From 2005 to 2010 I was a trainer for CENTURY 21 Sundance Realty in Daytona Beach Florida. For years I would tell people to google me that way or refer to myself as the Daytona Real Estate Trainer. My website said it and the search engines agreed. Fact of the matter, I dominated the search engines and was always on the first page of Google for numerous terms and sometimes with some terms it was several pages in. I was an active blogger on Activerain and had been up until 2010.
My Life Changed Painfully
Oh life happens....For a couple of years I had taken a hiatus from real estate. Yeah, I know that people had their own thoughts of what happened to me, I heard the rumors, the jokes and read some of the emails. Some thought I lost my mind. I only wish...its deeper than that... I lost a son. It hurt me so much I was in denial for a long time and in truth it was difficult in dealing with people. I tried to pick myself up and for some reason I couldn't do it. Just imagine or try to fathom how you would feel, act or think if ever you lost a child? I don't wish that on anyone and I know others who suffered like me.
A New Direction
Instead of being in the front end of real estate I opted to retreat. I spent hours writing, running social media campaigns for others and did my best to keep myself out of the lime light....I was always somebody else when I wrote and my face to face with people dwindled down. As a matter of fact, my top priority was to keep food on the table and definitely stay out of the lime light. It worked and as a result of my new direction, slowly my web results became non-existent. As a matter of fact, I sabotaged my web presence so that I could get away from the real estate persona that I had created myself. Who would have thought that I would land back into real estate again?
Real Estate Is In My Blood
For the past month or so, I have been preparing for something very big to me and others involved. I'll be working with a company who really gets it and am surrounded by the best, most impressive people in the real estate industry today. It's a techie real estate company and I love everything about them. The layers of opportunity for the agents is just truly amazing! As you can see I am excited and with good reason!
Housekeeping Please
I've had to clean up a huge ongoing online mess and it is still not up to par. Once I stepped out of real estate I let my web presence go with bad telephone numbers, wrong company names and content. At the time it did not matter but I have been working around the clock trying to clean this up for over a month.
Where Did I Go
Another Midori Miller bypassed me on the search engines, I no longer ranked at all for Daytona real estate trainer or Daytona real estate training and I could not rank for anything in Fort Lauderdale, oh dear God, I'm a fraud. I thought. Every day I pecked at it and today its changed!
Not Sucking UP - Its Definitely Activerain
Now I am no longer afraid to say Google me: Fort Lauderdale Real Estate Trainer or Fort Lauderdale Real Estate Training. Go ahead check out Daytona Real Estate Trainer or Daytona Real Estate Training. I'm not 2nd for Midori Miller either and I can tell you that Activerain played a huge role in getting back some of what I lost.
It sure feels good that I am back at the top where I belong..thanks Activerain and all the community members who read me here, on my own personal site and connect with me on social media!
Want to make improvements immediately?
Go through your stuff especially if you have fantastic articles that maybe were featured or had many views. Add those links to various profiles and especially your Activerain profile. Make it easy for a buyer or seller or whoever you are trying to attract. Mine is a mess but in a few weeks it will be a masterpiece once again.
No I don't work for Activerain...I just know what it can do for you and your business!
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