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An Active Rain Puzzle

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Services for Real Estate Pros with Marte Cliff Copywriting

Has this happened to you? It's happened to me 2 or 3 times now..

 

Last night I got the following notice in an email:

 

ActiveRain

Praful Thakkar mentioned you in the blog post One more reason why I love Active Rain

Read the blog post and subscribe to comments at:
http://activerain.com/blogsview/4832369 

Naturally I wanted to go and say thanks, but...

When I clicked the post title it took me to my page entitled HOME - where it shows notifications, etc. When I clicked on the other link it took me to the same place. And when I click on the links on the HOME page, they simply re-load the same page. 

When I clicked on Praful Thakkar's name, it took me to his page, where I could click through to his blog - but I never did find that post! 

I think this is all very strange - so I'm wondering if others are experiencing the same thing. 

Comments(44)

Marte Cliff
Marte Cliff Copywriting - Priest River, ID
Your real estate writer

Robert 'VEGAS BOB' Swetz Debbie was right about what happened. Praful had entered that re-post to appear on Valentine's Day, but I got the notice on February 12. 

Feb 16, 2016 05:28 AM
Ed Silva, 203-206-0754
Mapleridge Realty, CT 203-206-0754 - Waterbury, CT
Central CT Real Estate Broker Serving all equally

I have had it happen as we but thought it was just me not punching something properly

Feb 16, 2016 08:49 AM
Marte Cliff
Marte Cliff Copywriting - Priest River, ID
Your real estate writer

Ed Silva That's what I thought too - so I kept going back and trying it over again. 

Feb 16, 2016 09:37 AM
Nicole Doty - Gilbert Real Estate Expert
Zion Realty - Gilbert, AZ
Broker/Owner of Zion Realty ZionRealtyAZ.com

Yes this has happened to me several times and I've never been able to figure out why. The mystery continues!

Feb 16, 2016 10:53 PM
Marte Cliff
Marte Cliff Copywriting - Priest River, ID
Your real estate writer

Nicole Doty - Gilbert Real Estate Expert It turned out that Debbie was right - he had reposted and set it to go live at a later date. 

Feb 17, 2016 12:00 AM
Endre Barath, Jr.
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties - Beverly Hills, CA
Realtor - Los Angeles Home Sales 310.486.1002

Marte Cliff  it has happened to me to ironically with Praful Thakkar  too, I figured it out. He was Re-blogging one of my posts and set it for future publishing. Needless to say the notification came earlier than the actual posting...hope this helps...Endre

Feb 17, 2016 11:05 AM
Jon Zolsky, Daytona Beach, FL
Daytona Condo Realty, 386-405-4408 - Daytona Beach, FL
Buy Daytona condos for heavenly good prices

Yep, I had a strange thing, too. Saw that someone had reblogged, and wanted to go and say "thank you" but couldn't find the reblog, no matter how I tried

Feb 17, 2016 03:18 PM
Elyse Berman, PA
LoKation Real Estate - Boca Raton, FL
Boca Raton FL (561) 716-7824

Marte Cliff I haven't seen this happen yet, but there's always a first time!  Hopefully not!

Feb 18, 2016 09:50 AM
Marte Cliff
Marte Cliff Copywriting - Priest River, ID
Your real estate writer

Endre Barath, Jr. Yes, that's exactly what happened. I wonder why AR does it that way? 

Jon Zolsky, Daytona Beach, FL That was my puzzle exactly, but it turned out that they notified me when he did it - not when it "went live." 

Elyse Berman If it does, just know to go look in a day or two. 

Feb 18, 2016 10:02 AM
Jeff Dowler, CRS
eXp Realty of California, Inc. - Carlsbad, CA
The Southern California Relocation Dude

Marte

I haven't had this happen but that's not to say it won't at some point. Keeps you guessing. I would probbaly just move on if it does and would forget to go back and check

Jeff

Feb 22, 2016 06:45 AM
Marte Cliff
Marte Cliff Copywriting - Priest River, ID
Your real estate writer

Jeff Dowler CRS I might have forgotten, but someone mentioned me in a comment so I got a reminder. 

Feb 22, 2016 07:37 AM
Endre Barath, Jr.
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties - Beverly Hills, CA
Realtor - Los Angeles Home Sales 310.486.1002

Since no one from upper management chimed in I wonder is it got secretly corrected?:) Endre

Mar 01, 2016 02:33 PM
Marte Cliff
Marte Cliff Copywriting - Priest River, ID
Your real estate writer

Good question Endre Barath, Jr. It hasn't happened to me again, but that's not an indication. 

Mar 01, 2016 02:38 PM
Endre Barath, Jr.
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties - Beverly Hills, CA
Realtor - Los Angeles Home Sales 310.486.1002

We will need to have Praful Thakkar  re-blog one of your post and then we will know for sure he usually does those late at night when AR management is sleeping:)), Endre

Mar 01, 2016 02:45 PM
Praful Thakkar
LAER Realty Partners - Burlington, MA
Metro Boston Homes For Sale

Marte Cliff when I 'schedule' a re-blog, this will happen.

AR is ready to award you points as soon as I click on Re-blog.

However, I usually schedule the re-post at a later date for the posts to avoid the conflict with original post.

If you click on my name near 're-blog' button, you'll see when it will be re-posted.

Hope this helps to solve the 'puzzle'!

Mar 01, 2016 03:04 PM
Marte Cliff
Marte Cliff Copywriting - Priest River, ID
Your real estate writer

Endre Barath, Jr. - Praful Thakkar just answered the question. 

Praful - we did finally figure out that's what had happened. Thanks for telling me about where to look to see the schedule. 

Mar 01, 2016 03:18 PM
Inna Ivchenko
Barcode Properties - Encino, CA
Realtor® • GRI • HAFA • PSC Calabasas CA

Learn something new today:) I never schedule reblogs, though.

Mar 03, 2016 04:17 AM
Marte Cliff
Marte Cliff Copywriting - Priest River, ID
Your real estate writer

Inna Ivchenko The one time that I tried to schedule a future post it went live immediately. I haven't tried since. 

Mar 03, 2016 04:44 AM
Inna Ivchenko
Barcode Properties - Encino, CA
Realtor® • GRI • HAFA • PSC Calabasas CA

I do not schedule anything....unfortunately, I still can not commit to a firm schedule in AR posts...but I'm working on it. 

:) 

Mar 03, 2016 04:48 AM
Marte Cliff
Marte Cliff Copywriting - Priest River, ID
Your real estate writer

Inna Ivchenko I'm not blogging enough - only when I really need a break from whatever project I'm working on for a client. 

I'm grateful for all the business, but I do run out of hours in the day. 

Mar 03, 2016 05:10 AM