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Winners of the ActiveRain "Carnival of Content" Round 3 for Staging Professionals

This past week's "Carnival of Content" contest for Staging Professionals attracted some really excellent entries from among our Stager members. All of the judges commented on the high quality of writing from our contestants and how challenging it was to select the Top 3 winners.

Before we announce the Round 3 Winners, let's briefly recap the rationale behind the Carnival of Content contests:

Mission Statement: The ActiveRain "Carnival of Content" is a monthly contest to challenge, encourage and foster better and improved quality writing from among our membership.

This contest will accomplish several goals:

provides greater quality articles of enhanced value for Localism/Consumers
challenges and fosters individual improvement in blog writing
provides excellent examples of what constitutes good blog writing for our members

Round One was specifically for Real Estate Agents/Brokers. Round Two highligted Loan Officers and Mortgage Lenders. Round 3 was for our Staging Professional members. It is our intention to offer contests that will encourage/challenge improved writing from all the various categories of ActiveRain membership.

The contestants for our Round Three, Staging Professionals, had to write an article on the topic/subject "Why and When to Stage."

You can read the rest of the contest rules and criteria by going Here.

The Prizes

No contest is complete without prizes.

All winning articles will get 'Featured' on the Blog Dashboard.
Points - 1000 points will be awarded for 1st Place; 750 points for 2nd Place; and 500 points for 3rd Place.
The winning articles will also get published on SoundBiteBlog.com.

The Judges

The distinguished panel judges for Round Three were selected from among your peers. They included Craig Schiller, Bryant Tutas, Maggie Dokic, Jeff Turner, and Yours Truly.

And Now!.... Without any further ado, here are the Winners of The Carnival of Content Round Three!

First Place and Winner of 1000 points: Sue Argue "A Life Raft for Sellers in this Shallow Pool of Buyers"

Second Place and Winner of 750 points: Joelle Green "If the MLS is the Mall"....

Third Place and Winner of 500 points: Kathleen Garvey "Exploring Shangri-La Expectations"

Honorable Mention goes out to Julianna Hind and Cari Pilon.

Congratulations to our winners and a HUGE 'Thank You!' to all who contributed their entry articles. All of you are truly winners in your own right!

Posted by Rich Jacobson Your Kitsap County WA Real Estate Agent on 08/22/2007 11:50 AM

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30 Comments on Winners of the ActiveRain "Carnival of Content" Round 3 for Staging Professionals

AUG

2007

Congratulations to all - you stagers really rock my boat -I am proud of you!!!

A special thanks to our distinguished panel of Judges. Thanks for all your time and willingness to judge such a great field of entries!

Thank you judges for giving of your time and talents for this contest - after reading all the entries - you really had quite a decision to make! My gratitude to all of the stagers for writing such incredible blogs and for leading the way. Thank you - Calie

I just finished reading Sue's post and it was excellent. Great choice for a First place finish. Now, I'm going back to her blog to Congratulate her for a win!

Congrats to everyone involved. Great posts.

You are ALL winners!!

There were truly some great post that were involved in this Carnival! Congrats to everyone!

Thank you very much!!!

Thank you judges for your time and expertise. I am truly honored to be in your company, and that of my fellow staging professionals.

I have learned so much from all of you, I could never say enough thank you's.

Congratulations to all the stagers that entered the contest as well, you all did a fab job!

These contests are a great idea to bring more attention to the variety of professions in the Rain. It's a great chance for the community to encourage and support our fellow bloggers, and discover some new talent in the process.

Great job Staging Gals! I always learn from each and every one of you.

Rich, This contest has not only been fun for me (and I believe the other entrants) but has also been a great way to indeed accomplish your stated goals. Thank you so much for giving the home stagers a place to participate designed just for us. Thank you also for the time that you and each of the other judges took to make your choices. You (meaning you as a group) did an excellent job of choosing the winners!

We (as stagers) are all better equiped as a group to answer your original questions -- When and Why to Stage -- because of the well thought out posts that came out during the course of this contest. Now that is a winning concept. Thanks!

Ditto from me on everything Yvonne just posted! Thx, Yvonne, for stating my sentiments.

Congratulations to the winners. There were many wonderful posts submitted. I enjoyed reading them all.

All of you involved did a wonderful job and the winners did outstanding jobs! And a big hand for Rich for putting on ALL of the Carnival of Content Contests!

Very good contest Rich. Congrats to all the winners. There were many very good articles and as a judge it was real hard narrowing it down. Kudos to ALL the stagers that participated.

Rich, thank you very much! This was a great birthday present!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I loved the opportunity to have entered and really enjoyed reading all of the many creative entries!! The level of talented professionals here at Active Rain has really been a fantastic initial experience for me. Each person who takes the time to write here at AR and took the energy to submit to the contest gets my applause!! (I want one of the clappy-hands animations!!)

Thank you to the judges for giving your consideration and thought-filled time to read our Home Staging entries!!

Warm Regards-Kathleen

Craig Schiller, Bryant Tutas, Maggie Dokic, Jeff Turner, and Rich Jacobson: Thank you very much !!

Neat contest, Rich, and a great idea for inspiration. Glad it has been segmented to focus on different aspects of the industry. Off to read the winners.

Jeff

Thank you judges for your time. I had a lot of fun writing and playing along. I think everyone did a fabulous job! Congrats again to Sue, Joelle and Kathleen - standing ovations!

Excellent writing by all.... Choosing the winner must have been a tough choice for the judges!

This contest series was a great idea!!

-Bill
Bill@Sauneuf.com
http://www.Sauneuf.com

Like a great balls of fire, I may say. Well, congrats everyone.

This was fun! I learned a lot about staging with this contest. Congrats to the winners!!

congratulations to all of the winners. You are all an asset to the profession. A special congratulations to Sue -- a colleague in New Hampshire! Way to go SUE!

AUG

2007

CONGRATS !

Congratulations to Sue, Joelle, and Kathleen! Fantastic work on everyone's part.....you make me proud!

It is stagers like these that inspire me!

Julia

AUG

2007

Hi Rich, Great Job my friend. Looking forward to the next localism contest. Congratulations to each of the winners and the HM's. I will head back now to be sure to send each a comment and a Well deserved Congratulations.

Rich - there were some great blogs posted. You really made us all put on our thinking caps. Congrats to the winners.

AUG

2007

Congratulations to ALL the writers of wonderful posts in this Carnival!

SEP

2007

Rich the posts were excellent and the winners certainly deserved to win, Excellent job to all and boy I am soooo impressed with all the great articles. You girls ROCK

Phyllis Pafumi

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