Home > Blogs > Brad Andersohn > ActiveBrad's Blog

Getting To Know ActiveRain - I Want To Know...

By Brad Andersohn

Education & Training with Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp Non-Licensed

September 08, 2008 04:52 AM

If you could ask just one question of the ActiveRain Staff, what would it be? Would you ask Jon if he really owns that Van on his Blog header? Would you ask Bob who really stays up with Kelan at night? Maybe Rich, to find out what caused his obsession with Crabs? Or Me, like when do I ever sleep? lol~ We will ALL be on the air at the same time this week, to answer ANY questions YOU have.

The Q&A Talk Show "LIVE"

Here's your chance to ask anything you'd like to know from us or about us. There will be many callers, so we wanted to give you the chance to have "first" shot at us. We will be live on "R.A.I.N Radio" and we'd love if you'd all join us. If you ask your questions here, there's a much greater chance we'll get to it than if you call in. Maybe you're new to the community, and you'd just like to meet your ActiveRain staff and TEAM, we welcome you to listen in.

Here's Your Options:

Ask your question here, then Go to RainRadio and just listen in "live" this Thursday.

Call (347) 677-1643, and listen over the phone, you may end up on the air with us.

Select Private below if you wish to remain anonymous, we may still use your question, but keep you confidential.

Or, listen to the recorded Podcast posted on RainRadio, then download to iTunes, iPod, iPhone or Desktop to listen later.

We're giving away Bonus Points.

Ask your question here, the "best" question wins 1000 points.

If you "call in" your Question and it's voted "best" question win 500 points.

If we use your question from this post on the air, get kudos, credit, and 250 points.

Ask a question here and we don't use it, you'll still get 25 points. (Big Smile) :-)

Ask question confidentially below, we may use it, but no points will be awarded.

So bring it on, give us your best shot, have at us, now is your chance, don't hold back! What do you want to know more than anything else? Don't be afraid to ask? We'll be broadcasting "live" this Thursday at 11:00am PDT. I was hoping to keep our shows down to 15 minutes, but with an opportunity like this, I think we better go the full hour! lol~

This will be a fun and interesting program, I really hope you'll tune in and join us. Don't forget to rate us.
For all future show, announcements, guests, topics and programs, you'll find them listed at RainRadio along with all previous recorded broadcasts.

The Talk Show Number for this and all future shows is:

If you wish to remain anonymous, you can ask a private question HERE, we'll keep you confidential.

Featured

Comments(105)

Comment

Show All Comments

Sort:

Lynn911.com ~ Dallas Real Estate Agent Top Team

Dallas Houses for Rent Dallas Apartment Rentals Lynn911.com - Dallas, TX

Since the point system APPEAR TO CREATE so many issues what is your solution to correct this. What is fair FOR MANY is not FAIR FOR OTHERS, appears to be a cartel among several in A/R that prefer for others not to move forward in rankings.

Sep 09, 2008 02:23 AM

Donald Apelian "Short Sale Specialist"

Meridian Financial / First American Financial - Saint Petersburg, FL

Brad - Looking forward to your show on RAIN Radio. As a Newbie and looking to get involved as much as possible in the "Community", I was very interested in sponsoring a city on Localism, which I believe is a great way to learn about a community.

Unfortunately, the town in which I live is already sponsored and unavailable for purchase. I don't believe that the individual who has purchased this town actually lives there, although she has done the area proud with her posts and photos.

My question is, why are areas limited to only one sponsor? Why not open this up to co-sponsors, if agreeable to the original sponsor? Not only would this defray some of the cost, but it would also provide for varying viewpoints and more coverage. Not that more is always better, but my understanding is that submitted content is scrutinized anyway.

What say you?

Sep 09, 2008 04:21 AM

Chastity Guevara

Camelot's Quest Realty - Casa Grande, AZ

Hi Brad,

I asked some questions yesterday, but I thought of a couple more which I hope no one has asked already...I haven't read the comments since I asked yesterday.

Anyway, #1 I was wondering if we could add something to the groups page that categorizes the groups with like types; hobbies, politics, religious, RE related, AR related, etc...I know there are some categories, but finding groups would be a lot easier with more specific categories. & #2 I was wondering if it would be possible to not just add a forum to groups, but something similar to a person's member profile where if someone say adds your blog as a subscription you could easily go to their profile page and thank them or just stop by there once in a while to say hi. Something similar to sites like MySpace.

Thanks

Chastity

Sep 09, 2008 12:07 PM

Shannon Lefevre

John R. Wood Properties - Naples, FL

Shannon Lefevre, PA Your Naples Smart Girl

Hi Brad,

What is Active Rain doing to keep the people here current? Some people have left the business since the Active Rain launch yet their profiles and old information still show. Will there be a way for you to delete them and prevent the points for remaining members from disappearing?

Sep 10, 2008 02:50 AM

Everard Korthals

---Preferred Lifestyle Advisors--- - Lancaster, PA

Mountain Realty

Hi Brad, here are some of our questions.

1. Is active Rain actively keeping account of their competitors such as Cityblogusa, realtown and truliavloices. If so what are they doing to directly compete against those other company sites?

2. Where does Active Rain feel the consumer's voice will come from. Q&A? Localism? or is your company striving to produce something we haven't seen yet.

3. When does Active rain intend to allow access for all consumers to Localism?

4. What are the long terms goals of Active Rain. Many members have posed concerns that when push comes to shove, Active Rain could sell it's soul to the devil for a good net income. If so, will Active Rain remain on the board as consultants?

5. What makes Active Rain stand out from it's competitors and what is on the horizon?

6. When can consumers and members alike expect to see the return of the common edit feature on localism?

7. What kind of contests are actively being run by Active Rain to help bridge the community together?

8. How does Active rain foresee the future of it's business model. Wil it expand into other networks not related to Real Estate?

9. Will ACtive Rain members be able to add in their own metatags within each blog post to further enhance their Blog's SEO?

10. Does Active rain foresee having to hire on additional personnel to reach their quotas?

11. Is Active Rain actively looking to integrate home search features to this site as to allow consumers to find property using existing listing details and profile information from the listing agents.

12. Will Active Rain set a limit to the number of points one can gain on it's network and will it consider putting stars such as jason crouch, brad andersohn, rich jacobsen, sally cheeseman,and ofcourse Lenn Harley into a so called Hall of Fame once they've reached that mark (1 million points)? (And will it use our featured members list (will be done by then) )

13. Since resetting of points would upset many people on Active Rain, is Active Rain considering opening up another section of the site to newcomers where they can attain points at a faster rate while learning the basics of the network before being able to post in the regular channels as to allow for less moderation after the fact seing that those newcomers would already know the basic fundamentals on how to post.

14. Has Active Rain considered allowing donation of points as is popular with the vbulletin forum community?

_____________________

K, Brad that's all we have. Only have 10 minutes right now. We'll think of some more next time we come on. Hope that helps.

Active Castellum

Sep 10, 2008 04:05 AM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

Victor - (Castellum) I see you didn't read this post very well, at least I think you missed the very first sentence. "If you could ask just one question of the ActiveRain Staff, what would it be?" lol~ Big Smile
(don't worry, you weren't the only one...haha)

The show is in the morning, I'll see if we can squeeze in ONE of your questions from the multiple choices. Thanks buddy.

Sep 10, 2008 04:29 AM

Everard Korthals

---Preferred Lifestyle Advisors--- - Lancaster, PA

Mountain Realty

Well with 10 billion replies i just did what the last 10 did, post more than one. Ah well. Yeah just one of those would be appreciated :) (bigger smile)

btw: does this mean you don't want to see the other 27?

Sep 10, 2008 06:07 AM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

hahaha - yes, 27 more will be just fine. When the show is over, I'll just change the title of this post to the "ActiveRain Suggestion Blog". ROFL!! :-))) Thanks Victor.

I have actually started a "Suggestion" Blog for members, it will be quite cool...should be ready by the end of the week. Thanks my friend, I'm getting everything ready for the Broadcast in the morning. Don't forget to tune in. You can call in too, but I'm not sure how many we'll get to squeeze in on the air with all these questions.

Sep 10, 2008 07:00 AM

Everard Korthals

---Preferred Lifestyle Advisors--- - Lancaster, PA

Mountain Realty

ooh a suggestion list... ok, you go first, i'll add :)

Sep 10, 2008 07:05 AM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

Going through these questions has been a real task, I have to tell ya'll. There are some great questions, some fun questions, some un-answerable questions (haha...just the private joke ones) and I think we have a pretty good list to work with for tomorrow. This will be one of those shows that will go down in History as "The Place To Have Been, On September Eleven!" This will be more fun than one person should be allowed to have for sure. :-)))

FYI...We will also take a moment to honor and remember those we lost to the 9/11 tragedy during our program.

Sep 10, 2008 07:14 AM

j r

International, IT

The points thing on here is very unclear and whats up with these points ,can one win a Car?? ,lol

Sep 10, 2008 07:21 AM

Everard Korthals

---Preferred Lifestyle Advisors--- - Lancaster, PA

Mountain Realty

if you earn 20,000 points, everyone takes you out to lunch on the same day.

and now for the real answer: ask Brad

Sep 10, 2008 10:42 AM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

Points? Tune in to the Rain Radio show tomorrow at 2:00pm EST, 11:00am PDT, we'll be talking about points and channels. Points from this post will be given after the broadcast.

Sep 10, 2008 11:57 AM

Aida Pinto

Independent Real Estate Broker - Los Angeles, CA

Real Estate Broker (562) 884-6196

I'm listening! This great. I'm loving learning the history behind this site! I can't believe anyone would not like the name "Active Rain!" but it is different--so was google and yahoo!

Brad, I am sure you are going to blog about this---because I am lousy at taking notes!

I am excited about the new Channels!

Sep 11, 2008 06:14 AM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

Hi Everyone -

Aside from having some challenges getting the phones to allow callers on, the show went pretty good today. I am learning and still growing in this area so thanks for your patience. Kind of reminds me of when I wrote my first Blog post on AR, funny thing how a little time and experience under our belts does wonders.

If you want to hear the show and which questions were selected and asked on the air, you can go here for a recorded broadcast of todays show and the answers. Thanks for all your support and questions, it was really fun.

I will try and get back here over the next few days to answer those questions that didn't get answered on the air today. Thanks again. :-)

We have some great guests, members and plans for future shows.

Sep 11, 2008 05:03 PM

Everard Korthals

---Preferred Lifestyle Advisors--- - Lancaster, PA

Mountain Realty

Good show even if you didn't ask one of our questions. The public should be more aware of Active Rain now and if not then another 10 shows like that will certainly help. Keep up the good work Active Rain.

Sep 13, 2008 08:20 AM

Gail MacMillan

Titusville, FL

Hi Brad - I started listening to the show, but kept getting interrupted. I'll ask my question again later. You sounded nice and relaxed!

Sep 15, 2008 12:39 PM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

Gail - some members have many sites and many Blogs. If they are using the AR linking script, that's how they're getting those linking points. There is no limit to how many sites you put a link to AR on. Hope that helps. B~

Sep 16, 2008 01:42 PM

Susan Zanzonico

Berkshire Hathaway Home Services - Morristown, NJ

Sellers/Buyers Agent, Morristown NJ Real Estate

Wow...alot going on with this post. I read most, but not all. I would say Active Rain is successful due to the good content and attention of the bloggers which benefits the readers and the contributor. There is alot of great information on this site if you take the time to look for it.

Sep 19, 2008 11:17 AM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

Yes, there is a lot of really great information here, but it won't jsut jump out at you. You'll have to seek the hiding, and I recommend subscribing to those who provide the most and best content you're looking for. :-)

Sep 23, 2008 12:08 PM