The New Homes Professional Network has recently hit two great milestones. First, in April we had our 1 year anniversary.
It's a little hard to believe that it's been that long since we kicked it off via LinkedIn Groups. The next benchmark
and one that we're very proud to announce is the fact that last night at midnight, we reached our 1,000 member mark.

We have always believed that if the professionals in our industry had a place to share their thoughts, ideas, opinions and
expertise, they would. And they have. For some, the Network is a place to drop in and post something that is newsworthy. For others
it's a place on their list of must visit sites just to keep a pulse on what's going on in the industry. And yet for many others
it's a place where they go to learn about other industry notables like Mike Lyon, Jeff Shore, Brian Flook, Kerry Mulcrone and many
other "Featured Members".

It was in December of last year that Jim Adams & I were spending the holidays together and brainstorming about how to bring
more value to our growing list of members. We decided to begin the "Featured Member Interviews". How cool would it be, we thought,
if our members could have a special forum in which to share the details of their career, the lessons they had learned, the obstacles
they had overcome and the successes they had experienced. It has by far been our most popular forum. Many of us know these
members by name and some socially but the interviews have allowed us to see a more personal side to their distinguished careers.
The responses to these interviews has been a great testimony to the social media phenomenon. Brands are important but people are
longing to know the person behind the brand. They don't want to hear more executive rhetoric but real life experiences and
personalities. Social media is opening our eyes to the "who" instead of the just "what" in our business transactions and the
New Homes Professional Network is thrilled to be a part of the revolution.

The second tool that we made available to our members is our popular Buzz page. Our premier press release site. In the first
331 days of its existence there have been 1146 press releases from 548 publishers and they have been viewed 7,409,226 times!
Can you say SEO machine?
We were inspired by the lack of industry controlled news portals so we provided a platform for home building industry professionals
and real estate professionals to promote their companies, communities, and real estate listings by way of online press releases.
I can't help but think about the movie "The Field of Dreams" where we first heard the statement - "If you build it, they will come".
Well, we built it and they have come.


To our valued members, thank you for your participation! Thank you for spreading the word about the NHPN and stayed tuned for some
new tools coming to you from the NewHomesDirectory.com team.

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