Business and Technology

New Crossland Real Estate Website and Blog – All WordPress Now

April 18, 2008

After spending the past few months redesigning and completely redoing our Crossland Team website and blog, it’s finally done – well, close enough. It’s live and you’re seeing it now. I’m still ironing out some things, but that will always be true with any website, forever. A website is never really done. Whew! It was [...]

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How to Leave a Proper Voice Mail Message

February 16, 2008

As a Realtor, I leave and receive a lot of voice messages. Sometimes dozens a day or more if I’m showing a lot of occupied homes, or have a hot rental listing in Central Austin. The most I’ve ever had to return was seventy-something. One learns to get to the point when you have more [...]

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How to set up a KW Agent Real Estate Blog

January 30, 2008

Today at our Keller Williams office in Austin we had a “Blogging 101″ class that I put together to help agents better understand everything involved with having a real estate blog. According to a National Association of Realtors agent survey, less than 2% of Realtors publish a real estate blog. I was joined in the [...]

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Moving Tips: How to get a better price on existing services

December 11, 2007

We’re in the process of moving. I called Time Warner to move my internet service to my new address, but when they answered, I told them I want to cancel the internet service instead. I don’t want to cancel (though I truley was considering it), so why did I do this? To get connected to [...]

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Computer Disasters Less Painful that in Past

October 25, 2007

Sylvia’s work computer crapped out on us yesterday. It won’t boot. Now it’s in the shop and probably has a bad motherboard. We’ll get it back, if it’s worth repairing, by Saturday or Monday, but it’s really no big deal. Not many years ago, a PC going belly up meant that most productivity came to [...]

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Why Every Realtor Should Consider Blogging

September 28, 2007

A couple of weeks ago, I was a guest panelist on a webinar/conference call for about 50 real estate agents from across the country. I was invited by the course instructor, along with two other real estate bloggers, as part of an online marketing course he was teaching for Keller Williams University (KWU). The three [...]

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Education and Technology in Austin Schools

August 16, 2007

It’s gone too far. The notion that we need to cram computers and technology down the throats of our kids at younger and younger ages has just gone too far. On page 20 of the Aug 10, 2007 issue of the Austin Business Journal is a listing of Austin Private Schools, listing the top 25 [...]

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Austin tops the nation for business

August 6, 2007

The Austin Business Journal reported today that Moody’s research has named Austin #1 out of 400 metro areas for doing business. These small nuggets of news and ratings, rankings, “Best of” lists, etc. help support the notion that Austin’s strong real estate market is grounded in real, actual economic success. The article states: the Austin-Round [...]

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Why you should register YourName.com

July 7, 2007

A Realtor friend of mine, from a city and state which shall remain unnamed, called me the other day to ask if I knew what could be done about the fact that a disgruntled party in one of his deals (not his client) had registered the dot com of his first and last name and [...]

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Google Calendar Sync with Treo 650 using Goosync

April 29, 2007

I’ve recently migrated both mine and Sylvia’s Calendars from Outlook to the free online Google Calendar. Google Calendar is now mine and Sylvia’s primary calendar and appointment tracking system for both personal and business needs. We’ve dumped Outlook Calendar. This would have occurred much sooner had it not been for lack of a good tool [...]

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