Congratulations ActiveRain.com for your huge accomplishment! We are now over 100,000 members strong.
Matt and Jonathan, congratulations! 2008 has been a stellar year. Thank you for a fine organization! You are true visionaries!
Here is an interesting article I found about our organization on Mashable.com. I always like knowing how things work, don't you?
January 21, 2008
Social network for real estate professionals ActiveRain has just raised $2.75 million in financing from HouseValues , which is another company that's involved in the real estate market. According the VentureBeat , "The site has been around for about two and a half years, but was thus far bootstrapped. Co-founders Matt Heaton and Jonathan Washburn report on the company blog that they will retain a majority share and control over the company."
While ActiveRain may not be the most appealing based on its aesthetics, it's clear that the company is hoping to provide a great deal of value by way of functionality. The network enables real estate professionals to create their own personal web pages within the ActiveRain network, for self-promotional purposes. Users can place their contact information, website links, video and image content on these pages, and it looks like there are also options to provide things like click-to-call tools on their profiles as well. Other tools take advantage of things that worked like LinkdIn, like referrals and a Q&A session.
HouseValues, the company that has invested in ActiveRain, looks to be an online resource for home values in various regions of the country. Perhaps HouseValues is looking to find a way to become more involved with the social networking realm of real estate? There are several other networks out there, even some from larger media companies like Scripps, that have recently been making moves to become more integrated with online tools-most of these moves revolve around the media aspects that are now available for showing home on the web.
Mirela Monte, Your Myrtle Beach Real Estate Connection Join The Optimist Group!
I love this place! I'm on my 27-th referral from it!
I feel like we just brought in the New Year...
Mirela-W O W! 100,000 PLUS members, this is really incredible.
Joe
Mirela, to climb to that level of membership is truly amazing, and a credit to all who choose to join and participate. Congratulations AR.
This was GREAT news to read! Matt and Jonathan have done an amazing job at building this place and helping to continue it's growth. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else!
Leesa: I concur!
Thanks for the comment!
How did you like the fireworks?
Mirela,
Thanks for the great post about our lovely AR and especially for the fire works presentation.
Love,
Coco
Great tribute to AR and all the members! Over 100,000 and growing!!!
Whooo...hooo 100,000! I didn't realize the House Value connection.
Congratulations ActiveRain and congratulations to you, Mirela. I enjoying reading your blogs and seeing you pics!
Mirela, I love your graphics! I read someone's post where you could find out what your member number was and I was 9090, that seems so far from 100,000! Congratulations Activerain!!!