{"id":1400,"date":"2007-05-09T16:44:48","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T23:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2007-05-09T16:45:11","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T23:45:11","slug":"a-projectblogger-challenge-the-problogger-top-5-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1400\/a-projectblogger-challenge-the-problogger-top-5-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"A ProjectBlogger challenge: The ProBlogger Top 5 contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m swamped, probably not all that hard to figure out. As with <a href=\"http:\/\/realestatetomato.typepad.com\/the_real_estate_tomato\/2007\/05\/blogger_idol_wh.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Tomato Gang<\/a>, I&#8217;m kinda bored with ProjectBlowhard. I still have work to do, and and I have a couple of big ideas still to cover, but &#8212; without intending to insult the proteges &#8212; it&#8217;s kind of like a rose-growing contest: Activity at the start, activity at the end, a lot of waiting in between.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/blogger-project.jpg\" hspace=\"26\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In true reality TV fashion we might have a snake-eating contest or a nude tug of war in a tar pit &#8212; but that might not be dignified. Here&#8217;s something contestants <i>can<\/i> do though: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.problogger.net\/archives\/2007\/05\/07\/top-5-group-writing-project\/\" target=\"_blank\">Darren Rowse at ProBlogger is having one of his semi-annual blogging competitions<\/a>. The challenge is to write a Top 5 list of whatevers, with the prize &#8212; selected at random &#8212; being $1,001.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds will enter, one will win, so buy a lottery ticket if you need money and can&#8217;t do math. But the big prize from these competitions is getting involved in the great big blogging world &#8212; learning, laughing, linking and being linked to. I think every RE.net weblogger should do this, not just the contestants. Deadline is midnight Thursday, so get cracking.<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/blogging\" rel=\"tag\">blogging<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate\" rel=\"tag\">real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m swamped, probably not all that hard to figure out. As with the Tomato Gang, I&#8217;m kinda bored with ProjectBlowhard. I still have work to do, and and I have a couple of big ideas still to cover, but &#8212; without intending to insult the proteges &#8212; it&#8217;s kind of like a rose-growing contest: Activity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-photography","8":"category-real-estate","9":"category-weblogging-101","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2486,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2486\/want-to-get-more-done-in-the-world-of-social-media-marketing-repurpose-your-content\/","url_meta":{"origin":1400,"position":0},"title":"Want to get more done in the world of Social Media Marketing? 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