activerain contest: [RECAP] ActiveRain Challenge - My Best Farming Technique (Hosted by SmartZip) - 07/18/18 02:41 PM
It's a dog-eat-dog world out there and we often hear tales of woe from agents who gave up and quit because they didn't know how to generate more business, if they even get any at all. There are also those that refuse to share their trade secrets because they fear that the competition may outshine them. Luckily for us, we have the ActiveRain Community! A network of real estate professionals who willingly share their "secret sauce" and continue to build the wealth of real estate knowledge so that their peers may learn from their experience and thrive in the industry! So we wanted … (25 comments)

activerain contest: [Extended] ActiveRain Challenge - My Best Farming Technique (Hosted by SmartZip) - 06/12/18 11:20 AM
Due to popular demand by the community we're extending the deadline by another week. 
New Deadline is now 12 midnight July 1 (Sunday)! We look forward to reading more of your amazing entries! 
 
Some Things Never Change
No matter how much real estate changes, and technology has dramatically altered the playing field in the last 15 years, there are still some tried and true methods of building your business. Because real estate remains, as much as anything, a contact sport, the number of people you interact with on a daily basis will often have a direct coorelation to the amount of business you actually close. For this reason, … (64 comments)

activerain contest: June Cloudburst of You Challenge - 06/01/17 08:43 AM
Cloudburst Time
It's been a long time (since the Kerrie days) when we had a Cloudburst Contest. I think it's time to bring one back and couple it with some mighty tempting bonus points for those that are willing to take the challenge.
We recognize it has been a difficult few weeks for many of you with the photo upload in its hiccup state. Posting photos had members inventing workarounds but now things are back in order and time to get back to business. We are sorry for all the inconvenience it caused.
Let's put the blogging pedal to the metal so it will … (108 comments)

activerain contest: The ONE Thing Challenge: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results - 04/16/13 01:42 AM
The ONE Thing: On Friday April 12th I hosted Jay Papasan and Ben Kinney for a discussion about Jay's new book 'The ONE Thing'. Ben and Jay took us through a few of the highlights of the book that directly impact a real estate agent and we talked about a few of the things agents can do to focus themselves, in their business and their lives.
In conjunction with having Jay and Ben join us, the publishers of 'The ONE Thing' were also nice enough to give us a few chapters of the book for everyone to download and get a … (166 comments)

activerain contest: How are You Prepping for the Market Shift? - An AR Challenge - 03/14/13 01:33 PM
Probably the most eye-popping result of our Real Estate is Back survey was this sentiment right here: Last year, our members predicted that 1/3 of the markets in the country would see price declines. This year? Not a single market!  84% of you expect real estate values and the number of transactions will increase in 2013.

There is a shift happening and with that comes a new plan of attack on your real estate business. We want to know what you are doing to prepare for it.  Have you been working a buyer's market the last few years?  What are you planning … (239 comments)