Facebook is fun. It’s given me a great way to reconnect with friends from long ago, like high school (which is longer ago than I like to think :), and stay in contact with friends, family and clients. Using Facebook for both business and personal friends got me thinking . . . there are some [...]

I’ve been giving a new presentation to help real estate agents understand social media and why they want to get involved. Whenever I teach, there’s always something new I learn, this time from Laura, one of the agents who came to a class. This video is the work of a Karl Fisch, a teacher at [...]

I’ve been having a lot of fun and meeting great people through Twitter. This social networking tool helps you connect to other people, you can expand your business, share ideas and it’s fun. It has one major negative . . . it can be a giant black hole for your time. Well, maybe you’re better [...]

I got very excited watching this video about inexpensive plastic solar sheets that are already being testing and expect to be rolled out commercially by 2010. I figured that we’ve all been reading so much bad news lately, that it’s a good time to share something positive.

We all know that we’re supposed to back up our computers, but how many people actually do it? For years I had been using an external hard drive that automatically backed up my computer each night. The problem was it sat 1 foot away from my computer itself, so if we had a fire or [...]

I’ve been creating PDF files of all of my real estate documents to make sharing these documents with clients very easy. Just about every computer has a PDF reader and it doesn’t matter whether the client uses Windows or Mac or which browser they use. I’ve recently found a free option so you don’t need [...]

When I first started selling real estate in 1991, the fax machine was the latest news. Experienced agents shared with me how they used to have to run back and forth from the office, to the attorney, to the other agent’s office delivering drafts of Purchase and Sale Agreements. By 1991, that had been eliminated [...]

I use a Treo and I love it. It’s my digital assistant as well as my cell phone along with email and internet and it all fits in the palm of my hand. Why do I love it? Because it lets me stay in contact with my clients almost everwhere. (Almost everywhere, because this photo [...]