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Drew Myers (Zillow renown) asked if we’d fill in this week as the hosts of the Carnival of Real Estate and we jumped at the opportunity.
This will be the 3rd time we have, and they are always a blast.
For those who aren’t quite hip on the blog carnival -click here and read.
We love hosting the Carnival of Real Estate Because…
…of the Traffic surge from the RE.net.
…of the inbound links from participants and fans.
…of the chance to catch up on relevant topics.
…of the nudge to be a little more creative that normal.
For anyone who would like to host their own CORE, you gotta start here.
I threw out a tweet looking for some suggestions on the theme for the conspicuously inspiring date of our carnival: 4/20.
Lorenzo Montezemolo had the best suggestion: “I think your theme should be “Go Green!” since 4/20 is only two days before Earth Day :)”
I took his idea and twisted it up a bit more.
This week will are rewarding each outstanding post with the association of something known to be ‘green’.
This week’s overall winner is the last in the outstanding posts.
The others that appear above our winner are being recognized as ‘runner-ups’ and appear in no particular order.
Our Runner-Ups:
It’s Not Easy Being Green
The Kermit Award goes to Shawna Ebersole for her article which cleverly spun the inspiring preformance by Susan Boyle into recognizing how valuable continued education is in the RE Industry. It didn’t hurt that her site has the word ‘green’ in the name as well.
Website: IShopGreenwood.com
Article: How To Silence Your Biggest Critic
“He can change into anything”
Someone as ubiquitous and well connected as Dustin Luther definitely deserves the Gumby Award.
His entry was a great post on why agents need to leverage Facebook’s Business Pages.
Website: 4Realz.net
Article: 7 Things Every Real Estate Agent Should Love About Facebook’s Business Pages.
“What we take for granted might not be here for our children.”
Heather Levin at The Greenest Dollar picks up the Al Gore Award for her Earth conscious, green post.
And her site’s name also has the word ‘green’ in it.
Website: TheGreenestDollar.com
Article: 7 Eco-Friendly Tips To Sell Your Home
Don’t make me angry. You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.
The Hulk Award goes to Jay Thompson for pointing out that his site is the biggest and baddest place to search for property in greater Phoenix
(PS - His site has a lot of the the color green as well)
Website: PhoenixRealEstateGuy.com
Article: Where to search for homes online.
“HO! HO! HO!”
The Jolly Green Giant Award: Dan Green stands tall with his post about Messing With The Mortgage Gods.
And heck, his name is GREEN!
Website: TheMortgageReports.com
Article: 9 Different Ways Your Mortgage Approval Could Go Bad
“Ah, an angry face in a beautiful place - heaven.”
Jim Marks gets the Oscar the Grouch award for documenting the online mud slinging and cage fighting between Trulia and Zillow.
It’s getting hot in there.
Website: VirtualResults.com
Article: Trulia - Zillow Spirited-SEO-Discussion
“All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I’m fine.”
Jeff Spicoli Award Goes to Handy Saputra for sending in 5 entries to the CORE.
I’m going to chalk it up to short-term memory loss, and not an attempt to actually get all 5 in the event.
Here’s your link… we’ll let the audience find an article of interest.
And our Carnival Winner:
“There’s a drive… way back!… way back!… GONE!”
Green Monster and Overall Winner goes to Lauren Mitchell for her well written piece chocked full of sound advice for sellers.
Congratulations, Lauren!
Website: LivingInTheNeighbourhood.com
Article: Oh Honey, No. The Amazing Ways Toronto Sellers Tank Sales.
With 47 entries, this is the largest Carnival turnout that we have had, and it made for a ton of great reading.
Thanks to all those that participated. We truly appreciate the effort.
Also, a big thanks to those that link to our post - these contributors deserve to be read.
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Here are a list of submitted articles that certainly deserve a mention:
The Basics of Online Influence in Real Estate Marketing
San Mateo, Foster City, Burlingame & Hillsborough - Do You Know What Anniversary Is Today?
SEO with Social Media - It’s All About Building Your Brand
12 Things That You Aren’t Doing For Your Rental, But Should Be
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