ActiveRain Success Stories

"I joined ActiveRain in January of this year. It has been an amazing learning experience for me. I have struggled with social media, web presence, SEO, etc. as part of my business marketing plan. Since joining here, I have made friends and have learned so much from others that have mastered the art of social media. This year, I can specifically attribute 4 closed deals to social media. Thank you ActiveRain!"

"I have two so far, the first was an email I got from a friend I grew up with in Ireland, who I haven't spoken to in fifteen years... it was sent through ActiveRain, that's when I became a Rainmaker. The next was when I wrote a blog about "homes for sale in Clayton NC for under $165,000" and obviously if you put that in a search it will come up but just "homes for sale in Clayton NC was bringing it up on ActiveRain, on Localism, on my outside blog. It was really exciting and if I ever figure out how to do it consistently I'll be rich."

"I recently met a client here in AZ and found out he had a home that needed to be sold in North Carolina. Well, thanks to my relationships here on Active Rain, I was able to connect him with a local agent in North Carolina and receive a referral commission. The best part about this story is that my client had his home on the market for over a year with another agent. When he told me his agent was getting out of the business and he needed someone to list his home, I was able to refer him to another Active Rainer. He had an offer within the first week, and his home sold within 30 days."

"I listed a nice home in Akron, Ohio today. The gentleman called me last Monday from Sacramento, CA. He needed to move his elderly aunt out of Akron to relatives for her care. As usual, I asked how he found me. He said he googled Akron Ohio Real Estate Agents and I was near the top on something involving "Rain". Well, it was one of my blog posts on Akron Ohio Homes! This is not my first listing from AR, but I forgot this section was on my profile. I will post my new listing later as I usually do on ActiveRain. Thank you for the google love and all that you do for us AR!"

"Driving home one night a few months ago, I received a call from a distressed seller who had googled their city and short sales... guess who popped up! I listed the $600,000 home the next day, and was able to gain an approval on their short sale in 43 days!

Since then, I have also received 2 referrals via my active rain blog, as well as several calls from other agents and consumers alike, needing assistance and advice. I had no idea how deeply Active Rain could affect my business positively, but am very thankful!"

"What my clients say:

It was great working with you. You were extremely diligent and quick always to get back and follow up on anything that was asked. You did a great job with managing the sale when the offers came in. The photographer was great that you arranged with. THANK YOU!!!

J.C.



You did an amazing job selling our house and I am very happy that we chose you to be our agent. You went above and beyond to make it easy and stress free for us. I will definitely recommend you.
C.B."

"Since joining Active Rain as a broker, I've been able to not only improve our companies presence online, our clients have had significantly more visual tour traffic. Buyer are utilizing our resources through active rain as well our inventory has much better exposure. Bottom line... Our Buyers and Sellers are happy we're online with Active Rain.
Key online search areas supported involve Anoka County Real Estate, Hennepin County Real Estate, Washington County Real Estate, Wright County Real Estate, Benton County Real Estate, Scott County Real Estate

Thanks AR,
Frank D'Angelo Broker
EXIT REALTY NEXUS
Minneapolis, MN"

"Help people by serving their needs in fulfilling their goals and dreams in real estate. Strive to be the consummate professional, well educated about the processes of real estate. I take situations that can be stressful and insert an element of fun enabling my customer to enjoy the experience! I find Active Rain is a great platform to enable this between other Realtors and our customers."

"Active rain helped take my website to the next level and I increased traffic by triple my former visits. Active rain was origially reccomended to me by a freind from out of state and I cant thank him enough for the refferal. I ranked in the top of the search engines with in months of becoming a rainmaker and blogging and my listings get far more exposure than my competitors. I have been singing in the rain since the discovery! singing in the rain! Im signing in the rain!
-sarah becker"

"Beginning my second year as an Ambassador here in Active Rain I consider the time I spend here to be well worth the moments. Learning from a wealth of successful people and being able to share my story as well as to hear yours. Active Rain has to be the premier networking and informational portal for real estate professionals to engage in the topics of our industry and share best practices. Thank you Active Rain. Spring 2013 Westwood, MA"

"Unfortunately, few property managers think that blogging will assist them in enhancing their business * and this is unfortunate. I have chosen to make it a part of my business model. I elected to blog and ceased my quarterly (expensive) 8 page property management newsletter 2 years ago. I have gained so much knowledge and enjoyment from my participation on ActiveRain that my first 100,000 points came 2 months earlier than I had anticipated AND I am posting more than 10 comments per day and the 10 blog per week limit is no longer a concern."

"Born and raised in Mexico City, he found his love for Baja California Sur in the late 70’s when he arrived in La Paz to work as a bellboy at one of the first hotels in the area. After a while he decided to travel and went to Europe.
He then returned to Baja helping in the management of three fishing boats with his father and brother; who had started the business in La Paz around the late 70’s and later moved the operation to Cabo in 1984. Pisces Sport fishing Fleet is now successfully managed by his wife Tracy.
Once in Cabo his entrepreneurial spirit kicked in with the opening of El Squid Roe and other ventures in the late 80’s. The Real Estate business came to be in 1989 when he founded Pisces Real Estate as a small and professional team of associates, with local knowledge and expertise.
The Pisces Real Estate team has gone on to sell more than 300 million dollars in the last two decades. He has also developed Rancho Paraiso Estates a 45 acre residential community in Cabo San Lucas. Marco recently completed building El Cielito a complex of 22 villas within Rancho Paraiso. In 2011-2012 alone, Marco has successfully accomplished over $20 million dollars in sales to date with 7 sales alone specializing in the Hacienda Beach Club & Residences property located on Medano Beach in Cabo San Lucas.
His accomplishments over the last twenty years have made Marco a trusted name in Cabo, let his experience, knowledge and ability help you in your Real Estate endeavors!
For over 30 years Los Cabos has been our home. It is truly paradise for my family and I… the Cabo lifestyle investment is the way to live and wouldnt change it for anything in the world"

"Active Rain has allowed me to connect with many resources."

"I received a card from Brenda Mullen thanking me for a deal we worked together. I met Brenda through her ActiveRain blog, which led me to ActiveRain as well. The return on investment working in the Rain is huge, but pales to the knowledge and friendships garnered here - I can't see conducting business without AR!!!"

"Active Rain has brought me tremendous success since I joined in July of 2007. I regularly receive many consumer inquiries from my blog giving the clients I represent outstanding online exposure. I have learned a great deal from my time and experience at Active Rain about social media marketing and the web 2.0."

"We have received a lot of leads from Active Rain for real estate sales and vacation rentals. This is a great place to start a real estate blog! I get a lot of Active Rain inquiries through my email and I rented the Laguna Key Taj Mahal in Gulf Shores directly from an active rain email inquiry."

"ActiveRain is The ONLY Network anyone in the Real Estate and Related Industry needs! The ActiveRain Network is The Most Powerful Tool available."

"The one thing I value most about ActiveRain are the many relationships that I've formed. This "family" of Real Estate professionals is a valuable "tool" in my real estate business. I'm constantly learning new things about successful selling. Topics include tools of the trade, technology, marketing and advertising, best practices. I also have a network of people that I can contact when I need to refer a friend or client to another part of the country or Canada. I have had many successes in my career and ActiveRain is one that is close to my heart. I wish I had joined earlier!"

"We have been able to get in contact with about 90% of borrowers within 30 days of sending out the required RESPA notices and have about 80% of those people on a payment plan or payoff their loan within 90 days."

"I love helping first-time buyers achieve thier American Dream. And ActiveRain helped connect an investor with me whom I helped close 4 simultaneous investor purchase-loans at one time. Experience makes the difference!"