ActiveRain Success Stories

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"Before ActiveRain I was doing alittle business and Now.. It has been picking up quite a bit Before Activerain I knew a few people in the Real Estate field and now, i am chatting with a lot of people in the field. I am chatting all the time with people on here and away from here because of Active Rain, I am getting referrals from here(mostly rental business but i am happy with that) as well as because of ActiveRain i am higher on the  search engine, and i get comments all the time about my postings and really appreciate the comments and feedback and just appreciate so much what activerain has done for me!! I talk to people all the time and tell them about Activerain and invite people as often as I can to Activerain too. I sign on every day comment on postings, and just enjoy being on here. It has been a great experience to be part of the ActiveRain Family, to the people I have met and the connections I have made!  Activerain is a place i think anyone associated with Real Estate in anyway should join!"

"Who knew that I could get a free masters degree in online marketing? I can't believe that I spent hundreds of dollars on marketing training and books, when I could have received even more information on Active Rain! If only I had been introduced to it earlier. Oh yeah... I was, I was just too dense to really take the time to learn about all that it had to offer. Active Rain is like having the answers to the universe (ok, maybe I'm being a bit dramatic) at your fingertips, but you'll never know unless you let your fingers do the walking... on your keyboard. Seriously though- I've learned more about online marketing from Active Rain, than from any other resource out there, including: how to be found by consumers online, how to get first page results & how to thrive in a down market. And the best part about it is.... it's FREE and the other Active Rain community members are some of the most generous, selfless people that you could ever hope to meet! Thanks Active Rain!!!!!"

"Active Rain has played a huge role in our on-line exposure and marketing to real estate agents and consumers all over Colorado!"

"ActiveRain has been wonderful........many, many benefits of being a member of AR. Such much to learn from other agents."

"Well, I just made it past the 20,000 mark. I know, no ambassador by any means, but for being fairly new, I'm happy with it. Activerain is great at keeping me on page one in the search engines, but you have to be "active" to make it rain!"

"I have received several referrals from Active Rain from all over. Being in the business for twenty plus years, I can say that Active Rain is a great way to connect with other Realtors and get ideas of what is happening in different markets. Thank you Active Rain"

""Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." --Henry David Thoreau"

"Active Rain is great! It was amazing when at a listing presentation the sellers had already seen my me online and brought up my marketing and blog first. Talk about having the upper hand, internet presence is huge these days and Active Rain helps me and my team take full advantage of it."

"If you had to ask me what was the best thing I did for my business in 2008, hands down it would be joining Active Rain. As a first time buyer specialist in New York City I had a way to communicate with the people that I was trying to reach. Buying or selling and apartment in New York City is such a different process and educating the consumer is the key to successful transaction. Active Rain has given me the platform to speak about first time buyer's in New York City and given me the opportunity to communicate with them because of it's reach and power. I've learned so much in the Active Rain community and I will continue to do so in 2009!"

"I was invited to guest blog only after three months on ActiveRain. I was invited by Dale Seigel to write a blog about "Living in Orange County NY". Her blog is Diaries of a Mad Mortgage Broker. She has a weekly series of Real Estate info and locations. I wrote about Living in the Hudson Valley, and I was found on ActiveRain. I was only on ActiveRain for about three weeks when a potential client saw me on the internet. She gave me a call for a rental in the area that had been on the market for about three months with another agent and not rented. She liked my internet presence she told me! I could not believe that I was found! Just a small rental, but we all know that one leads to the next and the next. The condo will be going up for sale next summer. For now we rented out rather quickly, and I have a success story here on AR. Not to mention a new rental part to add to my business. Ever since I added this rental to my website I get calls all day."

"I WAS QUOTED IN GQ MAGAZINE. HOW TERRIFIC IS THAT? Before I started blogging on ActiveRain, what were the chances I would end up getting quoted in a national magazine? This is my ActiveRain Success Story. It's not about a referral like most of the stories that have been written, but next to getting real estate business, this is about as much excitement and recognition for my writing as I've ever had. About a year ago, here on ActiveRain, I blogged about Stigmatized Properties. Almost a year later, author Gabrielle Moss, was researching the topic for an article she was writing on the subject and she came across my original article. ActiveRain provided the SEO necessary for the original article to be found. To think that I lived through nearly 40 years of hardly putting pen to paper. Once I started writing again, I remembered how much I liked it and after a while, it came easier and faster than ever before. You really do get better when you start writing on schedule. In my sixth grade autograph book, Mrs. Citron wrote, "and above all, keep writing." But when life got in the way, who had the time? So if no other good ever comes from this, I would still credit ActiveRain for reminding me that, as a child, I used to love to document my thoughts and experiences and now, I'm doing it again. My post describing my GQ quote and the original article it was based on: American Horror Story is described in Wikipedia as a "serial horror-drama" which premiered October 5, 2011 and is aired on channel FX. It follows the lives of a family who has moved from Boston to a beautiful home in Los Angeles where, unbeknownst to them, the murder of the previous occupants has taken place. The season finale was last night, December 21, 2011. Author of GQ article, Gabrielle Moss, thought it might be fun to write about real-life instances where Buyers purchase homes with a horrific past. A big thank-you to ActiveRain for providing enough SEO to allow my original article on Stigmatized Properties to be found on the internet. GQ article of Stigmatized Properties http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201112/real-american-horror-story-murder-houses-sharon-tate Original article on Stigmatized Properties http://activerain.com/blogsview/2155819/stigmatized-properties-does-the-notoriety-help-or-hurt-the-sale-"

"Contiuing to build my success story each day."

"I never knew how great AR would be until I joined. From the beginning I was networked nationwide and beyond. I have made alot of great friends, gotten a ton of buying/selling referrals and sold a few houses from Active Rain! I guess you can say I'm "Singing in the rain!""

"We had a referral from another agent who chose us for our family makeup of special needs children and dedication to their future. My wife is president of the PTA and active with the state PTA as well as the local autism awareness group."

"When an ActiveRain staff member showed me how to blog about towns I do most of my business in, I immediately saw the blogs come up in search engine results. I received greater activity from buyers and sellers who said I was "all over the web." This helps create greater open house traffic when I blog about an upcoming open house. I have also received referrals from ActiveRain agents. Thank you ActiveRain!"

""The unexamined life is not worth living." ~ Socrates"

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