posting: Well this is what I am thinking... - 07/09/08 10:26 PM
Im thinking this takes alot of time. Posting, checking, adding, changing alll the information for listings and such..but on top of that and calls, e-mails, showings, paperwork, phone time, and now posting blogs on more sites than I can remember...I love it.
I am looking forward to continually improving my technology
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posting: 300th post - 07/05/08 10:11 PM
Too cool....1.5 years on AR and now I've hit my 300th post. Wish I had something profound to say, but after 300 posts, I'm really lax on any cogent and tangible new thoughts. I could say that I have some great friends and that my life is so great b/c of
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posting: My Independence Day! Thanks for Sharing - 07/04/08 06:59 AM
Hey Folks!
Been way to long. After recovering from an injury, a job change and a whole heck of a lot of other things I have not posted since the end of April and I have missed it.
So today is my Independence Day to announce (to myself and I
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posting: Must . . . Keeep . . . . Posting . . . . - 06/21/08 11:21 PM
Whenever life gets tough and throws you a curve, runs you over, or (in my case) gives you a baby-the tough gotta keep blogging. I look at my poor activerain blog and it's been several weeks (oh, the humanity) since I have posted. I know all of you out there
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posting: I'm Back! - 06/21/08 07:19 PM
Well like Becky, I needed a break. My dad was ill and steadly declining all last year. He passed away this past January and it just took a lot out of both of us, but we are back now! As usual, Becky will be back with her quick wit and me,
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posting: Great time saving tip on posting your listings to Craigslist - 06/16/08 09:24 AM
I found out that you can copy and paste your listings from Baltimoresun.com directly into Craigslist. Your Craigslist posting will appear with the same photos, description, price, phone number, etc that we have. It only takes a few minutes and the best part if you don't have to write anything out
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posting: QUALITY WRITING + ACTIVE IN THE RAIN = FEATURED POST - 06/15/08 12:31 PM
When I joined in February of 2007, Active Rain had about 20, 000 members. In hindsight, the rain was in its infancy. During the time I was very active here in the rain, I was fortunate to enjoy having several featured posts. I would choose topics that were interesting, sometimes controversial, but
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posting: 4RealzEd Day 24: Engage with an ActiveRain Group - 05/22/08 03:33 AM
Today, I'm going to cover two parts of ActiveRain: Groups and Associations ActiveRain Groups Not only is ActiveRain one big real estate community, but it is filled with many sub-communities interested in specific issues. You can find "groups" dedicated to just about any real estate topic. To see what I mean,
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posting: How do they Get to Your Tour? Let me Count the Ways! - 05/14/08 02:38 PM
It’s astounding the number of different ways viewers get to our virtual tours!
40% - Links on Other Websites
18% - Direct to eWalk
18% - Searches on Google, et all
18% - Links in emails
2% - MySpace (first time this has shown up)
Breaking down the Links on
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posting: Steam, Motivation or Thoughts - 05/04/08 03:22 PM
As an Active Rain member that blogged virtually everyday for months, over the past couple months I must admit I have posted very little to the community. I can come up with all the excuses... lack of time, got busy, other things to do.. but when I sit back and ask
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posting: How do you remain anonymous? Is this legal in AR? - 04/24/08 07:15 PM
I just received a comment on my blog about "BPO companies I got a lot of work from". The comment has a time and date but no name. Someone left a anonymous message! It was a message accusing a asset management company for not paying for BPO orders. Can anyone tell me
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posting: Posting New Listings On ActiveRain - Does it Help? - 04/23/08 06:13 PM
I am still pretty new to ActiveRain and even though I am not a real estate agent myself, I keep seeing people post on their blogs about their new listings. So my question to you is this: have people who post new listings to their blogs seen direct results of this leading
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posting: Is the RMLS really enough? Continued. - 03/13/08 01:04 PM
I am able to provide information on these websites if any one would like to do their own research. I assure you it is amaizing. I have also worked out a special deal so that I am able to list the properties I cover for a fraction of the cost it
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posting: Realtor Rules on Craigslist? - 03/12/08 01:04 AM
As a newbie to the world of marketing with CL, I want to make sure I'm doing it right?! When I signed up and browsed through all the rules and restrictions, I didn't really notice anything specific to Realtor rules, regulations and/or restrictions. However, after talking with anther agent in my
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posting: A great Compliment - 03/10/08 06:48 AM
There comes a time in everyone's career when you get this compliment. If you have been on the receiving end, you will know what I am talking about. If you have yet to experience it, keep plugging along and one day you will. We all know some of the more well known
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posting: Variables of AR Blogging Success - 02/23/08 10:38 AM
OK....so here it is. I've written over 200 blogs on AR. Some I've just whipped up as a free association thought and I've gotten over 40 comments. I've also put a lot of thought and research into a certain post and got a big zero as far as comments. I was
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posting: Strategy: Getting Organized To Blog Consistently - 01/30/08 02:45 PM
Yesterday, I discussed the objectives of real estate blogging. One of the keys to achieving those objectives is consistently blogging at whatever frequency fits your business model. Remember that how often you post determines how often your readers will visit your blog.Start by creating a blogging game plan. Create a list of 3-5 topics
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posting: Playing in the Rain - 01/24/08 08:30 AM
As a consumer, I am always looking for the business that doesn't waste money. I know the more they waste, the more the services will cost me. As a professional, I am always looking for ways to cut overhead costs so that my clients get the best possible service. Enter Active Rain. You see,
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posting: Welcome to the Burns Park Blog - 01/22/08 11:12 PM
Greetings from my new Burns Park Blog. As an active Burns Park resident, I know how much we treasure our homes and the neighborhood. To share that passion, I have created a forum where residents (long-time, new and aspiring) can share information about events, activities, news, restoration, renovation, selling, buying, and anything else that makes Burns Park a
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posting: At least there's that - 01/12/08 10:18 AM
Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose. - Evan Esar So I joined in October of last year and quickly was able to get up well over 38,000 points, coming up to 40,000 soon. At first, it was all about getting as many points as possible,
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posting: Kindle Me Kindly - 01/06/08 07:19 PM
I got an email from a reader who purchased My Blue Goose, Exploiting The Wow Factor In Real Estate Marketing, from his Kindle, Amazon’s latest and greatest piece of technology. This may be the first person to do so and it is exciting to represent a new era in publishing.
At
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posting: Cool posting idea - 12/23/07 07:07 PM
Thanks to my news alerts, I found an idea I thought I'd share. When looking around online, if you run across a politician's website that is talking about the subprime mortgage meltdown, post a comment with a backlink or two to your own site. These sites are getting a lot of
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posting: 24 hr Google Bug! - 12/21/07 08:25 PM
So I created a new blog YESTERDAY at WordPress.com. (http://mortgages4charlotte.wordpress.com/) I was going to submit to Google so that it could begin getting indexed at some point. Only 3 blog entries so far, but hey... why not, right? Before I submitted it to Google, I decided to google the website address.
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posting: Added blog benefits - 12/20/07 08:05 AM
With the benefits of blogging so evident, I have also started a new blog at WordPress.com The nice thing here is it is easy to use, and for me very familiar since I already use WordPress on my own websites. So now I have ActiveRain, www.EdNailor.com/blog, www.RapidRateRefi.com, and now a WordPress.com blog
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posting: Software: How to post to your ActiveRain blog - 12/16/07 01:46 AM
You can lead an agent to ActiveRain but you can't make them blog. That's what I learned this week. I bumped into an agent who reads my blog and asked him if he had signed up at ActiveRain. He said "Yeah, I did. I put in my contact information, uploaded my picture,
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posting: Too Many Tamales, I Mean "Groups" - 12/14/07 09:45 PM
I've been blogging here for a couple of months now, no gold stars but some interesting comments and my blog was hijacked once, so overall not a bad introduction. But I want to do better. I went to the "groups" sections after deciding I didn't belong to enough groups. If the
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posting: Google Alerts and Charlotte Posts - 12/11/07 06:08 PM
I recently signed up for Google Alerts to give me updates on the Charlotte, NC real estate market. Wouldn't you know an alert comes in and it is an Active Rain blog! Terry McDonald posted a blog about Charlotte home prices being up from last year at 11.50 am. I got an
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posting: 30,000 Points and Counting! - 12/11/07 04:27 PM
Ok, so I am not really so focused on the Points anymore, but damn... 30,000 points in such a short time! In Mecklenburg County I am ranked #4, and #24 in all of North Carolina. My goal is getting points was to get to the top of the ranks in my area so
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posting: Its about visiting and commenting on others blogs - 12/03/07 10:06 PM
Reciprocation is a one der full thing...
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posting: No Link points - 11/28/07 02:55 PM
Ok someone please tell me how this points system works? I linked activerain to the front page of my website almost 2 weeks ago and I have yet to receive points nor an explanation as to why there are no points awarded. I've seen some blogs on here that are really
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posting: Where else? - 11/20/07 07:55 AM
Ok... so I am contributing to Active Rain daily. I post to Craigslist now daily as well. I am actively adding to my own blog on my own site. I have discovered Backpage.com and post there. Can anyone share other places for posting or running free ads? Maybe we can all learn from this! ______________________________ Ed NailorHome
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posting: Do you go beyond the Points? - 11/20/07 06:46 AM
It has not taken me long to earn a respectable number of points here on Active Rain. I noticed from the beginning that those with the most points are featured everywhere and when someone is seeking a professional (especially on Localism) that the people near the top have the best shot
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posting: AR Question: Views - 11/13/07 02:17 PM
So I am looking through the groups I have subscribed to and see the views vs. comments. Got me wondering, if we post something on here that is also posted on Localism, does the view count on Active Rain also count the views on Localism? Just curious. And if not, is
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posting: Another newbie question - Points for blogs - 11/05/07 11:27 AM
I have looked around and maybe I am missing it, but how do you know how many point any blog entry will get? I have a few that are only 200, some that are close to 300. Not that the number of words is any different (was my first thought), but
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posting: Posting to more than 5 groups? - 11/05/07 11:21 AM
I did not know when I first started that I could only post a specific blog entry to a max of 5 groups. So as I checked off all of the groups I have joined and have interests in, the first 5 were the only ones that it took. Ok... fair
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posting: Half way to 100000- - - - 49,999 points....A personal milestone - 10/06/07 09:46 PM
I think that it's only fitting that I write a nice long post about how I got here and what this all means to me. I'm not going to because of 2 reasons: 1) I'm on vacation....need I say anything more? 2) I'm only 1/2 of the way to 100,000 I've had a lot
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posting: Favorite Writers....Favorite Bloggers - 09/30/07 11:29 PM
Hey Active Rainer's....who is your favorite person to read and why? I have subscribed to a select few people to read. Here are my criteria.... 1) Good balance between personal and business...in other words not shoving crap down my throat... 2) Don't shove crap down my throat! 3) Good personality....I'm so weird that
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posting: 500 blog posts! I have made a milestone in Active Rain! - 09/22/07 10:13 PM
I am feeling very chipper tonight because I have officially posted my 500th blog post here in Active Rain! I remember when I first started that I couldn't even think of what the heck to write about, I was having enough of a hard time just trying to get the first
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posting: Forgive me Rainers, for I have... - 09/13/07 08:37 AM
FORGOTTEN! I get the limitations on posting and commenting. I get the 10 words, the 50 words, the 10/day, and the 10/week. I also get the posting to five groups only. HOWEVER... I see posts in many more groups than five and don't understand how this happens. Not everything I have to say
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posting: Attention ALL Active Rain Addicts - 08/13/07 09:34 AM
I drink more coffee, so I can sleep less hours, so I can spend more time on Active Rain, so I can generate business, so I can make more money, so I can buy more coffee, so I can sleep less hours.....etc., etc., etc. You get the point. Active Rain is
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posting: Preapproved, Discreet Viagra, Designer Watches - This is Marketing???? - 08/09/07 04:07 PM
Here are 3 of the e-mails that I got today; 1) Are you looking for we1ght-l0ss med1cations such as Merid1a at a reduced price? Would you like to buy ant1depress4nts like Xan4x or Zol0ft, but don't have a prescr1ption? There is an online ph4rmacy that you need to visit then! I'm talking
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posting: HOW TO WRITE A GREAT BLOG - 07/27/07 11:43 PM
I know how hard was for me to get on track with publishing posts on this site. It is quite intimidating specially when you see how many great posts are there. How do they came up with the subjects? How do they manage the content?... And is so vital to get
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posting: Myspace and Real Estate - 07/02/07 11:18 PM
Remember when internet sites 1st made their way onto real estate business cards? Weird wasn't it. Well guess what's coming next! Many professionals have begun to advertise with both conventional web sites and myspace type forums. You see it regularly on TV from big name brand companies. Some offer only
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posting: Happy Anniversary to Me - 07/02/07 06:23 AM
I got so busy yesterday I totally forgot yesterday was my one year anniversary on Active Rain. I joined a year ago but was blogging somewhere else and since I already had that blog going I stuck with it instead of Active Rain. Big mistake, that blog was doing nothing to
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posting: Making Your Post, A Mini - Webpage - 06/25/07 11:46 PM
Over 20 Years Experience and Resources, Helping You Provide Your Clients, The American Dream! View My ProfileMemoirs of a BloggerView My AssociatesGet Linked InSearch Active Rain Real Estate Technology GroupTarget Marketing Group The Title and Escrow GroupSolano County Network Group My Corporate Office Property Comp Information Realtor Designations Bay Area Real Estate Tech
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posting: "Since when is NEW JERSEY a part of MANHATTAN!?" Adding communities to Localism - 06/01/07 12:08 PM
I have seen it time and time again. I will have visited a particular city on Localism.com and find that SOMEONE has added a "community" to that city that is located well outside of its limits. For example, lets go to Manhattan, located in New York County in the state of
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posting: Good, Clean Humor - 05/04/07 10:07 AM
I'm not much into posting blogs that aren't valuable to others, but this was good and clean........ An older couple were sitting on the couch watching TV one evening and the man had his arm around his wife's shoulder. He began rubbing her shoulder and she says, "that feels nice". The man
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posting: Few and Far Between - 01/22/07 09:27 PM
I know that I seldom Blog anymore. I guess that is because I am just a little busy running around trying to sell some Real Estate in this market. I can't imagine a better market for Realtors. No-one knows which way it is going tomorrow. Not even the media which according
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posting: Completely Irresponsible Use of Social Networking Tools... - 12/30/06 03:49 AM
Laurie Manny said something that was completely reasonable within the context of AR and highlights the fact that it is so easy to use social networking tools (like AR) irresponsibly... Laurie: "I have no objection to taking this post public, but I cannot speak for anybody else." I know I must sound
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posting: Google Spell Checker - 09/27/06 01:08 PM
Wow did I happen to mention how much I love the google spell checking feature in the toolbar? well, I guess you all know now! I never proof-read what I am posting and I use the google spell checker to fix it and my blogs look so good when they are
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posting: Wow! I'm addicted!!!! - 08/30/06 03:39 PM
I am so addicted to Active Rain! I check e-mail and then AR! wow! well, I do like posting here because I see my progress and I am really happy! I do not like to see my stats go down and it makes me work harder to find something to write
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posting: ActiveRain continuity - 07/13/06 09:02 AM
As I have mentioned in an earlier blog, Active Rain has beyond craiglist potential. Although I beleive this to be true there seems to be some underlying something with this site that lacks a greater continuity that can bring this site to its continued fuller potential. It just occured to me,
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