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Please help welcome my 98th Invitee to ActiveRain

Please help me welcome my 98th Invitee to the ActiveRain Community: Eldon Hendrix.

Eldon owns Hendrix and Sons Home Inspections out of Holiday, Florida, just 2,392.79 miles east of me.

That means that he:

is not a competitor of mine
is no threat to my livelihood
will cost him a lot of money to come see me if I say bad things about him
is another one of my long-distance friends here at ActiveRain

La Mesa, California, to Holiday, Florida

Eldon Hendrix and Sons Eldon is a fellow member of the world's largest -- and best -- association for home inspectors -- THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CERTIFIED HOME INSPECTORS -- with over 9,000 members.

I'm quite confident that not only does he do a great job providing his Clients with a thorough home inspection, but he'll make a great addition to our ActiveRain community.

Eldon has entered a few short blog posts, so go check him out, tell him hello, and tell him Russel Ray sent you his way.

Eldon also has chosen initially not to be a RAINMAKER, so the great information he will be entering in his blog will be lost to his prospective Clients. Encourage him to become one of us and take advantage of the Google juice that ActiveRain provides.

Our ActiveRain community will be better for all if we can make newbies feel welcome and get them significantly involved in our community.

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Posted by Russel Ray, San Diego home inspector on 11/07/2009 03:56 AM

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48 Comments on Please help welcome my 98th Invitee to ActiveRain

NOV

Welcome aboard and hope the site brings everything you need. when the time is right become a rainmaker and spread the word.

contgrats

tony

Hi Russel, great job of recruiting! I will go over and say hello and encourage him to be a rainmaker!

I LOL when I read the following:

"will cost him a lot of money to come see me if I say bad things about him"

Great recruiting job. I'm still laughing about your recruiting methodology, i.e., don't recruit your competitors.

Eldon-Welcome to Active Rain, i know you will enjoy your new friends here in the rain.

Russel - Thanks for bringing so many great people to ActiveRain.

Wow! Almost 100! I am curious on the steps you have taken to get this many people to start blogging. I have worked hard on just three to sign up because I know what a great process it will be for them!

Russel...

Wow, that is an incredible number of invitees! Kudos to you and welcome to Eldon!

Eldon welcome to Activerain and Russell very funny and thanks for reminding me to invite other professionals to activerain.

Welcome to the rain Eldon - and congrats to you also Russel --- great job!

Congrats! Inviting that many people, do you ever have time to work???

Russel, congrats on number 98. You're starting to look like the Babe Ruth of ActiveRain recruiting. I will disagree (slightly!) on "and best -- association for home inspectors --" but get three inspectors in the same room and you'll get three different answer on which association is "the best". Great Job!

Welcome Eldon.

Gee I thought I was doing good when I got my 86th invitee this week. ;- (

I think I invited 4 or 5 people this week, but lately I had been slacking on inviting. Invite points can be good... 169K +/- of my AR points from inviting.

Congratulations Russel I am off to say hi to Eldon.

Eldon, Welcome aboard. Russell, WTG. Thanks for a nice good morning chuckle.

Russell:

You must certainly be one of the champion recruiters in Active Rain. And, it's probably a wise idea not to bring in competitors. I will go to Eldon's blog and welcome him.

Welcome Eldon, I just joined two days ago and already feel right at home and have great expectations for a bright future here. I'm sure you will find it rewarding.

Russel - Way to go man! You probably have no idea the impact of your efforts. Think of the "Butterfly Effect", you may have saved an endangered species somewhere in Mongolia!!! :)

Welcome Eldon all the way from Florida. I'm in Texas just up a few states from you; therefore a Big Texas Howdy Eldon.

Hey, Folks - So I post something to my blog, shut down the computers, gather up Zoey the Cool Cat for a catnap, and come back to find a Featured Post. Wonder what happened. Has he!! frozen over? LOL

As I see on Judge Judy, Judge Mathis, and Judge Joe Brown, when it comes to money, anyone can, and will, sue anyone else at any time for any reason, and that includes family, friends, business associates, and companies, so it's always best not to let too many of one's marketing secrets get out to the competition. So when it comes to recruiting ActiveRain members, recruit them far, far out of your service area so that they won't even have the thought of moving into your service area. LOL

Actually, my recruiting comes from many sources, and my 88th Invitee, Harold Blount, is from right here in San Diego, so once you finish saying hello to Eldon, click on the link and go say hello to Harold, too!

Thats a big number. Great job. Let me also be the first to welcome your 99th and 100th...

I thought that was a pickture of Eldon inside the cereal box. LOL. I should recruit some folks to join AR.

Russel-you are a fantastic Ambassador for AR. I will make sure to get over to Eldon's page and welcome him to the Rain!

Russel: Wow! That's awesome. Way to go! I better get busy and invite people here as well. Take care.

Hi Russel. 98 invitees??? Well Eldon is very close to where I am. ~ Lana

We'll do. . that is a lot or recruits!!

congratulations

Russel you busy bee! Great job!

Russel - what a great Ambassador you are for AR! Eldon is indeed lucky you found him.

Wow Russel you are racking up some invite points. Will you and Zoey the Cool Cat be throwing a big bash when #100 joins the fold? Happy catnaps to you both.

Russel - I will stop by and say hello to Eldon. Great job recruiting ... the non-competition (LOL)

lol.....welcome to the Rain! You just might love it here!

98?!?! That is truly awesome. Great job!

You could make a living just on your invitees! Way to go! Kathy

98 people! Wow; where do you find them? I don't even know 98 people! Have a great week-end, Russel!

Welcome Eldon! And way to go Russell, on your 98th invitee. I think I need to do some more inviting.

Russel,

You are one blogging kind of guy! Bringing 98 people to the rain is a HUGE deal! I will go over and read and comment on Eldon's posts. You are right.. we need to encourage one another in going forward and finding a voice in cyberspace. What a great mentor you are! Thank you for showing us the way!

Your friend in the Cosmic Cow Pie.

Russel,

I will definitely have to stop by Edlon's blog to encourage him to become a fellow Rainmaker.

Russell, good job and congrats on #98. I am going to Eldon's blog to welcome him.

Way to go Russel... 98 ... I have invited 2... I better get to working on that a little bit...after I go check out Eltons page! thanks

Russel,

I suppose it makes good sense not to recruit your competition.

I should say that you hve recruited quite a few people.\

Brian

Welcome from Sheldon to Eldon !!!!!

You are quite a salesman Russel! I have sent quite a few invites to friends and colleges and only three have joined this fantastic network! Good job!

And welcome Eldon to ActiveRain.

Russel - 98th invitee, WOW!!! That is A LOT of recruiting Russel, great job!

Eldon,

WELCOME to the Rain! You've got an Ambassador as a mentor. See you on your blog.

Mike in Tucson

WoW Russel and Welcome Eldon to Active Rain. I hope he list the cat in the cereal on his inspection report. :)

Russel you are great at this recruiting stuff, you are such an asset here. Welcome aboard Eldon.

NOV

Very cool and it's great to meet another inspector. Besides following your blog there are several other inspectors i read and it's a great way to learn more from different points of view! Have a good weekend my friend!

Russel: 98 invitees? That's a ton! Very cool of you to introduce Eldon to us. I'll go see his blog next.

Russel: How do you do it? I can't get one person to join let alone 98! I've given up because you can lead a horse to water and you know the rest!

Wow, welcome and congrats to you Russel. You work to hard for the rain my friend.

Impressive numbers there Russell! I'll go welcome the new guy on board. Cheers!

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