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Award Winning Blogger

By: Bill Thompson, REALTOR®
Friday, August 24, 2007 10:15 AM

I am curious. How many recent REliberation contest winners are now using their win in self promotion. Is “Award Winning Blogger” now prominently displayed on your website or other advertising? If so, give me your website address so I can have a good laugh today ;-)

"Sour grapes"? Who said that? ;-)

Comments

Member Since '06	Sharron and Steve Lobman said: lol, Bill! August 24, 2007 9:36 AM
Member Since '06	Cathy Clark said: Oh, Cowboy Bill......Where have you been? I never thought of that, actually.....hmmmmm. How could I leverage this? August 24, 2007 9:37 AM
Member Since '07	Bill Thompson, REALTOR® said: Just put it right below "Multibillion Dollar Producer" and "Number One Realtor In the Universe". People are really impressed with that stuff ;-) August 24, 2007 9:39 AM
Member Since '04	Mary Welch said: That's right, I won one. Speechless, I believe. They said the check is in the mail at the end of the month. Didn't say anything about my apple. Bummer. You've got to admit, it brought out alot more posts which is a good thing. I think the best thing to put on your website is the customer is number 1. We can be number 2. August 24, 2007 9:47 AM
Member Since '06	Gloria Losie said: Bill I visited your website and didn't see the AWARD WINNING BLOGGER on the first page. Where are you hiding it? Mary: Bill has the client is #1. He is on top of his game. August 24, 2007 12:53 PM
Member Since '03	Howard Arnoff said: Bill, where have you been searching :) August 24, 2007 1:10 PM
Member Since '04	Vance Remele said: Well I think you would need to supply your own. I am the Great Blogger Award ! and put it on your web site Now I may be wrong. It would look something like this example. http://www.mtl-peters.net/bb_winner.jpg August 24, 2007 1:54 PM
Member Since '06	Tim and Susan Fennell said: Vance, That's beautiful, man! LOL August 24, 2007 1:59 PM
Member Since '07	Bill Thompson, REALTOR® said: Vance, Good...very good! August 24, 2007 3:01 PM
Member Since '06	Ronda Kaufman said: Vance, Now you need to make one for all the ladies who've won. August 24, 2007 3:16 PM
Member Since '07	Megan Manton ABR said: I would like to be called a "freelance writer". I need to submit a blog and win so I can add "award winning blogger" to my list of experience. August 24, 2007 3:24 PM
Member Since '06	Vance Remele said: Ok Ronda Let me see what I can do for tha Ladies.. Vance's Gift Shop, "signs of thing to come" August 24, 2007 3:25 PM
Member Since '06	Vance Remele said: Ok Lady's...Ronda Share the Loooove with your very own nominee Blog Award http://www.looseleafnotes.com/notes/optional/LargerSample.jpg Vance August 24, 2007 3:29 PM
Member Since '07	Bill Thompson, REALTOR® said: Megan, "a picture is worth a thousand words" so just put your picture on all your promotional materials and you'll be way ahead of most of us! August 24, 2007 3:33 PM
Member Since '07	Megan Manton ABR said: Bill- you are too sweet. I will have the same pic for 50 years now...which would not be unusual! August 24, 2007 3:36 PM
Member Since '07	Bill Thompson, REALTOR® said: Megan, Same picture for 50 years...that is standard in real estate ;) August 24, 2007 3:56 PM
Member Since '05	Jana Davis & Marcia Demerjian said: Very good Bill. But I guess we need to blog to win. Course we could put it up on our website anyway, just add Future... Jana August 24, 2007 4:05 PM
Member Since '03	Mike Farmer said: This is what I was planning on for my website. Mr. Blog # 1 blogger! Better than 97.5% of bloggers worldwide! When it comes to blogging, Mr. Blog is the Blogging Best! Do you want a bigger, better blog? Is your partner dissatisfied with your blogging? Call, Mr. Blog, now, for a consultation. August 24, 2007 4:30 PM
Member Since '06	Gloria Losie said: Vance: I'm not crazy about the pink. Can you remaster that Great Blogger award again for the ladies...please? August 24, 2007 4:35 PM
Member Since '07	Vanessa Stalets said: Well, I am not at Billions yet. But I will admitt to putting my "best" foot forward. Although I do see the need to have a consumer feel #1! That is after all the source of our lively hood... August 24, 2007 5:31 PM
Member Since '07	Shelly Constantz said: Well, I for one, am now considering this auspicious title on my website. Since there can only be 31 winners (well, 32 since they awarded Catz a day early).. and then of course Candice and Mike are multiple winners, so I guess less than 30 actual winners.... I will be in special company ; ) August 24, 2007 6:13 PM
Member Since '07	Bill Thompson, REALTOR® said: I have been on the outside of real estate longer than I have been an insider as a REALTOR®. I can tell you, I was turned off by these claims of being a "Multimillion Dollar Producer" and other puffing of an agent's image. For one thing it makes people think you are getting rich off their equity, not a pleasant thing in a though economy. That one phrase was especially repulsive since I purchased my first home when interest rates were in the double digits, then I watched my home's value actually go down for a few years. It would have actually cost me money to get out of it during those years. I refinanced that house when interest rates dropped to 6.5% and values went back up. I was condsidering which REALTOR® to use to list my house when I was ready to sell. We were in no hurry so I put it up FSBO and planned to use a REALTOR® later if we had trouble selling. A REALTOR® that was very active in our neighborhood called and left a message on my answering machine. She boasted of her many accomplishments, "Multimillion Dollar Producer" being among these and basicly said FSBOs are stupid for trying to sell their own houses and I had better get on board with her as soon as possible. I got lucky and sold my house quickly and was happy I did not have to share thousands od dollars with this or any other "Multimillion Dolllar Producer". I sent her a mailing saying "I sold this house...". I was always getting those postcards from her telling which houses in our neighborhood she had sold. (By the way, I actually think those postcards telling which houses you sold are a good idea but without all the bragging associated with them sometimes.) I went through alot with that fisrt house. I invested alot of my hard earned money and time. I felt I deserved the entire profit from that house. I was in no mood to share it with a "Multimillion Dollar Producer". I am still turned off by all these self promoting claims some REALTORS® make. I choose to tell my clients THEY are number one and not me. I am just a hard working guy who will try to help them make selling or buying a home easier and less stressful. August 24, 2007 6:32 PM
Member Since '07	Bill Thompson, REALTOR® said: Just a note: I think traking production "in house" within a Real Estate company is a good motivational tool, BUT it should stay "in house" in my opinion. Bragging about the "Millions" you have produced is a negative in my mind. Imagine going to a doctor that has a digital display in the waiting room showing the "Millions" his office has billed to your insurance company and others. After waiting an hour and a half i the waiting room and watching the number climb steadily the whole time you'd likely kill the doctor the minute you se him or her. If their waiting room is full of material that makes you feel they really care about you and are trying their best to help you, then you don't really think in terms of dollars. You are fucused on the service they can provide. This is what we need to do more of. Be service oriented and forget self promotion and bragging about "Millions of Dollars". August 24, 2007 6:40 PM
Member Since '07	Candice A Donofrio said: OK Bill, you got five stars and I plan to personally sleep with the blog committee to pull some strings on your behalf. Happy? ;) August 24, 2007 6:40 PM
Member Since '07	Bill Thompson, REALTOR® said: Yes August 25, 2007 8:55 PM
Member Since '06	Vance Remele said: What???? I am on that committee :):):):) Yahooooo:) HALLUAHIA!....I ......Say....... August 25, 2007 9:32 PM
Member Since '06	Sharron and Steve Lobman said: Vance-I am sending this post to your lovely wife!! August 26, 2007 1:39 PM
Member Since '03	Velda Miller said: Speaking of how we present our company in our advertising..... We are just a tiny company but then the large companies aren't big compared to those in some cities. The 5 largest companies combined have about 200 - 225 agents between them or about half of our entire board agent/broker membership. The "R" company is always touting their numbers (they have about 1/3 of the market) so I'm thinking about using this in our next ad.... "The Real Estate Store, where you aren't one in a billion sold." Just to p!&& them off. LOL!!!! (Ok, so I'm in a strange mood today). August 26, 2007 3:08 PM
Member Since '06	Sharron and Steve Lobman said: I like that one, Velda! August 26, 2007 4:04 PM
Member Since '06	Vance Remele said: Sharron and Steve Lobman said: Vance-I am sending this post to your lovely wife!! ha ha ha thats a good one!!:) August 26, 2007 5:16 PM
Member Since '03	Mipeco Realty, Inc - Michaela Krestenic, Broker-Owner said: I'm allergic to apples! ... $50 I could work with! Haven't won though ... which is no surprise since I haven't been posting anything worth winning :-). But to answer your question, Bill, I hope people here have enough common sense not to do such a thing unless they actually get some real blogging award ... one, that means something to the past, current and future clients ... not to us, the blogging buddies! August 26, 2007 6:33 PM
Member Since '03	Mipeco Realty, Inc - Michaela Krestenic, Broker-Owner said: BTW, isn't the best award of all the fact that people read your blogs and perhaps even comment on them? :-) August 26, 2007 6:34 PM
Member Since '07	Bill Thompson, REALTOR® said: Velda, Here is the ad copy I'd write for you: "If you are one in a billion how can you get the attention that you deserve? Will your unique situation and needs be considered? I'll work hard to earn your repsect. You WILL be improtant as my client!" August 26, 2007 6:34 PM