Today I read a couple of posts about Active Rains' Ambassador Program. Basically it sounded like Active Rain is looking for people to be sort of like a Welcoming/mentoring person for new members to Active Rain.
I thought that I was uniquely qualified for this position since I was the founder of the Active Rain Newbie Group and also the founder of the Actve Rain Rookie Group which is for new Realtors.
Anyone that knows me, understands my desire to help people thorough the some times foggy path here in Active Rain. For a time I was a moderator in the Practice Blogging group. I have personally welcomed many new members and offered my time and what little basic knowledge I had to help them get started.
However, as I started to fill out the application, on Brad Andersohn's blog, I notice that it asks for three blogs that are #1 on Google.
When I first started here at Active Rain in July 2006, I was quite frequently on the first page of Google. As time went by, I started other blogs and those were on the first page of Google.
This past January, I opened my own Brokerage, Stonehurst Realty and I have to say my blogging days have been extremely limited. My business has been living off my previous blogging efforts and I have been very busy. This is a good thing and also a testimonial to my blogging efforts here at Active Rain. These two blogs alone have brought me more prospective buyers than any others. http://activerain.com/blogsview/244592/conimicut-point-warwick-rhode-island
and http://activerain.com/blogsview/18490/oakland-beach-warwick-rhode-island-a-beachfront-community
They were both location centric blogs and the keywords are the locstions themselves. I wrote them because I love the two places I was writing about and that made the difference.
I have joined Facebook, Twitter, and a host of other social networking sites. So to come up with three blogs that are at the top of Google ended up being a big problem.
In the process of looking, I find that some of my blogs "should" have been on the first page of Google.
Here is one http://activerain.com/blogsview/875457/how-to-buy-a-home-in-a-buyers-market
This is obviously about buyers in RI and also correctly tagged Buyers market ri. Here is the google link for Buyers market ri Notice the second item where it says ALL activerain blogs tagged with Buyers Market. Where am I?
I rest my case. Of course I cannot show up on the first page of Google if my tags are not working.
In conclusion, I ended up not applying to be an Ambassador for my area, although I would have liked to be part of this new program. However, it has definitely opened my eyes, and as my title says, "I should have been paying attention".
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