questions: What Is Your Most Successful Marketing Strategy in THIS Market? - 11/06/08 06:58 PM

First let me say
I LOVE ACTIVE RAIN & I LOVE REAL ESTATE
We all want to see the sold sign hanging outside of our listings.  One of the things that I love about Active Rain is that we are a community of like minded people.  We are Real Estate Professionals that are looking to succeed.  Why else would we spend so much time populating a blog with information that is beneficial to our clients and Real Estate Professionals all across our country. 
We are in a different market.  It is a market that none of us has ever seen … (80 comments)

questions: WHO The Heck Are You Blogging For? - 09/17/08 04:34 AM
WHY ARE WE HERE?
Every once in awhile, a new question will come into my mind.  This morning as I was trying to come up with a new blog topic, I wondered to myself.....
Who are we blogging for?
(yes i know that I should not end a sentence with a preposition :)
During my short time here on active rain, I have noticed that there are 3 basic types of bloggersl
TYPE 1 - THE ALL ABOUT ME BLOGGER
The all about me blogger talks only about him/herself.  You will notice a prevalence of the word I in all of … (51 comments)

questions: Localism Land Rush: ACT NOW or Forever Be An ASS. Yeah Right! - 08/05/08 02:10 PM
PLEASE DONT SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER
I have been reading all kinds of stuff about the localism land rush.  When I first heard about it, I thought ok...not so bad. I might consider buying into a town or two.  Then I think I read that you had to purchase communities.  Sunset Ridge, Sunset Oaks, Sunset Pines, East Sunset Pines, Sunset Dunes, The Dunes at Sunset, Sunset Mountains, Sunset Sierra, Sunset  Sunset, etc........
GEEEZ, seems like my pocket would be empty before I got to the sunrise neighbohoods.  So I decided....eh...who needs it.  Then I started reading all the posts from everyone … (6 comments)