credit: sunshinecity
I am very pleased to announce that — subject to someone beating him by June 10th according to the original contest rules — Bob Younce of The Writing Journey is the winner of our ad contest. Bob wins the 125 x 125 pixel banner ad at the right for six months, for the traffic and subscribers that came as a result of his submission of my site to StumbleUpon, and for otherwise making an effort to promote the contest.
I say that Bob won subject to the original rules because according to the way the contest was originally framed, I reserved the right to post the winning ad on June 10th if I hadn’t gotten to my goal of 101 subscribers by today, April 10th. As of today I’m up to 67 subscribers, so I’m officially two thirds of the way there.
However, you could still win this contest if you are some well known blog A-lister and you wrote a glowing review about me and pointed people to the original contest rules and the Eleven Steps article.
So all of you A-Listers who are hanging on my every word, now’s your chance to win a foot race against Bob Younce! I’ll bet you can’t do it.
Honorable Mention
Jim Cronin of the Real Estate Tomato gets an honorable mention as the early favorite in the contest, after publishing a guest post of mine.
Thank you to everyone else who participated as well by inviting me to do a guest post or promoting me on FaceBook or the like.
What’s Next?
Starting tomorrow we’ll have a brand new series, 21 Days to a Better Blog. Watch for it.
April 10th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
I’m humbled, John. Thanks so much for this.
I like your blog. I think you’ve got a good thing going here. I have a feeling that my 125 x 125 spot is going to be worth some cash by the time the six months are up!
I’ll send you a different button via e-mail, if that’s all right with you, too.
April 10th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Well, as always, Bob, thanks for the vote of confidence. We’ll see how much value may be left after six months — with the tax bill and E&O bill due this month, I may have to get a haircut and get a real job.
As for the ad, sure, that works. Anything with no animation.
April 10th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Gummit sure do take a bite, don’t she?
At any rate, I think you’ve got an excellent writing voice. The potential for success is here, to be sure.
What could you do to improve? Heck if I know. I think you probably need to focus your niche a bit, but that’s just an outside observation. I enjoyed the Men With Pens drive-by, but I think their free Sunday drive-bys are filling up fast. You can still get one for $25, tho, I think it is.
Anyways, don’t lose hope. Even if you have to get the haircut, you can still try and build inklit up on the side.