addicted to active rain: Ask an Ambassador-How Do I Get Someone to Read and Comment on My Post? - 03/14/13 09:54 PM
Ask an Ambassador- How Do I Get Someone to Read and Comment on My Blog?  5 Tips!
When I’m “touring” the ActiveRain Community everyday I’ll come across a post that’s sitting there with a little “0” in the comments section.     No post should just sit there without a single comment...it’s kind of lonely.  
 
But more importantly, we all want to feel that someone is reading our post that we took time and labored over to write.

However you may have written a content-rich post full of links and photos or graphs but that may not be enough, especially when you’re … (24 comments)

addicted to active rain: The Power of ActiveRain-If You Think It's Just about Points &SEO-You're Wrong. - 02/08/13 08:28 PM
Note the Power of ActiveRain- If You Think It’s Just About Points and SEO... You’re Wrong.
Points.... SEO.... Referrals.....Business.....Yes... that’s why we’re here but
want to know what keeps us here?   
US!
Yes, Us!  The ActiveRain community... the members.... WE are the cherries on the hot fudge sundae, the icing on the chocolate cake... the olives in the martini.

Point- Friday I was helping 2 friends set up their Facebook Business pages.  Yes, I know.. kind of like the blind leading the blind.  But I needed some help and I put a phone call in to our Jerry Newman.  Jerry … (37 comments)

addicted to active rain: Want to know what 5 yrs at ActiveRain is like? Meetups, Lurking and lots of fun! - 02/05/13 08:17 PM
Want to know what 5 years at Active Rain is like? Meetups, some Lurking, encouragement and mostly a Lot of Fun.
Five years ago today I joined ActiveRain.  No one really knew I was here because
I was... dare I say... a lurker!   Ok... all of you lurkers out there can now breathe a sigh of relief.  There IS hope for you.
I joined on February 6, 2008 and if you look right you’ll see that I wrote a whopping 1 post in June of that year.
 

What took you so long, Kathy?  
 
Well, back in … (74 comments)

addicted to active rain: Do You Feel Like You Get So Much Info You Have No Idea What You Know? - 01/30/13 08:53 PM
Do You Feel Like You Get So Much Info that You Have No Idea What You Know?
The other day I was chatting with a friend and she mentioned some news (good news) about a public figure.   When she asked me if I knew... I honestly couldn’t remember if I knew or not and if I did know, how did I know.
I didn’t have a clue!
 
Yes, yes... senior moment.  I know.  But.... think about it.  We are privy to so much information today from our traditional sources like ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX news and the 24/7 … (36 comments)

addicted to active rain: OK- Be Honest... Do You Tell or Don't You? - 01/17/13 08:06 PM
OK-Be Honest-Do You Tell or Don’t You?
Have you ever written a post that you really worked hard on
and thought.. “Hey- this is good enough for a Feature. “  
Raise your hand.  Come on.. raise them. Now for those of you who didn’t (because all of your feature worthy posts get featured)  move on .. this is probably not for you.   We’re probably lining up to t-paper your house anyway, so feel free to move to another post (I jest... please stay.)
This post is not about points and how many you get for a feature or who … (101 comments)

addicted to active rain: Whew! The Blogging Challenge is Done! Now What Are You Going to Do?! - 11/29/12 08:03 PM
Whew! The Blogging Challenge is Done! Now What Are You Going To Do? For those of us who participated in the 30 in 30 Blogging Challenge offered to us by Chris Ann Cleland you can either push yourself away from your computer and say “That’s it!” or you have the rest of the day to get that final post in!
Not bad, huh, and look at you … you almost forgot about the 3000 points you’ll  get for it!  Don’t forget to email Kerrie (kerrie@activerain.com) to let her know you’ve completed the challenge.  
So now what are you going to … (32 comments)

addicted to active rain: How Do You Run Out of Kleenex?? Or My Turkey of a Thanksgiving Trip. - 11/25/12 08:33 PM
How do you run out of kleenex?   Or My Turkey of a Thanksgiving Trip!While I’ve been here at ActiveRain ... I really wasn’t; well I was but only sort of.  You see, for the last 3 weeks I’ve been on what I have come to lovingly call the FOT (Family Obligatory Tour).  Our families are spread out in the Midwest from Houston, north to Omaha so we hop in the Prius and head out.  We usually do this in the early Fall so we can take in a KU (University of Kansas) football game.  Schedule conflicts moved the trip later and … (23 comments)

addicted to active rain: What I Learned This Week In Active Rain-September 16-September 22,2012 - 09/22/12 09:21 PM
I Learn Something New at ActiveRain Every Day and It's Time I Showed You.  September 16  to September 22, 2012. I learn something new every day at ActiveRain!  With this series I try to highlight one post per day that gave me that “lightbulb” moment.  It could be something techie, about Real Estate, about a place or person! September 16 :  Bruno Tarquinii   Odd Places in Maryland
What I loved about living in Leesburg was all of the history in the area as well as historic buildings.   I remember going with our friends for a ghost hunt in downtown Leesburg (no..it … (49 comments)

addicted to active rain: RainCamp... Not Just for Realtors! - 08/30/12 06:20 AM
RainCamp...Not Just for Realtors!I just spent some time “attending” the ActiveRain Rain Camp and I can tell you... it’s not just for Realtors!  Sure.. sure.. you’re probably sitting there cynicism at-the-ready thinking that I’m writing this because I’m an Ambassador and I’m supposed to.
WRONG
Granted most of the information is geared towards Realtors BUT it was also good information for anyone that has any kind of sales or marketing involved in what they do.   
Hello.... that’s most of us!  
Granted, I have no need for an IDX  (still not sure what that is) but 1.   It doesn’t … (57 comments)

addicted to active rain: What I Learned This Week in Active Rain-August 5-August 11, 2012 - 08/11/12 08:59 PM
I Learn Something New at ActiveRain Every Day and It's Time I Showed You.  August 5  to August 11, 2012. I learn something new every day at ActiveRain!  With this series I try to highlight one post per day that gave me that “lightbulb” moment.  It could be something techie, about Real Estate, about a place or person!August 5: Margaret Rome  A Lesson In Conversation...But We Didn’t Have the Green Thing.While reading Margaret’s post I kept doing that “pumping thing” with my right arm and fist and saying “Yes... you go girl.”  While I often lament what “man” has done to … (42 comments)

addicted to active rain: I've Always Said I Learn Something New at ActiveRain Every Day And It's Time I Showed You! April 29- May 5, 2012 - 05/05/12 09:22 PM
I've Always Said I Learn Something New at ActiveRain Every Day and It's Time I Showed You.  April 29-- May 5, 2012I learn something new every day at ActiveRain!  With this series I try to highlight one post per day that gave me that “lightbulb” moment.  It could be something techie, about Real Estate, about a place or person!April  29: Mike Cooper-  Is Another Wave of REO’s Coming? MaybeI keep hearing about more foreclosures coming and I also hear of how things are picking up.  Read what Mike has to say.April  30: Richard Weisser- Before You Go On That Listing Presentation … (36 comments)

addicted to active rain: I've Always Said I Learn Something New at Active Rain Every Day- March 18-24, 2012 - 03/24/12 09:41 PM
I've Always Said I Learn Something New at ActiveRain Every Day and It's Time I Showed You.  March 18-March 24, 2012I learn something new every day at ActiveRain!  With this series I try to highlight one post per day that gave me that “lightbulb” moment.  It may have been about something techie... about blogging and SEO.... anything having to do with Staging or Real Estate... about the world or even about the Blogger.  March 18 - Jon Zolsky -E-Mail to Nowhere.  I hadn’t given this much thought but have you changed your email address since you joined Active Rain?  If you … (31 comments)

addicted to active rain: When I Write My Post, I'm Talking to Somebody... so Please Answer Me! - 03/13/12 08:51 PM
When I Write My Post, I’m Talking to Somebody... so Please Answer me!Actually, I’ve been very lucky in that Rainers here have been generous in their commenting but I was thinking about a post that our Kerrie Greenhalgh wrote in which she asked us why we thought daily comments were down (4789 daily comments vs 6000 last year).   Daily posts were up but daily commenting was down.  
In the figures she shared there were 4728 posts per day and just over that many comments.  Now I’m sure some of the posts were the spammy ones I see on the Blog … (109 comments)

addicted to active rain: Come to a Birthday Party for Roy Kelley! Please Bring a Flower To Leave a Birthday Wish! - 08/21/11 03:51 AM
Happy Birthday... Roy Kelly!  Please Bring a Flower To Leave a Birthday Wish!
You know Roy!  We've seen his beautiful pictures of flowers left on our comments! 


Roy brightens anyone's day when he leaves a "flower" in your comment as well as sharing with us all of the beautiful pictures he takes.   Did you know that Roy graduated from the University of Virginia Law School?  
Today is his birthday so please leave a Birthday Wish along with a picture of a flower in your comment!  If you don't have one in your stash... get a copyright free … (39 comments)

addicted to active rain: Active Rain Trivia - How well do you know your fellow Rainers? - 08/20/11 07:38 AM
Debbie Gartner, our favorite flooring lady, has given us a fun trivia post today.  See if you know the answers and even if you haven't a clue come back later to find out.  
No fair cheating.... scroll through the comments before you reply.  Have fun and enjoy your Saturday. 
Here are some fun trivia questions about our fellow members.  See if you can identify them.  Some are easy; some are challenging.
1.  Who has the highest # of featured posts?
2.  Which Rainer has the MOST posts?
3.  Excluding past or present AR staff, who has the most subscribers?
4.  … (13 comments)

addicted to active rain: MeetUp Locations Announced! - 08/17/11 12:24 PM
The Meet Ups have been announced so scroll down and find one near you.  If you can't find one in your area, why not host one!
This is a great opportunity to meet people whose blogs you've been reading here!   I've had to opportunity to meet only a few Active Rainers and I'm looking forward to meeting more!
So come on out and let's take part in the first Meet Up!!   Come on Stagers!  Let's Get out there too!!!
Ladies, have you been waiting for a special occasion to bust out those new shoes?  Gentlemen, still dying to show off … (11 comments)

 


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