{"id":9331,"date":"2009-07-29T08:44:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T15:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=9331"},"modified":"2009-07-29T12:05:11","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T19:05:11","slug":"is-activerain-selling-loan-officers-an-exlusive-opportunity-or-just-selling-their-real-estate-agents-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/9331\/is-activerain-selling-loan-officers-an-exlusive-opportunity-or-just-selling-their-real-estate-agents-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Is ActiveRain Selling Loan Officers An Exclusive Opportunity, Or Just Selling Their Real Estate Agents Out?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve received a few emails and calls from my loan officers this week about some new exclusive opportunity that Activerain.com is pitching to the mortgage industry.<\/p>\n

Apparently, Active Rain is cold calling mortgage professionals who have an AR blogging history and offering them an “extremely rare opportunity” to pay $299 \/ month for the privilege of being able to re-sell upgraded AR products to real estate agents.<\/p>\n

The following email is an example of what the new Active Rain business model appears to be:<\/p>\n

xxxxxxxxx,<\/p>\n

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Thank you for taking the time out of your day to speak with me. \u00a0As I said, this is an extremely rare opportunity.<\/p><\/div>\n

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WISCONSIN<\/p><\/div>\n

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Currently 848 Real Estate Agents<\/p><\/div>\n

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Currently 123 Loan Officers<\/p><\/div>\n

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You will have a full training course with ActiveRain to learn the knowledge on how to dominate the first page of Google. \u00a0With this knowledge you will train agents to do the same. \u00a0You will keep in contact with these agents as their trusted advisor who has directly taught them on how to fully market themselves successfully. \u00a0There will be loyalty here. \u00a0You will have full access to every single new and old agent in the whole state of Wisconsin. \u00a0You will be highlighted all over ActiveRain for this.<\/p><\/div>\n

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$299\/month is your investment.<\/p><\/div>\n

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After 15 upgrades you will receive $700.<\/p><\/div>\n

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For every rainmaker upgrade thereafter, you receive $25.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The relationships and possibilities are endless.<\/p><\/div>\n

Please let me know as soon as possible as time is of the essence.<\/p>\n

xxxxxxxxxxxxx
\nMember Services
\nActiveRain.com
\nxxxxxxxxxxxx<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve obviously blanked out the names to protect the people involved in this specific conversation, but I’ve already been given permission by my loan officers to talk about this on Bloodhoundblog.<\/p>\n

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Let me get a few disclaimers out of the way before I dive in to this Active Rain thing.<\/p>\n

I’m a loan officer with several blogging platforms – some are free, and some cost money to participate.<\/p>\n

My main objective with 99% of the group blogs that I build is to help my contributors expand their reach online with a little help from a few friends who share the same goals.<\/p>\n

I understand the importance of having a well capitalized web project so that the development crew can stay on the Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve received a few emails and calls from my loan officers this week about some new exclusive opportunity that Activerain.com is pitching to the mortgage industry. Apparently, Active Rain is cold calling mortgage professionals who have an AR blogging history and offering them an “extremely rare opportunity” to pay $299 \/ month for the privilege […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,24],"tags":[204,382],"class_list":{"0":"post-9331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-dirty-laundry","7":"category-egoism-in-action","8":"tag-activeraincom","9":"tag-mortgage-marketing","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7867,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7867\/california-proposes-to-regulate-realtors-alongside-pawn-shops-and-lenders-and-banksoh-my\/","url_meta":{"origin":9331,"position":0},"title":"California Proposes to Regulate REALTORS Alongside Pawn Shops, and Lenders, and Banks…Oh MY!","author":"Brian Brady","date":"April 14, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Assemblyman Pedro Nava sponsored a bill (CA-AB33) to reorganize our state's financial services' regulators to be under one umbrella, the newly created Department of Financial Services.\u00a0 The idea is to save a bunch of money for the State. 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