One year ago today, I was looking for a way to expand my business, I needed a change. I had just got my new website going, business was going good, but I wanted it to be better. I dove head first in to learning new ways to expand my business and I knew that involved educating myself.

I searched the net and came across a little known real estate blogging network that you may have heard of, called Active Rain. At first, I wasn't sure if this was the place for me, but quickly realized in this one place was more information than any other place I had seen. Active Rain was my rock, a place where I could sit down, enjoy the sun, and soak up education while sharing my experiences and maybe educate someone else.

This was the place for me, I read and I read, learning from real estate experts. I gathered this knowledge to build my business. Then, in April, I did what most other inexperienced people do when they start to get busy, they stop doing what got them busy in the first place. I stopped blogging!

This was a huge mistake and one that I paid for in July, when my business started to dry up. I went back through my closed transactions and tracked where that business had come from and quickly realized I stopped blogging at about the time it started working for me.

Ineeded to step things up, get back into blogging full time, even if I didn't have the time to blog. I started writing 10-15 blogs a weekend and setting a time to comment every night. No matter what I couldn't stop! This is what got me the business, and if I stopped again, it could all be gone again like that.

I have had lots of great experiences since joining Active Rain, met many a wonderful agents and some truly great clients. So if you have something that is working for you and you feel you don't have time to continue doing it, remember in a few months when you need the work, you will have the time again and basically have to start over.

If you have an advertising technique that is working, take the time, set the time aside, do what ever it takes, but don't stop doing it or your real estate career may just disappear. I would like to thank everyone that I've had the opportunity to meet this last year, and especially thank the creators of Active Rain for my real estate advertising rock!

Todd Clark - broker
Kastings & Associates
Phone: (503)524-9494
Fax: (503)622-8739

Todd Clark and the Friendly Home Team
Knipe Realty
Todd@IFoundYourNewHome.com
Phone: (503)524-9494
Fax: (503)622-8739

 

 

 I am a licensed Realtor who specializes in Washington County, Oregon and also work in both Clackamas and Multnomah Counties including the cities of Aloha, Beaverton, Canby, Clackamas, Gladstone, Gresham, Happy Valley, Hillsboro, Milwaukie, Oregon City, Sherwood and Tigard.
All information contained in these posts are copyrighted and cannot be used without prior written approval authorization from the author me Todd Clark. If you are looking for an outstanding agent please give me a call I would love to help you with all your real estate needs.

 

What if there was a way you could search the MLS for FREE just like Realtors

Now you can access the MLS using similar tools as Realtors. You are in control of what you want to search for, and you can search the MLS at your leisure. The information you submit in the form below can also be used to put you on an automated system where you'll be emailed all homes that meet your search criteria. You'll get internet access to a website that includes pictures, prices, and addresses to real estate that's listed in the MLS!

Click here to start your FREE home search now