It’s now 2017 and so much happened in 2016. Most of the people that read this blog have attended one of my classes and I wanted to take some time to say “Thank YOU”. I have enjoyed traveling the country and meeting so many new people. I taught 108 classes in 54 1/2 days and spent 39 days traveling with 14 days away at functions or on the road. In case you are wondering, that is 107.5 days (29% of the year) on the road traveling and training. I have now trained in 33 states, only 18 to go. The 51st one is DC, I counted that as a separate location even though it is not a “state”, but it’s not in a state, so 51 it is!
I’m looking forward to a new year with more new friends to meet and some great places to visit. While I’m on the subject, if anyone knows offices in the states I have not trained in and would like to help me reach my 2017 year end goal of training in all 50 states. This list of places I am looking for contacts to reach out to is here: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Utah (I will be there next week), Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming. Thank you in advance for helping by emailing or texting me with any leads.
This is a tech blog, so I can’t go without giving you a tech tip!! Since it is the year end and soon it will be tax time now might be a good time to give you want of my favorite tracking apps for my real estate and training business. MileIQ and a link to a referral is here: https://www.mileiq.com/invite/IIPRG. You may not know this, but years ago for an entire year I wrote emails (should have done it as a blog!) every week on “Apps” and every four weeks I did a “Four for Fun”. Of course I explained how it works and what it does so this is like going back to that. Here goes!
MileIQ, it’s Free to download, but only gives you 40 free drives each month. It is absolutely worth it to spend the $5.99 per month or $59.99 per year for this!
What does it do? It tracks everywhere you drive. Yes it runs in the background, but doesn’t take up too much battery or data. It will show you a map of where you started and where you ended. Starting mark is green and ending is red. It’s as easy as “swiping”. Swipe right for “business” and left for “personal”. If you swipe slowly in either direction, you can select from custom categories in either the business or personal side. A couple of cool things is that you can “name” a location so that you remember were you are going. I name my listings so that I know when I’m going to a listing or showing houses. You can also select “auto classify” when it pops up so that you don’t have keep answering the same question. It is super smart and when you are done it shows you a “star” in an award type badge that tells you that month is complete. It can send you email reports of either a month or year end which makes doing your taxes a breeze!! Another option is adding multiple vehicles and adding the odometer for each vehicle as well. I have some screen shots to show you how it works.
App Store showing the logo on the app and the “Auto-Classify” feature.
Business items, and categories. Notice the “potential” at the top right and naming the locations to any name that you want. (Swipe right)
Personal drives can be categorized differently as well. (Swipe left)
Monthly summary shows the amount of personal vs business drives and the year end totals show the graph of the milage driven. You will notice that Jan is really short because I didn’t decide to use the “paid version” until February. The nice thing is that it did remember the drives for a month, but not all the way back. This is another reason why I’m telling you about this now.
I can be reached at CarolynTechPertise@gmail.com, by phone or text at 918-951-9020 or visit my real estate website at http://www.SearchTulsaHouses.com. For technology training or consulting assistance visit http://www.iCarolyn.com.
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