Hey Guys, We are running a contest for Bloggers in the month of May and the prizes are great. http://blogs.qualitybusinesslinks.com/ Guidelines for the contest: We are running this contest to get quality bloggers on our Business Blog and post some useful business related articles. This contest will be followed by other contests wherein, we will reward our bloggers with better gadgets. May be we can discuss about what gadgets you would like to be rewarded in the future contests. Rules for the contest: Articles should be Unique (not copied from anywhere). Article Categories : Business News, Business Reviews of businesses in US, Business Articles, Business Tips and Tricks, etc. Articles should be in English and please take care of grammatical mistakes. Each article should be atleast 500 words. 30 articles for 1st prize. 20 articles for 2nd prize. Review our blog on your blog/site for the 3rd prize (300 words). This contest will run through out May and the results will be declared latest by June 2nd. The results will be declared in this thread. This is a Scam-Free contest and we will follow 'best practices' to pull out the draw and declare winners. As stated earlier, we are deciding to include better prizes in near future (like laptop computers, desktop computers, Game consoles, etc. and rest assured, if this contest performs well, we will continue rolling more contests in the coming months). Please ask me questions, if any. I will be glad to answer your questions. Feel free to give suggestions, what you like and what you don't like about this contest. We will try our best to make this more interesting Regards, Andy.
Alright, so can I just register and start posting? Also, are articles about investing terms good? Such as articles on different types of funds, or active management.
You are welcome iWrite, Yes, you may post ANYTHING related to Business (Insurance, Investment, Business on Internet, almost anything thats associated with any sort of Business). You can register at our Blog and the default user role is set to AUTHOR. Regards, Andy.
Hay Guys, A few bloggers contacted us and requested us to lower down the number of blogs to qualify for the contest. Here are the changes to the contest ... For 1st Prize = 10 Articles/Blogs (Now, this should be easier). For 2nd Prize = 5 Articles/Blogs (Fair enough?) Please let me know if you want us to make any further changes. I need your input on this. Regards, Andy.
I think this is much more reasonable, as 30 posts for free had me thinking, "Hmmm, I'm not sure if I even want to do this."
Hi iWrite, I understand, 30 posts may be too much for a lot of people. However, I don't wanna go too low with number of posts. Then everybody will find it a bit too easy and there would be then 100s of qualifying candidates. Although, I don't mind going for even lower number of article count. Its all in the interest of participants/bloggers. I need response from other bloggers, I'm sure there is a lot of talent around. Let me know, what interests you guys most in this contest and how we can make it more successful. I'm positive about including more goodies in the coming months ONLY if I get a good response for this contest. Apart from this, I'm also concerned about duration. Do you guys think a MONTH is good enough or should we lower that to 2 weeks or 1 week? Please let me know.. Regards, Andy.
I'll continue our one way conversation, and say that 2 weeks seems a good amount of time for 10 articles, yet it might not give you enough time to market the contest to begin with. So, as a contest runner, I would keep it at a month so as to allow for the marketing to trickle down to people who will be interested in competing.
Hi iWrite, Appreciate your feedback. I will keep it up for a month. However, I'm still getting emails to change the qualifying 'post count' to even lower. I'm open to any/every suggestion as I'm going to run these contests for a long time and may be I will include cash prizes in coming months. Once again, ALL in the interest of participants. What do you suggest about the 'post count' ? Other members/bloggers .. what are your suggestions for this contest? Regards, Andy.
Is it only iWrite participating in this contest? No one else? Come on guys, I need more participants. Let me know if something bothers you about this contest... I'm taking suggestions till the end of april. There are 3 prizes .. Apple iPod Touch worth $299.99 Zune 80GB Digital Media Player worth $249.00 Apple iPod Shuffle $49.00 Or let me know if instead of the players, you want me to put Cash as prize ? Regards, Andy.
I'd take the player, just as well as the cash prize. You should definitely not lower the post count, because it would be like giving away $300. I might be the only person interested here, but if you are getting those Emails, that means that there are some other people interested. I'll advertise it on my blog, as well, after I launch it. It launches on May 1st.
Hay iWrite, I will stand by every word I said. If there is only 1 entry, He/She will take the prize Good Luck buddy.. Andy.
Hay Guys, I have had enough requests to lower down the number of posts. I didn't expect that article writing could be 'a little tough than I thought'. Please check the link to see the FINAL update on this contest. http://blogs.qualitybusinesslinks.com/cool-contest Only 1 article can qualify you for participating in this contest. Please check the link for more details. This is the final update on this contest and I hope I will see more participants now. Bloggers from around the globe can participate in this contest. According to the new contest update, winners will be entitled to get either the prize or cash equivalent to the price of the prizes. 1st prize is Apple iPod Touch 8GB or US$ 300. 2nd prize is Zune 80GB Digital Media Player or US$ 250. 3rd prize is Apple iPod Shuffle 1GB Silver or US$ 50. I hope to see more entries for this contest now. You can subscribe to this contest through RSS Feed Regards, Andy.
Guys, Its a sucker to let go $600 and only one person interested in participating. I have gone down from 30 articles to 1 article (I understand 30 articles is way too much, but 1 article ..) I guess, everyone is interested in $30 contest, $20 contest lol .. No offense, but I was expecting a little more enthusiasm with so much to give away and all I'm asking for is 1 article. I promise you guys, if this contest goes well, I'll probably run a lot of more contests. I'm not sure, why am I not getting any response from other fellas .. may be you all are interested in checking the iTrader rating first and then think about participating, but let me assure you, there will be more contests rolling out soon and the money WILL BE PAID. Its just that I'm new to DP, so my iTrader rating has to be zero. I hope to see more entries .. I guess .. atleast let me know what are you guys looking for in this contest or what you don't like, I shall try to make it more easy .. All you have to do, goto my Blog and Signup as AUTHOR. I have set the default role to AUTHOR on new account signups. Regards, Andy.
This forum is mostly about iTrader, but once I show everyone my new iPod Touch, maybe they'll participate.
Well, I can challenge, I will have the BEST iTrader rating within 4 months. I have another BIG PROJECT going on and it will run at PAR to Amazon.com Ofcourse, I won't stand near Amazon too soon, but I will invest enough to move up the ladder very fast. Just crossing fingers until my new project is UP. Most probably, it will be up by end of June. I will announce the new project pretty soon. Till then, keep participating in my contests, I love you guys and your work. Regards, Andy.
Hmm .... missed this one. The problem is many guys who run big prize contests rarely pay up. I could list many examples. There was one a week ago. Heck even many small prize contests don't. I have one guy who didn't pay me 1$ which was supposed to be the prize for a contest i participated in. I'll see if i can cook up an article or two. Then i'll enter the contest.
im an article writer and i can write you 5 ! wat abt real estate?? real estate investment? let me know! i guess i have a month but it should be done earlier. Btw, @ iWrite, you can still have your iphone i just needf the laptop cheers mates
Hi Elitesystem, Thanks for showing interest in this contest. Yes you may write articles on Real Estate, no problems. Just need to focus on US business market since my website is focused to US businesses. This will be a totally fair contest. More articles you submit, better chances that you may win. I will be judging the articles on a number of metrics like uniqueness, quality, word-count, and hopefully, results from SERPs too. I wish everyone wins something, but since it is a contest, the best will win. Ofcourse, it may be you if you are an article writing expert In future, I will keep better gadgets and something special for participants "BIN Money". If I roll out a contest which has prizes worth $200, I will keep extra $200 in the BIN. Whoever wins, takes $200, and the rest BIN money will be distributed among other participants. This will be good because each participant will get paid something or the other. However, I will leave the terms untouched for 'MAY Article Writing Contest'. Best Article will get iPod Touch Second best will get Zune 80GB media player. third prize is for reviewing my site www.qualitybusinesslinks.com and Blog http://blogs.qualitybusinesslinks.com Do you guys like the idea of keeping BIN money? Please let me know .. Regards, Andy.