"On the internet, no one knows if you're a dog."It's been almost 19 years since we first joined ActiveRain.Some members we know nothing about other than they write market reports, and more market reports, and more...and more...For those that use ActiveRain as a megaphone solely to broadcast real
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03/11/2025
Over the years, I've written many blog posts that never saw the light of day. So on top of the over 4700 posts that did get published, my trash can has been filled with posts when I didn't stick the landing to my satisfaction. The risk vs. return just wasn't there. Maybe it was tone, maybe it w
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03/04/2025
"I've never gotten any business from ActiveRain.""Blogging doesn't work.""SEO isn't what it used to be."If you've been in the Rain any length of time, the conversations happen. Are you getting business from ActiveRain?Of course, there's more than one path to gaining business from your efforts in
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02/25/2025
This month's ActiveRain challenge asks why we love what we do? Why am I in real estate? The why part is pretty easy. In 2004 Liz had two years of real estate experience and was looking for help. We bring different things to the table, she's got the Emotional Intelligence, I'm an engineer/tech
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02/23/2025
I realize at this point that about the only thing that is truly private our the thoughts kept between my ears and never expressed...but given time Big Data will probably figure out a way to get those thoughts too. You speak about something to your spouse and minutes later the ads show up on soci
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02/18/2025
If you're stepping onto a subway train you might hear or see a "mind the gap" warning. That gap between the loading platform and the train, while small, can lead to major problems if you don't "mind the gap".While for most of us may not encounter subways and their gaps on a regular basis, there
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02/11/2025
Buckle up, this one is going to be a bit longer than normal.The leaves on the trees around our home fall off every fall. They're gorgeous when the colors change, but soon they're on the ground, and brown, and soon broken into bits and returning to the soil.Many blog posts are the same way. They
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02/04/2025
A byproduct of being backyard beekeepers is a surplus of honey. 10+ hives make more honey then we'll consume, ever. Properly stored honey will last long past my lifetime, so we give some away as closing gifts, and sell a bit too and that puts a small dent in our annual beekeeping expenses. We
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01/28/2025
I am not fluent in honey bee language. I have learned to recognize the sound of an angry bee (I would suggest getting some distance away quickly!), and I know what a hive sounds like under normal conditions when we are inspecting, and the change in sound as they are disturbed or agitated.But exp
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01/21/2025
Take a quick scroll through ActiveRain's blog roll and what do you notice?How many of the 20 posts on the page make you want to click the post? Probably not many of the 20 made the cut, so how do you increase the odds that YOUR post is one that gets seen and opened?Consider the blog roll your st
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01/14/2025
