Yeah yeah - I like it to :)
I am currently working on a showcase article that I will post at my REW Blogs site promoting the features and benefits of Active Rain to my readership - Although I have a ton of great ideas, I am still relatively new to the whole AR world, so I was wondering if I could call upon those more seasoned Rainer's for some "Must haves" in terms of the article itself.
A little more background - A large portion of my readership are web savvy Realtors and Brokers, and I "think" (seeing as I have only referred 80 via my link) a lot of these users are still missing out on this great resource - so I want to write an promo article for AR not just as a thank you, but because it is just a huge benefit to my readers to engage this community - so I don't want anyone reading this thing to miss out on any of the great things available here.
So a few questions:
What do you love the most about active rain (One thing please)
How much business do you attribute to active rain participation
How much traffic do you receive (At active rain or to your website from active rain maybe both)
What has your participation here done for increasing your SOI (On and offline)
Anything else you want to add is great - My regular REW Blog posts this year so far have had over 100,000 unique visitors (Just to my one blog) so as a feature this article will likely be seen by a HUGE audience, so it's a great opportunity to convert some new members which we all know means more great contributions to the social network, and more authority to spread around.
Thanks everyone !
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ActiveRain is a great site for REALTOR to REALTOR or professional to professional interaction. There are some truly talented bloggers on this site and many share some great insights into not only the industry but also into blogging itself and SEO.
I don't believe that the consumer by and large has heavily engaged the site as yet but others would have opinions that may difffer. Individually there are many 1st page results on Google of ActiveRain members. What I would do if you really want emperical data is to require some proof of what people claim as far as gained business and leads vrs conversions. I have no doubt they exixt in plentiful numbers but either I am too new at this or I am likely missing something because I haven't seen the kinds of activity other proclaim.
On the localism side of this site, the better bloggers many times link back to their own blogs and it would difficult to measure where the point of entry was. Just my thoughts on your questions. With over 43,000 members, it is beginning to feel a bit crowded.