You take as much as 45 minutes to an hour typing away, finding pictures to illustrate your point(s)….. structuring the post to be coherent and readable.
Then suddenly, you are finished..
Woohoo !!
You post the creation you worked SO HARD ON to the network and wait…….
(You can see how many people “click” [Actually READ] your posts on your statistics page, located on the bottom left of your "HOME" page when you are logged in.)
What hurts even more, is when you are SURE you made a GREAT post, just to garner no comments or worse than that, no-one comes to even READ (click on) your creation.
Let’s be honest, everyone wants to be noticed. Besides, if you were only posting in ActiveRain to get Localism inclusion, you would not care, right? Market reports, listings and local happenings are where Localisms purpose shines ~~~~ that is what it’s all about and what it was created for.
Let me state it again… very simply:
EVERYONE WANTS TO BE NOTICED
Here are WAYS to make that happen. You will NOT:
Sniffle and choke back tearswhen your blog finds it’s way into the Sahara dessert (or is that desert?) of NO-WHERE-VILLE.
Loose heart and post less and less because no-one knows you are around in the network..... *sniffle*
End up leaving ActiveRain and not come back, determined to NEVER have something so embarrassing and hurtful happen to you like this ever again...... *the long (OR SHORT) goodbye*
Be turned off blogging as a way to promote your real estate business. *walking into the sunset*
This is what WILL HAPPEN if you follow these simple rules:
You will find groups to join that “just happen” to be YOUR MARKET NICHE…….(Visit the "GROUPS PAGE") and you will make friends that share your passion for what you do.
Your blogs WILL GET NOTICED and YOUR BLOGS STATS will improve.
You will GET BUSINESS as a result of your efforts.
These are some things you can do to make this all happen:
Go BACK to the above list and TAKE MY HINT(S) Hehehehehe……….. *Cool, huh?*
Read and really observe how popular bloggers write…. (People who get featured regularly) Follow the principles they use in their blogs to draw people into “the conversation of the blog” they have. A GOOD example is better than ALL the opinions you will ever see. *I can FEEL the excitement growing in you, Grasshopper*
Think about HOW YOU TALK when you are with friends and family. WRITE LIKE THAT !!!!! (BE YOU….. don’t try to be someone else) * A CARBON COPY is just that..... BORING!*
DO NOT just write about business….. Let people see your emotions, your passion and your heart. YOUR emotions are what DRAW others to you, NOT listings or market reports, how ever well they are written.
Let people see YOUR PERSPECTIVE on things in life. Again… people are drawn to you when you SHOW YOUR HEART. *Ripping open shirt ~~ pointing*
COMMENT in posts that you are intrigued, inspired, and moved in your being (soul, spirit, personality and intellect) about.
Get to KNOW people you are drawn to in the network: Commenting on their posts, e-mailing them and eventually talking to them via facebook IM (and other programs) or on the phone. *This takes TIME and EFFORT*
Let your friendships in ActiveRain encourage you, inspire you and empower your blogging.
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Dinners are $135.00 for a 12 course meal and $195.00 for the twenty four course meal.
Walk down the stairs to below street level and you will find the ambience of an exclusive gathering. Morton's continually impresses diners with mouthwatering cuts of sirloins, t-bones, and filet miignon. Having white linens on the tables, crystal chandeliers, and kingly service, this is the perfect place for any important occasion. Lots of the city's best and most discerning agree that Morton's is top notch.
Alcohol Served: Beer, Liquor, Wine
Ambiance: Clubby, Elegant, Quiet Conversation
Cuisine: American, Continental
Dining Style: Fine Dining
Dress: Business, Business Casual
Features: Bar / Lounge, Bar Dining, Disabled Accessible, Parties / Private Rooms
Meals: Business Dinner, Dinner
Parking: Garage / Street, Valet
Reservations: Recommended / Suggested
Type: Steakhouse
Avg. Price: $45.00
If YOU have a favorite restuarant in the Chcago area, PLEASE let me know, so I can go there and report on how AWESOME it is to live in the Windy City.....
A high asking price of $16,900.00......... Oh my Goodness!!
These homes are a steal...and with some rehab work, any of these properties could be a landlords dream or an investors windfall!!
I will continue to post more and more Southern Chicago, Illinois homes for sale in the coming days, weeks and months.
Rice Property Management and Realty L.L.C. is here for you as a Chicago real estate consulting company you can trust.
Realtor Services For Buyers & Sellers: Rice Property Management & Realty has REALTOR® Brokers & Agents poised to give you personal and satisfying full-service buying and/or selling experience. We aim to achieve this by matching our trained team members to your specific requirements. Our Specialties include:
·Home Staging Experts - Utilize our certified stagers to market your home!
·Buyer Agents - Receive one-on-one care while seeking your dream home!
·Mortgage Professionals - Use Our Resource Referral Network to get help with pre-approvals, refinancing, FHA & VA Loans, current credits, programs, plans, & Incentives.
·Seller/Buyer Prep – Available tools: warranties, inspections, disclosures, marketing, website promotions, open houses, etc.
·Seller Benefits – Select from our on-hand approved purchasing investor base
·Expert Attorney Referral - pre-foreclosure & short sale professionals to assist you in keeping your home
Property Placement Services: Exclusive Owner Packages for investors and owners who self manage. Forgo weekly and monthly advertising fees and gain exposure to your property through major top search website engines. Receive:
·Licensed REALTOR® Assistance – professional help to rent your property
·Property Marketing - choose from huge established tenant marketing base
·Investor Services – Help with leasing, listing and selling your commercial & residential property
·Referral Services – In-house established resources
·No-upfront costs ever – SAVE your advertising dollars – FREE Virtual Tours – Worldwide Placement
·Property Prep Service – R&R Painting & Carpeting Cleaning
·Online FREE property monitoring service
·Investor watch – receive current preferred investor selections
Management Services: Full-service Commercial & Residential Management in the South Suburban Chicagoland Illinois & Northwest Indiana Communities. Management includes:
·Applicant Screening & Service For All Tenant Concerns
·Online tenant record reviews – NEW (by Fall of 2009)
·Owner access to monitoring property traffic interest
Back when I started out in ActiveRain, I said to myself,"This is gonna help me grow my real estate business......."
Little did I know what changes this network were going to make in my LIFE, as well as the lives of others in the real estate profession, as well as those interested in real estate.
It started with getting to know the movers and shakers of the network at that time:
Now, we used to have a feature that would show the most popular bloggers by number of subscriptions, but I cannot find it at this time, or I would be able to put more names in the above list.
There are MANY more movers and shakers than I have in my list, so if YOU were not mentioned, please don't get upset.
I got to know a great many of these people and they helped me in my blogging style.......
Krystal helped me put pictures on my blog.
Lenn and Margaret showed me how important it is to be consistent in localism posting.
Margaret and Lenn showed me how important it was to be stern in defending my principles.
Jennifer Allan showed me it is a good thing to be more outgoing, even if I was only outgoing with people I knew.
Jason showed me it is ok to me humorus and open up my life to others, including my personal situations as they happened.
Cheryl showed me that even if you hide behind a clip art picture in your profile picture, that is ok also......
Brad taught me to not worry about what other people thought and to ENJOY my blogging, as long as I was living the of the Golden Rule
There were so many in ActiveRain that contributed to my development as a blogger.... but I can not list them all here.
I started by just posting things I knew about real estate. Knowledge to me, was where it was at. I had several domains that I linked to ActiveRain and I learned html codingand website SEO as I grew in my knowledge of blogging.
I started the "Christianity and Real Estate" group January 25th, 2007 and since then it has grown to almost 1,400 members.
What is nice are the wonderful friendships that have developed over time as a result of that group.
I got to know great people who live out the Golden Rule every day of their lives:
Many, many, MANY posts in that group still to this day stand out as posts that changed my life and the lives of others. Here is a smattering of recent great posts in the group:
The group blogroll would not go past 10 pages... which would have resulted in a far BETTER look into the group at large, but I have all my C&RE posts tagged with "Christianity" in my blog.
So many people have come in to read the inspirational posts and to read about real estate from a Christian perspective.
In the group, we have had and still have featured posts that are simply requests for prayer. MANY great things have happened as a result of these prayers. As I said, I cannot go past the 10th page of posts to see praise reports from the prayers that have happened in the past at C&RE, BUT I can attest that MANY people have been touched as a result of prayers said on their behalf.
Bob Sloops wife came out of cancer surgery in fine fashion.
I got to Chicago, moving from Orlando, Florida with out a hitch and started to work with Diane Rice in her brokerage.
These two items are just the TIP of the iceburg of GREAT things that have happened as a result of ActiveRain hosting the "Christianity and Real Estate" group.
** Now all this is to say I have had MANY people (clients and prospects) who have visited Christianity and Real Estate, OR taken a look at my blogs on Christian principles and have been inspired to work with me or with others in the C&RE group.
I have told many people about the "Christianity and Real Estate" group in The ActiveRain Real Estate Network........ a LOT of my posts that are not specifically real estate related have drawn people (potential leads and clients) to this group, just because of the principles contained in the group and in my posts related to Christian principles.
If I had not been able to form the, "Christianity and Real Estate" group.... which almost happened back almost 3 years ago...... my real estate business and reputation would not be what it is today. I am actually in Chicago now because of Diane Rice, who is one of the members of the C&RE group.
It is because of the great owners and employees of ActiveRain AND the great membership of this network I have worked with that has helped me to leverage my blog and the group I founded to reach many, many people.
And that's a fact, Jack......
hehehehe
Alexander Harb PSEM®, E-Agent® Rice Property Management and Realty L.L.C.
Just click on any of these links to find the type of help you need.
Buying, selling or just searching, Rice Property Management and Realty has what you are looking for!
Larry Bettag is coming on STRONG..... and his many posts about almost everything in his life do not help me at all.
Wow... this guy posts about just about everything important in his life.... and people comment on his blogs..... wow!!
I try to filter my blog posts and maybe that is where I am going wrong. Larry just lets it all hang out, so to speak....
People love it............ SOOoooo I will be doing the same thing.
I REALLY LIKE being #1 in a STATE..... it is neat...... #2 is nice (I was #2 in Orange County and #2 in the city of Orlando when I lived in Florida) but #1 is SOOooo much better.
I guess that is why Larry has been coming on so strong.....
I WAS over 10,000 points above him when I moved over to Illinois from the Sunshine State.
NOW......... I am barely 3,000 points in front of him......
Will this LAST............... stay tuned................
Larry is working HARD to get back his #1 spot.......
WOW.... I am almost sweating as I type this post..... hehehehe!!
WOOHOO !!!!!
Thanks to: www.flickr.com and portlvr for the GREAT picture of the eagle!!
Alexander Harb PSEM®, E-Agent® Rice Property Management and Realty L.L.C.
Just click on any of these links to find the type of help you need.
Buying, selling or just searching, Rice Property Management and Realty has what you are looking for!
In FACT I have 20 of these properties you CAN VIEW from the Chicago area MLS....
How's THAT for some help in looking for Chicago investment property at a ROCK BOTTOM price??
Diane said in her post that there are over 400 hundred properties that can be purchased in the Chicago area for $30,000.00 or less.... and she is RIGHT.....
With some rehab and marketing, Rice Property Management and Realty can help you get a steady stream of rental income for the future.
For help with your transaction from beginning to end, it is recommended to choose a company that can walk you through every aspect from selecting a profitable rental property, successfully bargaining the purchase of it, overseeing the managing of it, and assisting with it's re-sale if your interest level changes in the future!
Owning real estate is the best way to become or stay financially secure. 98% of millionaires have owned or currently own real estate.
How's that for a fun fact??
Alexander Harb PSEM®, E-Agent® Rice Property Management and Realty L.L.C.
Just click on any of these links to find the type of help you need.
Buying, selling or just searching, Rice Property Management and Realty has what you are looking for!
Chicago has so much to do it boggles the mind! There are also Chicago homes for sale in all price ranges. The whole thing is..... are you READY to purchase?
Is your credit score high enough?
Have you been on your job a while?
Do you have money saved?
Do you know where you want to live and what type of home you want to buy?
There are a bunch of other questions that need to be answered, but the aforementioned ones are tops on the list for prospective home buyers.
If you are NOT ready to purchase a home in the Chicago area, then maybe "renting to own" is the choice for you. Renting to own has several positive things in its favor:
You don't have to wait to live in the type of home you may want to purchase.
You can rent the type of home you want while fixing up your credit at the same time.
You can save money for unexpected things that pop up in life AND for things you may need after you close on your dream home.
You will be adding time to your job while you are taking care of the items you need to take care of to purchase a home in the future and this makes your credit worthiness better.
You MIGHT NOT even have to move because you would be buying the home you are renting.
Realtor Services For Buyers & Sellers: Rice Property Management & Realty has REALTOR® Brokers & Agents poised to give you personal and satisfying full-service buying and/or selling experience. We aim to achieve this by matching our trained team members to your specific requirements. Our Specialties include:
·Home Staging Experts - Utilize our certified stagers to market your home!
·Buyer Agents - Receive one-on-one care while seeking your dream home!
·Mortgage Professionals - Use Our Resource Referral Network to get help with pre-approvals, refinancing, FHA & VA Loans, current credits, programs, plans, & Incentives.
·Seller/Buyer Prep – Available tools: warranties, inspections, disclosures, marketing, website promotions, open houses, etc.
·Seller Benefits – Select from our on-hand approved purchasing investor base
·Expert Attorney Referral - pre-foreclosure & short sale professionals to assist you in keeping your home
Property Placement Services: Exclusive Owner Packages for investors and owners who self manage. Forgo weekly and monthly advertising fees and gain exposure to your property through major top search website engines. Receive:
·Licensed REALTOR® Assistance – professional help to rent your property
·Property Marketing - choose from huge established tenant marketing base
·Investor Services – Help with leasing, listing and selling your commercial & residential property
·Referral Services – In-house established resources
·No-upfront costs ever – SAVE your advertising dollars – FREE Virtual Tours – Worldwide Placement
·Property Prep Service – R&R Painting & Carpeting Cleaning
·Online FREE property monitoring service
·Investor watch – receive current preferred investor selections
Management Services: Full-service Commercial & Residential Management in the South Suburban Chicagoland Illinois & Northwest Indiana Communities. Management includes:
·Applicant Screening & Service For All Tenant Concerns
·Online tenant record reviews – NEW (by Fall of 2009)
·Owner access to monitoring property traffic interest
I have read some statistics for the Chicago area that say more employers appear willing to hire in the coming months.
That is great news for those who have been laid off and are waiting for some good news in the tri-cities area of Chicago.
The latest survey from the National Association for Business Economics, shows unemployment is moderating. It also gives an improved outlook for hiring over the next six months or so.
78 NABE members working for the private sector and industry or trade associations showed the percentage of companys adding jobs doubled to 12% in October from an all-time low of 6% in July of this year. MORE GOOD NEWS!!
The strongest gains were reported in the services sector, with 54% of companies reporting higher demand for workers. Finance, insurance and real estate also posted gains.
This is great news for Chicago area residents who have been struggling with expenses.
Everyone is waiting for better times to come around.... and it looks like they are beginning to happen.
Thanks to: taxiguy and www.flickr.com for the GREAT photo of the city of Chicago at night
Alexander Harb PSEM®, E-Agent® Rice Property Management and Realty L.L.C.
Just click on any of these links to find the type of help you need.
Buying, selling or just searching, Rice Property Management and Realty has what you are looking for!
WWell, well, well..... have you ever felt like something was out to get you? It was just waiting to pounce on you at the least opportune time.... causing you a LOT of hand wringing and sowing confusion plus worry......
Here are some interesting facts about Chicago and it's surrounding communities:
The Chicago area is the 26th largest metropolitan area and has over 9.5 million people across three states.
The city of Chicago is the 3rd largest city in the United States of America.
Chicago was founded in 1833 right near the great lakes and the Mississippi river.
In 2007[update], the city attracted 32.8 million domestic visitors and about 1.15 million foreign visitors.
Chicago has a heritage for hosting major international, national, regional, and local events that include commerce, culture, entertainment, politics, and sports.
The Second City Comedy Troupe was founded here.
There is upscale shopping along State Street and The Magnificent Mile.
I will be posting a LOT of relevant information on the Chicago area in the coming weeks and months.
Disclaimer: ActiveRain Corp. does not necessarily endorse the real estate agents, loan officers and brokers listed on this site. These real estate profiles, blogs and blog entries are provided here as a courtesy to our visitors to help them make an informed decision when buying or selling a house. ActiveRain Corp. takes no responsibility for the content in these profiles, that are written by the members of this community.
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