look. Television commercials for all sorts of products tell you to do it, magazine ads feature the logo and the promise of benefits if you will just do this one thing. Every one you know is there already and recent events in the Middle East have shown…
DetailsBack in June of 2008 I wrote a blog post here https://realtytechbytes.com/11-ridiculously-easy-ways-to-improve-your-fuel-economy-and-save-at-the-pump/ that had 11 ways to save at the pump. I had some great comments and suggestions from readers on that post as well, so you may want to go back and check it out again. But here it is nearly 3 years later,…
DetailsWhat is the most important part of your computer? Is it the monitor, the keyboard, the hard drive? How about the memory? Maybe it’s the operating system or maybe it’s your email program. I’ll admit that all of those are key components of your computer, but in my opinion, the most important part is your…
DetailsI have a confession to make. I like to print things. I enjoy reading things on line, but when something really gets to me (both in a good way and in a not so good way) I want a hard copy of it. Consequently, I am often found doing copy and paste from websites and…
DetailsLast April I wrote a two part series about finding new clients using social tools, and in Part Two of that series I talked a little bit about working with only those people that you like. Here are links to those articles because I think that you should quickly review them as they will set…
DetailsThe other day I was having a conversation with a new client (I consult with small businesses to help them market their business via social media) about using social tools in their business. When I asked them why they wanted to use social media. I got a strange look from them. They asked me to…
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