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Project Blogger Pre-Season Roundup

After a few weeks of buildup, today is the official start of the project blogger competition. Here are some of the pre-season efforts that were undertaken by the coaches and their apprentices. A special thanks to Caleb for compiling the blogs and Bob for helping me sort through them for this post.

As you can see, some teams utilized the pre-season to really hit the ground running and some teams have certainly been less visible in their preparation. It's possible we missed a few pre-season posts but with the amount of coverage this is already getting, Caleb had his hands full compiling this list. Good luck everyone and stay tuned for more updates as things progress.

Coach - Jeff Turner, RealEstateShows

Let's Get This Party Started Jeff Turner sets out to prove that blogging works and introduces Julie

It’s All About Relationships Coach Turner cheers on his apprentice.

Project Blogger Coaches Of A Feather Flock Together... Heavy hitters have a little pow wow.

It's Not About SEO. It's About YEO. Jeff help Julie get to the root of blogging

Apprentice - Julie Ferenzi - Blog

My name is Charlotte and this is my web of course she will learn from Jeff

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"Project Bloodhound"

Coach - Greg Swan, BloodhoundBlog

Introducing Teri Lussier, my Project Blogger protege The Bloohound Blogger Greg Swan announces his protegee

TheBrickRanch.com Greg Swann announces the name of Project Bloodhound's blog for the contest.

Who doesn't like the rules? The Bloodhound Weighs in.

Apprentice - Terri Lussier, TheBrickRanch

Hi. I'm Teri... And I'm aghast. She's just like you, new to this whole thing

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Coach - Paul Chaney, Blogging Systems Group

Project Blogger...I'm a Coach! Paul reaches out ("begging and pleading") to Jonathan

Project Blogger 'Apprentice' Chosen Paul Announces Ines

First Project Blogger Coaching Session: Ten Things to Consider Before You Blog Paul gives Ines 10 easy things to consider

Project Blogger: RSS Explained by a Pseudo Geek Paul starts to get a little technical on us

Apprentice - Ines Hegedus-Garcia, YourPropertyPros

Bring it on Project Blogger Ines steps into the ring, Paul chose her!!!

First Project Blogger Coaching Session - my homework Ines goes back to school

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Coach - Drew Meyers, Zillow

Wanted: Apprentice for Project Blogger Drew Meyers of Zillow Blog Asks and receives his candidate.

Looking For Last Minute Apprentice. Drew is...well procrastinating just a little bit.

My Apprentice Selection -- Tisza Major-Posner But he comes through in the clutch

Project Blogger Update #1 Drew has been busy but he still finds time for Tisza

Apprentice - Tisza Major-Posner, HomesByTisza

I'm Off To See The Wizard or Into The Trenches I go... Tisza fills us in on her day

Settling The Dust or Presenting The Presentation And the countdown is on.......

Episode Two... The Saga Continues :-) It's the final countdown..........

Bunnies, Blogs and Real Estate or Preparing For The Big Day.. Days seem like weeks for Tisza

Project Blogger, The Opportunity of a Lifetime and an Easter Egg :-) Tisza is a little worn out, she only has 26 minutes until the contest starts

Day One Is Done And It's Been Fun! She's alive!!!!

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Coach - Teresa Boardman, St Paul Real Estate Blog

Meet the Apprenctice - Project Blogger.......well don't really meet her, but get ready to

Project Blogger Coach, gets a coach and with further ado....Vali Wimberly

Apprentice - Vali Wimberly, Denver Fresh

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Team ORCA

Coach - Joel Burslem, FutureOfRealEstateMarketing

Go Team Orca Joel Burslem of The Future of Real Estate Marketing Blog and Kelly Kilpatrick form Team Orca.

Off To the Races Joel Burslem passes the starting gate, explaining the strategy for team Orca.

Apprentice - Kelly Kilpatrick, ExclusiveOChomes

Look no further! The best blogging apprentice is here!!! Kelly makes her bid, apparently Joel was looking on approvingly

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Coach - Jim Cronin, RealEstateTomato

Project Blogger and My Secret Weapon The Real Estate Tomato's Trainee Announced

Announcements Status Updates from The Real Estate Tomato

16 Reasons Why "Bloggers Connect" Is Going To Rock. Of course Project Blogger is one of them ;)

Like Holding Back a Raging Bull. Yes we are competitive!

Project Blogger: Unjudged and Unbridled (Pre-Season Swagger) Jim starts documenting

Unjudged and Unbridled, Project Blogger - Week Two Just what are they up to Jim and Jackie?

Apprentice - Jackie Colson-Miller - RealEstateSizzle

Project Blogger Jackie Colson-Miller on her first post for the contest.

Real Estate Sizzle Launches. Tomato and apprentice begin.

Jackie Colson-Miller "Sizzles" in Project Blogger Tune in to the Sizzle.........

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Coach - Ardell DellaLoggia, SearchingSeattleBlog

ARDELL's Seattle Area Real Estate Blog Ardell Delongia selects her apprentice.

Last Call ARDELL has a point.

Definitely Not Procrastinating. ARDELL is good, oh yes, she can play the game.

"The Apprentice" - Project Blogger Ardell introduces us to Kevin (she had no idea what he looked like)

Real Estate Today Podcast on Real Estate Blogging Ardell manages to get a Project Blogger plug in

Apprentice - Kevin Tomlinson, KevinTomlinson.com

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Coaches - Joe Ferrara & Rudy Bachraty, SellsiusBlog

Sellsius Is Project Blogger Coach Sellsius joins the competition.

Apprentices - Michael and Barbara Daly, Hamptons Real Estate Blog

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Coach - Pat Kitano, TransparentRealEstate

TRANSPARENT REAL ESTATE Pat Kitano's Project Blogger Introduction

Project Blogger Introduction Pat let's us know about London

Apprentice - London Whitted, GEM Mortgage

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Coach - Dustin Luther, RainCityGuide

Rain City Guide's Project Bloger Posts All project blogger posts from Rain City Guide.

Rain City Guide: Dustin Luther of Rain City Guide announces He's looking for an apprentice.

Inside Malibu Dustin finds his man, officially

Apprentice - Madison Hildebrand, TheMalibuLife.com

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Coach - Frances Flynn Thorsen, theRealtyGram

Mary Pope-Handy Is Blog Apprentice Frances Flynn Thorsen of The RealTownReport Announces RealTown's Candidate.

Apprentice - Mary Pope-Handy, PopeHandy.com

B.A.A.S. Yup It's clinical, no it's not contagious.

First Post for Project Blogger Mary gets her toes wet

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Project Blogger - Meet the coaches Jonathan makes an initial introduction to the coaches

Project Blogger - Meet the teams Jonathan introduces us to the teams

Project Blogger: Blogs, Photos, Videos and more on Technorati

Project Blogger - A RE blogging phenom Blogger Stephen Groves Gives his thoughts on Project Blogger

I Want To Be The apprentice. Danielle Lazier, takes a chance.

Carnac Of Connecticut predicts foul play in the competition. (Prediction 10.)

Apprentice Rejects? No We're all Winners.

More Insight into "Project Blogger" Official blogging coaches???

Two New Project Blogger Coaches Calling all coaches, please take your positions at the starting line

I Will Win Project Blogger. (With a little help from a mentor) Tim makes a bid

The Contest, Maybe it's Not Too Late Phil trys to lasso Drew the procrastinator

Posted by Jonathan Washburn on 04/10/2007 06:55 PM

Comments (18)

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Originally posted at: jonwashburn: Project Blogger Pre-Season Roundup

18 Comments on Project Blogger Pre-Season Roundup

APR

2007

I put this post up on my way out the door, so if there are some formatting issues I will clean them up tonight. :)

Thanks for all the links. Made for some interesting reading. We're all going to be hardpressed to keep up with everything.

Are we really supposed to believe that Ardell didn't know what Kevin looked like?

Uh Huh.....

Jon I introduced my blogger apprentice twice and my coach. I guess we just don't stnad out here among the celebrities. Our posts are in the project blogger group too.

There are more posts on my blog and in the project blogger group. My apprentice Vali Wimberly, we have written some posts for the project and included them in the project blooger group. Some how we just got missed. :(

Meet our apprentice Vali Wimberly, who wrote her first blog post for Acitve Rain yesterday: Its a Blog Vali has a unique down to earth no nonsense approach. She is a REALTOR too!

She also has a blog that she started before she agreed to be my apprentice so we can both learn something about blogs http://www.denverfresh.com/

Our team has a unique approach, we have a coach: Project Blogger Coach Gets Coached

Ahem.

Teresa,

Sorry about the miss. This post was intended as a pre-season recap. The blogs we compiled were as of yesterday and I think yours may have gone up today. Sorry, I went back and added in Vali.

You are a celebrity in every way in my book :)

Vali wrote her post yesterday.

gazoontite Greg.....:)

We are trying to track them all down, again this was intended as a pre-season recap. I think your blog was posted today???

and the lovely Vali is now appropriately represented. Again, my apologies. I am counting on you all to keep me in line :)

Actually Greg's post in question is there...retitled :) "Who doesn't like the rules? The Bloodhound Weighs in."

I posted our final stats on the Pre-Season warm up today...

And Jackie left one last PB post before she headed off to Europe for her International Correspondence.

APR

2007

Looking forward to learning a lot from these Blogging heavy hitters and their apprentices. Thanks for putting this together.

You've assembled a great lineup here. It will be a lot of fun seeing how each team approaches the contest, and I'm sure we'll all learn a lot along the way.