The Official ActiveRain Blog

UPDATED We recently announced that the ActiveRain domain is moving to ActiveRain.Trulia.com. In order to update your Google Authorship, you will want to make sure the links from your Google+ 'about' section back to your profile and blog on ActiveRain use the correct URLs. Previously, when linking...

RainCamp: Best of the Best In the past, RainCamp was designed to bring you great advice about marketing your business online. This time around we wanted to get a little closer to the bread and butter of real estate. When: August 30th 9am-11:30am Pacific Time.Where: Your couch, bed, office, wherev...

Share RainCamp with Your Friends, Get Signed up for ActiveRain, Win Free Leads for the Rest of the Year We'd love if you would take a minute to share RainCamp with your friends on Facebook. We are always looking to add more member to the community at ActiveRain because we know that the more peopl...

Social Media For Real Estate Brokers Learn the current trends and best practices in social media usage by the top real estate brokers on ActiveRain, the largest social network and blogging platform in real estate. ActiveRain CEO Nikesh (Niki) Parekh is speaking at the 2012 Inman Connect San Fran...

We've been getting caught up on some contest winners in the last few days and today is no exception. Today we're going all the way back to May and bringing you the Winners of the EchoSign 'Tools I Can't Live Without' Contest. As is the case with any contest we run where we ultimately decide to pi...

Active Rain Agent Makeover Contest I would be willing to bet there are parts of your business that run like a well-oiled machine! Maybe your people skills are so stellar that you’ve found the way to make each of your buyers feel like they are your number one client. I'd also be willing to bet th...

Last month we released a report, Real Estate Marketing and Software: The Price is Right 2012. We took a look at the spending habits of agents as they market and conduct business. What kind of things do top performing agents spend money on? Where are there differences in spending for agents making...

When it comes to technology and marketing for your business, what would you buy if you were on a budget of $500 per month?In our latest Real Estate Infographic, “The Price is Right”, ActiveRain surveyed more than 2,000 real estate agents to find out what they spend their money on and how much the...

Real Estate Marketing and Software: The Price is Right 2012 Introduction: There are SO many real estate products and services that every day a real estate agent is confronted with numerous choices about where to spend money in their business. Given the challenging real estate market of the past f...

Do you remember the day you joined ActiveRain?  Most likely somebody told you to join and now you look back as it being one of the best career moves you've made :)  Many of you still feel indebted to that member who opened up your world to AR. Let's get a new class in here, a new wave of members....