Tampa Bay Blogging

I have to admit, I'm almost speechless. Todd Clark hit 1,000,000 points earlier today on ActiveRain.     How the heck does someone have that much focus and that much to say? (I don't have the answer, I'm really wondering how he did it) The crazy part? He doesn't spend 5 hours a day on the site, l...

If you aren't at least a little bit frustrated with ActiveRain by now, then God bless you! You must have one of those personalities where it takes forever to upset you......but once you get there, there's no going back? Of anybody out there reading this, I promise you I have threatened my compute...

My fiance and I have had a little competition going for the last couple of months. Who can get to 1000 Facebook friends the fastest. (It's worth noting that both of us are a DISTANT second to her mother, who is approaching 2300 friends) I'd very rarely gone out and tried to collect Facebook frien...

Do you get the ActiveRain newsletter? We send it out daily. It goes out to 107,000+ people. I don't know if you've ever sent anything to that many people at the same time, but there are challenges. (Spam filters get fired up, sometimes it never even makes it to your filter as your email provider ...

ActiveRain Training and Support - Your Virtual Classroom We are now offering RainMaker members an opportunity to join us for some "informal" on-line training and support.  Our ActiveRain Training and Support Program is where you can phone in, join a classroom environment, ask your questions, see...

We qualify our buyers before showing them a home, right? But are you qualifying the short sale listings you're showing them? If not, you may be wasting your time.  By contacting the listing agent and asking them a few basic questions prior to showing their listings you'll  accomplish 2 things. Yo...

I have agents asking me questions about my short sale listings all the time. Some of the basic questions is how far into the short sale process is this property? Now lets get one thing straight, most banks will not proceed without an executed contract.I have heard of transactions in which the ba...

I just read a very interesting article over at Web Pro News that talks about how Google will now be incorporating your social network connections as a factor in delivering search results! As Chris Crum, a writer for Web Pro News points out, "If you are one of those people still skeptical about th...

I hate the new appraisal system and non-local appraisers. (see video below) Let me explain. The government came up with a brilliant idea to curb another housing meltdown! Assuming (you know what they say: It makes an "Ass out of you and Ming") most lenders and appraisers were fraudulent, they de...

The Blog Post that Could Change the World The single largest business event of this young year was announced yesterday by Internet mega-company Google in that they are demanding an end to censorship of the web in China or they will pull the plug on google.cn. Google's own blog at http://googleblo...