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Over the course of this week I will be introducing you to the speakers who will be sharing some amazing information with us during RainCamp on August 30th. I'm very excited to announce Sue Adler and Ryan Dallas. Sue Adler If you haven't heard of Sue Adler, you probably don't pay attention very cl...

(This could be a post about writing headlines that get people clicking........and it is, but in a different way. We'll come back to the ridiculous statement in the title.....) On Thursday at 9am Pacific time I'll be holding court for an ActiveRain University webinar where I'll review blog posts f...

Cathryn Sloane, a 2012 graduate of the University of Iowa, recently wrote a pretty juicy post about why Social Media managers for companies should be under 25 years old. The foundation of her thesis was that the under 25 age group grew up with things like Twitter and Facebook and therefor have so...

We just finished a challenge where we encouraged all of you to write about very specific 'hyper local' areas of your market. You responded in huge fashion and submitted over 1500 blog posts about every nook and cranny across the country. These are the kind of posts that can drive a substantial am...

On Tuesday July 17th, we hosted a webinar with Joel and Caleb from Merge where we talked about how the average agent portrays value to their sellers (or clients in general). Caleb shared with us some fascinating stats about how much of what you do as listings agents is never properly conveyed to ...

We have some amazing innovators and entrepreneurs in the real estate industry. I had the good fortune to work with one at our real estate company and while starting ActiveRain. It's easy to spot these guys (or gals). They have a passion for the industry which is contagious, are looking to solve a...

The posts are rolling in for the hyper local challenge that I issued to you all last week. If you haven't seen our hyper local challenge, head over and take a quick look. You have a chance to rack up 7000 points and you can also win a free membership to IMSD, our advanced training program for gen...

Real Estate Agents in Dallas It's been a while since I've been out on the road. For 14 months from late 2009 until early 2011 we hit 26 cities across the country for RainCamp. While I'll admit it was a little exhausting (although good for my frequent flier miles it did take a toll on my suitcase ...

Hyper Local Blogging (I am not above bribery. I would never bribe a police officer or a politician (as if they need more of that). But I'll bribe my son from time to time and I'll certainly bribe all of you. I shouldn't have to bribe you of course. You should be doing what I'm about to bribe you...

(I originally wrote this post a few weeks ago and just decided to publish it) I saw the most interesting comment on one of the real estate Facebook groups. It was the one about what to spend your money on put together by Jimmy Mackin. It's a group for getting feedback on products in the real esta...