{"id":2722,"date":"2008-03-07T19:27:24","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T02:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2722"},"modified":"2008-03-07T22:11:47","modified_gmt":"2008-03-08T05:11:47","slug":"do-you-want-to-know-the-best-black-pearl-of-all-when-someone-offers-you-a-valuable-jewel-show-up-to-collect-your-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2722\/do-you-want-to-know-the-best-black-pearl-of-all-when-someone-offers-you-a-valuable-jewel-show-up-to-collect-your-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you want to know the best Black Pearl of all? When someone offers you a valuable jewel, show up to collect your prize!"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the ProjectBlogger competition last Spring, I advised the contestants to enter a writing contest Problogger.com was hosting<\/a>. Of all the apprentices, only Teri Lussier entered, with the result that she finished the competition with a huge number of Technorati links and a Page Rank of 4<\/a> — truly astounding results for almost no effort.<\/p>\n

Say that again: “Truly astounding results for almost no effort.” That’s like a BloodhoundBlog mantra. That’s everything<\/i> we’re looking for, the leveraged opportunity that produces the best benefits for the least effort at the lowest cost.<\/p>\n

Even so, I knew when I announced the BloodhoundBlog Black Pearl Diver’s contest<\/a> that few people would enter. The effort was nothing, really, just another blog post. The Grand Prize is a full scholarship to BloodhoundBlog Unchained, but every winning entrant would get a link back to their site on our side-bar. This is possibly the most powerful link in the RE.net. It’s certainly the most powerful link anyone is offering you for free. And we had — count ’em — four entries.<\/p>\n

The good news is, they were four great entries. But before we get to them, I’d like to cite three honorable mentions:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Mike Farmer brought us This is not for the contest — just tipping my hat<\/a>, discussing his plans to create single-property weblogs for his listings.\n<\/li>\n
  2. Teri Lussier took on the entire Social Media Marketing universe with Does the RE.net mean Real Estate or Resist Everything?<\/a>\n<\/li>\n
  3. And Todd Carpenter knocked my socks off last night with this simple Google search<\/a>. For now, Todd is dominating the keyword zillow mortgages<\/i> by sheer blog-power. It will be interesting to see if Zillow is able to take that keyword away from Todd, but, no matter what, he is demonstrating the search-engine leverage of weblogging.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And now… on to the winners:<\/p>\n

    Kevin Warmath weighs in with If A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words, A Video Must Be Worth a Million<\/a>, a discussion of his odyssey through visual marketing media for his listings.<\/p>\n

    Brian Miller offers up “…Vee have our vays. You vill sign zee papers…”<\/a>, which details how he learned how to get more by demanding less.<\/p>\n

    Colleen Kulikowski Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    During the ProjectBlogger competition last Spring, I advised the contestants to enter a writing contest Problogger.com was hosting. Of all the apprentices, only Teri Lussier entered, with the result that she finished the competition with a huge number of Technorati links and a Page Rank of 4 — truly astounding results for almost no effort. […]<\/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":[3,6,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","9":"category-technology","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2667,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2667\/why-is-zillowcom-sponsoring-bloodhoundblog-unchained-discover-the-answer-to-that-question-for-yourself-by-diving-for-black-pearls-and-win-a-link-on-our-sidebar-or-even-an-unchained-scholarship\/","url_meta":{"origin":2722,"position":0},"title":"Why is Zillow.com sponsoring BloodhoundBlog Unchained? Discover the answer to that question for yourself by diving for Black Pearls — and win a link on our sidebar or even an Unchained scholarship","author":"Greg Swann","date":"February 26, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Why is Zillow.com the premier sponsor of BloodhoundBlog Unchained? They can speak for themselves (as they have), but my thinking all along was that they expected that we could put them in front of the kind of Realtors and lenders most likely to make the best use of the incredible\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2669,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2669\/wanna-see-how-to-win-the-bloodhoundblog-black-pearl-divers-contest-youre-not-selling-us-youre-selling-you\/","url_meta":{"origin":2722,"position":1},"title":"Wanna see how to win the BloodhoundBlog Black Pearl Diver’s contest? You’re not selling us, you’re selling you . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"February 27, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Mike Farmer wrote a sweet note this morning about using single-property weblogs in his marketing, but his post was not an entry in the BloodhoundBlog Black Pearl Diver\u2019s contest. What's the trick to writing a winning entry? Think your benefit, not ours. How can you write a post about an\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1798,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1798\/the-odysseus-medal-awards-week-1-an-exposition-of-excellence-in-real-estate-weblogging\/","url_meta":{"origin":2722,"position":2},"title":"The Odysseus Medal Awards, week #1: An exposition of excellence in real estate weblogging","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 13, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"As you will have seen from yesterday's short-list of entries, we had a lot of very high-quality posts among our contestants. This seems to augur well for the future of the contest. If you didn't make the cut, soldier on. For the most part, even the posts that didn't make\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog Carnivals"","block_context":{"text":"Blog Carnivals","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blog-carnivals\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2704,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2704\/tick-tock-time-marches-on-at-a-bloodhounds-lanky-pace\/","url_meta":{"origin":2722,"position":3},"title":"Tick tock: Time marches on at a Bloodhound’s lanky pace","author":"Greg Swann","date":"March 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Just a reminder: The deadline for the BloodhoundBlog Black Pearl Diver\u2019s contest is tonight at midnight. Also: I will be on Real Estate Radio USA this Friday at 2:30 pm MST. I think that means 1:30\/2:30\/3:30\/4:30 pm, west to east, but you might check my math. If you miss it,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2871,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2871\/black-pearl-marketing-minute-a-sneak-peek-at-a-bloodhoundblog-unchained-promotional-radio-spot\/","url_meta":{"origin":2722,"position":4},"title":"Black Pearl Marketing Minute: A sneak peek at a BloodhoundBlog Unchained promotional radio spot","author":"Greg Swann","date":"March 31, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Barry Cunningham asked me to make a 60 second promotional spot for BloodhoundBlog Unchained, to be used in the regular rotation on Real Estate Radio USA. What can one say except, \"Hell, yeah!\" Even so, I'm just not that comfortable in the do-what's-expected waxed fruit world, so I came at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Egoism in Action"","block_context":{"text":"Egoism in Action","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/egoism-in-action\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2695,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2695\/bloodhound-lit-the-art-science-and-business-of-writing-interesting-and-profitable-real-estate-weblog-posts\/","url_meta":{"origin":2722,"position":5},"title":"Bloodhound Lit: The art, science and business of writing interesting and profitable real estate weblog posts","author":"Greg Swann","date":"March 3, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"By his good example, Kevin Warmath reminds you to get busy on your BloodhoundBlog Black Pearl Diver\u2019s contest entry. We're about to talk about writing, so let me remind you that I wrote a post on how to write a Black Pearl Diver\u2019s contest entry that advances your interests --\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}