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ActiveRain Success Stories and Testimonials

There are so many success stories and testimonials that come from members of ActiveRain, it's awesome to read some of what happens to people from being on this network. Not just business stories, or lead generation, I'm talking about real life changing experiences. Real people and real lives being affected and even changed by their contributions and efforts here on AR.

Two of my personal greatest success stories (and I have many) are 1.) the fact that this community and members helped me through a very tough time in my life transitioning from one industry, to being a full time employee here on ActiveRain, and 2.) my brother finding me on ActiveRain after 40 years of being separated. I was only five years old the last time I saw him.

These stories and testimonials from our members are so powerful, touching, and life changing, that we are now going to be featuring them in the "ActiveRain Success Stories" link located on the main ActiveRain page. Do you have a success story to share? Whether it's personal, business related, or just about an ActiveRain success, WE WANT TO SHARE YOUR TESTIMONIALS and SUCCESS STORIES TOO! How has ActiveRain or the members here affected you, your family, your business, your community, or your life?

Here's How You Can Share Your ActiveRain Testimonial

Go to your ActiveRain Profile and click on the "edit" option. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and you'll see the "NEW" area we've added just for you and your story. What you enter here will not appear on your profile, it will ONLY appear on the landing page with all of the other AR Success Stories HERE!

You can also access this landing page from the main ActiveRain HOME page.

Please keep these few items in mind when adding your ActiveRain Success Story or Testimonial:

You'll receive 500 points for creating and contributing a testimonial or success story.

The success story is about success achieved because of, or on ActiveRain - not just life successes.

Having your Success Story on this landing page will be significant for your SEO results.

Please DO NOT use this area for self-promotion or advertising, if so, it will be removed.

Your testimonial must be at least 20 words or more to qualify for the 500 Bonus points.

See what others have added as their success story or testimonial. ActiveRain Success Stories.

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Posted by Brad Andersohn ~ Community Manager on 02/05/2009 04:23 PM

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87 Comments on ActiveRain Success Stories and Testimonials

FEB

Brad- I am on my way to do it right now! It is so wonderful that your brother found you here!!! Thanks for sharing!

Brad, if we have spent anytime here there are success stories and this sounds like a great place to hear about it. Wonder how many romances or friendships or just general referrals to others across this country because we feel "like we know" someone else.

Your story is a special one. I look forward to reading more.

I love the idea. You guys are always thinking. How do we get our ideas up to you on Olympus?-LOL. Seriously, I have had a few posts that people seemed interested in implememting a few of the ideas.How feasible they are is something else-Dinah Lee

good idea...I'll go do it!

Brad- I will share an Active Rain success story/testimonial....and post it at the New place on my edit profile page!

Hey Brad,

You know I don't have to tell you that I've gotten business from here before. I probably would say I average at least one sort of correspondence on a weekly basis through AR. Maybe not all of them pan out but it's better than nothing and I'm grateful. I also know about the story about the long lost brother which was a fantastic ending.

I thought I noticed something new this morning when I made a tweak to my profile. I just added a small success. Great addition to the site.

Great to hear you found your brother. That is awesome. I look forward to hearing more of these stories.

Hey Brad - Another idea and more for me to learn! I will share soon!

Mary

What a great story about your brother. I love reading testimonials and stories like that!

Brad, I'd also like to remind folks that there are tons of Active Rain success stories in the group that I created -- Active Rain Block Party -- every month I post the best ones of the prior month. There's a great archive of success stories there.

Brad and Brian - it's great to chronicle the connections. I'd actually say that Connections might be a better descriptor than Success Stories. Finding a brother is certainly a Connection. So are the many relationships we've made that haven't yet resulted in referrals.

What a fun way to twist my arm into writing about one of my favorite subjects--ME and AR. cw

Crazy - I've JUST posted a success story about finally getting on p1 of Google. Guess I'll go back and edit it to appear here. Perfect timing!

Brad, I love the fact that you guys continue to make Active Rain better and better. Hopefully I'll have a success story to share soon. Thanks for all that you do.

Brad,

I actually do have a few. So, I'll have to bookmark this when I'm ready to post. Thanks for the information.

Brian Madigan

I did, and am now off to read the others!

I would like to see some of the successes other members are having on Active Rain. I can't say I've had a lot of business success here, but I enjoy seeing what is happening in other area. I just think it is a fun place to blog.

I saw it this morning and wondered how I was going to participate. A few hours later, I have a perfect story to tell. And I will do that. Did I hear you say 500 points? (Just kidding on that one). I'd love to tell my Active Rain Story.

This is cool thanks for letting us know about this Brad. I'm glad you were able to find your brother that's awesome..

This is awesome! I love hearing people's strories and have been lax in sharing some of my successes in just my 6 months on the Rain. The fun and knowledge simply does not ever stop here - what did I do again before AR? Not as much as I am now that's for sure. Thanks Brad and AR folks. Can't wait to see the great stories. ~Anne Marie

Thats awesome that your brother found you. I think that should be the #1 instead of #2. I had the same experience with Facebook. My sister that I have not seen or heard from in 24 years found me there. I was 12 and she was 3 at the time. Congrats on the success.

Brad, this is great. Every day I open this up and am amazed what what is available, how it works and what happens as a result of this Active Rain community. I am so happy for you with your career and your relationship with your rother.

Ha! I was wondering about that and just went on ahead and added mine...then when I saved it I didn't see it...now that I see your post and clicked on the link ...there it is! That's pretty cool :)

Brad - I'm happy for you that you found your brother thru AR. That is the most wonderfu story I have ever read at AR. Through AR, I was able to be found on page1 of Google and getting leads in the process and I think that is phenomenal. I'll write about my testimonials soon.

Brad - I was just setting up my own profile here and just noticed this new box on the bottom of the edit page. Very cool. I posted in it this afternoon, before you did this post and was suprised when I saw 500 points come up. Wow! What a nice suprise! You guys just get better everyday. I can't tell you how much we love A/R! Lisa and I that is. I am just getting started here on A/R and am having a blast setting up my own site other than our team site. Very Cool! Very Cool indeed! Thanks Brad!

Bob H

Brad-Thank you for your dedication and passion for AR. I'm having the best time soaking up all that is AR and look forward to posting a success story soon. Best to you!

Hey Brad, thanks for coming up with this! This is a great place to read up on other agents success stories, tell our own and to get motivation as well.

Brad, thanks for this new addition to AR. It is amazing how thoroughly AR resonates with its members - a truly successful idea!

Sounds great Brad. I should be able to scrape one together:)

Brad - great idea to get people to share their stories about connections, successes with business, adn all that is meaninful to them about the AR network. Giving it some thought to decide thwt I can contribute.

Jeff

Brad, Wow, I've had many successes here from Activerain--it's going to be a difficult decision on which one to choose. This is a wonderful feature to add....and I will enjoy reading the ones I may have missed.

I wish I had a specific success story...mine is more of a continual opening up of my world and education. I will wait and when one happens, AR will be the first to know!

Brad, I went awol for about a year. I had NO idea that you and your long lost brother had been reconciled. How absolutely wonderful is that?!

I'm heading over tot he success stories. Neat addition.

Wow, this is great. Something to aspire to besides being featured.

Brad, I have met soo many great people here on the Rain. Each day the list grows and grows. Thanks for your help.

done! What a great idea - of course that should not surprise me at this point:)

How fun! I love reading all of these quotes - what a fantastic idea. I swear you blink around here you are light years behind!

Wow, I am a believer, can't wait to tell you why on the testimonial page. Thanks to everyone who makes this community work. Gina

Brad, How exciting that you found your Brother via Active Rain. Wow, that's amazing. I'm so happy for you! I think many of us hate "tooting" our own horn. Nice to know there's a place to "toot away"! I"ll start tootin' this weekend:P) I can't WAIT to meet you all next week! Counting down the days!

Brad I'm having enough trouble keeping up with all the good stuff on active rain and now you've just added tons more. Just not enough hours in the day to get it all in.

Brad,

There are so many successes from Active Rain. I'll head over and write up my testmonial to AR.

Brad,

Great idea for a post. That is fantastic that you have reconnected with your brother...perhaps that's why you were hired and chose to work for Active Rain...someone above was watching and gave you the opportunity! :-)

Brad: You guys and gal are always doing great things for us here on AR.. Thank You !

I figured I better practice what I preach, so I finally just added my AR testimonial to my profile page. Now I'm off to read the many testimonies you have all added there as well. There sure are a lot more now than when I left this afternoon. :-))

Also, just for the record, I didn't come up with this idea, in fact I'm not sure exactly who on our team did, but I do know this, I sure like it, and I can see what it will do for readers, visitors, members, and for our community. ActiveRain really is so much more than just another Social Network, or an On-line Real Estate Industry Media and Marketing platform.

It's more than just a network of friends here, we're more like a virtual family than anything else. Those of you who have been here more than a year, or have 100,000 hard earned points or more know exactly what I mean and exactly what I am talking about. Those of you who are brand new to AR, I can only say this...

There really is no other place or network on the entire WEB quite like even close to ActiveRain... and believe me, I have looked at hundreds.

FEB

You guys just keep coming up with great stuff! Thank you!

Brad, I am always astounded by the incredible work that you all bring to the Activerain community. The success stories and testimonials idea is one more way for the AR family to get to know each other even more. I am blown away by your personal story of being reunited with your brother, as what could be more rewarding and moving than that? Take care and I look forward to your next post!

With each person's success story the power of this community is quite evident, being able to learn, implement, real word achievable success is a tremendous advantage in this business.

Brad,

Your story is a real special one. I look forward to reading more!

How cool is that... Everyone loves to share their success and it really helps to encourage "Newbie" bloggers to keep the faith!

I Love Active Rain!

Hi Brad,

It's my pleasure to spread the word but it seems that the point counter is broken. I wrote up a nice thing and posted it but it doesn't show up on the page of success stories. Is there a problem or is it just me?

Lisa

Brad - How wonderful to hear that your brother found you. That must have been something else! I just saw the new feature the other day and was meaning to look into it further. Thanks for the explaination. I am relatively new around here and the other day I noticed a name in my home town of Sacramento - I think Bob Machado was our Sacremento Bee "paper boy" (I am sure that is an inappropriate description these days) for years when growing up. He was quite a bit older that I, closer to my brothers age. I have been meaning to contact him. You have inspired me to do so. Thanks Brad for all you AR's do.

Lisa - it looks like Robert and you share a profile on AR, this is what is showing up on the success story page:

Robert Hammerstein (Coldwell Banker) said about 14 hours ago,
"I have been a member with my wife Lisa since October 2006 and have never delved into the blogging platform except to help out my wife with the HammersTeam Blogsite. Since we have been involved with this site we have met so many incredibly talented people who are so nice and helpful. People that are willing to share knowledge and build this community to where it is now and continue it's progressive climb up. The Active Rain Community is so invigorating and helpful that I don't know what I would do without it now. This is the reason I have started up my own blog. I am so grateful to this site! Thanks Active Rain. Bob Hammerstein"

If you have a separate profile, just make sure you add your testimonial to your profile at the bottom of the page, and it will show up. When I checked your profile at http://activerain.com/hammersteam, there was nothing posted in the "Success Story" area. Adding your story there will work as well. :-)

Thanks for the idea, Brad! I'm thinking of my "Success" post right now, but I'm quite sure that yours will be hard to beat! Reconnecting with your brother is an awesome testimonial for Active Rain!

I love reading positive Success Stories it keeps me motivated to stay Active in the Rain.

Brad, this is great. I love reading the success stories. So glad you have reconnected with your brother..that is truly awesome.

Brad, I did it. My success story has been written and I assume I will be able to expand upon it the longer I'm on AR. Maybe I'll even find my long last brother! (I'm pretty sure I don't have another brother, but who knows?). Congratulations to you on finding yours, however!

Brad, I can't even imagine what my online marketing interest would have been regarding my business, had it not been for ActiveRain. This community makes work feel like fun!

Wonderful idea....who knows what lies ahead!

Jumped all over that one and meant every word........ thx.

Wow...finding a brother after 40 years, there really isn't anything I can add that that those 6 words already did.

Brad, this is an awesome area to write about your successes here...I am off to do one now!

Brad - It is really a great idea to promote success stories on Active Rain. After reading through these stories, I think your story about finding your brother struck me the most as I recall your post about it, which has nothing to do about finding leads, selling houses, making money. Active Rain is really a great site for making friends, networking, sharing valuable information and lessons, as well as supporting each other when in need. Tell me where else is such a site?

Brad - thanks for getting back to me. BTW you can call me Bob not Robert. :-)

Yes you are correct. The profile you mention above is mine and it worked out fine. Lisa was talking about the Hammersteam profile. She tried to post to it about 5 times and it wouldn't take yesterday. She'll give it another attempt tonight. Thanks for clarifying. I hope this makes sense to you. Bob H

Robert Bob - try again, it looked like it worked fine for me logged in as you, but let me know to be sure. You're the first to report any issue with that area of the profile page. Make sure it's 20 words or longer, no links or html, and then save using the update profile button. It should still be in that area when you reload the page but it won't show publicly. Here to help if you need. :-) BTW - responded to your email as well.

I'm new, so I don't have one.... Yet. Looking forward to when I do.

FEB

I can't count how many success stories I have anymore. I have written many in my time in the rain and now you are asking me to compile them? I think I can arrange that and hope others realize how great this community really is.

Brad, Good story to read that you and your brother re united.

I've written an activerain success story and have had many other success stories directly related from activerain. I will certainly make use of the new option feature.

I would like to suggest, with all the pull down menu's and chad buttons one could be added to the blog edit that would allow for a blog to be catagorized into the "success stories" catagory.

Hi Brad, I tried to use some HTML in it and it didn't work. Did I screw something up or is it not designed for it?

Thanks!

FEB

Concetta - these success stories are only for your AR profile page, other success stories can be created in a post and then added to topics, channels and categories if you choose. :-)

Connie - there is no HTML allowed in this section of your profile for testimonials, it's text only. You didn't screw anything up. :-)

FEB

Brad

i just tried your google map it..how fantastic! how do you figure these things out???? itried to get back to post to you i am not sure i am thanking you on the right page but ....

THANK YOU IT REALLY WORKS .....i got the phone call and everything...you are a wiz if ever a wiz there was ....well it is time for me to click my heels 3 times ...and go home ..i am starving...

addicted to ActiveRain

Brad,

I certainly have had my share and I congratulate you on your transition. You do a great job here at AR!

Hi Brad, Wow. What a great story. You reconnected with your brother after 40 years? That's just amazing. OK. I'm off to write up my success.

Be well ~ Marian

FEB

Bravo, I can't wait to start reading them. I am even more excited to have one myself. What a fantastic idea!

FEB

That is so wonderful your brother found you!

I really like this idea of the success stories, we all could use a daily dose of inspiration:-)

FEB

Amazing that you were reunited with your brother. W-O-W! Another AR blessing...

MAR

Brad,

Active Rain is one of the most amazing communities on the Internet. Talk about connecting! I hope that one day, you and your brother will be able to share more of your story. I'm so glad it had a happy ending and a new beginning in the rain!

MAR

I'm so going to do this. I just need that first success story. LOL.

Mike - you finding and joining AR IS already a success story! :-)

You are, as always, a lifesaver...I'm glad for the directions you've given - now to do something about them...

Active Rain delivered around six checks success stories to me last year. Great stuff Brad.

JUL

Great site! I am still trying to decide if I am going to pay for the Active Rain subscription.

Bryant - take your time, cruise the network and community to read and see what other members have experienced here, then decide (only if you see the value) if this is the right networking tool and resource for you. It's your business and therefore requires your very best research, and due diligence. In the meantime, if you need help with anything or have any questions, just let me know. I'm happy to help.

BTW - I do hope you'll take some time to review the other success stories connected to that link on AR's main page. :-))

JUL

I had a great referral from Jon Zolsky. We are both real estate sales associates in Florida. Jon asked me to help him in procuring a property here in south east Florida for one of his customers (Jon is in north Florida). I was able to find a property that our customer loved and we completed the sale last spring. It was a fun experience working with Jon, and it was also wonderful that he called me and asked for my assistance...This is what AR is all about...Referrals, trust, knowledge, and success stories. Thanks Brad for the opportunity to share one.

Karen Monsour, Realtor(r), Coldwell Banker, Fort Lauderdale Beach.

AUG

Karen - great success story, thanks for sharing it here. :-)

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