Tag: Notices

The prize for this week’s Neighborhood Guessing Game is being sponsored by Houston. It’s Worth It. The winner of the current round will receive a gift box containing $100 worth of merchandise from the HIWI store, including a copy of the classic Houston. It’s Worth It. book, a HIWI T-shirt, a HIWI mug, a baseball cap, and private-label bug repellent. If you’d like to win the prize, there’s still time to submit your entry!

The Rice Design Alliance will continue to sponsor Neighborhood Guessing Game prizes for a couple of weeks each month. And a number of other sponsors have stepped up to the plate as well.

But if you’ve got a product or business you’d like Swamplot readers to pay some attention to, sponsorship slots are still available! Let us know if you’re interested.

• Houston. It’s Worth It.
• Rice Design Alliance
• Neighborhood Guessing Game: Lavender Twins [Swamplot]
• How to Advertise on Swamplot [Swamplot]

As many readers — and at least one would-be spammer — have already noticed, Swamplot now has a job board.

Why? Well, as we mentioned yesterday, Swamplot is now looking for an advertising sales rep to sell some online real estate — on this site. And it turns out Boxer Property Management is looking for a leasing agent. Hey, that’s 2 listings already! So why not open it up? Houston real-estate and design fans swarm Swamplot every day, and this site’s readership continues to grow. Maybe other Swamplot readers have positions open they’d like to advertise?

For now, you can post a job ad on the Swamplot Job Board for free. It’s quite easy, really — and it’s even cheaper than Craigslist. What kinds of jobs belong here? Hey, try us. Even contract work for small projects is okay — just mark those listings as “Freelance” work. As new listings arrive, we’ll add new categories to match.

The latest Swamplot Job Board postings will show up on the home page, in the far-right column. We hope you’ll check them out, and help make the board more useful by spreading the word about it to friends and colleagues.

• The Swamplot Job Board [Swamplot]

Interested in joining the team behind Houston’s fastest-growing real-estate publication?

Swamplot is looking for some help with online advertising sales. More details about the position are available here.

You still have a chance to win that $100 gift certificate to Robert Gadsby’s new Bedford Restaurant that Swamplot is giving away this week. All you need to do is win the latest Neighborhood Guessing Game.

But if you want to get your guess in, you’d better hurry! The contest ends tomorrow . . . sometime!

We want to thank Bedford — and the Rice Design Alliance, which will continue to sponsor other rounds of the game — for their prize donations. Prizes have helped attract new players to the game and to this site, and brought a good number of you lurkers out of the woodwork. The prizes turn out to be a good deal for our sponsors, too, because sponsoring earns them a lot of attention from Swamplot readers.

If you or your firm would like to sponsor a round or two of the Neighborhood Guessing Game, just contact Swamplot using the address on our advertising page.

• Bedford Restaurant
• Rice Design Alliance
• Neighborhood Guessing Game: Shower Box [Swamplot]
• How to Advertise on Swamplot [Swamplot]

A big thank you to these direct advertisers, who are doing us all a service by occupying some important real estate on the pages of Swamplot:

• Robert Lowery, Colliers International
• Houston Chronicle Real Estate
• ULI Houston, a district council of the Urban Land Institute.

And a warm welcome to Swamplot’s newest advertiser:

• The Rice Design Alliance, announcing its annual architecture tour and civic forum.

This year’s RDA tour, on March 28th and 29th, will feature small houses.

If you’d like to join this select group and get your message out to Swamplot’s large, loyal and unique audience of smart, rabid Houston real-estate fans, get in touch with us. You’ll find a rate sheet and contact info on our advertising page.

Also, Swamplot is pleased to announce that the RDA has also agreed to sponsor 2 prizes each month for the Neighborhood Guessing Game. Winners of RDA-sponsored rounds will receive a one-year individual membership in the Rice Design Alliance, which you’ll be able to give to a friend if you’re already a member. Individual RDA memberships are ordinarily $45 a year.

If you’d like to promote your business by sponsoring a prize, slots are still available! Next week we’ll be giving away a prize for the NGG that’s being donated by a brand new sponsor — and we’re betting it’ll be highly sought after. Stay tuned!

Yesterday we announced Swamplot would be holding this week’s Neighborhood Guessing Game open an extra day — to encourage more of you to participate. And many new players have jumped in with smart guesses.

That’s great! But we still don’t have a winner.

So we’re holding it open again, over the weekend. If you’ve already guessed once . . . or twice . . . have another shot at it! And if you’re one of the many Neighborhood Guessing Game fans who’s never actually submitted a guess before: here’s your chance! It’s easy to make a guess. If you win, you’ll be awarded an individual membership in the Rice Design Alliance.

But hurry! Winner or no, this round shuts down on Monday.

• Neighborhood Guessing Game: Lamps On [Swamplot]
• Neighborhood Guessing Game Held Over: Wide Open Field [Swamplot]

Photo: HAR

After a strong day yesterday, the number of entries in this week’s Neighborhood Guessing Game trailed off a bit today. Which is too bad, because — for the first time ever — there’s a great prize waiting for the winner. And . . . because no one has guessed the actual neighborhood yet.

What’s the big idea behind offering a prize? To encourage more of our readers to participate. We know a great number of you look at the game each week but for one reason or another decide not to enter a guess. Maybe it’s because you think the other players are better at it than you are? Or maybe adding your guess just doesn’t seem worth the effort?

Well . . . how about now? The field’s still wide open. And in return for just a little speculating and finger waggling, you could walk away with a shiny new individual membership in the Rice Design Alliance — normally available for $45 a year.

So . . . we’ll be extending this week’s competition for one more day. If you’ve already made a guess, feel free to make another. But if you’ve been holding out on us for some reason, now’s a great opportunity to go ahead and take a stab at it, simply by adding your comment.

It won’t hurt! We’re holding the contest open . . . just for you.

• Neighborhood Guessing Game: Lamps On [Swamplot]

Swamplot greatly appreciates the continuing support of this site’s direct advertisers. And we hope you do too!

Here’s the honor roll:

• Robert Lowery, Colliers International
• Nos Caves Vin Premium Off-Site Wine Storage
• New Leaf Real Estate
• Houston Chronicle Real Estate
• and the Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Education at Rice University, announcing its spring semester of personal development courses.

Swamplot is also excited to welcome a brand-new advertiser:

• ULI Houston, a district council of the Urban Land Institute.

Information about joining ULI Houston is available here.

Advertising helps Swamplot grow. So please help us thank these advertisers by supporting them.

If you know of local businesses or organizations that might benefit from exposure on Swamplot — and an introduction to our growing readership of Houston real estate fans — please direct them to our advertising page.