Job Of The Month - TilersForums.com Comp Starts Again!

[Dan]

Job Of The Month Discussion Forum

Discussion, Questions and Advice in the Job Of The Month Discussion Forum - TilersForums.com JOTM Competition. Our monthly forum competition where the winners win prizes! (most of the time - Kudos if no prizes though hey?) Enter the best job you did during the month, and it'll get voted on the...

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Checkout the September jobs on TilersForums.com. Had 10 entries for the first month it has been back in around 10 months. That's not bad to be fair.

So, for those who don't know, this is where a tiler will whack pictures of his job in a thread, and then we all vote on the one we think is best. They get a special Avatar Ribbon on the forum, and also bragging rights.

We've had thousands of pounds worth of tools in the pot to win before now.

Unfortunately this first JOTM has £50 amazon voucher and £150 makita dab site radio, and mostly bragging rights.

Checkout the jobs and see what you guys think. I'd start a similar competition on here but it's not exactly a trade you can see before / after shots so easily? And the jobs are so varied? Not sure.

We do need to come up with something soon though. Have a think see what you can suggest peeps.

 

[Harvest Fields]

Sounds like an awesome idea mate. Cannot view the link. Wants me to sign up.

 

[Dan]

For even the JOTM discussion forum?

I'll go change that now mate.

 

[Dan]

Try now. Should be able to browse them all now matey.

 

[Harvest Fields]

Yep I can view the thread now. It Looks awesome mate. Have 2 click a couple of links to get to the pics though.

 

[Dan]

Do you not just see the forum, and their threads? Their photos are in the threads.

 

[king of pipes]

We need a job of the month on here Dan theres alot of nice work being done . ??
Kop

 

[Dan]

We need a job of the month on here Dan theres alot of nice work being done . ??
Kop

I can set it up mate but it's a bit of a maul managing it. So we need be a bit busier really to warrant it.

There are some other competition systems that aren't so picture orientated that might work better here.

We do need something though it's ever such a shame to not reward you guys with something.

Also, we will be promoting the Fix Radio fixer of the year award again next year.

 

[king of pipes]

Don't think any of us are looking for anything out of it scale it back to a Basic link post your install of the month and it will run itself ?

 

[Chalked]

I won a Job Of The Month on the tilers forum a few years ago. With a bathroom I did.

 

[Dan]

Don't think any of us are looking for anything out of it scale it back to a Basic link post your install of the month and it will run itself ?

Maybe matey yeah. I think we do need something though. It's nice to have other reasons to come to a forum every now and again other than that of answering questions. I guess.

I won a Job Of The Month on the tilers forum a few years ago. With a bathroom I did.

Well done mate. I'll be blogging about that soon. Just need find some time, then I'm going to create a blog post for each winner over the years. And put images in there and some facts (how many entered, how many voted, what the odds of winning were etc) and people who care to can use that kinda stuff in their own marketing etc.

Didn't realise we had so many people with accounts on both! lol!

 

[king of pipes]

Yes I agree mate it would give us a chance to showcase our everyday work and compare our installs with that of our fellow engineers although it needs a few rules no slating jobs critsim yes insulting oh no, if its in the public forum it demonstrates to them that we know our trade when answering a ops problem or questions Regards kop

 

[Dan]

That's exactly what the JOTM was intended for. I think the guys contributing to it get a lot of respect for the time and effort they have put into the jobs. Some world class jobs pop up every now and again.

We even had a member with a time share who gave 2 weeks holiday FOC for a winner one month to get it going years ago. It made friends for life those guys still speak now (the winner and the donor).

I'm testing some competition software this week. But also could just do with running a thread in the arms maybe to get some feedback from you guys.

Our rules for JOTM are simple. Post a job, no matter what, and explain what you did kinda thing.

Some people submit the same high end porcelain work every month but you know it's taken a small team just to carry the cutters and tiles up stairs. So other jobs where a new trainee just passed his NVQ and worked nights on his own bathroom spooned the odd thing, but still won because of the effort.

So we would need something a bit relaxed so we don't end up with the same 8 people posting the same 8 jobs month in month out.

Tilers JOTM has got stale a few times now. So hoping this time we've got a good automatic system, I'm looking out for dodgy voting swaps, and people who wouldn't have entered in the old one have in this one.

Trying to come up with that first time off the bat on plumbers (and maybe sparks too) won't be easy. So needs a fair bit of thought but some relaxed minimum requirements perhaps more so than rules.

 

[king of pipes]

Yes I know mate I am a member on the tiling forum aswell as you know and I have even posted a bathroom refit I did as JOTM theres some stunning work on there and some very talented individuals who well deserve their admiration, I am sure there are some very talented tradesmen on here also who deserve a pat on the back but may need a bit of encouragement to post a picture or two I can see it being popular the choice is yours ? . Regards kop

 

[Chalked]

Well done mate. I'll be blogging about that soon. Just need find some time, then I'm going to create a blog post for each winner over the years. And put images in there and some facts (how many entered, how many voted, what the odds of winning were etc) and people who care to can use that kinda stuff in their own marketing etc.

Didn't realise we had so many people with accounts on both! lol!

yes dan chalked on here and Chalker on there

 

[Dan]

I try not to cross reference accounts. We have a sparky on this plumbing forum that got banned from sparky forum. I'd hate to bring collective moderation views (or outcomes) from over there to here where the said member is posting just fine.

So for the same reason, it baffles me when I realise like in this thread, that I'm speaking to some people more often than I realise yet treating them as if I don't know them on another forum lol

#forumadminproblems lol