activerain friends: 5 YEARS and Counting - My ActiveRain Experience - 03/25/12 02:05 PM
It’s my 5th Birthday Year as a Member on ActiveRain! The ActiveRain Real Estate Network has always been the best marketing tool to represent who I am, real estate and Hawaii Housing Market information, Oahu, Hawaii and Mililani local area information and more!
There is no other online network I know of that has the personal and ‘hands on’ approach with their members to give them direction and a helping hand like ActiveRain and I have to start this 5th Anniversary blog by thanking them.
There are ActiveRain Staff Staff members who have a wonderful ‘blogside manner’ but … (66 comments)
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activerain friends: ActiveRain Reflections and Connecting the Dots - 01/01/12 11:10 PM
Today marks the first day of 2012. A shout out of “Happy New Year” and wishing each other a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 2012 is the holiday greeting for most. After a shout out to all I immediately reflect on years past and going in to my 5th year of blogging on ActiveRain.
For all documentation purposes I joined as a member on March 10th, 2007. It intrigued me and I wondered just how one was to communicate through the written word and use it for business and referrals? Until I grasped that concept …I just wrote and ‘mingled’ … (10 comments)
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activerain friends: ActiveRain Community Support- A Happy Holiday Wish To ActiveRain - 12/25/11 12:19 PM
It all started back in March of 2007 when I finally decided to accept an invite from Randy Prothero and start blogging on ActiveRain. I jumped right in not knowing what I was doing and actually started doing it for ‘fun’. Then I started reading from other members about why they blog and how they get business and referrals from other members who they connected with.
It’s been a long journey to gain experience of the whole ActiveRain who, what, when, how and why about blogging although it’s been a rewarding time indeed! With business, referrals and the most important..the … (52 comments)
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activerain friends: A Christmas Treasure - In Memory of Jamie Caulk and Lillian Caulk - 12/24/11 01:21 PM
Carol Grub, Cyndee Haydon and friends started a project and I was contacted by Cyndee regarding “THE JAMIE & LILIAN CAULK MEMORIAL PROJECT” for our friend and fellow member Missy Caulk and her family . There was no hesitation from me to ‘get the word out’!!!
Missy Caulk, mother of Jamie and grandmother of Lilian, experienced a grief that is unimaginable to me as I have not experienced the loss of a child or grandchild. This loss and tragedy happened to Missy’s family within a few weeks time of each other with first the loss of her son Jamie in … (13 comments)
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activerain friends: Good Food, Good Company and ActiveRain - 11/24/11 01:02 PM
My regularly scheduled appointment with my acupuncturist yesterday not only was another successful session but an enlightening one as well. You see, my time spent at his office is not only for some alternative medicine for a few medical issues but also to listen to the information he has stored in his memory bank.
We all can learn something from someone.
He explained this:
‘Thanksgiving is his favorite holiday of the year because…
There are no expectations for gifts or anything.
It’s just time spent enjoying the company of family and friends.
I thought about this just for a moment....and … (17 comments)
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activerain friends: A Future ActiveRain Birthday Bash at Gordon Biersch in Aloha Tower Marketplace - 06/25/11 01:43 PM
**I REALLY REALLY want to Win a Piece of AR History and be the envy of my java-addicted friends!**
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Back in January of 2008 Hawaii Randy Prothero and Celeste WooHoo Sally Cheeseman worked hard to get the FIRST AND ONLY Hawaii Active Rain Gathering at Gordon Biersche Lanai planned. Many ActiveRain members were coming for the Hawaii CRS Sellabration so we decided to get together and meet some of our online friends.
Gordon Biersche is located at the Aloha Tower Marketplace (1 Aloha Tower Dr # 1123 in Honolulu, HI 96813) in Honolulu Harbor and is Hawaii's first brewpub. With … (16 comments)
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activerain friends: Building or Tearing Down Your Reputation Online - 04/14/11 05:35 PM
We can never say it enough. YOUR ONLINE LEGACY dictates the person you are ...just as in real life. I wrote the following article two years ago and i just bet that some may find it useful or tear it down because they don't believe that their typewritten word can hurt them...or help them.
Our reputation is all we have in this business. The Real Estate Industry has enough negative said...to only compound it with the negative attitudes of some. Bantering about your political preference or religious views while cutting down another is as bad as watching the crap on television.
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activerain friends: ActiveRain Meeting of the Members - 04/01/11 10:04 PM
It is ALWAYS a pleasure to meet up with another ActiveRain member as it shows the connection we have made through blogging on this network. There have been many members who join, pay the membership and don't do a darn thing but self promote only to find out they have made no friends and have gotten no leads.
ActiveRain is a real estate network, yes. But we learn that it goes far beyond just writing about ‘self' or our number of sales. It's all about connecting with our peers in the real estate industry and getting to know one another. I mean, … (24 comments)
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activerain friends: The Art of the Gift of Giving - 03/04/11 11:06 AM
There are people in the world dying of hunger, abused, neglected or just hard on their luck. There are others who are disgruntled or lost hope and may just need a show of compassion to get a running start on a new life.
There are so many others who have circumstances far worse than I do.
In my lifetime, I have seen the darker side and the wonderful brighter side of life. I have been through much in my 53 years of living on this earth and have grown to be the wonderful me I am today. I continue to … (11 comments)
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activerain friends: Jeff Dowler- Highly Respected ActiveRain Member is Socal's Certified Residential Specialist President for 2011! - 02/20/11 01:56 PM
Kerrie Greenhalgh (ActiveRain, Community Builder) says,Extra! Extra! Read All About It! and gives us all a challenge to do a Press Release for another member on ActiveRain. She's right. When someone sees their name all highlighted they are sure to get all warm and fuzzy inside.
Well, I am going to do a few (because I now have another way to give back!) but decided to start with JEFF DOWLER who has gone above and beyond in his giving back to not only the ActiveRain Community but also to his own community in Carlsbad, Californis.
Jeff and I go way back here on … (10 comments)
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activerain friends: I Reap What You Don't Sow - 01/30/11 04:53 PM
Now I know why ActiveRain doesn't bring their Raincamp to Hawaii. There will be minimal people who will attend because they DON'T blog! I can guarantee that 90% of real estate industry peers in Hawaii I have come in contact with do not blog. After almost four years on ActiveRain i wonder why only a few see the significance of blogging.
Why?
Reasons?
I don't have the time. You mean you don't have time to invest in the biggest part of marketing that your business needs? It's additional exposure while giving the consumer a piece of who you are and … (37 comments)
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activerain friends: Beware the Written Word - 01/26/11 08:21 PM
Isn't it a fact that we try and portray the written word with transparency of ‘self' in hopes we are relaying the emotion that may be behind it? We use signs {{sigh}} with a word in between or a J to show we're being facetious or happy.
Does the emotion doesn't always come across right?
I get excited when I want to get an oh, so ecstatic moment across. I'm overjoyed with elation that I voted for Governor Abercrombie and he won!!! Or how about those exclamation marks we receive when someone else is trying to get their point across.
What … (16 comments)
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activerain friends: Finding Your Own (Addictive) Pattern of Writing on ActiveRain - 12/24/10 01:56 PM
We have almost 200,000 members on ActiveRain and will no doubt hit that mark quickly in 2011. In March of 2011 it will be four years I've been a member on ActiveRain and surely being an Ambassador has been a privilege and an honor to help out our fellow members and give back to the community.
Everyone has their own ideas about blogging and social networking and also how they will conduct themselves online. I have my own as well and have written many posts along my tenure here on ActiveRain. Instead of being repetitive I'll just link to some of … (26 comments)
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activerain friends: ActiveRain Success Story at 700,000 points - 10/05/10 01:42 PM
If there is anything more profound in my life and business thus far, it is without a doubt that ActiveRain IS the biggest part of my success story. How, you ask? I've always been a prolific writer and write with transparency and content that I know would attract the consumer and my peers with knowledge and education on real estate.
I learned long ago that giving a piece of myself through my writing would bring the kind of readers that I was looking for in my niche market in Real Estate.
Real Estate is not easy work. As an independent … (95 comments)
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activerain friends: Just Another Benefit of ActiveRain | Meeting With Mary Yonkers - 09/24/10 01:02 PM
It was this past Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at approximately 10:00am. After parking in the huge parking structure across from the Hale Koa Hotel I hiked up the steps to the main outside lobby area and there she was! Mary Yonkers! She let me know a few weeks ago that she would be coming to Hawaii...to my island of Oahu and asked if I would meet with her.
I am honored each and every time that a member of ActiveRain contacts me and asks to meet up when they arrive. (I am darn lucky that I live in paradise, where many love … (30 comments)
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activerain friends: It All Started With ActiveRain - 09/02/10 01:18 AM
I look back at some of the members I 'grew up' with on ActiveRain and some of them have traveled on to other sites where I meet up with them to exchange status or chat a bit. We may meet back here again from time to time as well.
Bottom line is that 'it all started with ActiveRain'.
We learned and continue to learn. We grew and connected with one another. We exchanged ideas. We eventually became friends through our written words, a chat on the phone and so forth, in hopes that we may one day meet....face to face.
Randy … (36 comments)
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activerain friends: A Little Support Goes a Long Way - 08/29/10 02:07 PM
The significance of a friendly gesture such as a nod, a hand shake, a smile, a hug and the like is like a day of sunshine.
Even just a few words of kindness when someone is down by an email or card can make the difference between the feeling of alone and the feeling of support.
It takes so little to do something kind for someone. Never mind the selfish reasons why you can't because when you say you can't ...it really means you won't.
Acknowledging someone for their accomplishments; no matter how small, or a friendly word of advice … (42 comments)
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activerain friends: Tribute to Laurie Manny - 08/25/10 10:26 PM
Laurie Manny was one of the first ActiveRain members to pick up the phone and call me when I wanted to know about titles, tags and keywords.
Laurie Manny was one of the founding members on ActiveRain that moderated in its infancy and gave a helping hand whenever needed.
Laurie Manny was still a great friend carried over to Facebook where I can chat with my AR friends and most recently she, Thesa Chambers and I were going back and forth on the Nikon P100 camera that I ended up buying because of their feedback.
Laurie Manny was loved and will be greatly missed.
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activerain friends: Take What We Can…and Save the Rest for Later - 08/24/10 01:09 PM
Some may believe they ‘know it all' and therefore the need to educate further comes to a standstill. I learned long ago that the learning never stops.
I had taken MANY ‘courses' for personal empowerment and though the structure of the classes were about the same there were certain areas I needed to ‘get'. I just wasn't getting it because obviously I wasn't applying it to my life.
I finally took a risk to try something new and applied what I'd learned to my life.
It worked.
Same goes for anything we learn for real estate, blogging, social media and more. I … (16 comments)
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activerain friends: The Connections Made Through ActiveRain.....Finally Meeting Jason Sardi and Jennifer Monroe - 07/25/10 03:12 PM
ActiveRain is a Real Estate Network and continues to be my blog of choice. I've always believed that EVERYTHING is related to Real Estate. Neighborhoods, local businesses, history, local area news, points of interest, photos, information, listings, mortgage news and information, schools, bus lines, home inspections, stagers, insurance, technology.
You name it and it HAS to be related to this industry because we deal with all walks of life.
Living in paradise sure gives me the opportunity to meet many members of ActiveRain because sooner or later they come for a vacation here .............
My first profound friendship through ActiveRain … (54 comments)
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