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Active Rain-Pan Handle Florida Realtor-Ghost Writer-30a-Destin Florida-Lana Stansbury

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My cousin, Lana Stansbury, a Realtor along the famous 30a corridor of Destin, Florida approached me one day about helping her with a real estate blog. She did not have the time nor the software skills to write and manage her own real estate blog to increase her business along 30a's pristine white beaches and emerald green waters. Her financial survival depended solely on selling luxury beach front homes and beach front lots and she felt she needed to jump on the blogging and social network band wagon. I was soon to become her Active Rain ghost writer!

Little did I realize the amount of time it would take researching and finding Lana's blogging experiments and the effort it would take get them back on track. She was right.Her time and talents were best suited to selling gorgeous water front properties some of us only get to dream about. I found myself on the verge of an unexpected education not only in ghost writing but Active Rain software and social networking realities. Several hundred thousand Realtors, mortgage brokers, home stagers, appraisers and inspectors utilize Active Rain daily to expand their customer base through networking and drawing in new consumers. If those looking to buy a new home or invest in real estate could navigate through Active Rain so easily it must be easy to use I thought.

In order to understand how to best utilize Active Rains Realtor marketing website to it's full potential, I discovered I needed to understand the art of business blogging. I moved forward by attending online web-nars through Active Rains trainer Steven Graham (Steven with a V that is) and the one and only remarkablogger as my software and social network guides.

The remarkablogger makes his living giving free advice to newby bloggers like me and in exchange receives leads for his blog coaching business helping individuals, ghostwriters and entrepreneurs succeed with their business blogs. Both have offered invaluable information to help me understand SEO (search engine optimization) and the power of networking through the social network world (aka facebook, twitter,linked-in and blogging).

I have moments when I question the amount of time I have spent learning new software from Active Rain , HubPages and reading the remarkabloggers endless resources in the attempt to grasp it all. Do I have the smarts and time to get it all to work together successfully? I am determined to conquer and master SEO (search engine optimization) and social networking technology for the benefit of my cousins real estate success and my own self interest.

I am a currently unemployed citizen of the USA ( one out of about 12%). As a result of my predicament, I am constantly running into job postings stipulating the candidates need to possess skills and experience needed to blog and social network. What's this? I am 53 years! But how can I question the power of social networking as witnessed first hand by the world. Social networking helped to turn the tides of political terror via the use of social networks such as facebook. If political resignations can be forced by social networking then I, at the very least, should be able to help Lana Stansbury sell luxury vacation, beach front property in South Walton County Destin, Florida . Bring it on.

If you are considering using Active Rain to market your real estate business or business related to real estate I would suggest taking as many Active Rain web-nars and classes as possible most are free. Do not forget to subscribe to some great probloggers that deal with business blogging such as the remarkablogger . Invest the time needed to use the software Active Rain offers including the referral software daily. In less than 6 weeks Lana has had over two hundred visits to her site. No small feat for a site that has been in constant transition and under construction daily as I learn the program. Will she profit from her Active Rain site? I believe she will, if she chooses to give the site enough time to work for her and me enough time to master the program and it's referral properties. Once I grasp social networking and put it to practice then I believe Active Rain has real merit to anyone needing a good networking and marketing tool for their real estate business. You should consider this marketing tool in your arsenal of marketing weapons to give yourself the advantage in a grossly competitive arena. If you have any questions and need some help just visit Lana Stansbury at http://activerain/lanastansbury and her ghost writer promises to be there to help.
Active Rain-Pan Handle Florida Realtor-Ghost Writer-30a-Destin Florida-Lana Stansbury