Yes! I am doing the happy dance. Why I am doing the happy dance?
I got an e-mail from Matt Bowers from Zillow. Here what it said:
Congratulations! You were a finalist for the title of “Best Washington DC Real Estate Blog” in the Zillow Sponsored People’s Choice Awards! We applaud your coverage of real estate in DC.
If you feel like bragging about your status as a finalist, we’ve created this badge just for you.
To post the badge to your website or blog, copy paste the following:
<a href="http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Washington-DC/"><img style="border: 0;" src=" http://www.zillowstatic.com/static/images/blogger_contest/badges/final/wash-final.jpg" width="435" height="201" alt="Washington DC Real Estate" /></a>
Thanks so much for participating with us! We hope you had fun!
- Matt Bowers
Program Manager, Zillow.com
I am soooo happy to get this. What does this mean? Does this mean that I have arrived as a Blogger? I don't know. But I am still working very,very hard to become an Elite Active Rain Blogger ala Queen Pat Kennedy,Broker Bryant,TLW,Lisa Heindel,Jason Crouch,Jennifer Fivelsdal,Lenn Harley,Nestor and Katerina Gassett just to name a few.
Some of the other Elite Active Rain bloggers such as the "Wake Forest House Chick" herself Leesa L.Chick,Stephaine and Chris Sommers and Debe Maxwell were in the first Round.
Here are the winners of the First Round. Zillow's peoples-choice-best-real-estate-blog-contest-winners.
I am going to be in the Second Round. So when I am,please vote for me. Help your fellow AR Blogger win. Congratulations to all of the winners. And I want to say thank you very much to all of you who contribute to my blogs. You helped me get here. And of course Thank you Active Rain. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. If it wasn't for Active Rain,I would've never become a Blogger. So Thank you very much for providing this great platform and introducing to many great people who I pray to be FRIENDS WITH FOREVER BECAUSE YOU ALL HAVE TRULY BEEN A BLESSING TO ME. Thank you.




Let me be the first to send big CONGRATS your way! Did you know you were a contestant in Zillow's Sponsored People's Choice Awards?
That's wonderful! You are making a real commitment to be on top and I don't doubt you'll get there.
Lanre--I will do a happy dance with you. I just left a comment on the Zillow site and I think I voted for you. The process seemed a bit confusing. Good luck.
Lanre: Congrats on your victory. You really write from the heart and that makes it great!
Lanre: We are definitely doing the Happy Dance right along with you!!! I'm off to try to vote for you as well!
Good job Lanre! Here is a little tid bit for you though....Zillow makes these badges so that you give them links. By putting this on your website you help them come up in local searches in your area. I don't know why you would want to do that. The goal should be to get your website on the 1st page of Google...not them:)
Congratulations Lanre!!!
Congratulations. That's awesome. I hope you are able to win it all.
C-O-N-G-R-A-T-U-L-A-T-I-O-N-S! And well-deserved Lanre! I hope you take 1st PLACE!!!!
Congrats!
Congrats, Lanre. Is there a link to vote for you? If so, I missed it - send it to me in an Active Rain contact form and I'll add my vote.
Great job Lanre, you know you have my vote...enjoy your weekend, now you something to celebrate
That's wonderful news Lanre - your commitment to blogging is an inspiration to me and many others. I'd be happy to vote for you as well (if you could send me the link too - I couldn't find it either.) I hope you're enjoying the 30 Day Blogging Challenge as much as I am!
Well done, you!
I don't know if you eliminated the badge on purpose or not but it's showing up as a broken link right now.
Lanre,
congrats on this wonderful opportunity. Best of luck.