Robin Williams selling Napa estate for $29.9 million
Robin Williams is selling his Napa estate for a few bucks short of $30 million.
You know, if one considers $100,000 just a few bucks.
The price has actually come down. The actor initially listed his home and vineyard on 640 acres for $35 million in 2012, according to Forbes.
On those 640 acres are fields of olive trees and cabernet sauvignon grapes and a 20,000-square-foot house with five bedrooms and 12 baths. Forbes reports that the house, built from Portuguese limestone, also features an oak-paneled library, a home theater, climate-controlled storage for art and wine, a private tower with a bridge accessible from the master suite, plus outdoor amenities including a 65-foot pool, a horse barn and a spring-fed pond for bass fishing.
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How to Grow Your Own Luscious Cherries
A cherry tree adds beauty to your landscape and deliciousness to your dishes. Cherries are quick to produce, setting ripe fruit not long after their blossoms appear, especially in comparison to the other stone fruits, such as peaches, nectarines, plums and apricots. They’re also pretty trees, with clouds of spring blossoms in pink or white, a reddish brown bark, long leaves and great fall foliage color.
There are essentially two types of cherries — sweet and sour. Sweet cherries can be eaten fresh from the tree or used for cooking. Sweet cherries are most commonly grown in the western part of North America, particularly on the West Coast. Sour cherries can be grown throughout most of North America. As their name implies, they aren’t as great for eating fresh, but they are ideal for baking and preserving.
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Attend our Wednesday Webinar at 11 am
Come learn some basic tips on how to use your SMMCats website. Learn how to login to your admin panel, learn how to add a blog post to your site. Learn how to add images and links to your blog post. Learn how to use your online tools to increase your exposure on the internet.
It’s important to have some basic knowledge of how to use these tools you have working for you. This will be a 30-45 minutes webinar with time for questions after.
Click here to register for the webinar.
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SMMCats is offering a Live Webinar training on Wednesday at 10 am.
Please register for Wednesday’s class that starts at 10 am. the class will last about 30 minutes, we will have 15 minutes of questions and I will stay online for as long as people have questions.
We will cover how to add content to your website and have it post automatically on Facebook. How to add a blog category like having something for your neighborhood or something about your city. Adding content is the most important thing you can do for search engine activity.
There are some tools available that you can use for newsletters and content for your website. Client Direct is free to use as part of your CAR membership and can be easily added to your website, facebook and emailed to your customers. I will spend a few minutes showing you that information.
Please register for the class so you can get the information to login to the live webinar.
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How to add your listings to your website, please watch video
This is how I add your listings to your website. This is included as part of my service for your new listings. I don’t add your sold listings for free but will be happy to give you a quote for time once you send me your sold listings. Please send them as a pdf file, not a scan of the paper but the original file. Also, please watch the video in full screen.
Click here to watch the video. You will also find other training videos on the page. Again, best to watch them in full screen.
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Why Backing Up Your Website Is So Important
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Training Tips from SMMCats!
Check out these video training tips, they are short and sweet and will help answer any questions you have. You can always call me for help, just not at 10 o’clock at night!!
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Posting links to other articles in Facebook
You sometimes get emails sent from REALTOR.com, house logic or many other places and you would like to add that information to your blog. Rather than just posting the link, check out this video and learn to post some information about the page, then the link, so you can get people to come back to your website to find the information. If you post these links this way, you can then post it on Facebook, Twitter or anywhere else and get more traffic to your website.
Watch the video, as always, call me with questions. Also, it is easier to see if you make this video full screen by clicking the button on the bottom right of the video.
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Training to help you learn how to use your new online tools
One difference you will notice right away. We spend a lot of time with you. We provide phone training, we go on and on and have to hold ourselves back so we don’t overwhelm you with information on how to use all the tools available. We send you emails with links to video training we have prepared. We answer your questions via email or Facebook. We spend a lot of time with you.
It’s up to you to use your tools, we want to make sure you know all that is available to use. We also do it over a period of time, we don’t try to teach you everything at one time. That doesn’t work, so we spread it out for you. Try us, send us a question! If you want to get started now, please contact me by filling out the form on the right. We will get back to you shortly.
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How to add a new gallery of pictures to your posts and pages
Please watch this video on how to add a gallery of pictures to your site. You can add as many pictures as you want to. You should resize them down to about 1000 pixels wide or they will simply be too large for your clients to see them on your website.
Best to watch the video in full screen mode by clicking the button on the bottom right of the video player.
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