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Successful September: Active Rain Success Stories of September 2008

Financial bailout. Lehman Brothers bankrupt. Partisan battles in the house. Home sales down.

Does the media gloom & doom and the uncertainty of our economy have you feeling less than your best lately? Then it's time for you to read Successful September: Active Rain Success Stories of September 2008 as posted in the Active Rain Block Party group. One of my favorite things here (besides experiencing my own success) is to read about the success of others and learn from their efforts.

There's no better place than the Active Rain Block Party group to read about the success that people are experiencing and which you too can experience with consistent blogging efforts. This group was established as a repository for the success stories. It's a great place for new members to come and read testimonials from other members and learn that Active Rain is indeed generating business and putting real dollars in peoples' pockets.

Here then are the best success stories from September 2008:

Active Rain Success Story
Elaine Stewart is reaping the benefits of her time here on Active Rain.

Lizette Fitzpatrick

A Reluctant Reblogger Success Story
Lizette Fitzpatrick discusses one of the newer Active Rain tools -- reblogging and how it can lead to success.

The Perfect Settlement!
Patricia Kennedy writes about the Perfect Settlement. Isn't that what we all want?

What a great weekend – Thank you Activerain!
Todd Clark knows the meaning of success. Everyone yearns for a weekend like that.

Pippa MAC had so much success this month, it was hard to choose just one post, so here's a hatrick:

How Blogging is the ULTIMATE advertising and SEO to 10,000 people ~ Amazing Results! #1 Google

Blogging Success Story ~ YOU are their friend before you ever meet them!!!

National Recognition w/ Localism! Remax Network used my AR Blog to Raise Funds to 107,093 people

Link Building: The Basics and Beyond - AZ Blogging Network Meeting September 2008
Candace Robinson spearheaded the formation of a local group of blogging knowhow -- the AZ Blogging Network. Here she reports on their monthly meeting.

Debbie Malone

My Localism Success Story- Just This Week!
Debbie Malone is enjoying success in September.

Kudos To Fellow AR Member Stacy Magid for a Terrific Transaction
Cindy Jones details her experience working on a transaction with another Rainer.

300000 Points+300000 Steps+300000 Plus Endless Possibilities In The Rain.
Nestor & Katerina Gasset keep on rolling along with their success and leading by example. As a mainstay of the Active Rain community, they've now surpassed 300,000 points and offer a look back.

Castellum Realty

The Greatest 25 Active Rain bloggers (based on Points) from CANADA.
Castellum Realty (master list builder) compiled some of our great bloggers from up North. While Active Rain may not be truly international yet, we do have many great Canadian bloggers. Take a look.

Inspired by these stories of success?

Are you having Success? Tell us about it!

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Posted by Brian Block -- Northern Virginia & D.C. Real Estate on 10/02/2008 10:49 PM

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25 Comments on Successful September: Active Rain Success Stories of September 2008

OCT

2008

Brian - I did have a great September for sales, but I didn't have any specific successes from AR that I could point to this time around. Nice recap of posts - I am interested to read a couple of these that I missed.

Brian - I had no idea this group was there... probably because I got lost looking at all of the possible groups to join and posts to read! Thanks for pointing out another source of positive on AR!

JASON: Glad to hear you had a great September for sales. I did too! Thanks for reading and your continued support of the Block Party.

CAT: Welcome to the group. I know you'll enjoy it at the Active Rain Block Party!

Brian ... thanks so much for taking the time to put these all together ... I LOVE hearing about all the AR success! You should include yourself in the compilation!

Thanks for including me in your weekly wrap-up. I can say I did enjoy that weekend, now if I can just convince the real estate gods to make every weekend to be like that!

PIPPA: My pleasure and congratulations on having 3 posts in this month's wrap-up. I love hearing about the success too. I usually have a post to include in the compilation for myself but didn't have one worthy of inclusion this month, though it was quite a successful month.

TODD: You're welcome. A couple weekends like that and you could take some time off.

Hi Brian! Wow! I'm honored to be mentioned in your post! There are some stories here that I missed. Thanks!

Brian - Thanks for giving me the nudge to start reading the posts in this group again. It's a great pick-me-up to read all the wonderful successes of other members.

Brian-thanks for including me in the wrap-up. I thought the fall might bring a slow down but business is as brisk as ever. So much for buyers sitting on the fence!

Brian... it's good to see these kinds of stories. Just proof that Active Rain and blogging actually works... thanks

jeff belonger

Its always inspiring to hear about these myriad success stories; thanks for compiling this excellent post:)

I love to hear AR success stories. I will have to read those posts. Thanks.

OCT

2008

Brian,

Thanks for putting together another great group of people and thanks for your contributions to the community as well:)

Thanks for inviting us to the party Brian! Promoting success is positive and inspirational! Greetings from Paradise.

Love those success stories AND the best thing is those Google Page # 1 results.

may have to join the block party...inspiring success stories sure beats the heck out of the doom and gloom media. Rock on! oops sorry this music video has got me in a rock n' roll mood. Take care.

Brian, I'm glad I read this. I needed the inspiration today and I joined the group. I'm afraid I had thought it would be a "time waster" and had never checked it out. My bad.

In a changing market with all the negatives you hear, it is great to read other members success stories. It keeps me motivated.

PS. I am having a very good year and Active Rain has been a strong part of that.

Thanks for putting together all the success stories. It's very encouraging.

I am always happy to read about Active Rain Success stories. Hopefully one day I am going to be one of those people. Have a great weekend. Great post.

OCT

2008

Brian - Thank you for including my September AZREBN group and event! This blogging network not only has been a success but the success goes to those that so freely volunteer their time to coach, instruct and sponsor this monthly event! I am honored to have been mentioned with other such successful rainers! Thank you for including me (us)!

Brian- Thank you for mentioning our 300,000 point milestone post. I love to hear about Active Rain successes! It is so great for the newbies to read these posts so they can understand that this can be their success as well.

Brian,

Thank you for sharing the sucess stories. We love those - we find them inspirational ! The group looks great so just joined the group and subscribed to your blog as well ! I used to live in NOVA and miss it sometimes : )

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