As was proudly announced at the recent Inman Connect 2008 in San Francisco, the 1st place winners of the Makeover2Takeover Contest were Apprentice Brian Block of RE/MAX Allegiance in Alexandria VA, and Mentor Desiree Daniels with RE/MAX Tri-County in Hamilton NJ.
The premise for this contest was simple: We selected 15 'Makeover' Teams, comprised of a seasoned real estate veteran (Mentor), and their chosen apprentice. Over the course of 8 weeks (leading up to the 2008 SF Inman Connect), the Mentor/Apprentices faced a series of weekly elimination challenges, aimed specifically at developing the apprentice's image/skills/abilities as a top performing real estate agent.
The final three remaining teams were then invited to be our guests at the 2008 Inman Connect in San Francisco. They were Jeanette Neerpat & Midori Miller, Kim Wood & Missy Caulk, and Brian Block & Desiree Daniels.
During the Connect festivities, Jeanette & Midori were awarded 3rd place, while Kim & Missy garnered 2nd place.
For 8 long, grueling weeks, the dynamic duo of Team Manna battled head-to-head with the other teams, and throughout the contest, consistently submitted some of the best challenge materials, enabling them to come away as the event's clear winner!
As the 1st Place winners for the Makeover2Takeover Contest, Brian & Desiree will receive the following Web 2.0 Marketing Package:
A professionally produced high-quality Business Profile Video from Turn Here, Inc., (courtesy of Inman News)
One year paid subscription to ActiveRain (Mixpo) Video Editing Suite
10,000 ActiveRain Points
One year paid sponsorship for 10 communities on Localism
One year paid subscription to Trulia Pro (courtesy of Trulia)
One year paid subscription to Real Estate Shows (courtesy of Jeff Turner)
$500 Cash award (courtesy of Zillow)
$1000 Cash award (courtesy of ActiveRain)
We want to personally thank all of the teams who competed and contributed towards making this such a wonderfully enjoyable and valued event. A huge thanks for our award sponsors partners - Zillow, Trulia, Inman, and Real Estate Shows. And finally, a special thanks for the hard work and commitment of our distinguished panel of judges:
Chris Elizabeth Griffith, Monica McGillicuddy, Kristal Kraft, Linda Davis, and Teresa Boardman.
Congrats to Brian and Desiree, and all those who took part in this awesome event! I'm glad to see this post and WOW, look at those prizes!!! Great job Rich, judges, and members on the M2T contest. I said it before, and once again, everyones's a WINNER!! :-))
It was a very educational contest to watch. All of the teams showed so much dedication to the process and through their blogs all of us became winners. Wow! great prize package!
Congratulations again to the winners, adn to all the participants. It was an exciting, and educational event to watch, adn great fun to see the award ceremony in SFO at Bloggers Connect. So whats the next contest, AR?
Jeff
Congratulations to all the participants,
In these contests, everyone wins... Some just win more...
After looking at all the prizes I wish I could have been in on this! Congratulations to Dez and Brian! I enjoyed reading about all the teams efforts and ideas.
Congratulations to Brian and Desiree on all of their hardwork and dedication to the contest. I'm sure they are already reaping the rewards of all their work.
Wowsers, good for Dez & Brian. What a nice batch of rewards as well. I agree with Bill Sauneuf above, everyone who entered this contest won.
Wow...too cool....that would have been fun to be a part of. Congrats to B&D....very cool stuff. Thanks. Wish I had those 10,000 points
Cool congrats to all of the winners... which means just about everyone, because even if you didn't get the new car, you learned a lot.
Oh, sorry.. the new car got cancelled.
Congrats to Brian and Desiree, and to the AR Team on the success of M2T. That's a really nice slate of prizes!
Congrats to all! Missy, looks like it was well worth the pain :-) So will you still be following your husband's advice next time around?
Congratulations to Brian and Desiree on their win and a job well done.
Wow, that's a nice Marketing Package that they "won".....That was a hard contest, and I would like to again Congratulate both Dez and Brian, as well as all the contestants.
Good job Dez and Brian!!!!! That was agreat contest to watch as it played out. Those are some great prizes too.
Rich- Brian and Desiree did a fantastic job, no doubt! Brian and his videos...that was a no brainer, wasn't it? I loved Dez's final entry video. It was great!
As a participant, I do feel as if we were all winners. This was a fantastic opportunity for all of us to perfect our business tools and implement so many that we didn't have. I want to thank you and all of the judges for all of your hard work and time you spent each week, reading each and every entry.
I had no idea who the judges were (or I would have been bribing:) ) So, to all of the judges and to you, Rich Jacobson, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
Congratulations to everyone - I know I have thoroughly enjoyed all of the blog posts and have even learned a thing or two along the way. Way to go!!
Congratulations on your efforts and reaping the rewards.
Brian and Dez, Congrats on all of your hard work and for achieving the ultimate goal...Awesome work!!
Congrats to all of the other participants as well....you all worked amazingly hard at this challenge and it showed.
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Jo
I always hear about these things after they happen! Maybe with the new daily digests I'll be more on top of things like this!
Congratulations and thanks to Brian and Dez, to all the participants, to the judges, and to the sponsors. They learned, we learned, and the blogosphere got a little better.
Congratulations Dez and Brian!
I hope the tools you created will continue to benefit both your businesses! Your winnings are good but the visit to SF and getting to know all the Rainers had to be the best. We have all ended up winners in the end.
Real Estate is an art. You both proved to be great artists! I am honored to have run along side of you and I thank the judges for all their time and effort. Thank you Rich for all that you gave the contest.
Congratulations to all! Later in the rain~Deb
Congratulations to all participants! And, Brian & Dez - you guys rock! Enjoy your spoils!
Kudos to the winners--a well deserved accolade
Great job done by everyone. Congrats to Jeanette and Midori, Missy and Kim - you worked so hard. Congratulations to Brian and Dez - an awesome effort and great success.
Desiree and Brian ~ Congrats on winning the big prize. As they say where I'm from: "You done good!" :-) All the best and continued success in the industry.
We tip our hats and raise our glasses to each of you! You are all winners! And in another way, you've made all of us here in The Rain winners!
By allowing us to share in your experiences, your knowledge and your successes, we too, have been educated and enriched!
Thanks, and the best of success to each you!
Desiree and Brian is such an awesome team and I feel so honored to be in the top 3. To me the best part was everything was time sensitive...although it was lots of pressure...but well worth every drop of sweat, worth a few tears...and a few temper tantrums.
This contest pushed me harder than ever...and even now I seem to not be able to get out of this pace. :) As I reflect and look back..(reviewing our work)....I was reminded a few things...details matter...use spell check and most of all..1 word doc does not mean 1 page, so I am a goofball.
I think all the teams did an awesome job and it took courage...ambition and definitely guts to enter and participate in this contest.
Every week we were sweating it..and waiting..waiting for the announcement. I have to say...I am proud to know and compete with each team.
I think my favorite part of the entire contest was the video's that the mentors had to do too and the stress we all felt. Made for some great phone conversations! :)
I thought that Brian and Desiree were always top notch and they brought their A game on throughtout the contest. Congrats guys your win was well deserved!
Thanks Rich you did an awesome job with our questions...with the communication and also for making it fun! Thanks Activerain..it was a great opportunity and it definitely changed my life.
Oh as far as the judges ...wouldn't have wanted to be in your shoes that is for sure! Thank you and you did an awesome job.
Congrats to all. I think everyone that stuck it through are AWESOME!!!
Congratulations to all who partcipated. This was a very difficult contest and everyhone did an amazing job!
Congratulations to Desiree and Brian, and to all the other participants - great job.
Rich, thanks for the announcement and thanks especially for creating and admistering the contest. You certainly already know my thoughts on the entire event. For those that don't, please feel free to read my post:
Some Reflections on the Makeover to Takeover Competition
I appreciate everyone's comments here and am certainly thrilled with the great package of prizes.
Hopefully you'll continue this contest in some form next year. I'd love to be involved again in some way (perhaps as a judge?)
Speaking of which, thank you to all the judges, the other participants, Active Rain, the Academy...
and most of all to Desiree who stuck with me, has been a great guide and mentor, but most of all a friend.
Congratulations to you Brian and Desiree. Great job well done. Also congratulations to Jeanette and Midorif for coming in third place and Kim and Missy for coming in 2nd place. You are all winners in my book. Great post.
Congratulations to the winners. It took a lot of hard work to win this contest. They deserve those prizes.
Congrats Brian and Desiree and to all who participated! I hope we do this again - I NEED a make-over BAD.
That is awesome, way to go Brian & Desiree, I know those prizes will pay off big time. Make them count...
Where and when do you post these type's of contest. Please let me know!
The contest was very exciting to watch I've already told you two congratulations but congratulations again. I learned a lot just watching the contest.
Congrats to Brian and Desiree....they deserve it! The prizes are not too shabby either.
Congrats on all your hard work! Prizes don't seem shabby either. Enjoy.
WOW!!! That is fantastic! Congratulations to both of you!
your friend in Charlottesville!
Congratulations Brian & Desiree and to all of the other participants. Sounds like it was an amazing event.
Awesome prizes for an awesome team! Congrats!
Congratulations to all who took this on, as it was quite a daunting challenge. Brian and Desiree really rocked the Rain with this.
Is there one place where all the work is gathered where you could point the people who missed seeing it all? I think we could all learn from their terrific results.
Congrats to Brian and Desiree! You both did an AWESOME job. I was honored to be part of the top three. I think we were all winners, all 15 teams. I have taken my business to the next level.
Rich a SPECIAL thank you to you for creating such a contest that we all everyone here on AR learned from. That takes talent, to know what we need to move forward and the patiences to do so.
To all the Judges, man I wouldn't have wanted to be in your shoes, Shessh!!!
Congratulations to all of the winners!
.....accepting on behalf of Desiree.... lol~ She must have taken the money and ran!! ROFL....
Congratulations!!!!!
Thanks for your help in the past.
Rich
Charlotte NC
I was wondering what the rewards were...this is an awesome list. Congratulations to Dez and Brian and great job Rich!
I am here I am here.................. Brad pass is back over here buddy.
Thanks all,
thanks to the wonderful group of judges I wouldn't want your job!
thanks to the "boys" of AR for a wonderful program and prizes!
thanks to Rich for putting up with ME <grin>
thanks to Brian for all his hard work and willingness to learn
thanks to all the contestant that week after week raised the bar
And ..... opps... enough already
Thanks to all of you for your support have a great holiday weekend!
Wow! Cool stuff. Contratulations to you and everyone who participated. As a judge, it was a great experience and I learned lots from all of you.
You guys rocked!!! I wish I had done better, but it was a super busy season...
Great Summary!! Congrats Guys!!! I hope you get to enjoy your spoils!! Man it was a blast keeping up with the contest, how exciting for the finale!
Rich... this is awesome. I couldn't keep up with every blog from each team, just because I was busy. But this was good... Question... what about doing something like this for loan officers? You usually need a mortgage to buy a home... right?
Congratulations to all the participants. Based on what I saw, it looks like they were all winners, one way or another.
Congratulations to AR for putting together a great group of judges.
Jeff: We've actually been discussing this, and I think the next event we do like this, will involve our LO members....