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Results of the October Surprise Contest

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It was a fight to the finish as the top 3 commenters battled it out to see who would walk away with $50 and copy of Tim Ferriss’s Book The Four Hour Work Week. Here is how it breaks down:

Winners

  1. BM (422)
  2. Sherry (416)
  3. Wiehanne (328)

Prizes

  1. $50 and Tim Ferriss’s book
  2. $30
  3. $20

I was originally only going to give the Top Commenter a prize, but since these three were so far ahead of anyone else I offered a 2nd and 3rd place prize as well. I am glad they didn’t collaborate to stop on an exact number and all win the $50 (that would have been evil :) ). All in all there were 1411 comments for the month and I feel that is a success and definitely a new record for my blog. Thank you everyone.

The RSS subscriber that was chosen by Random.org was Doug Labrosse. There were 162 possible winners because you had to be subscribed by email to either my newsletter or RSS feed. The number chosen was 96.

Overall the contest was a lot of fun and I enjoyed getting 100 emails in my inbox from all the new comments some mornings. I also learned not to hold a contest that ends on the day you have to move out of one place and into another. Sorry for any confusion to the commenters who were frantically trying to figure out who won. I still don’t have Internet at my new place and have to work from my remote office at Dunn Bros. Coffee in Fargo (if you are around swing by I might be here).

Marketing Ideas: October Surprise Contest

I like to have fun from time to time and give away free things like money, so here is your shot.

$100 and two copies of the Four Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss up for grabs.

Click here to go to the CONTEST PAGE.

Round 2 of The AdSpace Contest is beginning

We all know that from time to time I like to hold and participate in contests. I think that one of the requirements of blogging should be to have fun. This is the second round of The AdSpace Contest. The winner of this round shall receive their ad on close to 40 blogs for a whole month. Not a bad way to get some free promotion. The rules and guidelines are below. Enjoy!

AdSpace ContestOnce again, it’s time for The AdSpace Contest and I’m proud to announce that I am one of 10 co-hosts.

The idea is simple: Get as many entries as you can (very easy to do) before October 15th. The more entries you get, the better chance you have of winning! Shortly after the 15th, we’ll announce the winner.

The prize?

A 125×125 pixel ad spot (above the fold) on at least TEN DIFFERENT BLOGS that will run for one month. That’s at least a $100 value! Last month’s prize grew to be ad spots on 45 blogs!

Who else is co-hosting?

How do you enter to win?

  • 1 Entry - Subscribe to any one of the blogs above via email (if you subscribed last month, you’re already entered again!).
  • 5 Entries - Twitter about the contest with a link to this post (new!)
  • 10 Entries - Write a post about the contest (must include links to all 10 hosts OR use our suggested text)
  • 25 Entries - Offer up an ad spot on your own blog for one month as part of the prize package (links will be listed above)

Simply put, you could subscribe to all 10 blogs, write a post, twitter about it and offer up your own ad spot for a grand total of 50 entries! Fill out the form below once you’ve got your entries done.

Fill out the form below to ensure that your entries are counted! Email subscriptions to RSS feeds are automatically entered.

Name

Website

Email

I wrote a post about the contest (Post URL:

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I’m offering an ad spot on my own blog for one month

I posted to Twitter about the contest with a link (permalink of tweet:
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Contest ends October 15th. Good Luck!