Thirty Lessons Learned at 300,000 Active Rain Points is a good way to commemorate this milestone, so here you go!
1. As much as you give, you receive that much more.
2. It's a community, a family, a seat at the Bar.
3. It's funny, sometimes it's sad, and sometimes you're just glad to get a dose of daily inspiration.
4. It keeps you thinking and pondering and questioning.
5. Tech tools, YUM. This is half the fun.
6. Rain Camp, yowza! It's the power!
7. Cutting edge... Industrial Strength Scissors.
8. You observe more around you...so you can write a post about it...
9. You photograph more around you so you can illustrate the daily posts.
10. You read more industry magazines and articles to explain them and interact about them.
11. You inspire others to learn about blogging and social networking.
12. You can picture subdivisions around the country.
13. You learn marketing techniques you never would have encountered.
14. Someone says a city, and you can picture the agent and blog post comments.
15. You know tidbits about different areas of the country...restaurants included!
16. You learn different customs around the country.
17. You develop friendships here and there and want to meet them when given a chance.
18. You exchange ideas.
19. You meet local agents you would have never known.
20. You learn areas further out than your market but are still useful.
21. You learn about new laws coming down the pike that affect us all.
22.Your photography skills go up a notch.
23. Your dedication to blogging improves as you watch the SEO and friendships develop.
24. You realize this is the Google of Real Estate..ask and you shall get many answers!
25. You can complete each others sentences...or more accurately, you can take a comment and run with a whole new post of ideas.
26. You realize the best is yet to come...more SEO, inquiries, friendships etc.
27. You realize all kinds of people are reading your stuff that you have no clue about.
28. Everything becomes a blogging opportunity.
29. You learn from marketing experts around the country who share warmly their systems and tools.
30. You introduce yourself as a Realtor Blogger, and that , you see, is a cool thing to be.
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Cheryl - thanks for sharing; have recently passed 100K, I'm on my way and appreciate the list!
Carol, I just added my list to the list that is growing on a Featured Post on Active Rain today:
http://activerain.com/blogsview/1839201/so-just-what-is-it-about-this-thing-called-active-rain-that-you-like-
This will make one very HUGE list!
That list is very inspirational - I don't know how you have time to blog with all those "golden" retrievers to walk.
Thanks for the list!
Laurie
Very good list and outstanding reasons use ActiveRain. Thanks for sharing.
I L♥VE reading blog posts about places I have lived * Greenville, SC * Honolulu * NoCA's Sonoma and Napa valleys * and seeing the photos and reading about the "doings"....
Cheryl, congratulations on reaching the 300K milestone...ACtive Rain is truly what you stated in #2..... It's a community, a family, a seat at the Bar.
Cheryl, a huge congrats to you on the 300K. GREAT list.
Cheryl,
Congratulations on the 300K and the feature. Meeting agents that you get to know on line is a real plus.
Rich
Fantastic blog post and worthy of a feature. Activerain has inspired a lot of us to work differently and to keep on keeping on even through tough times. I am right behind you at just under 300k points and completely agree with 30 out of 30 from your list!
Success in life, family, real estate, community, sports, anything is a series of a million little things. Keep blogging, stay on the bike with the carrier for all those puppies.
Great list, Cheryl!
Congratulations on reaching 300k - can't wait to get there myself.
Cheers!
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300000! Wow, that seems so far away. Well, I guess I will just keep blogging in the rain and see where I land. Congratulations!
Wow, thanks everybody!
Cheryl: You're absolutely right. You meet the nicest people here on AR! Congratulations on this huge milestone! Hope this is just the beginning for you ...
Gene
Congratulations on your 300,000 points. You had to work hard to get there. Your list is wonderful and so true.
Congratulations on reaching 300,000 points!! That is a lot of blogging... Loved reading through your list of great reasons to be a part of Activerain.
Cheryl congratulations on your milestone. I'll be there sooner than later!
26. You realize the best is yet to come...more SEO, inquiries, friendships etc.
This is what I like the best about being here. It only gets better!
Congratulations! And I love your list. "A seat at the bar" is just perfect.
Hi Cheryl! Congratulations on your 300k milestone! I'm sure you must be glad you've reached so high. I love your profile picture by the way.
Thanks for a positive post!. We all can use a little uplifting material in these times.
Cheryl you did super with all you learned. I know just enough to stay at it and good things will come. Blog on... WooHoo on your big 300K.
Wow, as a newbie I look forward to writing a similar blog once I have reached the 300,000 point mark.
These comments are really neat. They are making me smile as they roll in!
Congrats on 300k! That extra badges looks mighty nice! :)
#14 has been so true for me as I get to know everyone! I actually caught myself the other day saying, "Well I have this friend in Ohio..." because it was easier than explaining that there's this person that I see online and I read stuff they write about real estate.
Love the post and especially the pics of those darling dogs. They are really cute.
Congrats of the points and the lessons learned.
Thanks for sharing.
Awesome post about all of your 'golden opportunities'. Congratulations on the 300k milestone.
I love all the blogging opportunities I find around me. Also, I've gotten to be good friends with Sharon Paxson who is an agent who lives just a couple of miles from me here on AR.
Cheryl - Great information and lessons learned! Thanks for sharing!
Nothing better than a Golden. I love them and miss my pup.
Cheryl... not only congrats on the big 300k, but a very good top 30... It was creative in some cases.. thanks for sharing.
Cheryl ~ beautiful post, both in word and photos! I'm nodding in agreement. Congrats on 300,000!