The folks at ActiveRain are putting together a contest. It’s Pygmalion for webloggers, wherein experienced real estate webloggers take eager young blogging caterpillars into their tutelage, and, Henry Higgins-like, bring forth beautiful blogging butterflies in a few months’ time. The winning pair of bloggers will split $5,000 amongst their favorite charities.
(I predict my favorite charity will turn out to have something to do with stray animals.)
In any case, I’m looking for a patsy, er pigeon, er victim, er volunteer — I’m looking for a volunteer to learn the art and science of real estate weblogging with me as your tutor, er mentor, er insufferable bastard.
To disclaim is to disclose: I am not the gentlest teacher in the world. But I know a lot about weblogging, and I can teach you as much as can be taught about this art, this praxis, this obsession.
If you are at or very near the stage of being a total wannablogger with a will to make the leap to something that can blow kisses at true greatness, you’re my ideal candidate. I love you best in Phoenix, but if you’re not here, you’re just not here.
If you want to learn to do real estate weblogging wisely and well, with style, with grace, with humor and panache — I’m your volunteer.
But: I really, really like to win. So: Write to me and tell me why I should pick you as my co-competitor…
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Dustin says:
Pick me! Pick me!
February 24, 2007 — 2:25 am
Greg Swann says:
> Pick me! Pick me!
Snot.
February 24, 2007 — 9:07 am
Bonnie Erickson says:
That response has panache dripping all over it!
February 24, 2007 — 4:58 pm
Greg Swann says:
> That response has panache dripping all over it!
It’s a gift…
February 24, 2007 — 6:45 pm
Brian Brady says:
Written with the intention of filling your inbox:
http://activerain.com/blogsview/49389/Learn-From-the-Best
February 24, 2007 — 8:52 pm
Greg Swann says:
> Written with the intention of filling your inbox
Bless you, sir. Thank you.
February 24, 2007 — 9:03 pm
Maureen Francis says:
Where are the contest details?
February 25, 2007 — 5:16 am
Cyndi Sloop says:
Hummmm,why you should pick me. I can handle the hard truth about what I may need to do and change in order to have a successful blog. Hope you are successful on winning your contest.
February 25, 2007 — 6:52 am
Grasshopper says:
Greg,
You should pick me because I will succeed where you have failed. In your early years as a would-be/wannabe blogger, you attempted to build a community-based blog, but you abandoned the effort for the softer, gentler, easier approach of pandering to real estate professionals. And I quote:
“Swann, a Phoenix-based broker who started BloodhoundBlog with his wife, Realtor and staging consultant Cathleen Collins, made two earlier stabs at blogs connected to the couple’s brokerage business, BloodhoundRealty.com LLC, dating back to 2003. Swann said he was never very inspired by the local bent of those blogs. After following the frank discussions of industry issues on Rain City Guide, Swann and Collins decided to take a different approach with BloodhoundBlog.
On BloodhoundBlog, he said, the couple “stopped worrying about local content and clients, and stopped using (blogging) as a way to troll for business.” Instead, the blog became a forum “to talk about what we were interested in real estate — things of more interest to (real estate) professionals than our client base.”
So, consider me the next-generation “troller.” I intend to build a world-class community blog based in Boston. But unlike yourself, I am awe-inspired by all things local, and am humbled by the opportunity to offer insights into the community in which I live and serve. So, let’s go guru. The gauntlet has been tossed down…
Another reason you should pick me is that I, too, am well versed in Latin prose: VENI, VIDI, VICI!
How’s that for Panache….
Sincerely,
Grasshopper
February 25, 2007 — 10:12 am
Grasshopper says:
Greg,
I’ve tried twice to email the reasons you should pick me at a “co-competitor” and both times I received an “undeliverable” reply.
see: Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.
Subject: As posted on your blog…
Sent: 2/25/2007 2:07 PM
The following recipient(s) could not be reached:
GregSwann@BloodhoundRealty.com on 2/25/2007 2:08 PM
There was a SMTP communication problem with the recipient’s email server. Please contact your system administrator.
>
Any idea as to why this might be happening?
Grasshopper
February 25, 2007 — 12:09 pm
Brande Bradford says:
Greg,
While I have no doubt you will receive a lot of interest in your offer, I would very much like to throw my hat into the contest.
I am actually Atlanta based, so I know that is one strike. However, to turn it around, I can promise you that you will not have anyone with more drive and excitement over blogging come forth.
My husband, also in real estate,is a much better write than I am. However, I joined Active Rain in January, and am finding that blogging promises to bring to my business than I could ever imagine.
The reason I would like to be your pick is, simple. I want to master blogging. Its a powerful tool that I feel extremely inadequate at.
I am willing to listen and give blogging my all should you chose me. I am not a here today, gone tomorrow agent. I am extremely passionate about my business and I have some lofty goals for the next few years. I feel that learning to properly blog will only enhance my business and give me the edge over most of the competition.
If shown, I promise to be your star student.
Brande Bradford
Bradford Realty Group
March 2, 2007 — 8:52 am
Phil Sharp says:
Will there be only one that will fit your mold? What of those of us who are truely neophites, those who can barley spell, much less find our way thru the maze “do it this way, do it that way”!
I would love to be your apprentice, learn from someone who obviously knows how it’s done..better than most.
So; pick me, pick me. Or at least let me ride in the backseat, pass you cool refreshing beverages as we travel the weblog trail, and listen in on your sage advice.
Olympia Washington, but I think I left something in Phoenix last time i visited.
March 8, 2007 — 10:28 pm
janet guilbault says:
Does this qualify me as a beginner with potential? Most prominent mortgage broker on ActiveRain (you know, the one who is stuffing your inbox) compliments my brilliant marketing for having a strategy to own the long tail. The long tail? Like I know what THAT means.
Last week: one post of mine lands on Mortgage Week in Review. Different post lands on ActiveRain Week in Review. (Someone already likes this stuff…good sign)
Former Realtor. Own an auto leasing company. Now a mortgage broker. Plenty of stories from a career of clients getting houses and cars and financing.
No writer’s block, opinionated, gramatically correct. Also like to win. No fear of prime time blogging.
The drawbacks: SEO illiterate. Don’t have or understand widgets.
But wait, am I young and in Arizona? Nope. That person already won American Idol.
June 26, 2007 — 5:51 pm