Twenty
plus years in Real Estate was a fun trip down memory lane. This was a
great idea...thanks to Bryan Robertson for putting this contest
together. This took a lot of work and even more time for Bryan, Greg and
Leslie to go through so many good entries. I am honored to be chosen.
Go to the original contest post and check out all members who participated.
Via
Bryan Robertson, Real estate broker Los Altos & Silicon Valley Luxury Homes (Sereno Group):
The winners are all set! It took a long time to
review all these entries and making a final decision was a difficult
one. Personally, I would rather have had a Top 10 Winners list because
there were that many to choose from. You all wrote some great posts and
it was a lot of fun looking back on some pretty old photos. A couple
of lessons learned from this contest were:
- Many agents do make an active effort to update their photos
- Almost all photos are reasonably recent
- The stereotype that agents all use "high school photos" is mostly false
First, I'd like to thank my two colleagues for
helping out with selecting the winners. They went through over 200
posts to look at each and every entry before making a short list of
candidates. The other judges were
Leslie Ebersole and
Greg Nino.
THIRD PLACE WINNER: Christine Bohn's entry
Beware, old headshot may scare you
One of my favorite aspects of this post was the side-by-side, three
picture montage that showed how her photo changed from 2005-2010. Hair,
clothes, even glasses changed and it gave a great perspective of the
style she was evolving into. Read this post because you'll learn about
her first brokerage - shocking!
SECOND PLACE WINNER: Brenda Mullen's entry
My past real estate head shots for your amusement
Brenda is a great blogger and she's very good at telling a story.
Her entry was a great mix of narration, humor, and photos. She also was
nice enough to include links to the photographers who did the work
which is a nice little SEO boost (good blogging). She got bonus points
for including a photo of her cards to show the changes between past and
current. Nicely done Brenda!
FIRST PLACE WINNER: Margaret Rome's entry
HomeRome photos then and now
Margaret is one of the top bloggers on Activerain and I think it's
because she takes the time to write great stuff. In this case, it
wasn't the writing as much as it was the collection of photos that go
back through her past pictures and how she used them in her business.
She showcased 20 years of photos from magazines, business cards, and
advertisements. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
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