Ryan Ward, a real estate specializing in Atlanta, Georgia real estate, wrote up a nifty review for Microsoft’s Office 2007 Suite that many real estate agents I’m sure have contemplating using (including me). With his permission, I’ve brought his review over to TechForAgents.com.
His review goes into depth on his experiences with the performance of Office in his day to day business, and what you can expect by migrating over to the new version of office.
To all of my readers and visitors, I want to wish you a wonderful Father’s Day! I hope that you get to spend this great day with those that you love and care for.
I will be meeting up with my father and cooking indoors today; Houston is experiencing some not-so-great weather. What are your plans?
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When starting your real estate career, forming a team, or even improving the tools you work with now many agents will ask what kind of computers to buy. Dell is a common response around our office, being that all the office computers and monitors are manufactured by Dell.
When considering to purchase a Dell, be sure to do your research prior to ensure you are making a wise choice. When performing my own research, I stumbled across this post by the Consumerist.
A former Dell kiosk manager writes us to share helpful tips about doing business with Dell. He has no particular problems with Dell, he just wanted to share some helpful tips for consumers looking to get the best deal. - The Consumerist
Inside, the sales manager goes into detail on great tips on buying your next Dell computer. If you are looking to purchase a computer in the near future, this is a definite read. Dell doesn’t want this information to be public, so grab it while you can!
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One of the tools I have that I see very agents under-utilizing is the Google Alerts tool. It’s a very simple tool to use; enter your search criteria, do some minor configuration on frequency of updates, and submit your email address. Voila! You have real-time updates to Google’s index.
The search query I use the most is “site:www.sitename.com”. What this will allow you to see is when pages of your site get indexed by Google. You are then given the opportunity to re-visit the page, remind yourself what keywords you were targeting for, and check their ranking in Google. You can automate this process by using this handy keyword analysis tool at McDar.net.
You can also use the Google Alerts tool to notify you of when new topics are indexed regarding specific keywords that you are looking to gain rankings in. The most common use would be “area real estate”, where you would replace “area” with your market location. This will allow you to see when new blogs, news articles and even competitors get their sites indexed by Google for the various keywords that you’ve chosen to go after.
If you are currently using Google Alerts, what nifty ways are you using them to better your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) efforts?
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Apple has announced that their web browser found on all Macs has been released in a public beta for Windows. You can get more details at the Apple Safari download page.
I went ahead an installed the browser and wasn’t necessarily impressed. The browser crashed within 5 minutes of usage by visiting a movie trailer website. Upon attempting to launch an in-screen video, the browser froze and shut down. Later that day, an article posted by Scott Fulton over at BetaNews commented:
It took security engineers perhaps less than two hours yesterday to introduce Apple’s surprise entry in the field of Windows browsers to the big, cruel world of exploits and vulnerabilities, following its introduction yesterday morning at WWDC. As a result, much of the clout Safari had received as the secure browsing alternative to Internet Explorer and Firefox — as long as it was on a Macintosh — was burned off like fire to a flash fuse. - Scott Fulton
Basically what I took from his article was the Apple design the Safari web browser to be super-secure on the Mac, but not necessarily on Windows. So if you are the kind of agent like myself, that likes to fool with new technology, be sure to hold back on installing Safari.
The released is noted to be a beta release, though the last thing you would want to do is compromise your main workstation.
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