Social Media Contest (Social Madness)

[DancingDogDairy]

We voted for TRF once from each device, and with all of my teenagers, we sure have a lot of devices.

[LadyJessica]

We're losing again...to a Real Estate company...

[Sir Martin]

Keep on voting . . . we can win this!

[Endestroy]

Actually we should be winning it. Colliers is a billion dollar company with 16,000+ employees. Definitely shouldn't be in the 'small companies' category.

[Merlin the Elder]

I thought everything was bigger in Texas... </sarcasm>

[Merlin the Elder]

Actually we should be winning it. Colliers is a billion dollar company with 16,000+ employees. Definitely shouldn't be in the 'small companies' category.

Because of this post, I filed an inquiry.  I didn't know this was the same Colliers we have in central Arkansas, BTW.  I have received a reply from the Social Madness group. While at this time, I don't know if it will go anywhere, but they wanted to know more. So, hold tight until I hear BACK again. It is possible(?), I suppose, that Colliers will get re-categorized.  I will post back as I hear....

[Terre Albert]

We have been testing different ways we receive points.  Because the scoring system is a secret we have had to try different things and watch our score increase.  This is what we think we have figured out.

Points are received by:

New Likes
Comments or activity (liking a picture or someones comment)
Votes on www.socialmadness.com

While you can only vote once per IP address on thier site you can comment/like as many times as you want and you can still join our Linkedin and Twitter.  Now that we know we can attack! 

Long live the King! 

[LadyJessica]

They changed up the voting!!!  Go vote again!

[KiltedPrivateer]

Looks like it's getting into the finals

[Bob of the Lake]

I was just able to vote again from the same IP address. 

[Merlin the Elder]

Actually we should be winning it. Colliers is a billion dollar company with 16,000+ employees. Definitely shouldn't be in the 'small companies' category.

Because of this post, I filed an inquiry.  I didn't know this was the same Colliers we have in central Arkansas, BTW.  I have received a reply from the Social Madness group. While at this time, I don't know if it will go anywhere, but they wanted to know more. So, hold tight until I hear BACK again. It is possible(?), I suppose, that Colliers will get re-categorized.  I will post back as I hear....

I actually got a reply on this from someone with BizJournals:

"I checked with the folks running the contest and they said that in this case, they are eligible to be listed in Houston's competition because all of their links are Houston-specific, which means they are not directly piggybacking on the company's national social media platform. If they were to meet up with another Collier's along the way when the contest shifts to the national stage, they would not be allowed to combine their social media with any of the national branding and would have to stay local. Hope that helps to clarify how they devised the rules for this, and I certainly appreciate your concerns."

Somehow, I don't see a real estate company having so many happy customers that they would be able to generate that many votes, legitimately anyway.  I think the guy missed my point entirely, because I was not concerned with the fact that they were competing in Houston, but with their classification as "small." Ah, well...

[LadyJessica]

Just had a "Huh?" moment...if you look at that website again you'll see that Colliers has lost a LOT of votes, putting us back in the winners circle!!    Guess something changed for them.

[DancingDogDairy]

Now that is more like it!

[Laird Fraser of Lovatt]

DONE...again. 

[Merlin the Elder]

Wow! I find that incredibly interesting, Jessica.  You think my inquiry caused an inquiry? I wonder if they discovered an automated voting routine....