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Do you have an ActiveRain New Years Resolution for 2011?

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Do you have an ActiveRain New Years Resolution?  I do....

Not something that ActiveRain can do differently but about how you are going to use ActiveRain in 2011?

  • Not use ActiveRain?  Is ActiveRain a bad habit to break?
  • Use ActiveRain more?  Is ActiveRain a good habit?
  • Start an ActiveRain Outside blog? 
  • Make your ActiveRain Outside blog show up better in the search engines?
  • Start using ActiveRain?  Here's an ActiveRain invitation  for members of the real estate industry who are not members of ActiveRain.
  • Become a RainMaker so you can use ActiveRain / Your ActiveRain Outside blogs to talk to consumers? Upgrade to a RainMaker account
  • Meet more ActiveRain members in person?
  • Reach out and touch someone?... make phone calls to more ActiveRain Members?
  • Get on an ActiveRain MasterMind Team -  the team I am on is full except we need a new member invited by one of us, not in our area. My invite link again...

My ActiveRain New Years Resolution for 2011 is  NO MEMBERS ONLY POSTS!

What is a Members Only post?  ActiveRain is a network for the real estate industry... since day one (?) there was the ability to write posts and make them non public.  Or I assume Members Only posts were possible on Day One.. I joined on Day 30-Something and posted my first blog post on August 11, 2006, "Members Only."

Who can be a member of ActiveRain? Real estate agents, home inspectors, home stagers, loan officers... it's broad but it is not open to the public.  The public can read public content.  ActiveRain gets lots of public traffic.

I got a head start... on my ActiveRain New Years Resolution for 2011 I believe (but I could be wrong) that a post done for Bob Stewart's Internet Lead Conversion Challenge was my only Members Only Post in 2010:

Internet lead conversion it's me

(Members Only)

That was January 2010 and I believe it was my only Members Only post in 2010.  I tell in the post why I wrote it Members Only... partly because the program is a company program.  More though the language of lead generation makes me a little uncomfortable, yet when I read Ben Kinney's eBook and wrote about it for a later challenge I did not feel the need to hide "Lead generation" language behind a cloak of secrecy....

I actually think there is another Members Only post I wrote in 2010. I can not find it.   I think I wanted to quote something in a Members Only post and thought posting my post Members Only was the only way to do it. No more.

My ActiveRain New Years Resolution for 2011 is to write NO (Members Only) posts

Neither of the links below are Members Only...

Using ActiveRain to talk to consumers not about them

What's Said On ActiveRain Stays on ActiveRain?  Members Only posts for confidentiality? Don't count on it.

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Happy New Year!!!!

 

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Doug Peveto
Tempe, AZ

Maureen, thanks for sharing your resolutions! I personally feel the same way. Kudos to you!

Dec 29, 2010 07:55 AM
Jason M. Keith
Caliber Home Loans - Parker, CO
Equal Housing Lender

Hello Maureen, thank you for this post!  I plan on becoming a rain maker this year and start posting blogs that will link to my yet to be made face book account!  Social Networking is on my list 2011.  Have a productive new year!

Dec 29, 2010 07:57 AM
Mike Jaquish
Realty Arts - Cary, NC
919-880-2769 Cary, NC, Real Estate

AR Resolutions for 2011:

To not see my Daily "Logged-In" points before I go to bed for the night before.

To write the definitive blog on ActiveRain Righteous Pointeroos...

To one day see how many gratuitous reblogs I can pump onto the blog roll without someone breaking the string.  I.e., can I own a page?  Or two...

To try to have a little F-U-N along the way.

Dec 29, 2010 08:17 AM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

Doug Happy New Year!

Jason Good luck.  RainMaker is so important... it would be hard NOT to do Members only.

Mike J.  huh?

"To not see my Daily "Logged-In" points before I go to bed for the night before."

Are you saying you are on AR late?

what are "Righteous Pointeroos"   I forget.

define "gratuitous reblogs" you mean like one right after the other?  Wouldn't members be squealing?  You can do how many a week?  You couldn't own a page? Or can you Re-Blog and not take points?  

Dec 29, 2010 08:24 AM
Mike Jaquish
Realty Arts - Cary, NC
919-880-2769 Cary, NC, Real Estate

1.  Yes.  Asleep before midnight would be a good thing.

2.  Righteous (as in 'Birthright.') Pointeroos are points that are accumulated for the sake of points only, with a sharp eye on how they are doled out by the AR system.  "I can't write more then 10 blog posts a week, cuz I get no points," and counting comments to avoid more then 10 in a day come from a Righteous Pointeroo perspective.

I see a Jeff Foxworthy-worthy post opportunity.   "If you can only make 10 comments a day....."

3.  "Or can you Re-Blog and not take points" could possibly be construed to be a Righteous Pointeroo question.....

EDIT to ADD:  Well, more to the species, "I can't Re-Blog more then ten because I get no points," is much more typical of Righteous Pointeroo-oriented philosophical thought.

Now that I spilled that one, I suppose there will be a prevention of some sort instituted to avoid anarchic experimentation with the blogroll.

Dec 29, 2010 08:37 AM
Debbie Gartner
The Flooring Girl - White Plains, NY
The Flooring Girl & Blog Stylist -Dynamo Marketers

Mine is to do 3 local flooring posts and 1 educational post each week.  Hoping for month of Jan to continue commenting on 5 flooring blogs a day and will evaluate at end of month if that's doing me any good.

But, I will prob need to take 1st week in Feb off as I will ba away at convention.

Dec 29, 2010 09:25 AM
Christine Bohn
RE/MAX Professionals - Gainesville, FL
The Bohn Team, Gainesville FL

Maureen - Well, I will get to work and come up with my AR resolutions too.  You make me want to go see if I had any member only posts this year too?  We're going to have a great year in 2011.  Happy New Year!

Dec 29, 2010 01:02 PM
Rob Thomas
Prestige Homes of The Tri Cities, Inc. CALL....423-341-6954 - Bristol, TN
Bristol TN-VA & Tri Cities Agent, ABR, GRI, e-Pro

I'm with you on the members only post...I have thought about it for the past couple of days. I guess the only reason would be now is if i had a situation where i just needed feedback. Happy New Year!

Dec 30, 2010 11:28 PM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

Mike watching for blogroll anarchy and a Jeff Foxworthy-worthy post opportunity...

Debbie "to continue commenting on 5 flooring blogs a day" Outside AR?  There are not 5 other flooring bloggers on AR are there? 

Christine Happy New Year!  I still have a nagging feeling I had two members only posts in 2010 but I can NOT find the second. I will visit your blog to see if I see any New Years resolutions.

Rob wrote" if i had a situation where i had a situation where i just needed feedback. Happy New Year!"

I guess I miss that but I think people act as if it there is confidentiality, anonymity in Members Only Posts.  Not just the writer, those commenting and the comments while entertaining....

Transparency! 

Google Juice <--- hate that word...  love the traffic from Google.

Happy New Year all...

Dec 31, 2010 12:51 AM
Gary L. Waters Broker Associate, Bucci Realty
Bucci Realty, Inc. - Melbourne, FL
Eighteen Years Experience in Brevard County

I need to think about his one...AR Ambassador, a post with 500 comments, close 6 deals from AR leads...no, I have no goals for 2011! :)

Jan 03, 2011 12:31 AM