If you're new to ActiveRain you might be a little puzzled by some of the terms used here, so here's a quick primer of terms you might see (in no particular order):Rainer: a member with a free account whose posts are NOT published to the world but only to other members of ActiveRainRainmaker: a
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03/08/2022
Part of our bread and butter blogging are posts about specific subdivisions. We don't just stick to patio homes or condos, but cover "regular" home communities too.Do those posts and IDX pages get us listings? As much as I'd love to say, SURE!!!, the reality is most of the listings we achieve f
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03/01/2022
If content is king and queen and the whole court including the jester, what do you do to make sure you can keep creating content?For some people, once you find your blogging voice it's relatively easy to keep going.For other people the dreaded blogger's block may be a very real thing. So how to
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02/22/2022
Once upon a time long long ago (at least by Internet standards) you could write just about anything and find yourself ranked highly.Was ActiveRain the king of SEO back in the day?Or maybe a mix of knowing what was going on, teaching the lessons and also not having the same competition?Flash forwa
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02/15/2022
I think it's safe to say that most people blog because they want to be found.Now whether the target audience is other Rainers or the consumer should heavily influence your topic selection, how you write, what information you provide and what you may or may not be willing to put down in type to go
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02/08/2022
The folks that founded ActiveRain a few moons ago understood what made real estate agents tick.On the whole, they knew the audience is competitive and establishing a points based system for engagement should get just that: engagement.But as with any system, sometimes there are loopholes.The inte
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02/01/2022
Some day I'll reach 3,000,000 points on ActiveRain. Or maybe I won't.Maybe I'll retire from real estate, stop blogging and quietly exit stage left or right before I gain the last 30,000 points needed.Considering some people here in the Rain will go to just about any length to add to their point t
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01/25/2022
How much blogging is too much blogging?There's a lot of "it depends" involved in answering that question.Yesterday ActiveRain rolled out a new limit of no more than 20 blog posts per 24 hours and 100 posts per week. Try for more and the software will refuse to allow you to post.The general conse
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01/18/2022
You can love your brokerage. You might think it's the best brand ever and your broker is the greatest person on earth. You're fully bought in and have no plans to EVER change.And just like that, things can change.Maybe you're working for an indie brokerage and Big Box brokerage makes an offer t
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01/11/2022
I'm routinely faced with a decision: Do It Yourself (DIY) or hire out?Replace a broken oven door gasket? I can do that.Replace a refrigerator cooling fan blade? I can do that too.Replace the dishwasher motor/circ pump? I COULD have done that, but the work would be done much more quickly by a
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01/04/2022
