blogging for business: What A Difference A Year Makes! - 07/06/08 08:35 PM
What A Difference A Year Makes
What A Difference A
Year Makes!
The
first post I ever wrote on Active Rain was one year ago and was titled;
What
A Great Place Active Rain Is.
I did not know how to add images, where to even go to get … (85 comments)
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blogging for business: Active Rain Outside Blogs- Answers To Your Widgets, Buttons and Stat Counter Questions! - 07/03/08 01:06 PM
active rain outside blogs
Active
Rain OUTSIDE Blogs- Answers To Your Widgets, Buttons and Stat
Counters Questions
My email box is filled
with questions about how do you add your submit button to
your outside blog, your stat counter and other tools for tracking on
your Active Rain … (29 comments)
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blogging for business: My Long Journey: The PLATINUM Hall of Fame & 300,000 POINTS - 07/02/08 12:21 PM
The Star Hall of Fame groups were created by Neal Bloom-Realtor ® Assoc.-CRS-Weston for the sole purpose of telling our story of each milestone and journey's in the Rain to get to each of these Star Hall of Fame groups:
Activerain Bronze Star Hall of Fame- In order to qualify you must reach at least 50,000 Activerain points.
Activerain … (117 comments)
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blogging for business: Images That Are Safe To Use For Real Estate Web Sites and Blogs! - 06/28/08 11:32 AM
Iclip Art Sale
Images That Are Safe To Use For Real Estate Web Sites and Blogs!
I wrote a post about the concerns of using images on your blogs and
websites that may be copyright infringements.
There were comments made about just staying away from using images
altogether. … (81 comments)
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blogging for business: Your Point Of Contact Is Missing In Action! - 06/24/08 09:49 AM
Your Point Of Contact Is Missing
In Action!
Many of you received our THANKS FOR
BEING OUR SUBSCRIBER letter last Christmas.
There were also about half of you that did NOT get our letter
because I could not find your snail mail address on your profile page … (56 comments)
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blogging for business: Active Rain Blogging and SEO- It's All About The Links You Get Or Not! - 06/21/08 02:11 PM
Linking Strategies For SEO
Active Rain Blogging and
SEO- It's All About The Links You Get or Not!
Linking
strategies are a very important part of your SEO for your blog
and for your website. The power of the link is
very valuable. Google
likes to see links coming … (84 comments)
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blogging for business: The Roadrunner Guy.....and "Shift" Happens - 06/20/08 11:23 PM
Scenario - Day 1: I woke up yesterday morning and do the same routine like any other morning. Use the bathroom, brush my teek and take a shower. Ah...the aroma of fresh brewed coffee! I scurry about getting ready and of course remembering to make the bed before I prance out to my … (14 comments)
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blogging for business: Everything Active Rain Newbies Want To Know About Commenting But Were Afraid To Ask - 06/17/08 03:10 PM
everything a newbie wants to know about commenting on
Active Rain but was afraid to ask
Everything Newbies Want To Know About Commenting On Active
Rain But Were Afraid To Ask
We just started the new Active
Rain Question of The Week Group this
week. Anyone is welcome … (127 comments)
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blogging for business: Roll With the Changes! Marketing & Advertising for Business & Balance - 06/16/08 11:04 AM
Marketing for my business has to match with the amount of business I desire & the budget I have for that amount of business. It took careful planning and strategy to get this going after years of doing not much but floor time and relying on referrals.
Strategic Planning for the Balanced Realtor® … (54 comments)
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blogging for business: What To Do When Your Spell Check Does Not Work! - 06/14/08 08:58 PM
Active Rain Spell Check Alternatives
What To Do When Your Spell Check
Does Not Work!
With
Active Rain going through growing pains and working on their servers
one of the things that is NOT dependable is the Active Rain
editor's spell check. If you are a very … (23 comments)
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blogging for business: Active Rain Question Of The Week - 06/09/08 09:54 PM
Active Rain Question of the week
?Active
Rain Question Of The Week ?
We get so many emails on
questions about how to put in an image on your blog to how to add links
in your posts. These are very basic questions that can be
answered by doing … (29 comments)
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blogging for business: Active Rain Will Get You There But You Need To Know How To Drive - 06/07/08 08:43 PM
We get emails almost daily with SEO questions from Active Rain Members. I try to get back to all of you but sometimes there are just too many questions in a week to answer them individually.
We are going to address one of those emails in this post because this question … (44 comments)
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blogging for business: Climbing Up The PageRank Of Google! - 06/07/08 10:21 AM
Climbing up the PageRank of Google is something that we all should be aware of and working at improving.
Read these posts to understand more about Google PageRank:
Google Secrets Of SEO- Does Google Tell All?
Our Active Rain PageRank went up, did yours?
How about some payback time for Spammers? … (82 comments)
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blogging for business: Turn Your Active Rain Blog Into A Listing Machine - 05/31/08 08:39 PM
Turn Your Active Rain Blog Into A Listing Machine
Turn Your Active Rain Blog Into A Listing Machine!
Yes, you read it right. We get
at least 2 listings per week from our Active Rain blog and SO CAN YOU.
Would knowing you can add another $100,000 to … (161 comments)
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blogging for business: How Important Are Photos and Images on Your Active Rain Blog and Does It Really Matter? - 05/21/08 09:33 AM
pictures on your active rain blog
How Important Are Photos and Images on Your Active Rain Blog and Does It Really Matter?
According to recent studies conducted by Mayer and Gallini; visuals consisting of photos and images on your blogs and websites do make a difference. Studies show that people learn … (134 comments)
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blogging for business: So you are blogging for business? Now what? - 05/12/08 12:10 PM
This is my first blog post on Active Rain and I look forward to more. I have been an active blogger for years writing the Raleigh Real Estate News where I have maintained a relatively objective news source for readers. I have begun hosting on my own, I burn my feed and … (3 comments)
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blogging for business: Tips For Your Improving Your Websites and Blogs - 05/10/08 11:49 PM
I did not have time to post our fantastic story behind the house we closed last week or so because of some stuff I have to do for our famous uncle; make sure to read my upcoming post tonight about it. He also held me hostage so long that I was … (17 comments)
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blogging for business: Our Active Rain Blog's Page Rank Just Went Up; Did Yours? - 05/10/08 06:48 PM
Many webmasters around the internet have noticed changes in Google's page rank on their websites. Rumor has it among internet webmasters that the pagerank update is the biggest one they have noticed in a long time.
Google uses PageRank values when calculating search results it gives to searchers. When you are … (32 comments)
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blogging for business: Tips To Convert Your Leads To Sales On Your Website - 04/19/08 10:31 PM
It doesn't matter if you get hundreds of leads to your website if you do not have a way of converting those leads into sales. You can generate all the traffic you want but if you don't convert those leads than you are just wasting your time. If you are spending … (60 comments)
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blogging for business: Google Webmasters Uncovering Invisible Web Pages- Will Members Only Posts Be Revealed? - 04/15/08 06:10 PM
The Official Google Webmasters' Blog announced that they have discovered some new and innovative ways to get the spiders to crawl into places they otherwise have not been able to get into. Lately they found ways to spider through Flash to get to the content on sites that use Flash which … (43 comments)
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blogging for business: The Journey Of 200,000 Points Begins With A Single Post. - 04/12/08 11:47 PM
200000 point post
The Journey Of 200,000 Points Begins With A Single Post.
To travel to the moon it is a journey of over 200,000 miles.
The miles
I have traveled on Active Rain have brought me to this juncture meeting
the 200,000 point post. Just as a journey to … (68 comments)
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blogging for business: Can you run the blogging marathon? - 04/08/08 09:33 PM
In the blogging race...it's a marathon, not a sprintI had an opportunity to attend a bloggers meetup in Minneapolis last evening. One of the topics discussed was how blogging for business is a long term marketing proposition.If you're thinking that creating a real estate or business blog will immediately boost traffic … (11 comments)
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blogging for business: Switch To Firefox For A Better And Safer Internet Experience. - 04/05/08 11:20 AM
Firefox
Switch To Firefox For A
Better And Safer Internet Experience.
Do you get frustrated with slow
loading times when you are an Active Rain member's blog or surfing the
internet?
Would
you like to have many Internet windows open at the same time without … (70 comments)
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blogging for business: When What You Write On Your Active Rain Blog Speaks About More Than Selling Real Estate - 04/04/08 10:18 AM
short sale story of blogging for the listing
When What You Write On Your Active Rain Blog Speaks About More
Than Selling Real Estate.
We got a call from a lady
who lives in another state but who owns a house in Palm Beach County
Florida.
She was relocated to … (59 comments)
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blogging for business: Cre8Buzz Is Live On The Wire Now. Join The Buzz To Add Some Zing and Buzz To Your Blogs And Websites. - 04/01/08 07:10 PM
Cre8Buzz
Cre8Buzz-
Join The Buzz To Add Some Zing and Buzz To Your Blogs and Websites
I was invited to join
Cre8Buzz by Bill
Gassett when it was first in Beta some months ago. I am not
really into all that Facebook and Myspace type of sites so I … (23 comments)
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blogging for business: Who Is Your Audience? - 03/30/08 12:08 PM
who is your audience
Who Is Your Audience?
There were a lot
of comments on my post a couple of weeks ago on inspiring
those who do not blog to just write their first
post. Some of those comments inspired me to write this post
instead of
answering … (116 comments)
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blogging for business: Active Rain Brings In The Green After The Rain Again and Again and Again - 03/27/08 08:55 PM
aero club buyer
Active Rain Brings In The
Green After The Rain Again and Again and Again!
Active Rain will bring
you business if you blog consistantly and show your personality. Here is yet another post
about the power of Active Rain and the quality of the customers that … (36 comments)
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blogging for business: How To Give Your Active Rain Blog Pizazz and Punch The Easy Way And The Free Way! - 03/22/08 09:56 PM
nvu tutorial
Give
Your Active Rain Blog Pizazz and Punch The Easy Way And The Free Way!
I have received a lot of emails asking me how I get my posts to look
like this.
You
can use an HTML publisher where you can write in plain … (169 comments)
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blogging for business: Do You Have A Love/Hate Relationship With POINTS? - 03/16/08 01:26 AM
Do you have a love/hate relationship with points?
Do
You Have A Love/Hate Relationship With POINTS?
There is
a lot of discussion on Active Rain from different bloggers about their
opinions on points. So here is my 2 Cents! I love Active Rain
Points and Why You … (204 comments)
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blogging for business: What's Holding You Back From Writing Your First Blog Post? Newbies On Active Rain- Take The First Step! - 03/09/08 02:46 PM
What's Holding You Back From Writing Your First Blog Post?
What's
Holding You Back From Writing Your First Blog Post? Newbies On Active
Rain- Take The First Step
Are
you new on Active Rain? How long ago did you join Active
Rain? Some people jump right in with both feet … (89 comments)
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blogging for business: Flickr Adds No Follow Link To External Links- Thanks to Spammers Again! - 02/24/08 03:08 PM
If you have been using Flickr as part of your SEO strategies; most of that strategy just got deleted. Flickr has added no follow links to External links and this makes them obsolete as part of your SEO strategy. Of course you can still use your links to drive traffic to … (40 comments)
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blogging for business: SEO Techniques- Must Do's For Your Blog and Website. - 02/23/08 11:08 PM
SEO Techniques
SEO
Techniques- The Must Do's For Your Blog and Website
There is so much that you can be
doing for great Search Engine Optimization; you can read
books and more books on the subject and still not know all there is to
know about SEO. The world of … (81 comments)
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blogging for business: Active Rain- Blogging For Listings! It Works If You Do! - 02/16/08 10:32 PM
We all know or should know that Active Rain is great in getting solid and loyal buyers to call you which translates into closed deals. But I hear a lot here on the Rain that Active Rain is not a great tool for getting sellers to call you or for getting … (61 comments)
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blogging for business: Tutorial- Getting Those Listings To Scroll Down The Side Of Your Blog, Vflyer Widget - 02/14/08 08:20 PM
This post was prompted by all the questions and emails I receive from Active Rain members about how I get that listing widget on the side of my blog. We get that cute listing scroll widget from Vflyer. What I like the best about the listing widget that scrolls is people … (16 comments)
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blogging for business: MyBlogLog Newbie Tutorial- How To Get The Widget on Your Active Rain Blog. - 02/12/08 03:17 PM
When I first started using mybloglog I thought it was a cool little widget to put on your blog to see which members are reading your blog. You know, something entertaining to put on the side of your blog. But then Jaine Coffey emailed me to tell me that someone did … (23 comments)
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blogging for business: You Asked For It, You Got It! That Cool Tool I Use To Get Those Screen Shots and Torn Edges! - 02/08/08 07:10 PM
I have received so many comments on my posts with this question: What are you using to get those screen shots and torn edges around them? Also, what are you using to get those red arrows on your screen shots. So instead of answering each one of those comments with the details … (184 comments)
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blogging for business: More About Who Is Reading Your Active Rain Blog, Part 2 - 02/07/08 05:58 PM
Who is reading your Active Rain Blog? What did they click on to get to you and where were you found on the search engine's page? To find out about how mybloglog can help you with that, click here to read Part 1 of Who Is Reading Your Active Rain Blog. After … (51 comments)
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blogging for business: Google Golden Triangle May Help Track Your Visitors - 02/06/08 12:40 PM
The marketing firm Enquiro did a study eye tracking where a readers eyes travel on a search page. This is a tool some people would like Google to add to their Analytics. This is a heat map of what this study revealed. The eye movement is tracked with your mouse because … (28 comments)
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blogging for business: Google's Matt Cutts Admits The Mysterious #6 Position Penalty. - 02/05/08 08:49 PM
Did you drop in your rankings in mid December to late December on Google? Did you have a #1 or #2 strong position for your blogs or websites and then dropped to #6?Was your site a good long standing site and then you dropped all of a sudden?I read some blogs … (35 comments)
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blogging for business: Do You Know Who Is Reading Your Active Rain Blog? And What Did They Want to Find??? - 02/02/08 11:56 PM
Who is reading your Active Rain blog? What are they typing into that search bar? I read a lot of posts here on the rain where the member is complaining that he/she is not getting comments but lots of views which they see in their stats here on the rain. There are … (49 comments)
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blogging for business: Testimonial In The Rain- Active Rain Is The Place To Be! - 01/26/08 11:39 PM
Rich Jacobson asked the Active Rain Community members to write their testimonial in the rain. My testimonial in the rain is that Active Rain Is The Place To Be! I have written several testimonials about what Active Rain means to me and what it has helped me to achieve from friendships … (52 comments)
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blogging for business: Blogging For Business; Keyword Rich Content To Get Your Phone To Ring! - 01/21/08 12:50 PM
Blogging For Business with Keyword Rich content to get your phone to ring is easier than you might think it is. If you have not caught up to where we are in this series then please read these posts first:
Longtail Keywords For Blogging, Fishing With The Right Bait On Your Active … (93 comments)
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blogging for business: Calling all IOWA bloggers - Get You and your Blog on the "I" list - 01/02/08 06:22 PM
I was reading Art Dinkin's blog, Moment on Money, from Troy Worman's Outstanding Blogs and he had an article and I thought would interest our members from Iowa.
Drew McLellan is putting together the Official "I" list - a list of all Iowa Blogs and Bloggers.
Here are the "instructions" Drew provided:
If you're … (6 comments)
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blogging for business: My First Born earns 200,000 points and I'm a Proud Mother all over again! - 12/21/07 01:13 PM
The Motherhood of BloggingWell it's been 9 months since I joined Active Rain- and I definitely feel like I've given birth to a baby called, the Real Estate BLOG.
There's no denying that our blogs have the ability to become just like our children:
We nurture them, They keep us up nights and sleep deprived, We want nothing but the … (64 comments)
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blogging for business: Blogging turns 10 years old and turns me into a Hermit Crab - 12/19/07 05:22 PM
Here's part of a tribute we did to Blogging's 10th Anniversary and our journey this first year at Paul Chaney's suggestion, hope you enjoy it - it's been a wild ride ....
Blogging Celebrates 10th Anniversary
I was reading Paul Chaney's blog today, Conversational Media Marketing and he shared that blogging has actually been around for 10 … (15 comments)
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blogging for business: SEO In Relation To Blogging On Active Rain, How To Get Google To Take Notice - 12/15/07 10:33 PM
I promised you some posts on doing SEO for your blogs. Just to give you one example at how fast proper keywords and titles are; I just published a post about The Wellington Home School Support Group's Christmas party and within 6 hours it was #1 and #2 on Google page … (55 comments)
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blogging for business: We Just Can't Get Away From The Paparazzi! Active Rain Produces Stars! - 12/12/07 03:41 PM
Are we being followed? Are we being stalked? We can't seem to go anywhere without being stopped by the media! Oh, no, not again! We just wanted to enjoy the 124th annual National horse show here in Wellington Florida when the local news station had us front and center putting the … (41 comments)
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blogging for business: Warning About Active Rain! *Side Effects May Include Fame and Fortune* - 11/25/07 01:20 AM
Yep, you read it right ! There are serious side effects to using Active Rain. First of all, the chance of addiction is HUGE! It has been proven that Active Rain can cause serious addictions. There are those that are blogging on holidays, in the middle of the night and before … (95 comments)
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blogging for business: Active Rain Uplifts More Than Just Your Pocketbook! - 11/15/07 02:07 PM
How Hot Or Cold Is Active Rain For You?
I joined Active Rain in late June of 2007 for the business. It was all about the business. And guess what! Business came and more and more but there was something even more profound, more memorable and most surprising of … (41 comments)
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blogging for business: Blogging on the Upside Down Show, Let's Have Some Fun! - 11/01/07 05:17 PM
One of my son's favorite shows is the Upside Down show on Noggin. He'll come up to me and say, " Mommy, today is Opposites day," and then we play opposites. So today I am writing a post on opposites. The Top Ten Things To Do To Make Sure That Your … (47 comments)
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blogging for business: Blogging For Business - 09/20/07 04:05 PM
Why should you be blogging for business? It takes time, thought and energy. You can look at it as a chore or as a fun marketing tool. Whatever way you look at it will determine the outcome of your success in blogging. Blogs add personality to your business. The fact … (50 comments)
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blogging for business: BLOGGING WILL NEVER CATCH ON WITH REAL ESTATE AGENTS - 08/15/07 06:57 AM
WHAT? YOU THINK LENN HAS COMPLETELY LOST HER MIND?Perhaps. But, perhaps not. Let me rephrase the title: BLOGGING WILL NEVER BE A MAJOR SOURCE OF BUSINESS FOR REAL ESTATE AGENTS. How about that? Still think I've taken leave of my senses? LENN. HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT? Anyone who knows me … (125 comments)
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blogging for business: A Traffic or Lead-centric Objective Is Not Necessarily A Good Objective - 10/19/06 12:32 PM
While we all strive to increase traffic, it makes me a bit edgey to see that your blog strategy is based solely on the idea that you want to send more people to your website.
Isn't it possible that some people may want to establish a connection with you before entertaining an … (13 comments)
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