The TITLE says it all. This could be the most important Twitter blog you will ever read. This post could be the conduit that leads you to the land of Milk & Honey in your Real Estate career. This could specifically facilitate many closings in your future.
Trust me, this is not me tooting my own horn here... I'm extremely far from an expert in the Twitter field! This is an experiment that I thought of over the weekend. 
It could be very successful, but it will require your participation to work. It's possible that this may have been attempted before on Active Rain, but I have yet to come across it, so here we go.
We all know that to be successful in Real Estate, you have to build up a network or team. Communication and Networking is the key to finding buyers, sellers and deals. Originally, creating a large network and more importantly effectively maintaining it was a very difficult task. Those of you who have been in the industry for more than 15 years can vouch for that! Then came the Internet, and with it: email communication. It was now easy to quickly send out an email to all your buyers or sellers with ONE CLICK! I'm sure you can see where this is going. Most recently, we have Social Media, and more specifically to this blog, TWITTER. Everyone now has the ability to build a network of thousands of contacts! You can keep in constant communication with ALL of them.
I won't ramble on too much longer, as most everyone knows about Twitter at this point. Let's just say, that building a large network of QUALITY contacts is very important if you want to succeed.
One can quickly build a 'followers' list on Twitter, and there are many blogs that cover doing JUST that. But these leads are NOT quality leads to you an I. They typically are spammers or online salespeople attempting to sell you a PDF training manual of some kind!! You all know what I'm talking about! :)
So where do we get QUALITY followers?? Enter Active Rain. What an Amazing community!! Wouldn't you agree?? At the time of writing this blog, there are around 185,000 members!! You know what is so special about that number, people??! They are ALL involved in Real Estate in some way! Now THAT is the type of QUALITY contacts that I personally am looking for, and I'm sure You are too.
So how do we go about building a large Active Rain Following? This is my proposal. If you want to participate in this Twitter Blog experiment, simply type your Twitter Username in the comments section below. I will leave a comment myself as an example. In doing so, you agree to 'Follow Back' any Active Rain member that follows you. Check back often on the blog to see what additional members have added their Twitter Username in the comments section and follow them too. I would suggest that when you follow them, you send them a tweet to let them know you are part of Active Rain. That way they know to follow you back!
As you can see this process should lead to a large network of quality Real Estate Professionals. This new network can now follow your blogs and your current listings as you tweet about them. I'm hoping that something amazing comes of this for all of us! Can you see how it might? There are a few more things that you can do to make this really TAKE OFF!
First: I'm sure you have all seen the new SUGGEST button. 
This button lets the Active Rain head honchos know that you feel this blog should be featured. If the blog gets 'featured' more Active Rainers will see it. The more exposure the blog gets, the greater the chances for success. Please click the button above!
Second: ReBlog about this! You MUST remember to turn off comments though and refer your readers to the original post. This will ensure that we retain a master list of Active Rainers in one location!
Third: Retweet the blog to your current Active Rain Twitter followers. If we really want to make this thing viral and watch it soar, let your own followers know about it. People can comment anonymously with their Twitter Usernames if they do not have an Active Rain Account themselves. This will also bring even more awareness about the Active Rain Community!
Of course there is a chance that this idea flops, but I sure hope not! :) I see this as a project that can benefit each and every member of the Active Rain community. So let's make this successful together. Leave a comment below with your Twitter Username and spread the word!!
Regards,
Michael Collins - SFR - Broker - @RockRealty
P.s. Eventually this blog will be lost in blog-land, outdated and forgotten. Wouldn't it be nice to continue this Network-Building idea? Well, I just created a Group on Active Rain called "Follow Me on Twitter". Every member of this group agrees to 'Follow Back' any Active Rain member who 'Follows Them'. Feel free to post any blog you would like to this group. (Within AR guidlines of course) It will help the group get to know you better!
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Hey, thanks for the fantastic post Michael.
I hope this idea works out.
"Sure, no problem Michael. Thanks for adding your Twitter Username to the comments section!"