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Active Rain Week In Review - July 23, 2007 to July 29, 2007

Thank you Neil Bloom who asked me to take on the task of Active Rain Week In Review. It is a daunting task as those of you who have done it before know. This week the membership of Active Rain crossed the 40,000 member mark - so there was a lot to read- 457 pages of no ad blogs to be exact.

One of the things I like best in Active Rain is how one post leads to many others on the same related topic.

The week started off with Maggie Dokic's blog about a situation with a potential buyer in Educating-Our-Customers. It ended up being featured, but unleashed many other good posts...

Lenn Harley's - YOU DON'T HAVE TO MARRY ME, I JUST WANT TO BE YOUR ONE AND ONLY AGENT
Kevin Tomlinson's - Why I Would Buy Directly From the Listing Agent.
Suzanne Cutler chimed in with - Why I would Buy directly from the Seller!
Broker Bryant - Buyers are liars, jerks and time wasters! Or NOT!
Tony Marriott - Disarm the Bad Guys
Carmen Rivero - Converting Customers into Clients

Active Rain Launched its Referral Network... just in case you missed that - here is all the referral posts
Matt Heaton- More on the referral exchange
Becky Troutt - Anyone Notice The New "Referral Exchange" Button?
Marc Mcgee - Why The "ActiveRain Referral Exchange" Will Work
Galel Fajardo - Active Rain Headed Down a Potentially Nasty Road...
Bob Carney - Referral Exchange ALREADY Spammed!!!
Ryan Hukill - AR Gods adding bigger & better things... AGAIN?!

Listing Topics- another Great topic of the week which started with Gary Bolen's Featured Post on The Listing Presentation
and then...
Rebecca Quinones Time to Dust off Those Listing Presentations
Judi Barrett - Listening Between the Lines
Chris Elizabeth Griffith - Molly Brown Would Have Been a Listing Agent

Although not a feature this week - I think great marketing "stuff" is one of the best contributions of Active Rain...
Marketing Ideas
Suzanne Stephens - White Space is Sacred
Kim Daugherty- Throwing a Neighborhood Swim Party
Tony Gallegos - Stupid Is, Is Stupid Does - Sales Advice From Forrest Gump
Jeff Belonger - Business Card tips -- Part 2
Maggie Dokic - Image Chef Another Free Cool Tool

Just Plain Good Advice
Sondra Sheckler - How to Sleep at Night
Jean Doyle - What do you Mean I am getting Sued?
Ashley Drake Gephart - Writers Block - Ideas to help unblock it
George Tallabas - Effortless Skill - Develop it
Susie Roscoe - Good Communication Tips
Toni Ellis is off to a Great Start - Success = 90% preparation + 10% X
Margaret Woda -Legacy of an "old pro" - passing it on to another generation of real estate rookies

And last, but not least - this post from Art Blanchet summed up my week's experience
Rain on the Brain - For a Little While

Please continue to follow future and past AR Week in Reviews - all posted here.

Posted by Beth Butler on 07/30/2007 02:05 AM

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40 Comments on Active Rain Week In Review - July 23, 2007 to July 29, 2007

JUL

2007

Wow, Beth, I don't know how you keep on top of all these. I missed MANY this week, I have much reading to do! Thanks for putting it all together for everyone on AR.

Beth thanks for including my post in this list! There are so many good ones I have already read and some I haven't seen. I am off to read more. Thanks for doing this weeks!

I am left wondering why this post was so un important to you and the active rain community that it was not part of the week in review and has not gotten much press. http://activerain.com/blogsview/150553/Active-Rain-Banned-By

It is as if you all have your heads in the sand not even understanding that other then making sure people don't use active rain to spam Google Yahoo & MSN

Hey Carole, thanks for sharing this with us, sometimes I am los with a lot of blogs, comments, etc, very difficult to handle it :)

thanks

Ray Saenz

JUL

2007

Nicely done Beth, I have some reading to do!

Beth, I missed quite a few of these. I have some catching up to do. Thanks for the double mention!

If I may make a comment to James above... have you considered that perhaps Beth did not see the post? Picture the magnitude of 457 pages of posts. There's no way to read them all. That is why people, and Colleen Kulikowski in particular, keep asking everyone to RATE THE POSTS or flag them.

When I did the Week In Review 4 months ago there were about 21,000 members and I had a most difficult time trying to provide an accurate recap. I cannot imagine the work Beth put in to do the same with double the members. Can we all say sleep deprived?

Thanks for your hard work Beth!

Hi Beth, what an excellent roundup of the week. As usual it brought some great stuff to my attention that I missed. thanks...

Beth, thank you for taking this on. We appreciate you.

James,

Firrst off...this review is for the week of 23rd to the 29th...that was posted on the 19th..so that post does not qualify for this week.

The Week in Review is for the readers to catch up on missed stories...just because your pick was not chosen does not mean it was not a good post. The picks are the picks of the weeks moderator. They choose the ones that they liked. Sorry but not everyone can be chosen, and it is hard enough for the moderator to go through many and it takes a lot of free time to do. I am sorry you feel that way...perhaps you would take the challenge of trying to do a review and then you will see how hard it is to make everyone happy. If you are interested please email me and we can arrange for you to do it next week.

Thanks for taking the time to help me keep thos review alive...thanks for your efforts Beth!

Excellent choices, Beth. I've read many of them and will read the others when I have a minute this week.,

Thanks so much for taking this on !

Carole, Ray, Jason, Maggie, Marti, Mike and Jo-anne- thanks for you nice comments - enjoy the reading.

James - Neil is correct is was last week. I had read your post last week and I liked it. I am sure that there are a few good posts that went right past me this week.

Neil - sorry for the posting nightmare - sometimes email is way to literal. Thanks for all of your help.

Ashley - my pleasure - I enjoy your stuff

Hi Beth - wonderfully done, and I really like the way you presented this week's picks for Week in Review. I missed a few of these so will make sure to go visit them as soon as I can. I love having these recaps for that very reason - thanks for your hard work on this!

Having done these reviews in the past, I know the enormous amount of reading that goes into narrowing posts down to include in the Week in Review. There will always be someone who thinks a post should have been included that wasn't, and there will always be posts that just get overlooked because of the addition of new members - that just can't be avoided no matter how hard each week's moderator works. You did a GREAT job on this review - WELL DONE!!

Ann

Beth, when do you sleep? Great job. I'm spending the morning going back and reading all the great posts that I missed.

Beth - thanks for taking the time to put this together. I sure to believe it was a lot of hard work!

Very nice week in review. I like how you put together the categories and organized the posts a little bit more than just a plain list. Thanks for your effort. I know its a lot of reading. It's interesting to see what someone else reads though. I had a busy week of reading as well and I really didn't even see most of these posts.

Goodness, you must be blearly-eyed by now.

Nice round up. I'll make sure I get caught up. Thanks for including me in the posts.

Thanks for sharing your opinion of AR's week in review.

Beth, thanks for the honorable mention. I was surprised to see my blog post on this list, since it didn't get many comments... pleasantly surprised! Thanks.

Beth - Thanks for the recognition! Maggie Dokic sparked a great discussion on this topic.

Well done Beth!! I too really like the way you laid this out. It is interesting to see how one good post can sparks several others. That's the beauty of blogging. It makes us think. Thanks for the mention Beth and for taking the time to put this together. Good job.

WOW...nicely done Beth. I really like the layout too. I missed a few of these... You really dug deep in the darkest corners to find mine.. Thank you for the mention.

What a great way to recap the week. Great way to quickly glane at the week's happening!

Wow, Beth - I feel HONORED to say the least! I had bookmarked this posting to read some of the missed blogs without noticing one of mine is on your list. Many thanks to Angie Vandenberghny for pointing that out to me! 'Betting those "grand dames" are smiling down about all this fuss.

Beth....THANKS for including my post! Why do I feel like I just won an Oscar? I'm still just a newbie, but I appreciate the mention.

Ann- thanks for your kind words. I know you have done this before so your comments mean quite a bit.

Patty - this was a sleep deprived week - think I am going to have a few more of those.

Ravi - you are most welcome

Angie - enjoy! I liked your posts of the week as well

Lenn - you deserve mention every week

Derrick - you are welcome

Ryan - it was my pleasure - I enjoyed reading your stuff - hopefully this will get you better readership - the number of comments were irrelevant to me.

Tony - you are welcome - Maggie's post sparked quite a few - thats a good post followed by more of the same

Bryan - you are welcome - and thank you for you comments - I particularly liked your reply post to Maggie.

Bob- that's the job - thatnks and you are most welcome

Al - Thanks and enjoy!

Margaret - I was touched by your post. Since I am starting to feel a bit long in the tooth myself - I can so remember the "old ones" like me when I started- there was so much to learn from them, which they graciously shared.

Kim - I loved the pool party idea - it is such a great way to create community - in this cyber age we miss some of that - I loved the post.

Beth - Thanks so much for including my blog! As a new Active Rain addict I'm still learning the ropes so I appreciate being noticed! ~Rebecca

Thank you for including us. And thanks for taking your time to put this together. We're still new to your AR community and are learning our way. We noticed you a few weeks ago and have already associated, subscribed and commented. It's all most appreciated.

I better go check some of these out...so many members...so many posts...wow..good job and lots of work to put this together...thanks!

I like this snippet, if I am gone for a while, it gives us some highlights.

good job Beth!

I'm trying to get you another Miami boy to write into your next week in review... but he's so rough and just starting blogging! maybe I'll just finally get him to your offices!

Beth,

Your approach to the week in review is not only unique but also very interesting. I feel honored to have you mention my post. Thanks so much for your hard work and for taking the time to read through all the posts you had to. BTW, thank you Angie for directing me here.

Rebecca - you are welcome - the title caught my eye

Gary - looks like we have a mutual admiration society going here.

Sally - I kow you have done this before - your thoughts are most appreciated.

David - you are the bomb! Keep sending me your good finds!

Carmen - I also liked your Is your buyer cheating on you post.

I love the Week in Review. Thanks much.

I get to see all the informative posts in one. I book mark these for future reference.

Wow, Thanks Beth,

I'm kind of quite shocked because there are so many posts that I create and delete not knowing how people will take them and this time I hit the submit button.

Beth-Thank you I was busy doing localism I did not get a chance to read very many this week. Catching up now. I love the week in review's they are a helpful tool.

JUL

2007

Beth.... some great posts here. I am so far behind because I was busy this week. But thanks to Angie Vandenbergh for pointing me to this post. And thank you for the mention, I appreciate that and your hard work that went into this. Thanks again....

jeff belonger

Beth, Thank you including my post in your review and thanks to Angie Vandenbergh for the link to your post. Now I'm headed out to read the other posts that you included. Thanks.

Chuck- happy reading.

Suzanne - I am a huge fan of white space and I also have the chance to see many an agent's business card -they need help :)

Midori - I did read your localism post - very well done .

Jeff - my pleasure - your post was very well done and I enjoyed it.

Judi - you are welcome

AUG

2007

Beth, I don't know where you find the time to do all this! Personally, I value your opinion very highly and I will make it a point to read these posts. the more I learn about the rain the more I like it. I have also learned that if I start reading posts during the day, how easily one can lose track of time. I can't believe that I am actually looking forward to reading all these posts on vacation next week ! I must be nuts!! But , I love it !

AUG

2007

Arlyn - if only my day job would give me more time! Happy Reading.

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