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You Might Miss Out with New Gmail Tabs As you might have heard or seen by now, Gmail has rolled out new tabs for your email. There are now Primary, Social and Promotions tabs. The idea is to help you keep your emails organized. There have been a number of 'Rainers that are no longer seeing their ...

There are some things in life that just seem to be a natural match. Often, when you finally bring those things together, people are left wondering, "why didn't someone think of this sooner?" That's kind of how I feel as I sit here writing about the new partnership ActiveRain and Inman are excite...

New ActiveRain Profile Pages We are very excited to announce the second phase in the redesign of ActiveRain. Today, we have released the newly redesigned profile pages on ActiveRain. When we released the new header design, the functionality of the website didn't change much. We basically just mov...

Are you heading to Keller Williams Mega Camp 2013? This can be a scary few days with so much going on. ActiveRain wanted to save you the confusion so we brought you an expert on the event, Chad Hyams. Take it away Chad! My name is Chad Hyams, and I have attended Keller Williams Mega Camp in many ...

Keeping Up with the Googles "Google does what Google wants" is an answer that I've given many times over the years when someone just can't understand why something is happening the way it's happening with the great gate keeper of the internet.  (OK, OK.....it's when I can't understand what's hap...

Inman News announced the 2013 Innovator Awards winners today in San Francisco.  Our own Bob Stewart has been down there all week soaking up the new information which we'll be sharing with you all via ActiveRain University classes in the near future. ActiveRain tries hard to stay ahead of the game...

The RealEstate.com team, in conjunction with ActiveRain, wants to create a better real estate index. The indices currently thrown around by news publications and real estate professionals, like the Case-Shiller index and the U.S. Census Bureau’s Building Permits Survey, are too broad and retrospe...

Win Free Leads from Market Leader for 3 Months Market Leader is in a giving mood. They're going to give you a chance to win free leads for your business for 3 months. In fact, two people are going to win free leads for 3 months.     What would free leads for 3 months mean for your business? It c...

You're Getting Good at This For the second year in a row, the ActiveRain real estate community has put their collective knowledge to the test in order to predict how the real estate market will play out in the coming year. Last year, as a group, we collectively called the bottom of the market. Al...

What Do You Expect From Your Lender? We all know that we'd like our lender to be responsive, give great service to our clients and be able to close the loan on time. Ask any agent that's been in the business for a few years, and they will tell you these are a few of the things they value in thei...