Contest

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A week ago I thirstily introduced a contest to fly 10 ProBlogger visitors in to the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland. The response continues to be amazing. We’ve had 100s of records and there's been some curiousity about the promotion. With only within week to visit get the records in I figured today I would whet your appetite just a little by revealing the itinerary from the trip. It’s still being completed which means this may change just a little, but here’s what we’re likely to do around the trip to

“It’s an English basement.” That might not mean much to you, but it probably made you chuckle if you fall into one of the two groups: Of course, this video is one of many variations of the Sh*t Girls Say series - which has a cumulative YouTube viewership of 20+ million and growing. You know the premise: Stereotypical expressions from people of a certain ilk, organized by gender, hobby, lifestyle, or geography. There are takes on skiers, hipsters, suburban moms, and even sh*t nobody says

How many of you during a brainstorm or planning meeting have come up with the idea of doing a user generated video contest? I am willing to bet that almost everyone that is reading this post has either been in a meeting where the idea has come up or you have worked on one. Video contests can be a great way to involve your fans, build exposure for a brand or event, or to gain ownable content for future use. While there are many vendors and in-house developers who can design and build these contests pretty

This guest post is by Jonathan Thomas of Anglotopia.net. A common way for a blog to build its newsletter and traffic base is to hold a contest. My blog, Anglotopia, has been around for over four years now and we’ve had various successes and failures with contests. Eventually we basically just stopped having them, as they really weren’t worth the time. Image copyright Yuri Arcurs - Fotolia.com

This guest post is by Kiera Pedley of Binkd. Running a contest on your blog can be a great way to generate new readership, reactivate stagnant subscribers, and increase the engagement of your readers. Competitions can be a lot of hard work for little or no results, unless you run them to a plan and have a clear objective in mind. Here are five tips for running an awesome blog contest campaign. As bloggers we love readers, we love engagement, we love community—a contest can help you achieve any or all of

Few things will replace SEO, providing great content, posting frequently, or building relationships with your readers and with other leaders in your niche as ways to help bring visitors to your blog. However, I’d like to introduce you to another way you can find targeted followers who are interested in the content, products, and services you create: Twitter contests. Anyone can put on a Twitter contest. The actual steps you go through are not difficult. And anyone can find a lot of followers with a

When the Kinect launched, Adafruit Industries ran a contest for the first person who released open-source code to extract video and depth from the Kinect. Adafruit also ended up donating to the EFF after the contest was over.