Supra eKEY now for Windows Mobile – Confirmed at PWAoR

November 25, 2006

Last month I wrote about Supra e-Key being available form all Windows Mobile based phones. I called PWAoR for a customer on Wednesday and I have confirmed for all of you So Cal and possibly all California REALTORS that you can know have the Supra eKEY application loaded on your Windows Mobile Based PDA or…

E-signatures soon to be offered by Chicago Title

November 22, 2006

From the people who have brought us the So-So CRM program Agent Office, they may be bringing you soon a high quality product that will help you with your e-signature goals. Fidelity National Real Estate Solutions, a division of Fidelity National Information Services, and real estate technology company VREO have teamed up in an effort…

25% of REALTORS have been hacked / infected

November 18, 2006

A few days ago I posted the REALTOR Technology Survery (here) Earlier today I posted an article on why you are getting so much SPAM. Here is one reason why. According to this part of the survey One quarter of respondents had been affected by hacking, viruses or spyware in the previous year, and another…

Why are you getting more SPAM

November 18, 2006

EVERYONE HATES SPAM. Why are you getting more lately? I don?t know if you have noticed but many of my customers have and want to know why. The recent increase has been linked to a new ?Spam Bot??? (Trojan Virus) that has been released in the past month called SpamThru. All of these machines are…

Realtor Technology Survey

November 17, 2006

The Realtor Technology Survey from REALTOR.ORG is available for download. I have it here also 2006_realtor_technology_survey_final.pdf This is a MUST read for EVERYONE

Resize your pictures online

November 15, 2006

? ? I found this tool on a fellow bloggers site Real Estate Tomato Have you ever needed to resize a picture but didn’t have any tools at hand and needed it done quickly? Use this site. With pixer.us you can edit your photos online using only your browser. Upload your photo using the “load…

How to setup Google Apps for Your Domain

November 13, 2006

Google Apps for Your Domain This is a Tutorial of how to enable Google apps to work on your domain name. What I will be covering is how to ONLY setup EMAIL and NOT WEBHOSTING. Why NOT hosting? Because almost all of you have a descent site now and will not benefit from moving your…

Free Hosting for Email and Web – Google Apps for your Domain

November 13, 2006

I’ve been telling you that it is important to have your email be a professional address such as john@john4homes.com . But you also want to keep you costs as low as possible. For as long as it has been available I have been the Choir Boy of Hosted Exchange and singing its praises. I STILL…

Are you Judged by your Tech Skills? – Yes!

November 11, 2006

Whether you know it or not you ARE judged by your technology knowledge. You should already know that consumers are turning to the internet to do research. So how do your buyers/sellers assess whether you are tech-savvy? The old rule of thumb is if you had a website and you were available by email was…