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Tips and Tricks: Forwarding Websites and Texts from your Blackberry

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Real Estate Agent with Exit Realty--I'd love to service your Chicagoland referrals IDFPR # 471.016048

How often, like me, have you gotten a (or a series of) text from a client wanting to know more about a property or properties?  And how often is that text received while you are on the road or with another client?  It's very easy to forget about that vital text if you are busy...

And how often are you browsing the web on your Blackberry between tasks and find an amazing article that would be perfect for your blog, facebook, or twitter but know you won't remember the address later?

Yet another "trick" I have stumbled across is the "Forward As" feature on the Blackberry.  When you receive a text you need to address (or research) but do not have time, select the text and then the "Forward As" feature.  Choose email, and send the text to your email inbox!  You can then review it later, along with the address of who sent it to you, making it easy to keep track of and manage tasks you need to follow up on.

Same is true for web pages...right below the history and refresh features on the browser menu is "Send Address" which is the same concept and sends the web address of the article you are browsing straight to your email. 

I found a great article this morning while still in bed (yes I sleep next to my blackberry, LOL) perfect for my twitter/facebook about an ex Chicago Bears player selling his mansion--especially relevant during the Bears game today.  Surely if I didn't forward the page to my email I would have forgotten the idea to post it, or spent time searching for it again.  SO USE THESE FEATURES IF YOU HAVE A BLACKBERRY--THEY PAY OFF!

Oh and if you'd like to see the article, or follow me on twitter:  twitter.com/nicklibert  I will follow you too!

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Chip Jefferson
Gibbs Realty and Auction Company - Columbia, SC

Thanks for the tip. I love my BB but I dont use it too the fullest potential and Its on my too do list. Im think I needed to go to crackberry.

Oct 18, 2009 06:16 AM
Andrew Mooers | 207.532.6573
MOOERS REALTY - Houlton, ME
Northern Maine Real Estate-Aroostook County Broker

Thanks for sharing a tricks you use. Sounds like you need, rely on the Blackberry like the Obama.

Oct 18, 2009 06:17 AM
France and Mark Clausen
Realty Austin - Dripping Springs, TX

Thanks Nick!  Great tip, I just tried it and it worked!! 

Oct 18, 2009 07:43 AM
Elizabeth Bolton
RE/MAX Destiny Real Estate Cambridge, MA - Cambridge, MA
Cambridge MA Realtor

Hi Nick ~ I've got to update my phone pronto and I think it will be a blackberry for now. This sounds like a very useful feature - thanks!

Liz

Oct 18, 2009 11:16 AM
Norma J. Elkins
Elite Realty Group - Morristown, TN
Realtor - Elkins Home Selling Team

Thanks for sharing - I already knew how to forward the text messages to my email but did not know how to do the other - I love my blackberry and seems like I am always learning more to do with it - It really is a great phone!

Nov 04, 2009 12:20 AM