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Relocate to Gmail - A Step by Step Story

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Gmail is brought to us by Google, with it is a packed-full warehouse of goodies in the form of apps. In my continuing saga of touting the benefits of working in The Cloud and at the same time minimizing expenses, I've now written this step by step tutorial on how to make the move. In a previous ...

01/30/2011

Funnel Your Email Address Through Gmail

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Recently I wrote a post about how much I like using Gmail. Like many people in the real estate business I've had an email address for a long time. In fact my original email address attached to my domain of Denver Real Estate and Relocation had to be "retired" because I was getting so much spam ...

01/30/2011

School Districts Play an Important Part Home Values

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School might be a faint dream from the past for many older buyers, maintaining a home's value is something that should concern anyone who plans to sell one day. The quality of school districts effect property values significantly. Neighborhoods in areas where the school district is well-run prov...

01/29/2011

Gmail Offers a Passport to Many FREE Services

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Business people are finding more and more way to leverage FREE these days. One of the best places to do this is Google. Yes, Google is known as the world's best search engine, but the company offers an amazing amount of other services that are so powerful. We just shouldn't be ignoring them! G...

01/28/2011

Story Selling - Vlogging - Denver MiniREBarCamp - February 2011

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Join us at the Denver Board of Realtors for the MiniBarCamp on Friday, February 11th at 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. This month's featured topic will be all about the ins and outs of video blogging. Ben Yost, Mortgage Banker will present on YouTube Channels and how to monetize your videos to get leads! H...

01/27/2011

Google Has a Voice and I LOVE it!

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It's not the first time I've gone on recored stating that I LOVE Google! Each and everyday Google delivers good things to me, leads, maps, gmail, calendars. Oh I could go on and on! Today in particular I got yet another call from a solicitor. This call was the THIRD one in a row, as if yesterd...

01/26/2011

King of the Mountain

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These days the customer is King of the Mountain. The customer has tons of resources available to them, from MLS-IDX to aggregators that deliver property listings to them while they lounge in the privacy of their homes. The consumer can research all aspects of their potential real estate purchase...

01/23/2011

The photos sell the home

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As a real estate broker there's nothing more exciting that having an opportunity to sell a home that is photogenic. Homes where the seller is a designer and has taken extra special care to create a warm and wonderful environment are really fun to sell. In fact sometimes they end up selling with...

01/21/2011

We Have Tons of Fun in Denver!

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Denver is a fun place to live! Proof of that fact is under-construction right now, downtown on the lawn of the Civic Center. Crews are busy building a ramp for an International Competition of skiers and snowboarders. This gigantic ramp dwarfs the nearby buildings as it towers into the sky. Thi...

01/20/2011

What are you focusing on?

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It happens to everyone, we get focused on a "thing." In our effort to claim our goal, we sometimes miss other opportunities. I've been exploring options of putting my business in the "cloud." Google has been my first and foremost choice, mainly because it...

01/19/2011