Tag Archives: Contests

Mar200807

Adam

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It’s Like A Pinata For Bloggers

 The University Kid

The University Kid is a blog, which I found while he was pariticipating in a rss competition with 4 other bloggers (that he won) and I have grown found of his site.  TUK is a high quality blog about how to make money blogging.  TUK makes daily updates that provide the blogosphere with some serious and quality information about how to market and propel your blog to the next level.  If you are looking into having blogging as secondary or even primary income I would definitely recommend checking his site out.

And if high quality information isn’t enough to wet your pallette then this should be.

As a kid breaking open the Pinata was always the most fun part of the party because at what other time could you have candy and prizes rain down upon you in a blinding fashion. The answer was never, that is until now if you are a blogger. If you don’t know the University Kid, you are about to. He is holding the “ultimate blogging contest” which is no exageration.   Here is the list of prizes he is giving away.

Wordpress Themes

Blog Tools

Blog Analysis

eBooks

Blog Advertising

One Month

Three Months

Blog Reviews

  • One Review By The University Kid ($60)
  • One Review By Yimto ($20)
  • One Review By The WWW Observer ($35)
  • One Review By Bloggeries ($25)
  • One Review By Neotrepreneur ($10)
  • One Review By Life Is Colourful ($40)
  • One Review By DaBlogger

Consulting

  • One hour consulation with The University Kid
  • Thirty minutes consulation with Neotrepreneur Design
  • One Custom Done 125 x 125 Ad By Affiliate Gossip 
  • One Custom Done Sketch By The Pencil Sketch And Art Blog

Entrecard Credits

Total: 15,800

Miscellaneous

I am shooting for the hour consultation with the kid himself. I would like to tickle his brain for a while, he seems to really have it together. If he didn’t he would never have been able to get this kind of sponsorship.  It is really outstanding.  I believe his web income last month was over $1,000 and he decided it still wasn’t good enough which means he has been working hard to increase it as you can see.  I seem to lack that motivation, or at least the skills to pull something like this off.  I could use the counseling and think I could learn alot from him.

 So go check out The University Kid’s Ultimate Blog Contest and make sure you do it from my site cause if I can be one of the highest referrals that will help me win stuff :) .

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Feb200823

Adam

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Be Creadiv (Contest)

 I have been trying to figure out a creative way to get my name out there on the web, and I think I have found the best way to do it.  I am going to ask you to be Creadiv.  I am looking for new readers and subscribers and you publishers out there are the people that can get them for me.   But I can’t go without rewarding the readers so you (average reader) will be getting a reward as well.

What you need to do:

Publishers:

Be Creadiv. The purpose of this competition is to promote my site.  At the end of the competition I want to have a ton of new subscribers, and many of you know how to get them, now you need to get them for me. I want you to come up with the most creative way to promote my site and the person who I feel came up with the most creative way of doing it will win the prize.

What is the prize?

I will be giving a free logo design, one month free advertising, and a free article about you, your site, and the great method of promotion you used to win this competition.

 Readers:

Be supportive.  Subscribe to the site through my feedburner link and let me know you did it.  I will be giving a way a free copy of the cornerstone magazine style template to one lucky reader at the end of this competition as well.

The competition will last until March 10th, unless it takes a while for people to get in to the groove of signing up for it.  I wish you all luck hope that this will generate some interest in my site.

 Until next time.

Adam

Feb200805

Adam

2

Contests Are King?

There has been a coup, and content has been dethroned.  At least it seems this way.  Blogging for blogging’s sake is becoming a thing of the past and the majority of people in it are now in it to make money.  And how do you make money? By getting readers.

Contests are not king, content is and forever will be, but a  good contest will draw more attention to your site quickly than normal content would probably ever be able to do. 

The reason you are having the contest is most likely to gain rss subscribers, but having subscribers alone won’t make you any money, you need to get these subscribers to return, to trust you, and to either by your product or to click on your ads.  A contest may be the way you get them to your blog, but in order to bring them back and build that relationship you need to have great content.

So, before you go out and spend your life savings giving away a free ipod to one lucky reader make sure you have something to back it up so that they return and your contest doesn’t prove to be a weeks worth of hit hits and unique visits.

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