2,505,459
Krystin Mitchell, CPA CFE the best way to make your blog work for you is to make it all about your community. Use the name of your community and neighborhoods often (very often) so Google picks up on it and you become "The Expert" on your community. Now this only works if you are a paying member because you won't be indexed unless you are.
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JoAnn Moore
Georgetown, DE
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Krystin Mitchell, CPA CFE
Houston, TX
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Peter Testa
Danbury, CT
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Dan & Laurie Pittsenba...
Bellingham, WA
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Evelina Tsigelnitskaya
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Richard Weeks
Dallas, TX
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Diana Dahlberg
Pleasant Prairie, WI
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Carpinteria, CA
6,653,242
I would be happy to, it may take more than what this little box can contain.
Things that earn points are generally good things for your blogging success.
Perhaps the most important tip of all though is to be consistent, post daily, comment daily, and you will see results.
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Krystin Mitchell, CPA CFE
Houston, TX
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Peter Testa
Danbury, CT
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Dan & Laurie Pittsenba...
Bellingham, WA
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Evelina Tsigelnitskaya
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Diana Dahlberg
Pleasant Prairie, WI
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
5,459,686
First of all, welcome to the Rain ☔️ Krystin!
Getting Started on ActiveRain has some great tips and explanations about the point system here.
Personally, I would recommend posting blogs about your local area of expertise, engage with others here in the Rain and learn everything you can. There are some brilliant minds here and you will learn more than you ever imagined here!
Good luck and don't hesitate to ask any questions here - we're here for you!
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Krystin Mitchell, CPA CFE
Houston, TX
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Peter Testa
Danbury, CT
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Dan & Laurie Pittsenba...
Bellingham, WA
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Evelina Tsigelnitskaya
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Richard Weeks
Dallas, TX
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Diana Dahlberg
Pleasant Prairie, WI
4,714,595
Be genuine.
Be aware. Be kind. Be considerate.
Become knowledgeable and never stop learning
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Krystin Mitchell, CPA CFE
Houston, TX
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Peter Testa
Danbury, CT
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Dan & Laurie Pittsenba...
Bellingham, WA
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Evelina Tsigelnitskaya
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Richard Weeks
Dallas, TX
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Diana Dahlberg
Pleasant Prairie, WI
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
1,096,100
I love your hair! :D
There are so many tutorials!
Go to the bottom of this page, on the right hand side "Important Links" and you will be on the move!
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Krystin Mitchell, CPA CFE
Houston, TX
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Peter Testa
Danbury, CT
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Dan & Laurie Pittsenba...
Bellingham, WA
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Evelina Tsigelnitskaya
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Diana Dahlberg
Pleasant Prairie, WI
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Carpinteria, CA
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
1,284,991
Welcome to Active Rain. Block time each day to watch and learn how others use this platform.
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Krystin Mitchell, CPA CFE
Houston, TX
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Peter Mohylsky, Destin...
Miramar Beach, FL
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Dan & Laurie Pittsenba...
Bellingham, WA
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Evelina Tsigelnitskaya
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
683,196
Welcome to Active Rain Krystin Mitchell, CPA CFE ... join in conversation daily and write blogs (consistently) ... I am still working toward the goal. Set goals and ask questions. We are all here to help one another.
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Krystin Mitchell, CPA CFE
Houston, TX
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Peter Testa
Danbury, CT
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Dan & Laurie Pittsenba...
Bellingham, WA
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Evelina Tsigelnitskaya
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
5,088,863
Establish relationships, participate, learn.
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Krystin Mitchell, CPA CFE
Houston, TX
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Dan & Laurie Pittsenba...
Bellingham, WA
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Evelina Tsigelnitskaya
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
5,774,084
Krystin,
You have great suggestions, so far. Welcome. A
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Krystin Mitchell, CPA CFE
Houston, TX
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Dan & Laurie Pittsenba...
Bellingham, WA
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Evelina Tsigelnitskaya
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Diana Dahlberg
Pleasant Prairie, WI
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
8,115,543
Read and comment on 20 blogs each day.
Follow additional members every day to build your network.
Post at least 10 blogs each week.
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Krystin Mitchell, CPA CFE
Houston, TX
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Dan & Laurie Pittsenba...
Bellingham, WA
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Evelina Tsigelnitskaya
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Diana Dahlberg
Pleasant Prairie, WI
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
1,598,552
I'd say - read blogs of AR members https://activerain.com/bloghome
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Krystin Mitchell, CPA CFE
Houston, TX
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Peter Testa
Danbury, CT
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Dan & Laurie Pittsenba...
Bellingham, WA
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Diana Dahlberg
Pleasant Prairie, WI
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
2,071,135
Bob Crane , Bob "RealMan" Timm covered it.
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Peter Testa
Danbury, CT
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Dan & Laurie Pittsenba...
Bellingham, WA
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Evelina Tsigelnitskaya
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
921,504
Krystin,
Active Rain is 95% about real estate agent and brokerage issues.
The specific market you are in, as suggested in CPA and CFE , are not aligned with the real estate agent, brokerage or home buyer or sellers, UNLESS you make it so.
You will find little help here in making the services you provide relevant to home buyer and sellers or in the value added potential for agents and brokers. What that actually means is you are on the road less traveled. The potential for you is exceptional.
My recommendations are:
1. Have more than one blog. Make sure the AR blog is a members blog meaning it is indexed and searchable via search engines. (exception: if your target audience is Real Estate Professionals, an AR public blog is not necessary.)
2. Make your service relevant. What real life problems do you solve and how can that be beneficial to the reading audience. This is all about meaningful content. Identify a problem, make it worse, suggest a solution, make the problem even worse, then offer your service.
3. Get to the point.
4. Create your own voice. No one wants to wade through text that sounds so much like everyone else. That is the pablum that permeates so much of the real estate agent writing and it is mind numbing.
5. Don't take yourself too seriously. That means, if you are not having fun doing your blogging, be aware, no one is having fun reading it. So make sure you are having fun. It can simply be research, testing ideas or conveying information....have fun doing it.
Even those without need of benfit from a CPA or CFE will come to your blog for refreshment.
You can focus on the SEO tricks when you have something to talk about.
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Krystin Mitchell, CPA CFE
Houston, TX
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Candice A. Donofrio
Fort Mohave, AZ
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Dan & Laurie Pittsenba...
Bellingham, WA
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Evelina Tsigelnitskaya
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
5,278,889
You've gotten lots of good suggestions and I have nothing new to add to this list.
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Dan & Laurie Pittsenba...
Bellingham, WA
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Evelina Tsigelnitskaya
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
5,584,178
the best way to begin is to be "social" and comment on others' blogs.... follow those who have a blog with posts you enjoy reading.... when you comment, other will comment on yours.... be sure to have content on your blog....
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Dan & Laurie Pittsenba...
Bellingham, WA
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Evelina Tsigelnitskaya
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
5,451,587
Follow members who post blogs that interest you and comment on their blogs daily. Write one blog of your own each day! Good luck here in the Rain.
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Dan & Laurie Pittsenba...
Bellingham, WA
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Evelina Tsigelnitskaya
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
754,904
"Engage!" Respond to blogs and questions and you will get responses.
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Dan & Laurie Pittsenba...
Bellingham, WA
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Evelina Tsigelnitskaya
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
1,259,558
Need to be a premier membership before WWW can view your blogs.
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Dan & Laurie Pittsenba...
Bellingham, WA
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Evelina Tsigelnitskaya
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Diana Dahlberg
Pleasant Prairie, WI
469,575
The Q&A section is primarily for learning from what other agents have to say about various situations in the biz and often in life.
Blogging is what can help your biz the most. Not every time but often I can write blogs about a listing or an aspect of real estate and it will get ranked on page one of google for a search phrase that relates to the title and content of the blog post. That's how AR has helped my biz the most. I should make time to blog more but I fool around here in the Q&A section too much.
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JoAnn Moore
Georgetown, DE
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Peter Testa
Danbury, CT
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
2,837,762
Your first impression statement is working. Thats your part. Now to the results of it....
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Krystin Mitchell, CPA CFE
Houston, TX
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Dan & Laurie Pittsenba...
Bellingham, WA
3,249,717
Find your voice, teach about your local area, learn from the best and blog on!
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JoAnn Moore
Georgetown, DE
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Peter Testa
Danbury, CT
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Dan & Laurie Pittsenba...
Bellingham, WA
1,251,978
Welcome to AR Krystin Mitchell, CPA CFE
Be consistent and provide a variety of of topics that would be of interest to your primary market...AND have FUN
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Peter Testa
Danbury, CT
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
3,416,322
Yes first become a RAIN MAKER, next get active. write a daily blog on topics you know, you like and or about your area. Write about events in your area. Next read others blogs and comment on them. Get active in q and a. DO not make your blogs about self promotion. and lastly do it daily, blogging is not instant, but can grow an audience and attract new business.
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Dan & Laurie Pittsenba...
Bellingham, WA
1,748,777
Write about what you know with a vein of originality
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
1,534,214
Consistency and interaction.
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
564,544
Welcome to Active Rain. This is a great place to learn and to share - I look forward to hearing your thoughts -
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
775,925
Welcome to AR Krystin Mitchell, CPA CFE My tip would be to post engaging, relevant content regularly & interract with others on here. You'll learn so much reading other's blog posts & participating here.
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
3,418,387
You have some great comments here. I cannot think of anything to add. Personally, I prefer genuine and authentic posts written in the author's voice. Welcome. All the best to you!
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
392,987
Welcome Krystin! I see that you have been given great tips and I have nothing to add but I wanted to welcome you to AR.
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
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Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
1,392,883
Get engaged! Talk to people - follow blogs, comment on their blogs, engage in conversations on the Q&A. Post a lot of your own content.
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
836,253
Read - Learn - Question - Participate. And most of all, Make some friends.
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - W...
St. George, UT
472,214
Write blogs about people, events and businesses in your community. Feature them, include photos. Write articles for your local newspaper and add them to your blog as well.
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
1,713,581
Just be yourself and write about something relevant and have fun doing i.
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
4,273,331
Be or get consistent blogging and commenting...
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
5,981,047
5,171,758
Make lots of friends on here and what area you cover. You never know when someone has a referral for you.
1,428,192