I've never really been good at keeping secrets! I confess. Maybe it's a character flaw ... maybe it's just my kind of
personality! I've always been a "tell all" sort of person.
If something is so good, so much fun, so successful, so worth talking about ... I say why keep it a secret? Maybe some people say if the secret is so good they don't want to share it with everyone else.
They may want to keep it all for themselves and let everyone else figure it out the hard way. I'm just not like that ... It's so much fun to tell good secrets! Look at those cute little girls giggling and whispering about their happy secrets! Friendships are formed and lifelong bonds are made when we share our good secrets.
I'm not talking about gossip or telling something someone shared in confidence. It's not good when we share other people's secrets. I'm talking about sharing something you and I have learned that has made our journey easier, better, more fun, and we naturally want to share it with our friends!
I've discovered the SECRETS TO SUCCESS ON ACTIVE RAIN and I want to share them with you ... all 90,000+ of you or at least the 4,000+ of you who are online now!
NEWBIES sign up for Active Rain every day ... and some of them never get any farther than entering in the required information .... some never even post a profile photo of themselves or at least their business logo.
I don't get it! Why don't you want to post your image on your profile?
The first day I discovered Active Rain I spent a couple of hours setting up my profile, loading up a photo, and filling in the blanks. It seemed pretty clear to me that I needed to take some of the content from my current real estate website, copy and paste it into my new Active Rain PROFILE PAGE.
YOUR ACTIVE RAIN PROFILE PAGE IS THE NUMBER ONE SECRET TO SUCCESS ON ACTIVE RAIN!!
If you don't know what to say about YOU ... then I promise you that no one else does either. If you aren't interested enough in YOU to talk about you... guess what ... no one else is either. If you don't have an image to share ... create one. Better yet, use your business card photo or the most recent picture that was taken of you when you were having fun!
When you begin filling in the blanks on your profile page, please tell us where you are ... where do you live? Where do you work? Where is your area of expertise? Name that city where you are a Local Expert! And then tell us what you know about your area of expertise. Tell us about your recent successes, your motivation to do what you do, what makes you unique in your market, and what makes you a specialist in your field.
The second best person to talk about you is a satisfied customer or client. Testimonials are very important and they can help you see yourself the way others really see you. They also help your future prospective customers see you through the eyes of someone who believes in you and cared enough to write a few words about you.
Most of us felt the same way about getting those first Testimonials ... unsure of how to ask for them. One of the best things I've ever done in my career was learning to ask for a testimonial. You have the perfect opportunity to ask for them now.
"Mr. Customer, I have to post a brief testimonial on my new business profile. Could you help me by writing a few words about our recent transaction that would help other people get to know me, so that I can help them like I was fortunate enough to help you? I really appeciate it! Thank you."
Post those testimonials! You will be humbled and amazed by the nice things people are willing to say about you when you give them the chance by asking for a brief testimonial.
THE SECOND SECRET TO SUCCESS IS JOINING SEVERAL GROUPS ON ACTIVE RAIN!
On the menu bar at the top of the AR page, you see GROUPS, and when you click on it you see a very intimidating list of groups in the drop-down box. If you begin to read about all these groups... well, it can be overwhelming! So, start with those featured groups in the right column. Those have the most members and posts. All that activity is good and all those members in those groups are the ones who will read your blog when you post to these groups. When you find blogs that "speak" to you, look at the groups they are posted to and join those groups. Chances are you will find "like minded professionals" in these groups.
One of my favorites is the IT'S ALL ABOUT THEM (THEMTHEM) GROUP. I recently became one of the moderators for this group, and I have to say the posts to this group are some of the best on AR. That's because they are about others ... bloggers have written these posts to shine the light on some one else's success or to thank someone special. We always gain the most when we give credit to someone else's efforts. Feel the love when you join this group and write your own ThemThem about someone today!
MAKING POSITIVE COMMENTS IS SUCCESS TIP #3 ON ACTIVE RAIN!
When you give more than you receive you can't go wrong! If you read, read, read lots of posts on Active Rain some really great things will begin to happen for you.
- You will learn a lot of great new stuff ... real estate and technology stuff ... interesting information about people and places all over the world ... and you might even learn something about yourself.
- You will begin to make new friendships when you read about the experiences of other AR members, and when you comment in a positive way on their posts, you will create new relationships.
- You will find that your new RAIN-FRIENDS will begin to read and comment on the posts you write!
When you read a lot of posts, you learn what to write about. Posts that get lots of comments usually are written about the things that are happening to other people in our industry or in a local market. You'll find that you have lots of things in common with other real estate professionals. You will learn more about SEO, technology, marketing, staging, mortgages, taxes, contracts, real estate law, and The Code here on AR than anywhere else on the web. It's all in one place, but it's not just one person's opinion ... it's 90,000+ opinions!
Now that you know the TOP 3 SECRETS to ACTIVE RAIN SUCCES ... tell everyone! Don't be a secret agent, tell everyone about your success, and reach out to encourage others in the ACTIVE RAIN NETWORK!
JAN EVETT, BROKER ASSOCIATE, RYAN REALTY, PANAMA CITY BEACH, FLORIDA
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I love Panama City Beach. I used to visit my family at neighboring Laguna Beach. You comments Jan are so on the point about AR. Thanks!