More details after the jump.
*** Warning, spoilers ***
Have you watched the video? OK, then you know that it was Felista from Royal Tours Africa that won this contest. I just contacted Felista and I’ll probably post a review in a few days.
Like I said in the video I got 32 entries - 4 people posted on their blog about this contest and got 5 entries each. When I started the contest 249 members had made this blog a favorite and now it stands at 275 - which ranks me at #87. Thanks to everybody that entered my contest - I’ll definitely have another contest soon. One thing I noticed is that the contest started a little slow - and I had to go and promote it a little bit to get a few more entries… So, if you are thinking about having your own contest on your blog you might want to have that in mind - Just go contact some of your blog buddies and anybody you think would be interested in entering your contest.
Talking about contests… I want to use the opportunity to enter Gary Lee’s iPhone contest. Gary has a cool blog about internet marketing and he is going to give away a free iPhone. He’s doing this to promote his new project about golf equipment and his partner’s site that is a online coupon code blog. Very clever… there’s been a lot of buzz around the iPhone so a lot of people want to enter. That’s another trick to a successful contest - have a very valuable prize.
Do you like contests? I want to have another contest soon and I’m open for ideas - do you have any suggestions regarding the rules/requirements and/or prizes?
Keywords: technorati, contests, winner, top 100, youtube, promote, gary lee, iphone
14 responses so far ↓
SEO Reloaded // Aug 6, 2007 at 5:37 am
I guess I’m late. I added you to my favs today, but thats alright :)
Hannes Johnson // Aug 6, 2007 at 1:27 pm
SEO Reloaded - Don’t worry, I’ll have more contests in the near future. I recommend subscribing to my RSS feed so you don’t miss out next time.
SEO Reloaded // Aug 6, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Hi Hannes, Thank you so much. I have subscribed to the feed. Will look forward to the next contests :)
Jeff Kee // Aug 6, 2007 at 4:18 pm
DUUUDE this is so cool… your voice and your accent put together make it sound like it’s some kind of a black-bag op transmission.
“Yes, we will position the sniper on the top of building 2…”
Awesome stuff. Blog contests are fun!!!
felista // Aug 6, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Thanks Hannes this was a real eye opener . I guess I am the lucky one.
Angie // Aug 6, 2007 at 8:29 pm
I love contests and need to take the time to do my own soon! :)
Hannes Johnson // Aug 6, 2007 at 9:35 pm
Jeff - hehe, thanks :) I didn’t realize that… Maybe I should start doing voice overs for computer games ;)
Yeah, blog contest are fun - and videos are fun too :) I think bloggers (and other website owners) need to start using video more.
Felista - Yes, you were the lucky one. But it certainly helped that you got 5 entries because you blogged about the contest.
Angie - Go for it! Let me know when you’ve put together a contest.
Saman Sadeghi // Aug 10, 2007 at 12:38 pm
I wanted to win, but congrats to Felista!!
Etienne // Aug 14, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Its been sometime since i last heard you blogging johnson, whats up..
Hannes Johnson // Aug 15, 2007 at 9:32 pm
Etienne - Don’t worry, I’m ok :)
Well, if you check the archives you can see that I only post about once a week or so… A new post is coming very soon.
Thanks for the “push” ;)
Etienne Teo // Aug 16, 2007 at 9:31 am
Ah, you are a 1 week poster blogger…alright, got that in mind!
John Bennett // Aug 28, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Great contest. I’m looking forward to the next one. I’m going to have to try to hold one of these sometime.
How To Optimize Your Site - A Website Review | Hannes Johnson dot Com // Oct 8, 2007 at 2:02 am
[...] 8th, 2007 · No Comments · 1 views You might remember that a few posts ago I picked the winner in the Technorati Top 100 contest. Well, one of the prizes was a review on this blog and I finally finished the review [...]
Leverage The Power Of Others - Reach A Bigger Audience | Hannes Johnson dot Com // Nov 19, 2007 at 1:28 am
[...] has over 1000 RSS subscribers - which is a pretty big audience. I have 100+ RSS subscribers and in the first contest on this blog I gave away $25 (or a featured link) and a website review (which took a lot of time). So, spending [...]
Leave a Comment