ActiveRain allows new members to sign up as just members (Rainers) with no paid account and limited services. This is a good way to get familiar with the platform before you buy in. You can post Members Only posts and make comments and ask questions in the Q&A.
What you cannot do is make your posts Public and get the SEO advantage of blogging about your listings, neighborhoods and showing your expertise to consumers. Other ActiveRain members can read your posts but they cannot reblog your posts. You are shut out from doing (51 comments)
Lot of members in the Rain are signing up just as members (Rainers) with no paid account and limited services. If you look around you will see some members that have been around ActiveRain for years that are not Rainmakers either. Do they realize that the real benefit of having their posts found on the internet is not possible when they are not a Rainmaker?
This benefit of having your posts rank on the search engines is powerful stuff. I was talking with another Rainmaker yesterday and she said just in the last (52 comments)
I hear that a lot from members in the Rain that just signed up as members. There are even some members that have been around the Rain for years that are still just members. Though there is nothing at all wrong with this approach, some of the services and benefits are not open to you unless you are a Rainmaker. You are missing out on some of the best parts.
As a Rainmaker, your posts are indexed by Google meaning you can actually see the traffic going to your posts with the number of clicks and views. (37 comments)
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