Today, July 25, 2008, the ActiveRain Real Estate Network reaches a milestone -- 100,000 members! In just over two years, ActiveRain has grown from an idea in Bellevue, WA to an amazing and vibrant online community of real estate agents, lenders, stagers, home inspectors, virtual assistants and others connected with the real estate industry.

ActiveRain reaches 100,000 members - July 25, 2008 

Congratulations to Jonathan Washburn, Matt Heaton and the entire ActiveRain Team on this extraordinary accomplishment! Thank you for your constant dedication and innovation as you work to build and improve this incredible network.

To fully appreciate where ActiveRain is today, it is helpful to look to its past. These posts from The Official ActiveRain Blog provide some great insights and perspectives. Enjoy!

ActiveRain Launches Real Estate Industry's First Social Networking Website

ActiveRain Real Estate Network is 1 month old

Ahhh, pretty charts - First 6 weeks of growth

Let's have a contest: Contest #1
Contest #1: And we have a winner

ActiveRain member 10K!!!

ActiveRain's Membership Surges to 35,000 in First Year

 

Real Estate Tomato Interviews ActiveRain CEO, Matt Heaton

ActiveRain week in review #1

Big traffic increases for ActiveRain and Localism

ActiveRain's Weltanschauung

Matt and Jon on Inman TV

ActiveRain Hosts the Carnival of Real Estate

ActiveRain Unveils the New Localism

 
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41 Comments on ActiveRain: The Road to 100,000 Members

John~  Yes it is 99,938 right now, so we are almost there.....  hard to believe it would happen that fast!  Now we have to watch out ofr 200,000 members!

07/25/2008 12:15 PM by Owensboro KY Real Estate Specialist Vickie McCartney Broker,ASP,ABR (Home Realty GMAC Real Estate Owensboro Kentucky)


I think you are right, today just may be 100k day.  I really liked looking at the previous posts. Thanks!

07/25/2008 12:20 PM by Kathy Hyatt, abr-chms-ahwd (ERA ACE Realty & Investments, Inc.)


John -

We're damn close - let's check in after lunch.  Are you serving the champagne for the 100,000 member party?

What an incredible job - in incredible online community - the AR Team has created here.  Don't know how I would get through the day without it - although, admitedly, I would get to see my family a little bit more!

DEAN & DEAN'S TEAM CHICAGO

07/25/2008 12:22 PM by Dean Moss - Dean's Team Chicago Real Estate Team (Dean's Team - Keller Williams Fox Realty)


What a fantastic ride. Wish I was on from the start.

 

07/25/2008 12:23 PM by Miriam Martir (Keller Williams)


Vickie and Dean - We've already passed 100,000. The number at the top of the page only updates once a day. To see up-to-the-minute, go here and then click on the last page number (currently 4001) at the bottom of the screen. Looks like we broke 100,000 between 9:30 and 10:00 AM PST.

07/25/2008 12:31 PM by John Novak - Las Vegas and Henderson NV Real Estate (Keller Williams Realty The Marketplace)


Cool, we made it to 100,000 it should anly take us another year to hit 200,000.

Take care!

RJH

07/25/2008 12:33 PM by Empire Realty


I was wondering how you figured out we passed the 100,000 mark.

07/25/2008 02:31 PM by Randy L. Prothero - Hawaii REALTOR® (Century 21 Liberty Homes)


Wow! What a remarkable moment in AR History, right along with the others. Ahhhh, remember when John..? Thanks fro putting that together...flagged for feature!

07/25/2008 02:53 PM by Laura Monroe- Real Estate Virtual Assistant (Creative Agent Solutions.com)


Hi John,

What a remarkable achievement.  Thanks for the graph.  That really puts it into perspective.  I see that the numbers are ramping up even faster after about March of this year.  Apparently there is still significant growth potential for the future.

07/25/2008 03:10 PM by Not Yet Licensed


John,

Thanks for sharing this information.  It amazes me how quickly the network grew and will continue to grow!  I can't imagine where it will be by 2010!  Kudos to the Active Rain Team for establishing this great forum for all in the industry to come together in!  Continued success Active Rain!

07/25/2008 03:18 PM by Michelle Pimentel ASP, IAHSP Empire Home Staging (Empire Home Staging Solutions)


And the convention is when ?  Somewhere sunny in the winter....balmy in the spring...we could do it you know....we have the talent, the numbers.....Hey Rain Gods, Whaddya think ?

07/26/2008 06:44 AM by Sally & David Hanson, Southeastern Wisconsin Realtors (First Weber Group)


Great chart and congrats to Active Rain for hitting this milestone of 100,000 members!

That is a lot of people / members! 

07/26/2008 07:27 AM by Charles McDonald / Your Trusted Broker for Charlottesville Real Estate (RE/MAX Assured Properties)


Amazing isn't it!  It will be interesting to see when they hit 200k and if it takes less time!

07/26/2008 09:01 AM by Dick Betts (Dick Betts National Speaker)


John - You spend some time researching the articles to include in this post. It is fun to look at the progress activerain has made in the last two years. Great reading for all of us to look back on.

07/26/2008 09:32 AM by Terrie Leighton (Ferrari-Lund Real Estate)


You're right! AR has hit a milestone! It wont be long and we'll be celebrating 200K, then before you know it it'll be a million members and counting!

Have a great weekend!

07/26/2008 10:29 AM by Justin & Katie Keisler (Realty Executives of Hickory)


John

thanks for the list of blasts from the past. when we first started there were about 20K members, as I recall. And our thought was we started late. We're thining there will be a lot more coming.

best

07/26/2008 10:34 AM by Gary Bolen (CRS) Lake Tahoe Real Estate Information (Dickson Realty - South Lake Tahoe)


 Hi John and congrats on the feature, it's well deserved. This post, presentation and trip back in time is such a nice way to see how far AR has come.

07/26/2008 11:38 AM by The Blog Artist - marti garaughty (The Art Of Marketing You)


I'm seeing an acceleration in membership.  It would be cool to lay a chart of "active" members over that to see how many are really participants. 

07/26/2008 12:04 PM by Lane Bailey - REALTOR & Car Guy (Diamond Dwellings Realty)


Thanks for all of the great links to the past.  I joined in mid 2007 so it was fun going back and reading those first posts.  Here is an example of a vision that became a reality...wow!

07/26/2008 12:19 PM by Lake Norman Real Estate ~ Diane Aurit (RE/MAX at the Lake)


Thank you Active Rain! I joined last year in June (I think) and it's amazing to see how fast membership has grown.

07/26/2008 01:04 PM by Andrea Mills YourHighlandsCountyAgent (ERA Advantage Realty)


It is amazing to me how fast AR is growing. I appreciate the previous posts as well.

07/26/2008 01:22 PM by Sharon Paxson (Prudential California Realty)


John - Great reasearch to add to the occasion. ... Simply amazing we are now at #100178 and as pointed out above at our current growth rate we should easily hit 200,000 in about 1 years time.

07/26/2008 01:29 PM by Kathy Clulow ASP® SRES® (RE/MAX Scugog Realty Ltd Brokerage)


I am impressed and happy to be apart of this wonderful nextwork.

07/26/2008 03:06 PM by Jacqueline Dyson (Dyson's Mobile Notary Service)


This is a fantastic accomplishment!  Onward and upward!

 

JB Brookman

Castle Homes and Estates

Ladera Heights, CA

07/26/2008 06:54 PM by JB Brookman- Ladera Heights Real Estate Westchester, CA Real Estate - Mortgages (Castle Homes and Estates- Keller Williams Realty)


Great day for all of ActiveRain! It will grow like wildfire now, the word is out.....at least, I spread it every day.

07/26/2008 07:15 PM by Akron Ohio Homes for Sale. David M. Childress (Realty One Real Living)


John,

What an explosion in membership! The network has nationwide notariety, and for good reason.  I'm thankful I joined in the early stages and have been able to benefit professionally and personally.

07/26/2008 07:29 PM by Tracy Santrock - Cary NC Real Estate Blog (Fonville Morisey)


Amazing, When I joined 9/11/07 there were around 43K members...in less than a year it's more than doubled since. What a great job you guy's are doing!  Thanks! K

07/26/2008 08:19 PM by Karen Monsour,REALTOR® Broward,Palm Beach,Miami/Dade! 954-464-4194 anytime! (EXIT Team Realty)


I've been watching that number ticking for the last two weeks. Congrats everyone!

07/26/2008 08:55 PM by


Opps, thought I was logged in....

I've been watching that number ticking for the last two weeks. Congrats everyone!

07/26/2008 08:59 PM by Debbie Small, CRS, GRI (Long & Foster Realtors)


I did not realize it had been just over two years.  That is quite an accomplishment.

07/27/2008 01:35 AM by Christine Donovan Costa Mesa Real Estate (Broker/Attorney) (Donovan Blatt Team - Donovan Group Realty)


Great chart. It looks like some big real estate companies use to be....up, up, up but NOT anymore. Thanks for the history posts, John. Glad this was featured to get more exposure.

07/27/2008 10:00 AM by Missy Caulk Ann Arbor Realtor Ann Arbor Real Estate (Keller Williams Ann Arbor)


LOL John...

I'm surprised we didn't bump into each other on Active Rain's Official Blog. I had the same idea as you. I have a similar post in my docs. You can't imagine how dumb I would've felt if I posted it and had not seen this first :)

What it is they say? Great minds think alike :)

TLW...ROAR!

07/27/2008 07:29 PM by "The Lovely Wife"...Broker Bryant's Wife... (Co-Owner Tutas Towne Realty, Inc.)


John,

Thanks for putting this together!  I'm going to read my way through the links.

Mike in Tucson

07/28/2008 12:19 AM by Mike Jones (Tucson Mortgage Company, LLC)


John, something tells me that we won't take two years to reach the next 200,000!

07/28/2008 07:29 AM by Patricia Kennedy (Evers & Company)


Patricia...

I agree. I have think once Localism makes it out of beta...This place is going to explode.

Good thing I gave up try to keep up :)

TLW...ROAR!

07/28/2008 08:50 AM by "The Lovely Wife"...Broker Bryant's Wife... (Co-Owner Tutas Towne Realty, Inc.)


Wow John- that's some great research and a nice set of links. Every business would want a growth curve like that one.

08/03/2008 11:49 AM by Chuck Willman, Arizona Realtor®, ABR, TRC (Gentry Realty)


John - Thanks for the 24 months in review.  It's part of my getting plugged back in process!

08/22/2008 05:39 PM by Tony Marriott, Associate Broker, CRP, CLHMS, CRB, CRS ~~ Phoenix Arizona (Keller Williams Realty Professional Partners)


I am proud to say I joined Activerain around the time they were at the 20,000 member mark and it has been one amazing year and half watching it grow so much.

Todd Clark, Helping Families Home - www.IFoundYourNewHome.com

08/29/2008 01:04 AM by Todd Clark (Realtor), GRI (Washington Co, Beaverton Oregon) (Kastings & Associates, Beaverton Oregon Real Estate)


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