It is not surprising that we are trying to answer this questions. We already know its dangers. So many people confessed that they are addicted, and I am guilty of that, too. I am a night awl, and I noticed that I am not alone on AR at 3 A.M. How many wives or husbands are trying to figure what we are doing there in the middle of the night?
Do we come for business? Do we come for pleasure? Or it's a pleasure doing business?
What is Active Rain? A prototype of coming business models? Some agents have already experienced some luck getting business of it. Are these exceptions, or the rule?
On AR we are like teens first time going to college. We enjoy life to the fullest. We finally got a place to socialize, to bump heads, finds friendships, find mentors, find good advice and learn to recognize bad advice. We found our own university, where all you need is listen, and where one day you are a student and another day you are a mentorr. It is FREEDOM. We got our own social club, and we are enjoying it. It is so much more fun than any sales meetings of Association functions.
I have virtually met more interesting people, than I ever expected. I have run into more very interesting questions in just one month, than in years before. Read exceptional blogs, and I did not know what a blog was before joining AR. And now I am writing a blog (sounds like a love letter) about AR at 3 A.M. I followed some of the most fascinating comments to great posts and learned so much from it.
But isn't this also our business? Not only getting calls and e-mails and making deals, but learning ways to do it right, to be smarter, better. Do we forget about it in pursuit of calls, e-mails, transactions? Maybe the results will be less measurable, but becoming better trained, better prepared, better understanding small issues through the pryzm of bigger issues, this will result in us being better and more successful overall agents? Why not?
AR is in its infancy, it could eventually start branching out, as you can only accommodate certain number of people or it could become unmanageable. Soon you can end up with everybody talking, and no one listening. But right now we need to remember that AR opened this door for us, and we can see the future a bit better, and we can become better for that future. This is the best thing that AR did for us.
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Jon, great post! I like what you have written, and agree that I as a Realtor have greatly benefitted from Active Rain!