Once I stopped hitting refresh every 3 seconds to see how many more times my post about the exploding CD had been dugg, I began to think of what I should do next.
I’d read many posts about how you should try and leverage the increase in traffic but none of the ideas really struck me as something I wanted to do. So I decided to hold a contest.
The contest was something that I thought would be a way to give a little something back to those that have visited the site and become a part of the community. Each of the three lucky winners will receive two t-shirts (mens or womens ShoeMoney t-shirt and a flippingrich.com t-shirt) and a crazy little stress squeeze toy.
Drumroll Please…We have a winner (3 actually)
In the week that this contest was running, I received a total of 34 entries which included 3 bonus entries for blogging about the contest in addition to the comment.
After throwing all of the names into a baseball hat, I selected three winners with the assistance of my two kids. The three lucky winners are:
Congratulations Rose, Enkay and Joe!
Each of the winners have been contacted via email in order to get their shipping address but if any of them do not respond by next Wednesday, I will select a new winner from the remaining contestants.
I’d like to thank everyone for participating in the contest and hope everyone had a good time. In addition, I’d like to give a special thanks to those that took a few minutes to post about the contest on their own site as well:
There are still more prizes to be given away so you might want to subscribe to my RSS feed to avoid missing the next contest!
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Darn it! No Squishy head for me 🙁
I’m telling you, we should create our own!
Thanks Derek! I emailed you about my preference already! I cant believe I won! 🙂
@Stephen :: I’ve got one or two more I believe so you never know! I also have tried to contact the company to see if I can get my hands on more to give away.
@Enkay :: I’ve got your email and yes, you have won all three prizes!
Woo Hoo, I won I won. I needed that stress ball. I have teens and my one teen is driving me to the loony bin. I do love her so. OMG I won. I never win anything. I won? You mean me? ok, I’m calm now. 🙂 Thanks Derek. I won?
Lol, you are one of the lucky winners! 🙂
I know exactly how you feel as I rarely win anything myself. Hope you enjoy the prizes!
I never win anything 🙁
Waaaaaah!
Actually, you won a free kick-to-the-ass from Samanathon.com!
lol!.. it should have been free virtual kick…but either way..still entertaining!
I’ll have to record it and post it on YouTube! 😆
http://www.leochiang.com/kick-my-ass-you-know-you-wanna/
Poor Leo and from the look of your avatar you could have used the shirt. 🙂 Just joking!
I like the heads! Is that dilbert on speed or another character? =D
Those have been a big hit, they were free schwag that I picked up at a conference a few months ago.
Yippeeeee I never win anything this is awesome. I will wear my t shirts with pride and take the squishy head with me to school this fall so I can pretend it is my professors head lol.
Lol, I’m happy to hear the prizes will be of good use to you! 🙂
I never win anything either…. and I didn’t win this 🙁
If there is anyone that wants to get a flippingrich.com tshirt and model it on their blog with a linkback, Ill send em one. (Derek, is that okay?)
Absolutely! I’ve asked each of the winners to snap a picture with their new t-shirts as well.
Cool, thanks D. Im going to hit you up soon for a little favor…
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