We are going to be down in San Francisco for the next three days attending the Inman Real Estate Connect Conference. We thought it would be cool if we were able to crack the 100,000 member mark while we are down there. We are just over 1000 people away from hitting that milestone right now. In a normal week, this would take us between 4-6 days (we average about 180-200 new members a day). It doesn't take a math major to see that in a normal week, we wouldn't crack 100,000 in the next three days. (here is my shameless plug letting you know I was on the math team in high school and we placed second in state two years in a row......I never pass up an opportunity to tell someone that.......although these days I need my HP48G calculator to add any numbers over double digits, haha)

Here is where you may be able to help us. Jon and I concocted up a little scheme to get you to put the pedal to the metal for the next three days for inviting new members to join ActiveRain in hopes that we can hit the 100K mark before Thursday.

Anyone who invites a member to ActiveRain, that joins the network and confirms their account on the day that we hit 100,000 members will be given some bonus points. The bonus points will coorelate to the day that we hit the mark.

• If we hit 100,000 members on Tuesday, July 22nd, anyone who invited someone that joined that day will get 3000 bonus points
• If we hit 100,000 members on Wednesday July 23rd, anyone who invited someone that joined that day will get 2000 bonus points
• If we hit 100,000 members on Thursday July 24th, anyone who invited someone that joined that day will get 1000 bonus points

The quicker you help us get to 100,000, the more points you are going to get. Is this shameless pandering to break the 100K mark? Yes it is. Are we above shameless pandering so that we can have something fun to talk about while we are at Inman Real Estate Connect? No we are not.

Your call to Action: Get on the phone, remind the people you've already invited, that haven't joined what they are missing out on. Send 12 emails to those in your sphere that aren't taking advantage of the benefits of ActiveRain.

Brad Andersohn also created a great 'Getting Started Tutorial" that you can include in your emails to your friends. It really helps streamline the process of getting started on ActiveRain.

(disclaimer: You will only get the bonus points once. So if you invite 12 people that signed up on July 23rd and we hit 100K on that day, you will only get the 2000 bonus points for that day once.)