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Entries from March 2008

Blog Posting Tutorial - How to attach a file

March 25th, 2008 · 3 Comments

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. If you would like you can also Subscribe by Email. Thanks for visiting!I did this quick little screen capture for a customer who wanted to know how to attach a document to a blog post.

Sorry for the fuzziness but I am [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Technology Coach · Tutorial

How to Create a Feed for a Specific Category

March 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

I was asked this question by a REALTOR customer of mine.
Claudia Rose of Winkelmann Realty has a blog.  She wants to be able to notify visitors/customers of Short Sales in the area. What I told her she should do is to use her blog to notify everyone that wants updates about Short Sales.
To do this [...]

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Tags: Feed Setup · Technology Coach · technology tutor

Have you ever had this problem?

March 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments

You are holding a Open House and you don’t have enough power in the kitchen to plug in your laptop and your printer.  You do have at least a laptop with you don’t you?
Instead of carrying a big bulky extension cord with you carry this new Belkin Mini Surge Protector with USB Charger

Loren Nason
Technology [...]

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Tags: Accessories

Internet Marketing Education for Real Estate

March 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I have been telling all of my local customers about the 4realz Education Seminar in Southern California and that they must attend.
Now the seminar has been updated after the first one and some great news has come out ….. The seminar is now only $49.00. Now instead of being a MUST attend it is now [...]

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Tags: Marketing

Delete Blank Rows in Excel

March 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Often when working with data especially data that is unformatted, such as the information I export from the MLS, I will receive a large number of blank rows interspersed with the information I am interested in. One solution would be to just sort the data and the blanks will be at the bottom or top [...]

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Tags: General Real Estate Technology · Office Applications · Software · technology tutor

Do you have an iPhone and do you use Hosted Exchange for your email?

March 6th, 2008 · 5 Comments

If you do you will be happy to know that Apple announced today that they have licensed the ActiveSync technology from Microsoft.
This is great news for those of you who have an iPhone and use MS Exchange for your email.
From Engadget’s live blog of the Apple iPhone SDK Press Conference
10:07AM - “Our customers have asked [...]

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Tags: Cell Phones · E-Mail · iphone

Office 2007 Save As PDF for FREE

March 4th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Microsoft Office products are among the best tools in any professional’s toolkit and with every release Microsoft improves on the functionality and ease with which you can create, distribute and save information. With 2007 once you get past the foreign ribbon layout I believe you will find a really robust system that fixes a lot [...]

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Tags: Applications · General Real Estate Technology · Office Applications · Recommended Products · technology tutor

Real Estate Broker 2.0 - or???

March 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

This post from Darin Persinger about Connect Realty being the self dubbed Real Estate 2.0 Company (I thought Redfin owns that trademark?)
After reading the post above I have no idea what makes them 2.0 except they use Zillow for valuation and Trulia for home search. To their defense I guess they are not officially out [...]

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Tags: Broker · General Real Estate Technology · Websites