AGBeat » active rain http://agbeat.com News, insights, tools, and inspiration for business owners and professionals Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:21:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 ActiveRain sold, goodbye and a word of warning for users – Developing http://agbeat.com/real-estate-news-events/activerain-sold-goodbye-and-a-word-of-warning-for-users-developing/ http://agbeat.com/real-estate-news-events/activerain-sold-goodbye-and-a-word-of-warning-for-users-developing/#comments Wed, 11 May 2011 14:30:03 +0000 Benn Rosales http://agentgenius.com/?p=43677 ActiveRain has been sold The backstory is ActiveRain has officially been sold. Jonathan Washburn, co-founder and former (ousted according to sources) CEO of ActiveRain wrote on his blog on ActiveRain “Six amazing years after creating ActiveRain I’ve stepped down as ActiveRain CEO and I’m now focusing 100% of my business efforts on revolutionizing the daily deals industry through the DailyTicket community.” [...]
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]]> http://agbeat.com/real-estate-news-events/activerain-sold-goodbye-and-a-word-of-warning-for-users-developing/feed/ 75 Active Rain users switch to Posterous and stay http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/active-rain-users-switch-to-posterous-and-stay/ http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/active-rain-users-switch-to-posterous-and-stay/#comments Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:00:19 +0000 AGBeat http://agentgenius.com/?p=40722 Real estate blogging has changed Real estate blog platform ActiveRain.com began as a vibrant free blogging community, but commenced to charging for various features years after its founding. They experienced a shift in culture over the year, but in 2010 went back on promises never to charge founding users, infuriating many of the very people that helped evangelize the community [...]
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]]> http://agbeat.com/real-estate-sales-marketing/active-rain-users-switch-to-posterous-and-stay/feed/ 14 ActiveRain goes back on promise, infuriates founding users http://agbeat.com/real-estate-news-events/activerain-goes-back-on-promise-infuriates-founding-users/ http://agbeat.com/real-estate-news-events/activerain-goes-back-on-promise-infuriates-founding-users/#comments Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:57:32 +0000 Lani Rosales http://agentgenius.com/?p=29672 Real estate blogging platform and social network ActiveRain inadvertently made news last week when free blogging platform Posterous announced they would take aim directly at Active Rain by allowing users to import their content directly to Posterous. This week, Active Rain inadvertently makes for heated conversation again by going back on their promise to founding members (the first users of [...]
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]]> http://agbeat.com/real-estate-news-events/activerain-goes-back-on-promise-infuriates-founding-users/feed/ 59 AG Flash Poll results – should Active Rainers switch to Posterous? http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/ag-flash-poll-results-should-active-rainers-switch-to-posterous/ http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/ag-flash-poll-results-should-active-rainers-switch-to-posterous/#comments Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:07:22 +0000 Lani Rosales http://agentgenius.com/?p=29627 Last week, blogging platform Posterous announced they would be allowing content to be imported from real estate blogging platform ActiveRain and some people were defensive while others cheered. To learn what the true sentiment was (and not just the voices of those who felt extremely positively or negatively about it), we took an AG Flash Poll to get a sense [...]
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]]> http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/ag-flash-poll-results-should-active-rainers-switch-to-posterous/feed/ 19 Which blogging format should a real estate agent choose? http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/which-blogging-format-should-a-real-estate-agent-choose/ http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/which-blogging-format-should-a-real-estate-agent-choose/#comments Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:51:12 +0000 Lesley Lambert http://agentgenius.com/?p=28993 WordPress & Blogger & TypePad, oh my! So, you have decided to embark into the addictive world of blogging and have been researching the options for where to host your blog site. After asking about and doing some Google searches you distill your list of options down to (most probably): Blogger, WordPress, ActiveRain, TypePad and Posterous Which is the best [...]
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]]> http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/which-blogging-format-should-a-real-estate-agent-choose/feed/ 31 Localism Getting a Facelift? http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/localism-getting-a-facelift/ http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/localism-getting-a-facelift/#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:34:43 +0000 Danilo Bogdanovic http://agentgenius.com/?p=2376   Up to something… Seems that the fellas over at Active Rain are up to something… But this time, it’s with Localism. Just check out their new home page (screen shot above). Facelift or more… Is it just a facelift or is it something more? I don’t know for sure. But based on the information on the current home page, [...]
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]]> http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/localism-getting-a-facelift/feed/ 88 I Don’t Care About You http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/i-dont-care-about-you/ http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/i-dont-care-about-you/#comments Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:32:05 +0000 Jonathan Dalton http://agentgenius.com/?p=2328 What?? Did he just say that? Does he mean that? Or is he simply using a provocative headline to attract readers, first of all, and to set the mood for the post, the subtle shading and shaping that takes place to elicit specific feelings and the desired response from the audience. The answer, naturally, is both. Earlier this week I [...]
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]]> http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/i-dont-care-about-you/feed/ 22 Jumped The Shark? [Active Rain] http://agbeat.com/real-estate-coaching-tutorials/social-media/1544/ http://agbeat.com/real-estate-coaching-tutorials/social-media/1544/#comments Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:57:02 +0000 Jonathan Dalton http://agentgenius.com/?p=1544 Active Rain came at the wrong time Active Rain came into my life at precisely the wrong time. I already had committed to writing my own blog, at that time on the RealTown platform, and couldn’t find a way to keep two blogs active simultaneously. (Times have changed a bit, given how thin I’ve become stretched the past year.) Some [...]
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]]> http://agbeat.com/real-estate-coaching-tutorials/social-media/1544/feed/ 81 Don’t Kill The Messenger http://agbeat.com/real-estate-coaching-tutorials/social-media/dont-kill-the-messenger/ http://agbeat.com/real-estate-coaching-tutorials/social-media/dont-kill-the-messenger/#comments Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:15:45 +0000 Michael Price http://agentgenius.com/?p=1212 I opened my feed reader to find a well intentioned plea from Drew Meyers on the GeekEstate blog. He is making a request to the Re.net to refrain from personal attacks on blogs. The vitriol and name calling we are seeing lately isn’t limited in its direction to individual bloggers. I read another post from a “real estate instructor & [...]
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]]> http://agbeat.com/real-estate-coaching-tutorials/social-media/dont-kill-the-messenger/feed/ 12 Do You Put Out for Free? http://agbeat.com/real-estate-news-events/zillow/do-you-put-out-for-free/ http://agbeat.com/real-estate-news-events/zillow/do-you-put-out-for-free/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:59:21 +0000 Benn Rosales http://agentgenius.com/?p=967 I was reading Matt, you know, Matt that founded WordPress, and he called out Seth Godin on having a typepad with a name like Seth Godin. Matt made the following point that I found astounding: it drives me crazy that people like Seth Godin and John Moore are pouring countless hours into creating priceless content as sharecroppers on domains they [...]
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