Win an expenses-paid trip to NYC and a free ticket (valued at $2,000) to spend A Day with Seth Godin
As you know, Web 2.0 is paving the way for real estate professionals to enhance their service, reduce their expenses and wow their clients. ActiveRain is part of this movement. Over the next few months, we will introduce tools and technologies to help you across the many boundaries you face in your business. One of them regards video. So in the spirit of progress, creativity, doing some good deeds and just plain old having some fun together ... let the video games begin!
Your challenge
Create a 3-minute (or less) video designed to promote your real estate business and submit it to Active Rain for judging.
Some ideas Choose one of these or come up with your own:
- A video about your community
- A video about yourself (profile, listing presentation, client testimonials)
- A video about your company
- A video about a listing
- A video about your community
- A video about yourself (profile, listing presentation, client testimonials)
- A video about your company
- A video about a listing
The details
- All videos must be under 3 minutes
- Submissions must be received by Friday, April 4th, 2008 at midnight PST
- All videos must be under 3 minutes
- Submissions must be received by Friday, April 4th, 2008 at midnight PST
- All videos must have been first published after March 13th, 2008
- Winners will be announced by Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
- ActiveRain will select 20 finalists for consideration by our judges
- Winners will be announced by Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
- ActiveRain will select 20 finalists for consideration by our judges
- One entry per person
The judging criteria
- Entertainment Value
- Potential to generate business
- Creativity
The prizes
- Potential to generate business
- Creativity
The prizes
1st Prize
- 1 ticket to the Day with Seth Godin event in New York City (the proceeds from our ticket purchase have already been donated to The Acumen Fund)
- Round trip airfare to NYC (For one person, $500 maximum) - Hotel accommodations for two nights
2nd and 3rd Prize
- A free video flip camera
The Judges
- Sara Bonert from Zillow
- Marc Davison from 1000 Watt Consulting
- Dustin Luther from 4Realz.net
- Joel Burslem from Inman News
- Rudy Bachraty from Trulia
- Marc Davison from 1000 Watt Consulting
- Dustin Luther from 4Realz.net
- Joel Burslem from Inman News
- Rudy Bachraty from Trulia
What this is about
Seth Godin, one of the most respected marketers in the country, is holding a special one-day educational event benefiting the Acumen Fund. The Acumen fund is a non-profit global venture fund targeting the four billion people living on less that $4 a day. Its aim is to help build sustainable and scalable organizations that deliver critical goods and services that improve the lives of the poor. We have purchased one highly coveted ticket to this exclusive event for one lucky winner.
At its core, ActiveRain is built on sharing and collaboration; a critical thread woven into the fabric of our culture. For the Project Blogger competition, ActiveRain donated $5,000 to the CARE organization while coaches and judges freely volunteered their time to help new bloggers sustain and grow their business by learning the ropes of Web 2.0.
We believe strongly in the use of video as a medium for delivering your words, your ideas, your homes and your services to the ever increasing Internet audience. By entering the contest you and your video will become part of the growing contribution to ActiveRain that will be used to help others.
In case you have never heard of Seth Godin, (crawl out from under that rock, haha, kidding of course) or even if you have, it was a page in one of his best selling books that planted the seed for what would become ActiveRain. The original notes are scribbled on a page of that book somewhere around the office. Maybe we should find that......
For more information on Seth Godin click here.
How to enter the contest
Member
1. Create a blog post with your video embedded in the post
2. Tag the video with: ActiveRain Video Contest 2008 (just like I did)
3. Post the blog
Non-Member
1. Click here to create a free ActiveRain profile
2. Create a blog post with your video embedded in the post.
3. Tag your video with: ActiveRain Video Contest 2008
4. Post the blog
EDITED: 3000 points for the first person to submit their entry
I have this feeling there a few of you out there sitting on your entry to wait and see what other people are going to do, so let's see if I can give you a little push :-)
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Vickie,
That's what we really want to do, give people a reason to start thinking about video and how it will impact the industry. You are welcome :-)
Jason,
I posted one of my kid so it can't be that hard. (truth be told, I have very little technical skill) I'm pretty sure you can figure it out :-)
Brad,
The first comment clears that up, but no, it's for any member of ActiveRain (or anyone that wants to join)
Jimmy,
We'll make a really hard push to make sure people are not having their videos 'auto start'. Right now we ask that people don't do that so there isn't voices running over voices.
Very tempting. I'll be thinking about this all day. Thank you.
Bob, Very nice incentive to improve the quality of content on ActiveRain. I've never made a video and cannot spare the time to learn in the next few weeks but will be watching with interest.
Bob,
Awesome idea for a contest...I'm looking forward to seeing all of the entries! That's a very interesting tidbit about the origins of AR....
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Jo
I have not made an online video so guess I need to get busy and fast! Of course, not sure why anyone else is entering Neal has already decided he has it sewn up. :0)
Hi Bob,
I'm in...funny you should talk about video's just did my first one for fun to get geared up for business video's..darn it...the computer scientist was right again...nagging...nagging..nagging...about video...I'll do it!
You know... there are only two things that have kept me from doing a video...
I DON'T KNOW HOW... but I can fix that.
I hate the sound of my voice. I can't fix that... but maybe I can get over it.
Great, now I have to go concepting...
Darn, no blogging Bertha.... :(
Can't wait to see what people produce.
Whoo Hoo, I was plannning on buying a Flip Video Camera in the next week or so anyway so that I can do video....NOW I have even more incentive to do it! Looks like fun!
This sounds like fun. I have Seth Purple cow book and love it. Would love to meet him personally. Got to put my thinking cap on.
Thanks for the challenge!
Stewie- Now that Spitzer has fallen, there are several extra's available for my video. Some offer cash back rebates, some offer t.v.s , some offer cars.............I may have a new trick (pardon the pun) up my sleeve for single, discretionary professional male buyers.
You might want to stop over and read my blog. You need a healthy dose of East Coastisms in your visual diet.
jmac
Funny I should be reading this. Just got a phone call from a trade show I attended over the weekend and I won a big prize.
Why not win another one?! Let me get busy thinkin' about this one! I LOVE Seth Godin. Just saw him last month at KELLER WILLIAMS' "Family Reunion" in Atlanta. FABULOUS Speaker. Very entertaining, too.
Lights, camera, action.....
Rudy
This is going to be fun to watch. I already sent an email to a fellow AR who I just KNOW can ace this. I can already imagine who some of the participants are going to be.
I'm not ready for doing video but I will certainly learn a thing or two from following this contest. Kudos to you guys for doing this.
Danny,
It's open to everyone. Not just realtors. Video is going to be a big deal for loan professionals, stagers, inspectors, everyone. It's the natural progression of how people want their information delivered on the internet.
Jeff,
We thought about allowing people to enter a series but felt like maybe it would discourage those that have yet to get started doing video. Pick your best entry :-)
Bob - having just discovered that the current featured video, vimeo, tries to set cookies on our computer when we don't even click on the video or frame, I'm wondering - is there a list anywhere of which video sites do set (or try to) cookies and which ones don't?
I'd like to try putting together a video but really, really don't want one that will put cookies on the computers of any clients or visitors, unless they knowingly choose them.
Sharon,
I'm going to have to get Matt to come in and give some insight on this.
Or maybe someone else on the thread with more knowledge than I can pipe in.
Winner gets 5000 ActiveRain points (That enough George?) :-)
I just want people to get involved. This is the future and people need to get comfortable with it!! :-)
Sounds like fun! Now we all have a reason to figure out the video portion of our blogs. I just figured out the photo part. Looking forward to the entries.
Great idea, as always from you guys!
What about quality? I've been planning a video for my recent reno/staging but only have the video recording option on my camera...if content is good but 'production' is just ok...do you think it will have a chance?
Dane
p.s. NYC is my FAVORITE city!!!
A Day with Seth...ah that just sounds awesome! Actually better than awesome!!
WOW! What a prize and WHAT A CONTEST! I'll be anxiously awaiting the entries!!
Wow, what an exciting challenge! It's an opportunity to be creative, show marketing savvy, and get it online all at once. As soon as I get past being overwhelmed I'll get really excited, and just DO IT. I'd love to see Seth Godin.
Great prize, great idea - absolutely NO IDEA how to do this.
Awesome, this is a great idea:-) Can't wait to see all the rockin' videos. The day with Seth Godin should be good enough incentive for anyone who hasn't tried video to give it a shot.
I posted my video entry, will that be enough to enter. please let me know
Robert
Oh! Man!
Maybe I'll dress Blogging Bertha up nice and purdee and sell her on the idea of discussing Real Estate :)
TLW...ROAR!
Very Very Cool!
Well, you have me thinking. I am about a year and 1/2 behind on blogging. I don't want to be that far behind on video marketing.
Have a Fabulous Real Estate Day!
Ok! I give up. I gotta enter this competition.
You happy Missy?!
Hey Bob! I'm not sure we have enough interest in the contest to continue :)
I think Patrick should enter the contest.
Rudy
Rudy,
I saw you write about Patrick over on the trulia blog.......you'll probably have more influence over him than I would :-)
The prize isn't bad, he should fire in an entry :-)
I just added this to the original post:
EDITED: 3000 points for the first person to submit their entry
I have this feeling there a few of you out there sitting on your entry to wait and see what other people are going to do, so let's see if I can give you a little push :-)
What? This again .... I was hoping for more pictures of your son : )
Nice about the 3000 pts.
I'm in.. was I first? :-) Trying to add a better video later though..
Im not sitting on my video, just thinking of new ideas (different from what I have already done).
Bob, just posted my entry into the contest:
Look Who's Buying a Home!
Enjoy!
Wow, looks like your judges will have to spend a lot of time surfing through the videos.
Here is the perfect chance for Stacy to perform the Subprime Mortgage Rap LOL
Seriously, Bob...this is a wonderful contest, a great way to encourage everyone to get off their butts and make this happen. I can see the headlines now: flip cameras sell out as Rainers rush to enter contest.
Before anyone lets that "fear of being on camera" stop them (we cannot all be hams like Brad Andersohn), I would encourange you to re-read the post. Nowhere does Bob say YOU need to be in the video.
The criteria IS entertainment and creativity, NOT educational, so I guess we need to put on the old Hollywood thinking cap here to try to win the first every "Rainy".
I'm in, kicking and screaming, and dripping with the fear of the unknown. But ok, I'm in.
This is a great challenge with a great prize. Thanks for making me have the courage to finally branch out and learn how to create a video. I have said I was going to do this before but this time I really am. I love NYC and Seth Godin
thanks again
daniel
This is a great idea. I wish I learned about it sooner...only me to blame! With only 2 days to go I don't know if I can do it because I, like many others, don't have a clew. STOP! I take back all of that negativity! Since I attended our Women's Council of REALTORS educational meeting this morning, our topic being "The Law of Attraction", I will rephrase my comments as follows: I will try to do it by educating myself with the downloadable video one of our bloggers wrote about on March 13 how to shoot, edit, upload and market real estate videos.
What a great prize! I think I will try to put something together, it sounds like fun.
Bob,
Has any one entered yet??? I have one near done...
Great ides, no time to do anything. 3-4 days for making a 3 minute video is a joke.
Will be looking forward for something with more realistic time frame. If you want masterpieces, that takes a bit more time than 3 days.
Good luck to participants. We would love to try, but can't.
Just posted mine:
Active Rain Video Contest 2008 - Michael Pierce
Jon Zolsky,
Sorry you missed it when it was originally posted on the 14th of this month. Even so, three weeks is still a little tight but we had to give the winner enough time to book a flight to meet Seth.
Monika,
You can see the entries here
Bob (I forgot to login :-) )
Great contest! Many thanks to Eleanor Thorne for telling us about it.
Our entry is here.
Bob, I'm In:
Building A Brick House
Great Contest, thanks.
Come Have Fun In Baton Rouge
Thanks for the awesome contest. This is going to be a tough one to judge. There are so many good entries. *crosses fingers to go to New York*
Here ya go!!
http://activerain.com/blogsview/455017/AZRE-TV-Weekend-Edition
Thanks for a great contest.Special thanks to www.Lamassugrill.com JoAnn Coury at www.WestUSA.comand Michael Ammons at www.Aireaz.com for the use of their listings.
I did mine...sort of. I hope I did it right!!! http://activerain.com/blogsview/454992/ActiveRain-Video-Contest-2
With a whopping 14 minutes to spare, mine is finally up. This contest almost whipped me, but I learned a lot. This is the first time I have EVER been ready to say "I quit" after I planned to do something. I managed to spend an entire week trying to shoot and get something halfway decent produced to post. I have a much greater respect for paying professionals to shoot video now :) hopefully with practice it will get easier and I am committed to using video frequently now after buying a Flip and some extremely complicated software.
Credit where due: mine would not be up if my child had not helped me for four hours with the production last night - thanks Chris!
I don't see my entry in the official list. I titled it properly. Just in case you've overlooked it, here it is...
http://activerain.com/blogsview/455293/Active-Rain-Video-Contest
It was a mad scramble last night, trying to get it processed and uploaded in time! *phew*. I made it with just one hour to spare!
In case you missed the results............here they are
A big congratulations to Mike, Bob and Annie, and Brian......but the real winners are the rest of us, who got to see some great ideas in action! :-)