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You’re Paying Someone $22 an Hour to Retype the Same Data Into Three Systems

by Jeremy | Jul 31, 2026 | Business Technology

If the same customer’s name, address, or job details get typed into your CRM, your accounting system, and your scheduling tool separately, you’re paying for that keystroke three times — and the errors it lets in cost more than the extra typing. The...

Automate It, Buy Software for It, or Just Hire Someone? A Decision Framework

by Jeremy | Jul 31, 2026 | Business Technology

Whether to automate a process, buy software for it, or hire someone comes down to three things, checked in this order: how often it happens, what it costs you a year, and how much judgment the work requires. Get the order right and the rest is arithmetic. Almost every...

Setting Up Tech Support for a Parent Who Lives Alone: A Checklist

by Jeremy | Jul 31, 2026 | Home & Senior Tech

The goal isn’t to make your parent good at computers. It’s to make sure that when something breaks, someone who isn’t you can fix it the same day — that’s the entire job this checklist is meant to do. If you’re reading this because...

“This Is Microsoft Calling About Your Computer” — How the Tech Support Scam Works, and How to Shut It Down

by Jeremy | Jul 31, 2026 | Home & Senior Tech

Microsoft does not call you. Neither does Apple, your internet provider, or “Windows Support” — that’s not a real organization. Any phone call claiming your computer has a virus, made without you contacting them first, is a scam, every time, with no...

Speed to Lead: Why Your Online Leads Go Cold in Ten Minutes

by Jeremy | Jul 31, 2026 | Real Estate Technology

Online leads go cold in their first ten minutes because of how you route and notify them, not because the leads were bad or your agents are lazy. Fix the routing and the exact same leads, from the exact same sources, close at a different rate. I’ve spent 22...

Why Your Brokerage’s CRM and MLS Don’t Talk — and What It’s Costing You

by Jeremy | Jul 31, 2026 | Real Estate Technology

Most CRMs sync from an IDX feed instead of pulling directly from the MLS, so status changes arrive late and every incomplete sync forks a new contact record instead of updating the one you already have. That’s why your CRM still shows a listing as active two...

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  • You’re Paying Someone $22 an Hour to Retype the Same Data Into Three Systems
  • Automate It, Buy Software for It, or Just Hire Someone? A Decision Framework
  • Setting Up Tech Support for a Parent Who Lives Alone: A Checklist
  • “This Is Microsoft Calling About Your Computer” — How the Tech Support Scam Works, and How to Shut It Down
  • Speed to Lead: Why Your Online Leads Go Cold in Ten Minutes

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