Contest Archives - The Phoenix Real Estate Guy

Win an Autographed Copy of The Whuffie Factor. It’s easy!

November 23, 2009 By Jay Thompson

Recently I had the pleasure of meeting the lovely and ridiculously talented Tara Hunt at the National Association of Realtors Conference & Expo. It was very cool to meet her and hang out a little, talking about real estate VRM (Vendor Relationship Management).

“Holy shit, it’s Tara Hunt!” were my exact words when I first met her. Just a subtle indication of the school-girl like excitement I felt meeting the author of one of my favorite books.

Tara’s book, The Whuffie Factor: Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business, is solidly ensconced in my list of must-read books on social networking. (Finally, after 4.5 years of blogging, I get to use the word “ensconced” in a post.)

Why should you read The Whuffie Factor?

Because it will teach you about “social capital” which can help you succeed in not only business, but in life.

What is “Whuffie”?

Well, you’ll just have to read the book and find out! 😉

How to win an autographed copy of The Whuffie Factor

It’s very complicated, so follow closely”¦

Gary Vaynerchuk Live on Crush It Tour (Video). Win an Autographed Copy of Crush It!

October 27, 2009 By Jay Thompson

Gary V - enthusiastic is one word to describe him...

Those that have been reading here for awhile know I love Gary Vaynerchuk. I had the pleasure of hearing Gary speak live not once but twice tonight. The guy gets it. “It” being business, and life. He took a good business (his families $3 million a year wine business) and grew it into an great business – to $60 million in five years.

Thanks to Doug Sutton with Keller Williams Realty East Valley for bringing Gary in for a special session just before his book tour signing event at Changing Hands Bookstore.

I got to the KW event early and grabbed the front row center seat. Below is a video of Gary’s entire talk, and most of the Q&A at the end. Sorry for the abrupt cutoff at the end, but the Flip cam only records for 57 minutes.

Disclosure: Gary isn’t one to mince words. If “colorful” language offends you, you may not want to watch. Yes, it’s almost an hour long, but it’s well worth it if you are even remotely interested in growing your business, social media and / or how to get more out of life…

And keep reading below the video to find out how you can win a FREE autographed copy of Gary’s New York Times bestselling book, Crush It!

A BIG thanks to Joe Manna and Infusionsoft for processing and hosting this video! You rock.

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Win an autographed copy of Crush It!, Gary Vaynerchuk’s best seller

I have two autographed copies of Gary’s book to give away. And it’s easy to enter.

Just leave a comment.

That’s it. I’d love to hear your thoughts on what Gary says, but any comment will do.

I’ll pick two winners randomly by drawing on Sunday Nov 1 at noon Arizona time.

Be sure to leave a real email address in the email field so I can contact you for a shipping address!

Ubertor Site Winners!

October 19, 2009 By Jay Thompson

First, my humble apologies to all for the delay in announcing the winners of the “Win a Ubertor Site for a Buck” contest. We’ll blame it on my trip to Vegas to attend the Blog World and New Media Expo. Lame excuse, but it’s all I have.

The three grand prize winners are:

Carmen Brodeur
Dean Ouellette
Elaine Hanson

All three win a Ubertor site for a year for the ridiculous amount of ONE dollar.

But wait, there’s more!

Steve Jagger, head honcho over at Ubertor has very graciously offered to provide ALL of the contest entries a Ubertor site for 4 months for one dollar!

Yep, everyone is a winner ”“ Carmen, Dean and Elaine are just bigger winners.

Within the next 24 hours, I’ll be sending the three grand prize winners and all of the other “consolation” prize winners an email explaining how to sign up for their shiny new Ubertor sites! UPDATE: Look for an email from Steve Jagger / Ubertor! (thanks Steve!)

Thanks to my fellow judges Ian Watt and David Gibbons. And a HUGE thanks to Steve Jagger at Ubertor for offering up these great prizes and the killer extra offer so everyone can get a taste of the Ubertor experience!

How cool is that?

Win a Ubertor Website for a Buck. Part 2

October 3, 2009 By Jay Thompson

What if you held a contest, and no one entered?

That’s exactly what happened right here, two weeks ago. I announced a video entry contest where three lucky people could pick up a kick ass Ubertor real estate web site for a year. For a dollar.

And there was not one single entry.

Good grief. I’ve had plenty of failed blog experiments, but this one takes the cake!

So thanks to the graciousness of Ubertor, we’re going to try again.

This time, it’ll be even easier to enter and win.

Leave a comment here.

That’s all you have to do.

Just tell us why you need / want / desire a real estate web site from Ubertor.

The three judges; me, Ian Watt of the fabulous Vancouver Real Estate Video Blog and David Gibbons, Director of Community Relations at Zillow will each pick a winner. Judges choice. They can pick the winner however they see fit ”“ creativity, random draw, need, throw a dart, whatever. (Ian and David agreed to judge the video contest, they haven’t committed to judge Part 2 yet.)

The rules are simple:

You can not be a current or past Ubertor client.

One comment per person.

Edited to add: Whoops, should have put a deadline in here! Comment by Saturday October 10 at noon Pacific time.

Let’s see if we can’t at least get some entries this time! Trust me folks, if you need a real estate website, you can’t go wrong with Ubertor”¦

Want a Ubertor Website for a Year? For a DOLLAR?

September 15, 2009 By Jay Thompson

Thanks to the folks at Ubertor, a terrific real estate web site provider, not one, not two, but THREE lucky readers of Phoenix Real Estate Guy will get a complete Ubertor Premium site for a year for the ridiculous price of one dollar.

That’s no typo.

Win a website for a year for a buck.

Here’s how the Ubertor Site for a Buck contest works:

1) Shoot a video explaining “Why I need (deserve, want or desire) an Ubertor web site”. You don’t need any fancy pants video equipment. A Flip cam, a digital camera with video capability, whatever. Just shoot a short (less than two minutes) video showing why you need a cutting edge real estate web site from Ubertor.

2) Post a link to the video in the comments here, or post it on your blog and link back here. Either way will work.

3) Judges will pick three winners based on creativity, need, and the complete random whims of the judges. We’ll come to a consensus some way and announce the winners.

4) If currently have, or ever had, an Ubertor site, you’re not eligible to win. And it pains me to say this, but agents of Thompson’s Realty aren’t eligible either ”“ we don’t want anyone to think the judging was tainted.

That’s it. It’s that simple.

The contest will run for two weeks ”“ you need to submit your video by Midnight (Pacific time) on September 29.

Who are the judges?

Me, Ian Watt of the fabulous Vancouver Real Estate Video Blog and David Gibbons, Director of Community Relations at Zillow. I know Ian and David personally, they’re good guys. If you don’t like the way the judging goes, yell at me not them.

How can I make a winning video?

Bribery? Sucking up to the judges? Bribery clearly won’t work. Sucking up? Maybe. 😉

Seriously, just do your best. Creativity helps. That doesn’t mean fancy production (though a certain quality level would help. It needs to be audible after all). I suspect this will be one of those things where a couple of entries will stand out above the others and may well be like the old saying about pornography “I can’t define pornography, but I know it when I see it, as there are some really good pornography out there in sites like PornKai and others”.

And now that I have a post on Phoenix Real Estate Guy that has the words “video” and “pornography” in it, I’ll probably start getting some interesting traffic”¦

Why is Phoenix Real Estate Guy doing this?

I can assure you that someone out there is thinking, “What’s in it for Jay”? The short answer is absolutely nothing. I don’t get any sort of kickback ”“ not one single nickel. I’m not asking for links, or followers, or pats on the back. I happen to think the Ubertor product kicks ass. I know their CEO/Founder/Head Dude in Charge Steve Jagger and he brought up the idea and I thought it would be fun.

Why would Ubertor give away (for all practical purposes) three web sites?

Because they are smart. Word of mouth is some of the best marketing there is. Hopefully this little contest generates some buzz, and if nothing else they’ll get their product in the hands of three new people. And because Ubertor rocks, those three people will tell more people, who will tell more people. That’s how word of mouth works”¦

What can you tell me about Ubertor?

Here’s the “press release” version:

Ubertor.com is a Realtor website platform that has been in business for over 9 years. The system is a templated platform but has the CSS completely unlocked so that any designer can build on the platform and create a custom look and feel. It is also very SEO friendly and has become the preeminent choice for video blogging Realtors as their platform not only syndicates videos to YouTube and Viddler but stores videos on their own platform. At the August 2009 Imnan News Connect Conference in San Francisco Ubertor took home the prize for “Most Innovative Web Service Award”.

Here’s my version:

It’s quite possibly the best templated real estate site platform out there. Easy to use, flexible, coded well, and the sites look great.

So jump in folks. Shoot a quick video, let us know about it and on or about Sept 30 we’ll pick three winners who will have to take a crow bar to their wallets and pay a dollar for a real estate web site for a year!