Eric Blackwell's Blog: Greatest Real Estate Agent in the World Contest Update

If you have been ANYWHERE on the real estate web world lately, you have heard about Marc Rasmussen's battle with the Sarasota Association of REALTORS and their abusive tactics in taking the authority that he has created/built over several years and taking it away.  Details are here. (Morgan on a personal note-you are doing a stellar job of advocating and supporting Marc...I have no idea of everything you've done, but what I have seen shows me a LOT about you. Kudos)

It is apparent to me that this is a simple act of jealousy by cowards. Redirecting the domain should have been enough. Period. The Board of the Sarasota Association of REALTORS is ALL culpable for their actions. (And I know at least one of them and it HURTS to say that.) If they disagree with…

As winners of the Greatest Real Estate Agent in the World SEO contest, Team Eric has chosen to raffle off the generous prize of one template REW site with CORE IDX -- Hosted for life!

Special thanks to Morgan Carey and REW for the prize . We will be promoting it all over the real estate internet space and hold the raffle on June 1st 2008.

NOTE: There are restrictions as to who can win the prize! We want it to go to a REALTOR who can truly use it to its potential.

All of the proceeds from the raffle go to the Eco Preservation Society of Costa Rica.  Entries are $35 for one or $100 for 4!

Heres the link to the PayPal info and Rules and Regs for the Raffle!

Thanks for the great prize Morgan!

Best;

Eric

Well,  it almost is!

According to my understanding, the contest gets over at midnight on this coming Wednesday. it cannot be soon enough! Not because I don't like hanging out with the team (grin). They have been great and we will be hanging out a lot in the upcoming future. More just because I am road weary. 3 months is a long time to have this on the back of your mind.

I have learned a lot and made new friends along the way. For the record, I think that SEO contest like this are kind of like a dance that my middle school aged kids might go to. They have the potential for the experience to be good or bad. If you join in the fun and make friends, they can be unbeleivably fun. If you are a wallflower or hang back and do not dig in to what is going in, it…

Amazing how time flies, but somehow, i don't think it is fast enough!

Team Eric is holding our own in the Greatest Real Estate Agent in the World contest, but threats seem to loom everywhere! The team has been staying busy building links and authority from around the web. We were lucky enough to get the support of Ryan Ward and others. Truly amazing.

We got the week kicked off right with some discussion about an SEO gathering in Costa Rica. MIke Dammann is getting ready to host one down there later this year. That got the discussion started right away!

We noticed some interesting activity going on down at Greg Boser's place and Mike Dammann pointed that out on his blog. We just wanted to make sure that it did not go unrecorded. Our team would much…

Up until now, Team Eric has worked on winning the Greatest Real Estate Agent in the World contest by (for the most part), simply touting the fact that we are a team. That all changes starting today.

If you click on the link above, you will see that we have made a change and are now going to support a CAUSE as part of our effort. Personally, I am not much of the "tree hugging" type of guy, but as one of the team members presented the idea to us, I found it compelling. So here goes...

The Eco Preservation Society down in Costa Rica works to preserve the Costa Rican environment and to minimize the impact of development by promoting green development and other nature friendly techniques...awww heck-- they explain it far better than I do...simply go to our…

It has been REALLY busy around the online real estate community lately... seems like the new year has brought a ton of new things to the game. Team Eric is now doing OK in the greatest real estate agent in the world contest(for the moment). That is gratifying, but our team is ALL about respecting the other members of the community. It is important to us to give props where they are due.

So each week, I will be writing a tribute to one of our fellow competitors and acknowledging the strengths that they bring to the game. It takes courage to put your site out there and go for it with the best of the best. Ardell here is yours..

Ardell has written for the Rain City Guide for quite a while. (here's her contest entry for those who have not seen it.) I have…

Those who know me online KNOW that I am all about relationships.

That’s my currency and my value to people is my word. As contests like the GREATEST REAL ESTATE AGENT IN THE WORLD unfold…sometimes all you can do is correct things as they go…

Bob Wilson from San Diego and a couple of others did me a great service yesterday by clarifying something for me. He enquired about whether he would get a link back from my page AFTER the contest was over (with a bio and a picture for being one of the greatest real estate agents in the world). I indicated that he would.

In doing so, it “could” be claimed that I violated the spirit of the competition…I do NOT want to do that in any way…I am trying to not only win this competition, but build the authority that will…

So with everyone posting about the greatest real estate agent in the world this and the greatest real estate agent in the world that, (and I gotta hand it to ya Boris, the rap song was FANTASTIC-when's that due out?) it is time for me to unveil my team! See this is a 3 month long contest and you need a team to carry you!

These people ARE the Greatest Real Estate Agents in the World:

They are the people which will grace the top spot in Google when all is said and done on May 1:

Jennifer Karlen and Her Husband Jon - You met them in my last post!

Judy Orr - The amazing JudyO! from Chicagoland She has been dumping links my way to get my little EricOnSearch post fighting among the big boyz for the front page! Thanks Judy!

Ken Smith - Yeah. that makes it…