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Remember that question "What Is ActiveRain?" At some point, we all had it! Although not so popular any longer, this question was answered by the creators and founders of ActiveRain back in 2007. Not too much has changed since then... or has it? It was sure fun to find and watch this video again, I hope you'll Enjoy it too!

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50 Comments on ActiveRain - The Very First Video Explaining the ActiveRain RE Network

FEB
21
2010
1,306,538 Points 314 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master
Brad - THERE'S a bit of history. That WAS fun. My how we have grown and changed, but in some fundamental ways we haven't. Jeff
11:31am • #1
669,334 Points 18 Featured Posts Outside Blog Called Shot Master

Brad,

Thanks for posting that video.

Geee, I think there were 13,000 members when I joined AR, and I felt like I had missed the bus!
12:35pm • #2
381,935 Points 19 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog

I wasn't around in the early days so that was a lot of fun to watch.
12:51pm • #3
708,952 Points 63 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Hi Brad... WOW!  I never saw this one as it pre-dates my involvement with AR, yet it all still rings true... except the number of members!
1:11pm • #4
185,094 Points 3 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp

Brad, Being a newbie, it is great to see the first steps!  Thank you all at AR for creating this great format.  Thanks for sharing the video, Brad.
3:56pm • #5
132,470 Points 1 Featured Post Outside Blog

Niiicce!  I never saw that one before!  Yep!  It still is relevant!  Even today!  Thanks Brad!
4:48pm • #6
381,661 Points Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Same foundation and vision, but boy has that membership grown!
7:07pm • #7
875,789 Points 35 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog

Brad, I LOVED watching that!  When I signed on there were a little over 6,000 members and I thought it was huge then.....I would have never, EVER imagined all the benefits from AR both personally and professionally or the way this incredible place has grown! 
7:22pm • #8
111,497 Points 1 Featured Post Attended Rain Camp

Wow...cool to see a little background history. ~Doug
7:33pm • #9
306,619 Points 17 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog Hit Router Called Shot Master

Hi Brad, I never seen that video - might be from right before I joined - nice to see Jon and Matt's bright shiny faces at the beginning of something HUGE.  AR has exceeded their expectations, hasn't it?
10:09pm • #10
133,064 Points 1 Featured Post

Thanks for posting this  Brad , Great Video.

Bill
11:00pm • #11
591,941 Points 22 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp

Umm.... oops? No video here. Just code. But there were about 34,000 members when I joined. We've definitely come a long way. Can't wait to see the video...  >.>
11:44pm • #12
FEB
22
2010
730,552 Points 1 Featured Post Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Brad - It's very interesting to see video from ActiveRain in its early days.
5:34am • #13
977,064 Points 17 Featured Posts Hit Router Called Shot Master

Brad, interesting nostalgia.  We've come a long way!
5:51am • #14
141,597 Points 1 Featured Post Outside Blog Hit Router Attended Rain Camp
Nice video, old school!
7:31pm • #15
335,646 Points 14 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Very cool video Brad. Wow.. 2007 and 36K members. Look at you now!
10:02pm • #16
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23
2010
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Brad,

Very enjoyable to see what Jon and Mat were creating in the early days.  TX =)
8:34pm • #17
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Brad,

Very enjoyable to see what Jon and Mat were creating in the early days.  TX =)
8:34pm • #18
FEB
26
2010
279,138 Points 1 Featured Post Localism Sponsor Hit Router Attended Rain Camp

Brad ~ I tried, just moved and speaker's aren't; hooked up and I pull up on my Palm. I will try back tomorrow.
10:03pm • #19
457,246 Points 22 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Hi Brad, That was fun.  Active Rain has sure grown and evolved since then.  I'll bet they didn't even know they'd be adding some of the features that we take for granted just a couple of years later.
10:06pm • #20
338,720 Points 9 Featured Posts Called Shot Master

Very cool!  I had not watched that ever before... We've come a long way baby!
10:50pm • #21

This is the very first comment I have made and very first post I have read on Active Rain.  How fitting eh!  It is like joining a bunch of same sames.  One could lose themselves inside a new family. Wow!!!  PS:  I changed offices to my home basement now- I love the switch!  I see my kids more often and I realize how dead beat I am/was if I don't stop to take 'unofficial' time with them, so as they know I love them.  Really, I did before, it is just different and bettter.  Active Rain, here I come community!
11:58pm • #22
FEB
27
2010
531,237 Points 4 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Thanks for the video Brad.. Don't think I have ever seen this one before.
12:43am • #23
1,194,430 Points 89 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog Called Shot Master

I don't believe I have ever seen that before.  Isn't it amazing how much ActiveRain has grown?  I gotta watch that again,
3:32am • #24
250,733 Points 77 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Fun to see and a blast from the past for sure.
5:20am • #25
406,175 Points 34 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Brad although I've only been around a year and a half, this video is just as valid and informative as it was when produced. Great explanation do what this place is really all about! I am going to send the link to every agent and broker in my office to help them understand what I've been talking about when urging them to JOIN!!
5:47am • #26
117,522 Points Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp

Brad, thank you for posting the video. It is exciting to see how AR has grown over the short few years and what a wonderful platform it has become.
6:06am • #27
403,559 Points 2 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp

I think I may do this.  I'm excited....
6:52am • #28
782,214 Points 71 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Brad that was really an excellent video. This is a great summary when trying to explain some of the benefits the platform brings.
7:14am • #29
555,849 Points 31 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Fantastic Brad!!  Thanks to Matt and Jon for the foresight they had.  Love the video and the history.  Wow from 36,000 to well over 175k!  Pretty amazing when you stop to think about it...  But when somethings good it explodes!  Way to go Active Rain...
7:19am • #30
307,474 Points 32 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Brad, I'm a recent enrollee and appreciate the history. Over the past two months I see some great benefits to being here to both increase my knowledge of the industry and to make new contacts with both agents and clients. Thanks.
7:42am • #31
Hi Brad, Thank you for helping me fit the pieces together. Good things are starting to happen for me through ActiveRain. Cassie
8:16am • #32

I'm a relative newbie joining Jan 2009, so this was interesting. I would've signed up sooner if I'd have heard about AR sooner - I signed up the day I heard about it in a C21 meeting at my office.
8:32am • #33
509,850 Points 70 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Very nice little summary !

... quick question, was that a half-caf-one-pump-classic-mocha-latte that Matt was clinging to in his interview !! lol   ... coffee is essential !

Great video guys !
9:05am • #34
1 Featured Post

Great blast from the past... glad I joined!
9:18am • #35
2 Featured Posts

Those were the days my friend...we thought they'd never end...and guess what?  They haven't.  As you know, I'm a newer member of the tribe.  One day I'll be saying "I remember when there were only 175,000 folks on Active Rain...
9:47am • #36
546,529 Points 11 Featured Posts

Wow, what a lot of fun to watch.  Perhaps a sequel on how far the platform has come, morphed, etc.
10:06am • #37
231,081 Points 14 Featured Posts Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Funny at this point in time the video seems so now, and yet so from another age. Nice clip, neat to hear the original intent from the creators. Thanks for posting.
10:52am • #38
723,247 Points 47 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

There were around 80,000 members when I started.  Seems the growth has really picked up steam.  Loved getting to see this.
11:21am • #39
314,804 Points 2 Featured Posts Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Hi Brad. I love Active Rain though I was not here during the early days. I really like that it is Seattle based. Well I noticed that Toby Barnett's last post at Active Rain was in November 2009 and Ardel DellaLoggia last posted in 12/2009.

1:19pm • #40
168,842 Points 1 Featured Post Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master
This is great Brad...excellent even for those of us AR vets
1:33pm • #41
402,750 Points 4 Featured Posts Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Brad - Ahhh the good old days... I remember about 15,000 members when we first started as well... Seems like yesterday... Good to see this again... thanks
3:48pm • #42
107,233 Points 1 Featured Post Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp

Brad, Thanks for the video.  It's nice to see where we started and I'm anxious to see where it goes from here! 
7:23pm • #43
127,762 Points 2 Featured Posts Outside Blog Called Shot Master
Brad, Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Though a newby, this was a hoot!
7:52pm • #44
225,592 Points 71 Featured Posts Outside Blog Called Shot Master

Brad: I can't believe it!---I  thought this thing had been around for a century when i joined---it was like some scary, big, well established web site that I was so intimidated by!!! I was so nervous when I joined and started to blog...I could just see me failing terribly at the writing thing!...NOW  I FIND OUT THAT YOU GUYS WERE ONLY A FEW MONTHS OLD WHEN I JOINED---WHAT A BLUFF. I TOTALLY GOT TAKEN IN....:) (There were like 75,000 members when I joined in late 2007!!)
9:16pm • #45
399,002 Points 31 Featured Posts Outside Blog Called Shot Master

Brad, hadn't seen that before.  I'm so happy I was introduced to AR.
11:39pm • #46
FEB
28
2010
629,192 Points 314 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog Hit Router Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

I remember finding and seeing this video a few years back, and after watching it, I only dreamed that I'd get to work for and with a great site like this one day!!  :-O

Lana - just goes to show that blogging can build business, they're probably out harvesting the crops from all the seeds and watering they've done here in the rain.  Busy selling Real Estate is typically the goal of every Real Estate agent here on AR, at least that's what I'm thinking...

Paula- no bluffs, regardless, glad you joined and "got taken in" to the "rain" puddle here! :-))
12:25am • #47
142,631 Points Attended Rain Camp
Brad, Thank you for sharing the video with us. I would like thanks Active Rain and the people who are managing the site, you are doing a great job! I do not visit my personal website as often as I login-in into active rain, soon there will be no need to have a website. Thanks
1:22am • #48
516,105 Points 8 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Brad-Loved watching the video.  So far in such a short time!  Pretty soon AR will be crossing the 200,000 member mark!
7:44am • #49
MAR
15
2010
498,254 Points 8 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog Called Shot Master

Brad - thanks for this original video, in the beginning it said 36,000 members - my how we have grown!
12:36pm • #50

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