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Arizona Real Estate Blogging Network Kick-Off Big Hit!

The AZ Real Estate Blogging Network kicked off April 24th, 2008 with a big bang! The attendance was fantastic! We met at 9:00 am, Thursday at the SanTan Village Mall in Gilbert, Arizona. We mingled and enjoyed our lattes, morning coffees and sodas while settling in at 9:30 a.m. to a fabulous line-up of speakers, Teri Ellis, The Lady in Red, Paul Slaybaugh, our ActiveRain celebrity, Shailesh Ghirmire, AZ Mortgage Guru, Mike Jones, Mike in Tucson and clean up was with our local blogging celebrity, Jay Thompson! I personally want to thank the speakers for a marvelous job they did and for their expertise and willingness to make this kick-off meeting a huge success! Without you this would not have been the event it was! There was much to share and much to learn and it was great to see the passion and participation among the attendees. I really believe that this is going to be the monthly meeting to be at and to have such great resources available to each and everyone in attendance for free! You can't beat that! Enjoy the photos below in my slideshow and as time allows I will upload the Video footage of the speakers for those that missed it or for those that want to recap of the event.

A special 'thank you' to this month's Sponsors:

Shelli Bates - LandAmerica Lawyers Title - 480-688-9387

Mary Ellen Kohut - The Mortgage Advantage - 602-329-3437

Ron Kohatsu - World Inspection Network WIN - 480-844-2882

Jim Crandell - Homestead Appraisals - 480-390-8530

If you are interested in more information on the monthly meetings, email me direct at AZREBlogs@Yahoo.com and I will get you the upcoming event. May's meeting will be held May 29th, 2008 in the Tempe area. If you are interested in being included be sure to email me so that I can send out an invitation. Also be sure to check out our new group we just started called AZ Real Estate Blogging Network, come check it out!

Posted by Gilbert Arizona Real Estate - Candace Robinson on 04/27/2008 11:41 AM

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Candace~What a fun time and boy did you all have a great opportunity to learn from one another. Have a great weekend.

Candace...I have only one request. Would you please move to Virginia? We need you.

Kathleen

Awesome job Candace! Thank you so much for all you are doing for this group.. We are gonna' have some fun! :-)

Julie- It was better than 'great' it was F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C ... The speakers, sponsors and attendees. I couldn't have asked for a better kick-off for our first AZ Real Estate Blogging Network meeting. I think we had approximately 30 attendees overall.

Candace,

Great job putting this together. It was so much fun! Have a great weekend.

Candace, it looks like everyone had a great time there in Arizona and that you did a fantastic job organizing the entire event.

No video of my singing and dancing?

Great job orchestrating this, Candace. It's only going to get bigger and better from here. Looking forward to the next one already!

Kathleen - I am sure my friends in Virginia would like that! Is there snow? You might have a bidding war with Desiree!!! Thanks for the compliment!

Nick - Your attendance made this the big success that it was! Hang on tight, we are going to have a ride of a life time! Ideas are brewing.

Candace, You did a great job putting this together. I'm glad it turned out so well!

Shailesh - The easy part was delegating, you had the hard part and you made it look so easy! I can't say Thank You enough for the fantastic job you did. I am struggling with this video, hope to have it up tomorrow.

Brian - It was a great time. I had a blast and could have stayed all day working with my laptop. I think we need to do a three day seminar....gee is my head spinning of great ideas. Wish you could have been here! You could start up a VA Real Estate Blogging Network and we can rally East vs. West.... ??

Paul - I am working on editing the video, the dancing part, I don't know...it's a toss up which you shine the most at, singing or dancing. You did a fine job speaking too,

Doreen - Thank you my friend. Thank you for your help too! I am glad it was a success and not a flop! With good people behind me it was an easy task.

Wish I could have been there even though I'm in NC. I've been pretty busy in RE but I wanted to drop in on my favorites!!

Hi Tracy - Yes, the event was a big success! I so miss talking to you! It would have been awesome to have you present Thursday. Well, if you ever make your way West, be sure to look me up, I am all for gathering some friends and Paul!! *wink* Good to hear from you!

Candace...those pictures were fun...thanks for posting them. It looks like everyone was having a good time!

Candace, as always, a great job of displaying our little function!!! You convinced me that I needed to get involved so I did - and I'm glad. You took a better photo of Paul than you did of me.;-) Am I really pointing in that photo, yuck. AND I don't like my profile. BUT you look good. ;-) JK - aren't us women vain?

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Joan - Yes it was a fun morning! Keep an eye out for the video once I figure out how to use that darn Mixpo?????!!

Teri - ahh I was shocked the only picture I had of you were from those angles. I was disappointed I didn't have any straight on like the others. I think I didn't have the camera out at that time. However, I have a great video of you!! You look MARVELOUS I think! But you nailed it on the head, we never like ourselves in photos! Singing....You're (I'm) so vain, I bet you think this song is about you, don't you.....lalalalalaa

Glad you had such a great turn out..... looks like a good time was had by all

Dez- It was a great time and no question we are onto something good here! Great people, great bloggers and commitment. Wish you could have been here! Next time perhaps!

I like the new photo!

Steve - It's in honor of our pal, Play Slaybaugh. If you haven't had a chance to read his latest thread of comments on his post he wrote about the event, you should try. He is one funny guy. Check out my latest post, it will guide you there! Thanks for stopping by! That Paul might be onto something!

Sounds like a lot of fun. Great job posting your activities. Terrie

Looks like you guys had a great time. I think its awesome that you guys have a local group.

Did Paul wear that lavender beret to the event? I told him to get rid of that in order to project a more professional image.

Jason - I was sworn to secrecy! If I want Paul at the next event, I have zipped my lips! You will have to show up to the next meeting.

I'm so jealous we have a few great bloggers here also now to get them together and put on a show would be quite a feat. Thanks for the info.

Thanks for putting this together

Candace,

Wow! That's all I can say about this fantastic idea you had for this group. I'm curious how you began down this road. I think it is something a lot of us in Central Ohio would benefit from. If you don't mind me stealing your idea (I like to call it not reinventing the wheel), I would love to hear how this all got started.

Thanks so much!

Allison

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Candace,

I can't thank you enough for all the effort you put into making this first meeting successful beyond anyone's imagination! Thanks for the invitation, too!

Mike in Tucson

Wow! I am sorry I missed it! Hope I can make the next one!

Terrie - Thanks! I have video as well, but I can't seem to get Mixpo downloaded, any help from someone would be appreciateed!

Ryan - Phoenix Metro and Tucson are big places, 30ish people is a small number, we hope to grow bigger! Wish you could be here!

Terry - Really all I did was orchestrate and have good people on the team who made it happen. It was a great time! I am confident it will get even bigger and better!

Alan - are u my long lost brother? *wink* You are very welcome!

Allison - Email me and I will send you an email on how this all developed! I would love to see Ohio Real Estate Blogging Network have their first meeting! Need a logo made?

Mike - you were the magic behind this first meeting. Because you said "yes" and your willingness to share and give is what made this such a huge success! Isn't it great when we have so much strengthen in numbers? The "Thank You" belongs to you and the line-up of great speakers! See you May 29th, 2008!!

Joeann- I sent out an email out to you to see if you could make it our way. In fact, I wanted to add you to our line up of fabulous speakers too! I hope you are getting my emails. I would love to have you at our next meeting on May 29th, lunch time. Email me with a good email and I will see you get the info! Itis an amazing group of professionals, I know you will enjoy it!