Every year around this time, REALTOR® Magazine produces an issue filled with hundreds of tips that we glean from NAR members, as well as experts in marketing, technology, law, public policy, and business management. This year, we tried something a little different with our List Issue. We put a number of the topics that we planned to include out to ActiveRain members, and we asked them to share their ideas and opinions online. The result (internally, we're calling it the crowdsourced issue) will be published in our April issue.
One of the last steps of producing the issue is developing the cover, and we decided to open that process up to public opinion, too. Since it would be prohibitively expensive to photograph three covers, we're planning an illustrated cover. Here are sketches of three concepts we're considering. Please take a look and then vote for the one that would be most likely to draw you inside.
Voting is open until Wednesday, March 3, 5 p.m. Central Time. Thank you for your input!
1. "Crowdsourced." This cover represents the idea of crowdsourcing, showing, in a rather literal way, that we plugged into a big network of people to come up with the great ideas you'll find inside.
2. "Idea Superstore." In this concept, a practitioner is looking at a long "shopping" list and heading to a superstore (i.e., REALTOR® Magazine!) to meet all her information needs.
3. "Come and Get It!" A fellow REALTOR® welcomes you to open the magazine, where we're presenting "Your Best Ideas." This cover emphasizes the ideas themselves, but it also subtly telegraphs the crowdsourcing idea.
Thank you for sharing your opinion with us!
Stacey Moncrieff, Editor in Chief, REALTOR® Magazine
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