My Plans Have Been Spoiled

Posted on March 6th, 2008 as Contests, Site News

I was planning on running a decent sized contest for my site to grow rss readers and get more traffic but it looks like I have been beaten to the punch by a few other bloggers. It looks like I will have to work on content and wait for the dust to settle from all of the contest craziness and then make my move. Now that my plans have been spoiled lets see how has wrecked my plans for the month.

The University Kid he is throwing huge contest with tons of prizes. He has labeled it the Ultimate Blog Contest and I have to give him credit it very intimidating to run anything labeled better then his contest. I did have some advance notice about his contest and gave 500 entrecard credits as a prize but I did not realize the magnitude of his contest. So what is he offering as prizes? Here is a full list, but before you scroll down make sure to prepare yourself because there are some sweet prizes.

Wordpress Themes

- Two licenses for the Revolution Theme ($160)
- Two licenses for the Premium News Theme ($200)
- Two licenses for the Purple Fever Theme ($100)
- One hundred accounts to the Themes Club ($500)

Blog Tools

- Three licenses by FruitfulTime.com ($90)

Blog Analysis

- Full Video Review By Marcus Hochstadt ($700)

eBooks

- SEO Book Donated By The Net Fool

Blog Advertising

One Month

- Two 125 x 125 on Wayne Liew ($30)
- One 125 x 125 On Blogger Noob ($25)
- One 125 x 125 on EZ Money Online ($25)
- One 125 x 125 on Affiliate Gossip ($15)
- One 125 x 125 on Rhyan ($10)
- One 125 x 125 on Jim Karter ($30)
- One 125 x 125 on Neotrepreneur ($10)
- One 125 x 125 on Life is Colourful ($30)
- One 125 x 125 on BLJConsultant ($5)
- One 125 x 125 on Resell Rights World ($5)
- One 125 x 125 on Viking Blogger ($25)
- One 125 x 125 on Dot Com Mogul ($10)

- One 468 x 60 on Blogging 4 Cash ($10)
- Five 16 x 16 on Blogging 4 Cash ($10)
- One 150 x 150 on Blogging 4 Cash ($5)
- One Text Link On Mr Javo ($7)

Three Months

- One 125 x 125 on The WWW Observer ($75)

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

- 2000 Entrecard Credits By Xavier Media
- 1750 Entrecard Credits By Mixed Market Arts
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Toast & Egg & Me
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Affiliate Confession
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Yimto
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Site Hoppin’
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Neotrepreneur
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Affiliate Gossip
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By BLJ Consultant
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Resell Rights World
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Happier Life
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Article Snatch
- 800 Entrecard Credits By Kirushanth
- 750 Entrecard Credits By Money Making Student
- 500 Entrecard Credits By Bud Calabrese
- 500 Entrecard Credits By Mr Javo
- 500 Entrecard Credits By ImpNerd
- 500 Entrecard Credits By Life Is Colourful
- 500 Entrecard Credits By Money Making Blogs

Total: 15,800

Cash

$100 Paypal by The Profit Hustler
$30 Paypal by Viking Blogger
$15 Paypal by Final Fantasy Fan
$10 Paypal by The WWW Observer
$5 Paypal by Affiliate Gossip

Miscellaneous

300 Stumbles + 300 Reviews from Niklas
$50.00 In Stumble Upon Advertising By Mixed Market Arts
Twenty Pages By One Buck Wiki
Domain Monetization Package By Domains Earn 4U
One featured, three regular links from The SEOTree Directory

Not only is there The University Kid contest there is also contest’s going on at VikingBlogger where Staale is giving away 20,000 entrecard credits, Mr Javo’s birthday contest where he is offering multiple prizes, and I have been told Gyutae at Winning The Web has a contest that will be launching very soon too.

After seeing his contest I decided I will wait until his contest is over to run my own contest so make sure to keep coming back to see what the contest will offer. Right now I am still ironing out the prizes and did get some prizes sponsored from other blogs, if you are interested in sponsoring any prizes for my contest make sure to contact me to get some exposure to you blog.

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8 Responses to “My Plans Have Been Spoiled”

  1. Jim
    1

    This is definitely a great contest idea on his behalf. I am hoping to win something, and I donated the SEO book to the contest. I definitely hope that it helps improve my rankings a bit on the traffic side of things :)

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  2. Shireen
    2

    When I added my little sponsor i didnt even think of the traffic lol. I just thought this looks cool i should help out

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  3. Deimos Tel`Arin
    3

    Whoah, this has gotta be the biggest contest I have ever seen to date.

    He is going get himself very very busy. :D

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  4. Tay - Super Blogging
    4

    Bud, like you have, I’ve been planning to launch a larger contest and take in prizes from sponsors. However, I’m with you - I’m not going to try and compete with this one right now. It would take a ton of work and time!

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  5. Joe | Dominate and Prosper
    5

    Dude, fight back. This community is a giant group hug (I was about to say circle jerk and then censored myself, oh wait…).

    A little buzz goes a long way. Hell, offer straight cash. You don’t have cash to give away? I’ll give you $1000 bucks to host this contest. Free and clear. I’m not kidding. We’ll be in touch.

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  6. The Sleepy Surfer
    6

    Whoah, this has gotta be the biggest contest I have ever seen to date.
    He is going get himself very very busy.

    You got that right. its very interesting.. the prizes alone are sweet!

    Reply to this comment.
  7. Carlo
    7

    thanks for the post. i hope to read some more.
    Best regards from Sebbi

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  8. Tech blog
    8

    Thats a big contest. But its gonna end now,
    so you can start your own now. :)

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