May 25, 2013

Painless Synching

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There seems to be two types of people in the world:  Those that can get Google Sync or iCloud to work and those who can’t.  If you’re one of the lucky ones who can get either to work, you can stop reading right now.  And don’t leave any insulting comments either.  Because it’s not a [...]

Prepping Your CRE Data (Nerd Guide)

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You’ve got the relationships set, know what data you have and what you want.  Now comes the hard part.  Cleaning up your data and quantitatively creating relationships using ID numbers (those Primary Keys you saw in last week’s post). There are 2 basic ways to create these ID numbers for the data you already have.  [...]

Building a CRE Database (Nerd Guide)

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People throw data in databases all the time but if you don’t give it some advance thought, you might as well stick with Excel.  In fact, that’s the mistake many database novices make – thinking in terms of Excel and not understanding the relational aspects of databases. Databases are made up of tables.  Each table [...]

Using PowerPoint for Print

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One of my pet peeves is that so many companies use PowerPoint as the defacto software for flyers and other marketing materials.  It was never meant to be a tool for print materials.  But early versions of Word were so “flyer unfriendly” that PowerPoint made sense.  Publisher, Microsoft’s inexpensive layout editor, while good puts you [...]

Building a Better CRE Data Spreadsheet (Nerd Guide)

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Excel isn’t the best way to keep structured data, but sometimes, it’s all you’ve got.  And there are some benefits to storing listing information in Excel versus your CRM app.  It’s difficult if not impossible to migrate your listing data from a CRM app.  If you’ve got it in Excel, however, you can migrate it [...]