Well, the listing contest was a great success! We had 52 entries! Now comes the exciting part. Here are the top 10 entries and a survey that follows to allow you to vote for your favorite post. Remember, when picking a post, choose your favorite based on the content & creativity of the post, NOT the quality of the listing. Voting will be open until Sunday, September 20th at Midnight.
Please take a few moments & view the top 10 listing posts. After you have finished, you can then vote for your favorite in the poll below. So, without further ado, let me introduce the 10 finalists! Each of these members will win at least 1,500 points for making it to the final 10. One lucky winner will win 10,000 points for the best post. You, our members will choose 1st, 2nd, & 3rd place. So please take a moment to read these posts & then vote for your favorite!
Now that you have read all the posts from our finalists, it is time to vote!
In case you wanted to see the other great listing posts, take a few minutes to check some of these wonderful listings out. There are some great features that can be found on so many of the listings below to enhance your listing posts. Just for entering the contest, these lucky members will receive 500 bonus points for their entry.
A huge thank you to all our members who participated in this contest! It was a great success! Also, be on the lookout for the final results after voting has closed. I will announce the winners right here on my blog.
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Well...DANG! I am sorry I missed this one my sellers would love the exposure! I will lokk at the finalists because some of my favorite folks at AR have entries!
What fun to see some truly great efforts from our colleagues. They were all well done so I had to go with what I thought a buyer might be most attracted to...large, professional pictures and concise information...
Great ideas here! Half the fun of contests is getting to see what the cream of the crop are doing to market and this is a nice collection to learn from!
Thanks Jeremy for posting all of the entries as well as the finalists! This is a great way to get ideas for future posts for our listings! Will be voting soon!
I really liked Dick & Dixie's the best. Not just because we are 'neighbors' serving the Pasco Florida Market. Nor because I love golfing at Fox Hollow. And I certainly do not need to give my competition any advantages, but...
Forgetting about content, I liked how theirs flowed. The pictures/maps/video/etc.. Broke up all the Text. I think that made a huge impact. So much of the competition, while good, was just so wordy, it was a turn off that I could see people going "gosh, I don't have time to read an essay about a house." With D&D's listing, you got a lil info and you got some pics. It intrigued me to scroll on rather than suffer through. little bit of this and a little bit of that.
Now to Content. They gave alot of great information about the house, the community, the town and region all without being too wordy.
Well done, and since you are currently tied for the lead, I guess I am not alone. Good luck to all, they all had things I plan on 'stealing from you' for my listings :p
This vote appears to be vulnerable to cheating. As you can see in my previous comment, I already voted, but I just came back and it is asking me to vote, instead of showing me the results since I already voted.
It was fun reading all of the listings. I voted and look forward to seeing who the winner will be, though I have an idea I already know. Even though my entry didn't make it to the top 10, I enjoyed participating and this exercise was good for my homeowner as well. I'll definitely be doing this again.
Jeremy, I just voted for my favorite and believe me it wasn't easy! I found parts of just about every one that I liked, I really learned a lot. So next time I get a listing I will put all these bits and pieces together for a FABULOUS listing post.
Oooooh - nothing like beautiful listings to fire up the imagination!! It will be very hard to chose the best because these are sooo good. I am inspired!!
Those are the top choices? I don't mean to offend anyone, but I guess I'm going to . I didn't see a real video in a single post. And the photos were too dark in half of the posts. I give credit for people using HTML and taking good photos, and a nod for a decent slide show. But still no video??? In a contest??? I am really wishing I had known about this contest. Somehow I missed this one. I wouldn't dream of entering a listing in a contest and not including some real video in it.
Jeremy... WoW.. 52 entries... Not bad at all.. This is another great and exciting opportunity for members to get additional exposure on their listings. Look forward to see the outcome of the voting.
Another successful ActiveRain contest. It's fantastic to see so many great entries and to see how people across North America are promoting their listings.
Hey Jeremy very cool and thanks for running this contest/ They are all so much fun. My recent blog about contests offers a suggestion you may want to take up
Jeremy - There are some incredible entries above! I must not ever look in the right places because I never know about contests until after it is too late......:(
Really great. Some very creative listings. I enjoyed reading them but now I just want to be able to buy one of them, shows what can happen if you put some thought into advertising your listings. Cudo's to the agents !!!!!
They were all really good. However, there is one that really stood out in my opinion. Why? It was simple. No information overload. If one wanted more information, there was the option of clicking on a link to get it. And most important, it didn't bore with details. It was very fun and entertaining!
Man, oh, man, Jeremy - That was a really, really difficult choice. Although I won't reveal my ballot choice, I must say I am always a sucker for a touch of humor!
The way of describing a home for sale to the "Traditionalists" and "Boomers" has mainly been by detailing the features.
I believe I read somewhere on AR that NAR is estimating just over 77% of the real estate business nowadays is coming from "Gen X" & "Gen Y's".
This huge segment (of X & Y's) is apparently most interested in the lifestyle (vs. the features) a home offers. Videos provide these buyers with the information on features (a picture is worth 1,000 words) anyway.
I'm really interested to know if there was one entry that stood out from others in describing the lifestyle?
I am not in the contest but will certainly take a look at the contestants and cast a vote. Hate to miss out on an opportunity to help someone win a prize.
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Jeremy - I will vote soon on my favorite. I didn't have time to get my own entry done for this one - great turnout!