ARE WE JUST CRAZY WITH NEW TECHNOLOGY?

It’s not that I’m old fashioned and not tech savvy, because I certainly am. I have a new custom built rocket ship for a desk top computer and the latest in a lap top, that connects wirelessly wherever I go. In my home, I have a wireless router that allows me to go anywhere in the house and stay connected with my new lap top. In my home office, I use the latest in a Plantronics wireless headset. I have a multitude of wireless keyboards and mice for the different computers. I can even connect to to the internet with my 65” flat screen TV and I have a cell phone that does it all. I have several of the latest color laser printers.

With regard to a web site, I spent more for my new website than any normal four realtors would ever do on each of their websites combined. I send out a monthly e-newsletter and naturally I’m blogging all the time. I constantly stay in touch with my client database through email. I use an online database manager to handle everything from storage to drip campaigns. I fell as if I’ve done it all rather effectively.

But no matter how much I try to keep up, it seems as though every time I turn around, there is something new and different. A new form of technology that only the most savvy of agents are using we’re told. The latest is the video podcast, being used as a new option to virtual tours, and the claim is that it could well rival the web-based photo tour.

The ‘tech experts’ can tout the latest and greatest and tell us why we must have it to stay ahead of the curve. Sometimes, in my mind, I feel that I’m falling prey to the fact that, no matter how hard I try and how much I spend, the curve will always be ahead of me. Could it be that I’m doing fine with what I have…I tend to think so, and yet there is always the lure that, if you invest again one more time, you will temporarily be one of the few trendsetters. Tempting, but truly worth it?

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