Archive for the 'Business and Technology' Category
How to Leave a Proper Voice Mail Message
Closed Published by Steve Crossland February 16th, 2008 on Austin Real Estate Blog - Austin TX Real EstateAs 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 […]
How to set up a KW Agent Real Estate Blog
Closed Published by Steve Crossland January 30th, 2008 on Austin Real Estate Blog - Austin TX Real EstateToday 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 […]
Moving Tips: How to get a better price on existing services
Closed Published by Steve Crossland December 11th, 2007 on Austin Real Estate Blog - Austin TX Real EstateWe’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 […]
Computer Disasters Less Painful that in Past
Closed Published by Steve Crossland October 25th, 2007 on Austin Real Estate Blog - Austin TX Real EstateSylvia’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 […]
Why Every Realtor Should Consider Blogging
Closed Published by Steve Crossland September 28th, 2007 on Austin Real Estate Blog - Austin TX Real EstateA 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 […]
Education and Technology in Austin Schools
Closed Published by Steve Crossland August 16th, 2007 on Austin Real Estate Blog - Austin TX Real EstateIt’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 […]
Austin tops the nation for business
Closed Published by Steve Crossland August 6th, 2007 on Austin Real Estate Blog - Austin TX Real EstateThe 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 Rock […]
Why you should register YourName.com
Closed Published by Steve Crossland July 7th, 2007 on Austin Real Estate Blog - Austin TX Real EstateA 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 […]
Google Calendar Sync with Treo 650 using Goosync
Closed Published by Steve Crossland April 29th, 2007 on Austin Real Estate Blog - Austin TX Real EstateI’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 […]
Realtors Who Steal Other Realtor’s Website Content
Closed Published by Steve Crossland January 3rd, 2007 on Austin Real Estate Blog - Austin TX Real EstateOver the past many years, I’ve been both flattered and outraged at the numerous instances of discovering that my original website content has been stolen and used on another Realtor’s website. It’s happened again tonight.
I discovered another local Austin Realtor who has copied word for word original content that I’ve written on this site. I’ve sent an […]