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The XBroker Has Made It To The VARBuzz Finals!!
March 26th, 2008 Categories: Blog Brawl, Social Networking
Its down to the final four over at VARBuzz’s Blog Brawl. The competition has been stiff, the XBroker has been ballin. We are a well coached experienced team with solid front and back court play. The X’s (nice!) and O’s are drawn up, so expect a strong game plan consisting of compelling content with a sprinkle of TXB laced venom 
Although there were no shameless plugs for votes this week, you may expect a plethora of such lobbying in the coming days.
If TXB wins the whole shebang, I’m starting a seminar circuit on how to win blogging competitions. All voters for TXB shall receive free admission.
San Mateo Real Estate and The Wilkas’ must go down, Lenore and Alex are good people (I appreciate the drink at Inman NYC 08) but this is competition…Cinderella I may not be, but the shoe fits…
**Update. It’s National Championship time folks. TXB is in the finals, taking on FosterCityBlog for ultimate bragging rights.
Show your love for TXB, voting ends Sunday at 11:59 est. Time to pull out all the stops and leave it all on the cyber-court. I’m going deep for votes, no-holds barred…
Sphere: Related ContentRound Two of The Blog Brawl at VARBuzz
March 11th, 2008 Categories: Blog Brawl
Shame on me for not realizing I made it out of round one of The Blog Brawl over at VARBuzz until Sunday night.
As a 4 seed The XBroker has upheld its pre-tournament ranking thus far, here’s hoping Blueroof doesn’t pull an upset, the force is strong with them.
Round Two Voting is open until tomorrow…*nuge-wink, nudge-wink*
-Voting for TXB publicly will get one some link-love 
**Update:
Success! The XBroker moves into the Sweet Sixteen. Thanks to all who voted! I’ll be soliciting for more votes once the bracket evolves over at VARBuzz
I Love a Good Fight
February 29th, 2008 Categories: Blog Brawl
VARBuzz is sponsoring a Real Estate Blog Brawl.
A single-elimination winner-take-all competition. A fight-to-the-death blog battle where VARbuzz readers determine the winner. Here’s how the Blog Brawl will work:
Today begins the call for competitors. At the bottom of this blog post, you’ll find a single-field form. Simply enter the URL of the REALTOR® blog you’d like to nominate for the Blog Brawl. You can nominate as many REALTOR® blogs as you want, as many times as you want. You can nominate your own or others’ blogs. Multi-author blogs are permitted to join the brawl, provided that a majority of its authors are REALTORS®. VARbuzz may exclude blogs from the brawl at its sole discretion. We’ll take the top 64, 32, or 16 nominees and seed the Blog Brawl bracket in the same manner that the NCAA seeds its tournament bracket. As the Blog Brawl sponsor, VARbuzz will not participate.
Never a participant in any of the ‘Carnivals’ that make their way around the blogosphere, they’re just not my bag…can’t ever seem to follow when and where they are. However, if someone likes my lingo I do appreciate the ‘hat tip’. Recently, an altruistic soul (or two) has been nominating some of my posts to BHB’s weekly Odysseus Medal competition, for which I’m flattered. Any self-promotion I may personally engage in is limited to this site…until now.
I’ve nominated myself (thexbroker.com) due to the format and it’s apparent competitive spirit. Hopefully I’ll make the big dance…the post on VARBuzz calls for Realtor participation, which I’m not (owned a brokerage for 5 years in a former life), The XBroker is technically classified as a ‘mortgage blog’ but I do posses a pretty deep knowledge base, and post on real estate centric topics about as often as mortgage news. Maybe I can get an exception
So, if anyone would be so inclined, nominate me for the Big Dance. At the very least, I promise to make my participation memorable for all
