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And thank you Cindy for giving me fresh fodder for my next Active Rain post in your recent post:
Check out this YouTube video for a first hand look inside a Manufactured Home production line and see for yourself how far the industry has advanced and to see how easy it is to get financed today
Inasmuch as our niche is a Nationwide Manufactured Home specialist specializing in engineered certifications, affidavits of affixture, 433A documentation for California residents for foundation installations, retrofits, repairs and inspections in scope we reach beyond local blogging. But we definitely do not dismiss it either. We started on a local level almost 25 years ago but the Internet and blogging, Active Rain in particular, have helped us grow and expand our business Nationwide in just a few short years.
Interestingly, however, even though we don't receive many comments or responses to our posts and are rarely featured with Active Rain we have really optimized our website with incredible success just by continually throwing our tags and phrases out there in everything we do i.e. this comment to you. We pop up number 1 on the first page and sometimes going 10 pages deep with every tag and phrase we use. So I guess it seems to be working for us one way or another.
We presently generate hundreds of hits every week that we would not be generating if it weren't for the optimization that Active Rain has made available to us through its blogging venue. These hits result in dozens of engineered certifications or foundation installation projects for our company which will result in at least a 6 figure addition to our annual revenues and we've only been members since April.
Even though I am a licensed Realtor and thereby an overall fit for the Active Rain venue we are also a General Contractor and licensed Manufactured Home Dealer and Developer in California and licensed Manufactured Home Contractors in Arizona, Florida and Oregon and thus not every Active Rain member is interested in our services so we don't tend to get pulled into the Active Rain in crowd so to speak.
But we're not to worried about our every blog being featured which would be very unrealistic regardless of our niche. Moreover, our goal is to be the Active Rain Manufactured Home guru by just by being persistent and contributing pertinent and useful information regarding our industry that might hit someones hot button in some way at sometime.
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Well, thank you Kate for feeding me the fodder and the inspiration for my daily AR post rant . I love waking up in the morning and the first thing I do, or should I say second after preparing my daily coffee and Bailey's, is log on to all my new friends at AR. I have yet to fail at getting a spark of inspiration from at least one post that I read and I do read a lot of AR posts. Funny but I never read a single blog until I became a member of AR.
Kate Wheeler CCIM Murphy NC Real Estate for Sale
I'm a newbie and a definite green pea when it comes to blogging, social networking and especially the whole computor thing. But I have to say that in a few very short and fast months (whew! Where has this year gone?) I have learned more about the art and let emphasize the word ART, I have learned more about this whole phenomenon through my relationships with members of Active Rain like Lenn Harley (my long lost second grade grammar and English Teacher that I never had and should have) who has taken time several times out of what I know are very busy days for her to take me aside and coach me not only on how to effectively and correctly write a good post but to be grammatically correct as well. Because of Lenn I went from 1 feature to 4 in just a few short weeks. I've never even met Lenn but yet she treats me as though I'm one of her favorite students.
But more importantly above and beyond getting featured is the positioning and clout it has given On The Level, our business for the past three decades, on the Internet. If I never was awarded another feature I wouldn't feel sorry for myself. Because of Active Rain, and I mean almost exclusively, On The Level pops up if not number one at least on the first page of almost every tag I input into the search engine.
With pay per click we've been in the post position most of the time for the past 4 years that we've subscribed to it. However, because of Active Rain I am proud to announce that our pay per click costs have gone from over a $1000 per month to under $500 and our lead activity has increased at least 3 fold. We get at least a couple of hundred hits a day Nationwide and I would say that a good percentage are qualified as we currently write between 75 to 100 more engineered certifications a month and get at least 15 to 20 more foundation installation jobs than we did before becoming members of Active Rain.
I have also learned more about linking and optimizing in the past few months than I've learned in the past 5 years.
Now that's success! Thank you Active Rain. But more importantly thank you Active Rain Members and Staff. You're the greatest. I reccommend Active Rain to anyone who takes their business seriously.
As Active Rain has been so kind to us we would like to reach out to the entire community and let each and every one of you know that we are here for you for any of your Manufactured Home needs. Please consider On The Level your go to guru in Manufactured & Modular Home industry.
Take two minutes to check out the link below if you want to see just how quick and simple your building solutions can be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E76jxaCddRc&feature=related
Albeit the time line is exceedingly hyperbolic to say the least this will give a builder, developer, planning departments, permitting officials and especially the homeowner a basic understanding of just how easy, safe and clean manufactured, modular and pre-fab home building has become.
Sure there is still the basic permitting, site work, infrastructure, soft scape, hard scape and appurtenances to go. But overall this keeps the whole home-building process and experience extremely simplistic and eliminates weeks if not months of strangers invading your property and having to deal with material, tools and equipment losses due to pilfering and weather and typical building related delays.
The in plant quality control and attention to detail that these structural components receive in a safe and climatically controlled environment could never be possible out in the open air with a mish mash of strangers all trying to converge on your property to coordinate and then rush their portion of the project through in order to keep everything on schedule which usually never happens anyway.
Finally financing has become a lot easier to obtain than ever before whether you're dealing with a new home or a resale. If you and/or your client own the land that your manufactured or modular home will be placed on you can qualify for 30 year conventional financing with the same interest rate and terms you would expect to receive on a traditional site built home. It's never been easier nor has the timing ever been better.
If you or your client are considering building or buying a manufactured home and need a little direction or information please consider On The Level your go to Active Rain source of information. Our consulting services are absolutely free to Active Rain members.
I would like to thank Bryant for giving me the inspiration and fodder for my daily post rant. I think it's important to start the day by getting it all off your chest so you can go on with more important matters like surviving. So I thought I'd augment to Bryants post just a tad
Bryant Tutas Broker/REALTOR(R) Tutas Towne Realty, Inc
Unfortunately Bryant we are living in an era of negativity and cynicism where everyone and anyone who dares to get up in the morning and face the worlds challenges must deal with myriad smirks, unkindly overtones, gestures and often overt attacks and character assassination about our chosen professions and even who we are as individuals. Here's but a glimpse of what I'm talking about.
In addition to Realtors being "the root of all evil" (refering to your recent post: http://activerain.com/blogsview/1278551/realtors-r-are-the-root-of-all-evil-)
You can add the following to the list:
Contractors are Con Men and Thieves
Lawyers are Opportunists and crooks
Lenders are Sharks
Doctors are Quacks
Clergy are Child Molesters
Politicians are all Bought by Lobbies and Special Interest Groups
Car Salesmen are Slimy Lot Lizards
Media are all Left Wing Pin Heads
Female Teachers have sex with Young Boys
Cops are all on the Take
Students are Lazy Good For Nothings or Radical Protesters
Celebrities are all demented perverts
The President of The United States of America is an incompetent Commie and A Stealth Radical Muslim Terrorist
And Buyers are All Liars.
So now tell me where does that leave our Society? Are there any good guys left anywhere? Or should we perhaps start changing our perspective and attitude towards our fellow man just a tad. We may be surprised just how much more productive we would be and how fast we might spin ourselves out of this quagmire and back into productivity and prosperity.
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