activerain friends: 6 Years on ActiveRain- Member, Ambassador and Gramma in Hawaii - 04/10/13 09:51 AM
I had past my 6th Birthday Year as a Member on ActiveRain last month!  How could I possibly have done that? 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!  In fact, I closed a transaction last month with my client that I first met back in 2005 who found me on internet from a blog I wrote on ActiveRain! Since that time she bought a condo and a townhouse. She sold the townhouse in 2011 and the … (29 comments)

activerain friends: Different Perspectives Could Change Your MIND - 12/23/12 10:51 AM
 
We’ve all wondered, pondered, assumed and presumed. This THINKING can drive us nuts if we allow it to interfere with taking a step back and being patient. Pick up the phone with a problem you’re having instead of pounding the keyboard as if stomping your feet, or call your client instead of assuming the worst.
When in doubt ASK!
This tip applies to all walks of life, all careers and industries and basically just a part of life. Why?
We can NOT live on assumptions. Assumptions are NOT facts and everyone has different thinking, different opinions. It's called being human … (2 comments)

activerain friends: Holiday Greeting Card---APPRECIATION - 11/27/12 04:54 PM
 
Holiday Greeting Card Contest-APPRECIATION! (this is not an entry but I wanted to join in on the contest by submitting my own card...in hopes you all get MOTIVATED!!!!)  JOIN IN!
 
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My Holiday Greeting Card with a theme of APPRECIATION is for:
 
My family and friends: For they are my support and give me strength.  I appreciate them for the smallest of things like a pat on the back for a job well done. A small token of appreciation to show I care can mean more to one who may be feeling down. It takes so little to … (17 comments)

activerain friends: The First Thanksgiving....and What We Tell The Children - 11/22/12 10:25 AM
In my adolescent years,  I knew that Thanksgiving Day meant it was the time to give thanks but I didn’t know why.  I also knew it meant a huge feast and prayers of thanks.
I read a story ‘for kids’ and in simple form, but I wanted to write an even simpler story for my Grandson, Brayden.  I want to be able to tell him all about the history of Thanksgiving. Children ask MANY questions which will require an answer, right?

Here’s my story for baby Brayden when his question about Thanksgiving arises:
Gramma!  Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving?  To … (10 comments)

activerain friends: Meeting a Long Time ActiveRain Member--The People Behind the Words. - 11/14/12 09:54 PM
If any member thinks like me, then you long for the day you actually get to meet a member who has become an online friend,  a trusted advocate and peer.  One who you would trust to refer a client and to discuss any topic in the world with.
This particular Community Member of ActiveRain not only helps out another member but gives sound advice. Well, this kind of sounds like me HAHAHA…but seriously, Debe Maxwell is one of those people that just grows on you over the years. 
I got to finally meet Debe and her wonderful husband Ray.  They … (27 comments)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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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