New Haven CT Homes & Property

Happy Mother's Day!     Today is a day to celebrate our mothers. I thought the most appropriate way to celebrate Mother's Day on ActiveRain would be to share our fondest memory of how our mothers made our houses into a home.   Here is my story about my mother, Linda Silverstone, who passed away a...

ActiveRain.com was down today.  For many hours.  On a busy Friday during real estate's busy season.  What is important here, other than web hosting and server management, is learning how to respond to problems and reach out to customers during a major service outage. Every company is going to hav...

Google Analytics users can rejoice.  Google Analytics has been upgraded!  in addition to the valuable reports on site usage, webmasters can now use Page Speed Tools to track site load times.   The information Google Analytics gives webmasters about site speed is crucial for determining: Specific ...

I'm a huge fan of Google's "Google Apps" service.  I currently use Google Apps to power a few different business websites.  For my core real estate domain, www.CTProperty.com, I use Google Apps to manage our email, host a shared calendar and store documents.  It makes things much easier when ever...

Times are tough.  Many have found themselves out of work for months or longer, and struggle to make payments on their home.  Others rebounded from a job loss but are strapped with extra payments from their time away from work.  For those who live in Guilford CT and are in need of financial suppor...

I work with many clients who are relocating to Connecticut.  Today, while driving with a buyer from out of state, I was asked if Halloween was celebrated in Guilford CT during the Spring.   At first I was caught off guard by this question.... why would he ask today if we celebrated Halloween when...

Habitat for Humanity of Greater New Havenwill hold a one-day event calledWomen Build on Wednesday, May 4 as part of National Women Build Week (April 30 through May 8). Habitat for Humanity is looking to gather twenty female volunteers to volunteer for the day (8:45am to about 4:00pm). Building a...

  I'm thrilled to be featured in Active Rain's "Success in the Rain" Raincamp Philly taught me more about Craigslist, facebook and twitter than I thought possible in a 1-day event.  I took 10 pages of typed notes away from that event.  Lead generation increase greatly after this event - I was bet...

Marketing and online advertising are very important.  I love how ActiveRain is a community designed to discuss this very fact, and I pay close attention to the companies that advertise and affiliate with AR. I keep track of my online reputation and think twice before I affiliate with a given webs...

Raincamp Atlantic City NJ starts on Monday.  I'm excited.  The knowledge I gained from Raincamp Philly helped me generate more leads online, better market my listings and increase my profile on local real estate searches.  With a new format for Raincamp, focused on Reputation Architecture, I'm l...