Active Rainers Of The Year!
I can certainly think of Active Rainers who have done more for the Active Rain community than Time's choice of Bernanke has done for the United States! So we decided to put a positive spin on this.
Here are the Rainers Of The Year Awards!
Broker Bryant gets the "Best Sport Of The Year" award. He has held the top spot for Florida Rainers forever so when I set my eyes on the prize soon I realized that meant unseating a friend! I thought about the only series of a show that I watch on TV- Survivor. It is all about how you play the game. When I started cantering toward the finish line- who was my biggest supporter? The man on top himself- Broker Bryant. He was supportive, kind and gracious. When we finally hit the mark of passing Broker Bryant up for the most points in Florida- he was the first to congratulate us.
Bob Stewart gets the "Most Patience Of The Year" award. Bob gets to deal with some of the most stupid and immature gripes, complaints and tattle tailing that any one would just quit over! He is such a trooper that he has not just turned his back on some of the crap he listens to. Sometimes the Active Rain community seems more like a school yard and Bob has to play the role of referee. I could not do his job! My head would explode and what would come out of my mouth would be: Go sell some real estate!
Lenn Harley gets the award for the "Best Maps Of The Year and the Hard Core Real Estate Talk Of The Year" award. If you want to understand the art of Real Estate- look no further than our own Lenn Harley! When I think of Lenn Harley I think of the high class and success of the Harley Davidson motorcycle, hard core and high quality.
Todd Clark gets the award for the "Fastest Blogger In The West"- he can shoot out posts like rapid fire. Now that his laptop was stolen from his car- we will see how fast he can recover with filling up his post file with drafts. He usually has about 45 to 70 posts ready to be published at any given time. I hope he opts for the mac this time:)
Sally Cheeseman get the "Best of Hawaii Active Rain" award. Well, naturally Sally brings Paradise to us and the rest of the Active Rain community every day. That alone is worth a prize. Sharing the culture of Aloha, the beauty of nature and the wonderful community of Ohana is a shining light in our Active Rain community.
Wendy Rulnik gets the "Best Trooper of the Year" award. I must say with some of the nasty stuff that gets thrown by people who disagree with you- Wendy really takes it like the Charming Southern Belle that she is. I was there in the midst of one of these all out bashings and inappropriate attacks on Wendy for voicing her opinion. I stand by anyone- whether I agree with them or not- for the right to voice their opinion- in a respectful manner.
C Tann gets the "WOW- What Have I Been Missing" Award- I have started to just learn more about this fiesty right up my alley kind of gal! If you are not reading and following C- you are missing the boat! Better late than never for me. I am getting to know C through her words and like what I am getting.
Wayne Johnson gets the "New Kid On The Block" award for having a great fresh attitude towards life, politics and work. I have come to learn about Wayne through reading his comments and I must say, this guy would make a great Congressman. We need more Wayne Johnson's in the country to come forward to serve and be a voice for sound principles.
Jason Crouch gets the "Katerina Just Can't Seem To Beat Jason" award! All in fun, of course. I am very competitive and so is Jason. At one time, we had the Top Blogger- most subscribed to blog outside of AR staff- then Jason unseated me and no matter how I try- I have not been able to unseat Jason. He is a great guy, we are good friends and have a lot in common.
Patricia Kennedy gets the "Step Up To The Plate of the Year" Award- I just could not do all those weeks in reviews. This task is daunting to say the least. But Patricia has stepped up and with consistancy gets the Active Rain week in review report out each and every week. She also has a lot of great insights like the rest of us old timers, you know, the ones that were around selling real estate before the personal computer, before fax machines, before cell phones and before email.
Last but not least the final Active Rainer of the Year is Loreena Yeo.
Loreena gets the "Most Improved Active Rain Blogger of the Year" award! Loreena took my SEO To The Top Webinar and after that- she started flying to the top of Google, started really blogging correctly for clients but also I had a good heart to heart chat with Loreena about coming out of her shell, making her God First posts public instead of members only and gaining the courage to become transparent. As soon as she did those things, her business took off. She has also been attacked by agents without a sense of decency- but like I told her, they are just jealous or else why would they pay attention to her in the first place if she was not a threat to them? Loreena stood her ground, she did not back down and she is going to go places! Watch for Loreena's huge successes in 2010!
Happy New Year From Nestor and Katerina To All Of You!
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