Wow, how things have dramatically changed! I joined ActiveRain November 7, 2010. We had just moved to Missouri to work with a church ministry for 2 years and I needed to supplement the income. Little did I know what that would have turned into!
This was my actual Facebook post from that day that I ran across in the memories today:
"I GOT FEATURED!! 8 Days into Blogging on ActiveRain - THE biggest real estate blog out there! (this is huge by the way and I am super pumped... can you tell?)"
Some of you that have been playing in the rain here for years know this but many do not. Tim and I had been working at a large brokerage here in the Seattle area. I had been a real estate agent and he had been the IT Director. We also had been pretty active in our church and decided to sign up for a 2-year stint to help an Internet ministry in Missouri. This was partially funded but we knew we needed some extra help so while Tim went to work daily for the ministry I went to work on our business that we had slowly been growing since 2006.
And then I discovered ActiveRain.
We already had a couple clients using it but I didn't tap into the benefits myself until that day. I figured this is a great way to expose some content for our clients... Little did I know that it was a great platform for us!
I felt a little awkward talking about ourselves at first but then it started to come naturally. I wrote about SEO, things we had researched and learned in the SEO business and how anyone can do this themselves! I started to get some followers and eventually some calls.
Our intent was actually never to advertise ourselves but our clients and it just snowballed into a little bit of both. I loved talking about SEO, marketing and how Google works. Tim would come home at night and work until 10 on clients that had called during the day. He'd do the back-end techy stuff and I'd write. It was a fierce and busy 2 years. At the end of it, we thought, we have really built a business here! I think we can do this full time. We moved back to Washington state in 2012 and have been hitting it full force since then.
Every so often Google algorithms change and we have to be on top of it all! But what I found was that I loved pushing others forward rather than being an agent myself. Tim loved the challenge of finding what worked and increasing traffic and leads for our clients. The culmination of our teamwork made a great balance for our clients, which grew and grew.
Our background in real estate AND marketing really made this the perfect business. While we continue to help and assist many different types of businesses, the real estate market is really our core niche. We have shared our hearts, our passion and our tricks for getting higher in the search engines and converting more leads.
As we have always said - Anyone can do this... but if you just don't have the time or don't want to, that's what we are here for....
And 6 years later in the rain we are still LOVING what we do! We couldn't have done it without ActiveRain! (And no, they didn't pay me to say that!)
So if you're new here, browse some of my favorite posts and see where we've come!
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