The Official ActiveRain Blog

If you are reading this on our blog, you most likely know a little bit about ActiveRain. But you may not be familiar with IMSD, the Internet Marketing Specialist Designation, so I want to share a little history. In October of 2009, we hosted our first live RainCamp in Seattle Washington. Ben Kinn...

Recently, having the advantage of the resources of Market Leader, we've been able to plan a more clear path for how ActiveRain's development resources are utilized. Previously, we've never had a very structured development cycle here at ActiveRain. Now that we have put some major infrastructure u...

ActiveRain has always been about sharing. Whether it be sharing great ideas that we have about how to market our businesses, or just sharing in each other's lives, there is a penchant for sharing that is engrained in our culture. So now it's time to share the love. I recently wrote about some of...

I have always been confused by receiving a 'save the date' postcard prior to getting an actual invitation for someone's wedding. You've surely seen these? My wife and I have gotten a few of these and each time I always chuckle to myself. I'm still waiting for the subsequent invitation to one of t...

In our continued effort to get outside of ActiveRain and online marketing related classes at ActiveRain University, we bring you Greg Rand, CEO of OwnAmerica for a webinar on Wednesday, March 21st at 10am Pacific Time (1pm Eastern Time). The National Association of REALTORS® reported that in Janu...

Eliminating Inefficiencies in your Real Estate Business For March's sponsored contest, our Friends at DocuSign are encouraging you to take a look at your business and figure out what kind of inefficiencies are wasting your time and resources, and then come up with a plan to eliminate them. DocuSi...

We will be doing some recently scheduled maintenance at 7pm Pacific Time this evening, Monday February 27th on the database for ActiveRain. We don't know the exact amount of down time for the site, but we will have a full team working on some upgrades to work out some of the error screens you hav...

Real Estate Recovery or Not?2012 Predictions By the Pro’s Infographic Data, data everywhere, but what should you believe?  Are we on, in the middle, or at the tail of a deflating real estate bubble?  Is there a Florida real estate bubble?There is A LOT of conflicting data emerging about the 2012 ...

I would like to apologize to everyone for the issues regarding ActiveRain.  I know you must be tired of the "we're working on it" answer but it's the truth.  Our developers are taking shifts to continue to get this fine machine running smoothly again. We had to do the server switch.  It's a big j...

Good Morning/Afternoon ActiveRain!!! A quick post to make everyone aware that your comment notifications may not working at this point and time.  It began yesterday and we believe it has to do with the server update/move.  Please continue to check your posts to ensure you don't miss any action.  ...