I was minding my own business, another noteworthy occurence in an otherwise hum-drum day, when I took a call from Maya Roney, staff writer for BusinessWeek.com.

She was immediately quizzing me about the affordability of housing in Cary, North Carolina.  I'm always ready to talk affordability in housing.  I remember walking the shaky plank to first homeownership many years ago.

So I chatted with Maya, and at the end asked her to spell my name right.  She apparently took copius notes, because she did a great job of quoting me verbatim in her article that I believe was posted today on Businessweek.com.

And, checking the source of her lead, I asked where she found me....

"Googled for an agent in Cary, NC, and you came up on top."

Thank You, ActiveRain!

Affordable home in Cary, NC

 

17 Comments on The Power of the 'Rain: My moment in Business Week

Good for you!  I'm glad they didn't twist your words like they did to another Rainer a couple of weeks ago.  This is definitely good press. =)

05/25/2007 05:29 AM by Leigh Brown Charlotte NC Broker/Owner (RE/MAX Signature Properties)

Leigh,

She did a good job of quoting me.  I'm grateful for that.

When I tell my wife there is no such thing as bad publicity, she typically shudders, wondering what I have cooked up....

She liked this article...

05/25/2007 06:14 AM by Mike Jaquish Keller Williams Realty, Cary, NC (Keller Williams Realty)

That's so awesome to have a testimony like that for AR. So, did she tell you when the article will appear?

05/25/2007 08:22 AM by Loreena Yeo - Realtor(R)/Broker proudly serving Frisco TX Real Estate (3:16 team REALTY)

Congratulations.  Make sure you have about 6 billion copies of the article to give to all of your clients.

Making a periodical of such reknown is priceless. I hope you use it to its greatest advantage.

05/25/2007 08:57 AM by Steven Shewell, The Mortgage Maverick (Primary Residential Mortgage, Inc.)

Loreena,

The long sentence link above will take you to the article.  It is awesome, particularly with it being on multiple Yahoo! pages and a sticky post on the Raleigh Metro City-Data site.

Thanks for stopping by.  Haven't seen you recently.

 

Steven,

Thank you, and Yessirree, I'm on it like white on rice.

05/25/2007 12:45 PM by Mike Jaquish Keller Williams Realty, Cary, NC (Keller Williams Realty)

 Hey Mike, way to go!  put it on your web site, tell the local newspaper, and maybe the TV station as well.

Dick Beals

05/25/2007 06:59 PM by Wilmington Real Estate 4U

Nice going Mike!

I agree that ActiveRain get you ranked high on the search engines.  That is one of the reasons I use it.  Enjoy the spotlight!

 

Walt Fish

05/25/2007 07:06 PM by Walt Fish (Bay Area Home Inspection, LLC)

Dick, Walt,

Thanks for the pats on the back.

It was fun going in to the office today.

05/25/2007 09:45 PM by Mike Jaquish Keller Williams Realty, Cary, NC (Keller Williams Realty)

Mike, I LOVE to read posts like this one.  It's working!!!!!!!  Congrats!

 

 

05/25/2007 09:52 PM by Peggy Edwards, ~REALTOR®~Citrus Park & Westchase, FL (Coldwell Banker)

Peggy,

Glad I could provide yoyu reading material!  And thanks for your comment.

It is also cool how many sites reprint or link to BusinessrWeek.com

Yahoo and MSN in particular.

05/27/2007 12:44 PM by Mike Jaquish Keller Williams Realty, Cary, NC (Keller Williams Realty)

Mike,

What a great story and I hope you get some clients out of this one!

Rita 

05/27/2007 10:05 PM by Rita Taylor | Sanford NC Real Estate & Homes for Sale in Sanford North Carolina (Strother Real Estate)

That's great Mike, more proof for the pudding.  Congrats!

05/28/2007 06:29 AM by Jason Sardi, Pennsylvania Mortgage Broker (First Choice Equity Group Inc.)

Aswesome, good to hear these success stories. AR is quite remarkable.

05/30/2007 01:31 PM by John Evarts (Classic Property Management of Santa Clarita)

Congratulations!!!

05/30/2007 02:05 PM by Dianne Barody - Pensacola Florida Real Estate (Century 21 AmeriSouth Realty)

Good for you!!

05/30/2007 04:05 PM by Rebecca Savitski NC Real Estate Listings (NC List for Less Realty Incorporated)

Mike,

That's awesome Mike. Good for you! What is the name of the sticky post? I could not find it on the forum.

Ginger

05/30/2007 05:44 PM by Wilmington NC Real Estate Ginger & Roger Sala Keller Williams (Keller Williams Wilmington North Carolina)

Ginger:

Here's the link.  City-Data gave it three days as a sticky and then unpinned it.  Sheesh... I tried to put the link in my comment above, and deleted the comment.  "Note to self:  More Sleep... Less AR."   :D

 

Rita, Rebecca, Dianne, Jason, John,

Thank you, for the kind words and for reading the post. 

05/31/2007 05:48 AM by Mike Jaquish Keller Williams Realty, Cary, NC (Keller Williams Realty)

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