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Paying It Forward: Lending a Hand to Our Active Rain Friends

By Liz and Bill Spear

Real Estate Agent with Transaction Alliance 513.520.5305 www.LizTour.com SAL.2002007747

April 17, 2011 01:50 AM

community Paying It Forward: Lending a Hand to Our Active Rain Friends

One of the great things about the Rain is everyone's willingness to help. We've had many give us fantastic advice, the heads up when a draft post is PUBLIC (Thanks Cindy in Indy!), tips on how to make our posts better, SEO advice, and we value that help!

So when we get the opportunity to Pay It Forward, well that's an easy decision and action to make. If we see an error in a data table, we'll send a side email alerting the poster. Typo in the title...another email. One of our favorites is to send a post link on a how to spiff up comment signatures. Letting others know your service area is key to possible referrals. As we exchange comments, it is always nice to associate the name with the geography. There are certain people that if you say the area, a name immediately comes to us!

So take a little time and lend a hand to your fellow Rainers!

A quote from our friend in North Carolina: "I do not share my stories of paying it forward for recognition. I share them so that others might be inspired to do what they can, when they can, where they can. No more, no less." Tish Lloyd, North Carolina REALTOR®

Paying It Forward,
Liz and Bill aka BLiz

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Liz and Bill Spear

Transaction Alliance 513.520.5305 www.LizTour.com - Mason, OH

Transaction Alliance Cincinnati & Dayton suburbs

Judy, I think the trick for the newbies is getting someone to notice the question. Once you get past that, someone will almost always answer :)

Deborah, Just reading and commenting will give someone the opportunity to gain immense knowledge. Posting is the opportunity to take it to the next level. We started just lurking...reading only...then the occasional comment...then worked into where we are today :)

Apr 17, 2011 02:37 AM

Glenn Roberts

Retired - Seattle, WA

I had no idea when joining AR that there would be so much help available. It's just fantastic.

Apr 17, 2011 03:24 AM

Liz and Bill Spear

Transaction Alliance 513.520.5305 www.LizTour.com - Mason, OH

Transaction Alliance Cincinnati & Dayton suburbs

Glenn, Who'd have thought it without experiencing it firsthand? :)

Apr 17, 2011 03:34 AM

Debbie Gartner

The Flooring Girl - White Plains, NY

The Flooring Girl & Blog Stylist -Dynamo Marketers

This is so funny...as soon as I saw your picture pop up I was going to stop by and thank you for the email w/ the heads up on my title typo. Hilarious that it's mentioned in here. I do the same thing.

Apr 17, 2011 04:33 AM

Sheila Newton Team Anderson & Greenville SC

Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices - C. Dan Joyner - Anderson, SC

Selling the Upstate since 1989

Great post.. AR members are so helpful..

Apr 17, 2011 05:32 AM

Liz Wallace

Century 21 Sherlock Homes - Rockville Centre, NY

Broker C21 Sherlock Homes, Rockville Centre, LI, N

With all the hands that have been extended to me with friendship and help how could I not reach out to others. Suggest from me too.

Apr 17, 2011 05:45 AM

Cindy Marchant

Keller Williams Indy NE 317-290-7775 www.marchantteam.com - Carmel, IN

"Cindy in Indy" , Realtor, Fishers Real Estate

Hmmm...maybe I can use that itty bitty " help" along with a couple of others to draft my pay it forward later today. lol

Apr 17, 2011 07:08 AM

Liz and Bill Spear

Transaction Alliance 513.520.5305 www.LizTour.com - Mason, OH

Transaction Alliance Cincinnati & Dayton suburbs

Debbie, We've gotten the same back, so always willing to pass it on :)

Sheila, They certainly are!

Liz, Thanks! There's not keeping up with the counts on help received, but plenty of instances since we started here!

Cindy, Works for us! :)

Apr 17, 2011 09:34 AM

Anita Clark

Coldwell Banker Access Realty ~ 478.960.8055 - Warner Robins, GA

Realtor - Homes for Sale in Warner Robins GA

Excellent advice and something I've worked hard at improving. Some give so freely of their time, advice, and helpful hints...they are always appreciated when I get them.

Apr 17, 2011 10:15 AM

Tish Lloyd

BlueCoast Realty Corporation - Wilmington, NC

Broker - Wilmington NC and Surrounding Beaches

Liz & Bill ~ I think you have the edge on helping so many of your fellow 'Rainers in such a respectful manner. And, as so many have said, this community is unlike any other for caring and sharing. Thank you, both.

Apr 17, 2011 12:21 PM

Liz and Bill Spear

Transaction Alliance 513.520.5305 www.LizTour.com - Mason, OH

Transaction Alliance Cincinnati & Dayton suburbs

Anita, And the advice you gave us is still printed out and in my To Do list of things to do...haven't forgotten, just haven't implemented YET! :)

Tish, There are so many fine examples here that I can't place us in the top tier. We just help where we can :)

Apr 17, 2011 12:58 PM

Dawn A Fabiszak

Private Label Realty ( Denver metro area, Colorado - Aurora, CO

The Dawn of a New Real Estate Experience!

Bliz ~ I love this! The AR community is a great place to hang out withtop notch folks, like yourselves.

Apr 17, 2011 03:35 PM

1~Judi Barrett

Integrity Real Estate Services 116 SE AVE N, Idabel, OK 74745 - Idabel, OK

BS Ed, Integrity Real Estate Services -IDABEL OK

Bliz,

I do the same. Emails, phone calls, a text to help or alert a member to something. I am not surprised that you do also. :)

Apr 17, 2011 04:19 PM

Karen Bernetti

Southington, CT

This is a wondfully supportive community. I really appreciate the emails I recieve when someone spots a typo - or the heads up about that dreaded draft that accidentally went public (only happened once so far - but that's one too many time). And BTW I took the hint and added my service area! Thanks.

Apr 17, 2011 04:29 PM

Liz and Bill Spear

Transaction Alliance 513.520.5305 www.LizTour.com - Mason, OH

Transaction Alliance Cincinnati & Dayton suburbs

Dawn, I can't think of anyplace else that we can pick up so much valuable information in so short a time! Conventions have nothing on the Rain! :)

Judi, Not surprised at you either :)

Karen, Glad I could access via the Crackberry and switch the status! And letting people know your service area can only do good things for you :)

Apr 17, 2011 11:17 PM

Charita Cadenhead

eXp Realty - Birmingham, AL

Serving Jefferson and Shelby Counties (Alabama)

Without questions BLiz lending a hand to fellow Rainers is second nature to many of us and it works both ways. I know I have certainly had a fair share of members give me a heads up on a few things.

Apr 18, 2011 01:18 AM

Don Sabinske

Don Sabinske, Sabinske & Associates Inc. - Zimmerman, MN

Sabinske & Associates Inc.

Tish is great, and so are you. I send emails to people, too. Better to look good to clients than have a spelling error or some number out of place.

Apr 18, 2011 01:24 AM

Liz and Bill Spear

Transaction Alliance 513.520.5305 www.LizTour.com - Mason, OH

Transaction Alliance Cincinnati & Dayton suburbs

Charita, It definitely comes full circle!

Don, I catch myself regularly with the switched words that spell check won't catch there/their, our/are, so folks catching my errors and sending an email is appreciated! Clients will notice our glitches if we don't fix them.

Apr 18, 2011 01:26 AM

Steve and Jan Bachman

RE/MAX Gateway, Reston, Herndon, Ashburn, Sterling, Fairfax - Herndon, VA

Realtors - Northern Virginia

Heck you guys never have typos! You also have one of the most consistantly attractive layouts in your posts regardless of the content. AND the content is never just slung up against the wall. Everything we do here is mostly public, so putting out quality stuff like you guys do is the way to go.

Apr 19, 2011 02:31 AM

Liz and Bill Spear

Transaction Alliance 513.520.5305 www.LizTour.com - Mason, OH

Transaction Alliance Cincinnati & Dayton suburbs

Steve, I WISH I could say we never have typos! I do fix them when someone tells us or I catch them, whichever first! Folks like you sharing the Smilebox app have helped with our aesthetics! :)

Apr 19, 2011 02:37 AM