I'm going to take a slight detour from my usual topics (while still coming back to the same drum to beat on it some more!). This month's ActiveRain challenge asks to list our favorite three tech tools. And while I am attached to my phone, laptop and email as anyone, they're not what gives me th
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10/29/2024
You want to be a successful blogger? Different audiences need different approaches.If you have a sphere of people that already follows you, you have a lot of freedom in choosing your topics. There's already a base level of trust, so it's easier to mix in topics that have nothing to directly do w
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10/22/2024
With so many different places and ways to spend your time, why should ActiveRain have even a minute of your day?Over the 18 years since we joined ActiveRain, we've put in a LOT of minutes in the Rain and still find value in the community.Why keep coming back?The short answer, "It's the people".Th
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10/15/2024
Our new home and garage aren't what most people would consider conventional. A Quonset home has metal arches that comprise the roof and side walls. Two foot wide arches are assembled, raised, and bolted to the next arch, repeat, repeat, repeat until the shell of the home is finished.They're str
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10/08/2024
Friday afternoon the remnants of Helene blew through the Cincinnati area, and with the strong winds blowing, quite a few trees didn't survive intact. Falling trees and neighborhoods that have above ground power lines is a bad combination, and fairly quickly there were over 100,000 homes without
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10/01/2024
It's football season and often the teams who are best at the fundamentals, the ability to block and tackle, are the ones that finish with the win.Real estate is full of fundamentals, and the agents that master the fundamentals have a much better chance of being successful.And while blogging isn't
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09/24/2024
We saw the movie The Forge recently and a key takeaway was a scene where a mentor tells a young man "Be a fountain, not a drain".You could probably interpret that statement multiple ways, but the core of it boils down to being a positive contributor to others.Why do many members come back to Acti
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09/17/2024
When you look at activities you need to trim, blogging may be one of them.Sacrilege to hear an Ambassador say that on a site centered around blogging and the interactions that come with it?Nope, just pragmatic. Let's face it, blogging isn't the best choice for every real estate agent to make it
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09/10/2024
Whoever stated "ignorance is bliss" probably had some insight into what composes "by-products" on nutrition labels on canned meats :)But we're not talking about Spam or Vienna sausages today, but the by-products of being a regular blogger!We heard at a real estate convention almost 20 years ago t
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09/03/2024
If you've been in real estate for more than a day, you'll find common elements with every other agent:1. Time just might be your most valuable (and scarcest) commodity2. There's always someone with a bright shiny promising to save you time and send avalanches of new clients your way3. You'll n
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08/27/2024