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For those of you who have a spouse that doesn't blog, who doesn't Twitter or get in on the Linked In action you most likely struggle with the excuses to your spouse of: WHY you MUST blog. The reasoning behind those hours of writing and commenting pays off when your spouse sees the emails and phone calls come in. When the closed transactions and income come in.

It takes time, effort, consistency and determination to MAKE this blogging thing work.

My husband laughed at me back when I first joined ActiveRain in March of 2007. Over time he became a believer in the power of blogging:

• I jumped up and down when I received my first email through my contact form on ActiveRain and he was impressed.
• I nagged him to look every time I received a Google Alert for my keywords in my Localism and Public Posts......and he was impressed
• I begged him to drive while I took pictures out the passenger window at everything and everything in hopes of an inspiring moment to write a post....which he supports fully.
• I wrote a post about the company he works for when they built me a new pc and he immediately was alerted (by me) that Google Alerts picked it up.....20 minutes after I posted it. PDC Systems Hawaii: I LOVE My New PC HE CALLED THE OWNER....he was proud of me.
• A news reporter from Kauai  contacted me and then Teri Eckholm and he wrote an article here>> A hard-fought day off by Nathan Eagle - in which he mentions both mine and Teri's views on Labor Day.
• In mid 2007 I started receiving many contacts and started working with them for a few months until they relocted to Hawaii.
• In 2008 I closed 4 transactions and when I asked them how they found me on the internet they ALL said through my blog.
• In 2008 I closed 2 transactions from my website and I also attribute those contacts to ActiveRain. For all I have learned to create the properties for each page on my website Google caught them big time. 

I no longer have to listen to the snide remarks by my spouse and family:

• You're making cornbread? Honey, the trick to making cornbread is to not blog through the time when you're supposed to take it out so you don't burn it.
• You're making dinner?  What kind of microwave concoction are you whipping up because you spend the whole day....blogging.
• You don't feel good? That's because you haven't blogged today.
• You want to go to the North Shore? You just want to go so you can take pictures for your blog.
• Let's go to the zoo? You just want to go so you can take pictures for your blog.
• I'm daydreaming and he says, "What...thinking about the blog?"
• I wake up in the morning and he looks at me and asks, "Did you dream about the blog?"
• It's a blogging kind of day!  Or how about the "Wanna a blog to drink?" Or the guilt trip, "Puppy, did mommy forget to feed you because she was blogging all day?".
• Mom..... you don't even spend quality time with us because of blogging. (these are my adult kids saying this.)

Many wise crack since that fateful  wonderful day I started blogging. I have proven without a doubt that all the hard work, the consistency and the determination to write productively with real estate, local area and all around posts have been beneficial. This new way of marketing myself and making friends with my Real Estate Industry Peers is definitely the most fulfilling experience as well as the most successful time that I've spent...working on my internet presence.

I want to thank my husband for all his support for without him I would not have succeeded in blogging.

No more monkeying around...this blogging is serious stuff!

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P.S. A very Happy Birthday to my husband, Gary.