ShoeMoney 13,000.00 RSS Contest

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Here it is! The ShoeMoney RSS Contest. As you know… Me and John Chow are in a contest to see who can get the most “new” subscribers for the month of October. I asked for sponsors for the contest starting last Saturday and closing yesterday. I am happy to announce we have right at $13,000.00 in cash and prizes. Everything from a bowling ball to a xbox360 guitar hero package to full conference pass to Search Engine Strategies Chicago and Tons of other just cash prizes and advertising/web development/SEO prizes!

Here is a full list of prizes:

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  • $500 - 1 SEO Site Audit (keywords, site architecture & inclusion, on-page factors, competition, link profile & other analysis tips) - From Winningtheweb.com
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  • $348 - 1 year free subscription of SoloSEO, SEO Project Management Software - SoloSEO
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  • $250 - Free reviewme review on mubinahmed.com - From mubinahmed.com
  • $209 - 1 WordPress coding spot - From PSDchopstick.com
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  • $200 - 1 Executive Gift Pack containing: a MP3 Player/Dictionary, Leather executive bag, Leather organizer, Copy of the Business Credit Book and a TGI Friday’s gift card - From Businesscreditbook.com
  • $200 - Bowling ball - From BowlingProShop.com
  • $180 - 2 year subscription to GoStats Pro - From GoStats.com
  • $144 - Advanced Web Hosting package from Tribune Hosting. The package includes 5,200MB of storage and 160GB/month of bandwidth. Setup is free and hosting is free for one year - From Chris Jacobson
  • $104 - 1 free blog review - From Virtual Marketing Blog
  • $100 - 2 months of advertising in Googlelady.com under “Glady Cool Sites” - From Googlelady.com
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  • $90 - 1 460×60 banner advertising on one of the directories www.Yhay.com for 3 months and 1 ebook “Ancient Healing Techniques” - From MillionBlogs.org
  • $90 - 2 slots for 3 months (125 x 125 Button Ads) - From Blogigs.com
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  • $75 - 1 domain registration plus 6 months of free shared web hosting - From Web Hosts Report
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  • $60 - 125×125 banner on www.MillionBlogs.org for 3 months - From MillionBlogs.org
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  • $50 - Clockworkz Party Shop gift certificate - From Clockworkz Party Shop
  • $50 - Cash prize - From Wootagent.com
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  • $50 - Cash prize and a free comprehensive website review by Milov Patel - From Milov Patel Blog
  • $50 - Cash prize - From Findgascards.com
  • $36 - 1 copy of Steven Coveys “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” - From Critix.co.uk
  • $34.99 - 1 link on www.thatedeguy.com as well as one year premium link on pfdirectory.com - From Thatedeguy.com
  • $25 - Cash prize - From WorknPlay.net
  • $20 - Cash prize - From JoeTech.com
  • $20 - Cash prize - From Pic.gs
  • $15 - 2 months free advertising - From Onlinecashflow.org
  • So what do you have to do? Its VERY SIMPLE:

    1) Make sure you are a email subscriber and your account is active (you have confirmed). THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT

    2) Sign up and add shoemoney.com rss feed to the following services: (you can get up to 1 entry per service per day).

    3) Every day for the next 14 days there will be a “Click Here To Enter Todays Contest!” Link within the RSS Feed. You simply click on that link From your rss feed reader service and then enter your name and your email you subscribed to in feedburner.

    This is what the actual link will look like in your feed reader(s)

    Rss Contest

    Subscribe with GoogleSubscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with Bloglines

    Thats right! We will have 1 drawing per Google Reader Subscriber, News Gator Subscriber, Bloglines , and Other (all other readers combined). Being currently there is only about 300 active email subscribers your chances to win are very good ;)

    So There will be 4 drawings everyday and then a GRAND PRIZE drawing on November 1st (for all who have entered the whole month).

    So you will want to make sure you get your 4 entries in every day to have the most chances to win the grand prize!




    Related Posts:

  • John Chow Is Kicking My Ass
  • Shoemoney RSS Contest Winners for Saturday, October 20!!
  • Shoemoney RSS Contest Winners for Thursday, October 18!!
  • posted on October 17th, 2007:
    Written By: ShoeMoney

    120 Comments

    @October 17, 2007 3:12 pm
    ray Says:

    Game, Set, Match.

     
    @October 17, 2007 3:13 pm
    aojon Says:

    HAHAHA

    Talk about evil. Jesus. Your rss is about to skyrocket. Awesome job shoe! Can’t wait to compete!

     
    @October 17, 2007 3:19 pm

    Nice work getting 13K worth of prizes.

     
    @October 17, 2007 3:23 pm
    wethead Says:

    Nice, a free conference pass as well,

    Watch out John Chow :)

     
    @October 17, 2007 3:28 pm
    Theo Says:

    Great prizes…

     
    @October 17, 2007 3:35 pm
    LeGo Says:

    this seems a bit over complicated… i assume if we register this way we will count 4 as four feeds.

    @October 17, 2007 3:37 pm
    gmoney Says:

    yes einstien (5 actually if you count email)

    @October 17, 2007 4:16 pm
    LeGo Says:

    i should have created a new blog and blogged about it tonytsai style… interesting method to try and get subscribers 5x’s over.

     
     
     
    @October 17, 2007 3:43 pm
    Dax Says:

    Does the bowling ball have anything inside of it? Such as a rose or a hand or anything of this nature?

     
    @October 17, 2007 3:43 pm
    Matthew K Says:

    Surely the contest is to get the most unique subscribers though? If we all sign up for the 4 RSS services and the email service then we will each count as 5, isn’t that cheating?

     

    [...] Shoemoney has it down, like a champ. On Saturday Shoemoney posted up for advertisers sponsors for an RSS giveaway. [...]

     
    @October 17, 2007 4:04 pm
    This is Miserable Says:

    Asking people to sign up for your RSS 5 times. Are you serious? What a lame way to try and win a stupid self promotional contest. You and Chow have been sinking to all time lows recently.

    @October 17, 2007 4:47 pm
    ShoeMoney Says:

    haha you dunno how much your comment just made my day ;)

    @October 17, 2007 9:49 pm

    Yup, you are creating controversy, any publicity is good. :) Great stuff Jeremy, you got some buzz marketing in your pocket. :)

     
     
    @October 17, 2007 4:55 pm
    nickycakes Says:

    ok, more prizes for us then, donkey.

     
     
    @October 17, 2007 4:11 pm
    wethead Says:

    HEY -

    There is a bowling ball on the list :)

    Thats actually awesome, looks like there are prizes for everyone :)

     
    @October 17, 2007 4:13 pm
    Stephen Says:

    Moto says he’s going to teach you a lesson. Better hide your Pandas folks! :lol:

     
    @October 17, 2007 4:14 pm
    Stuart Says:

    Maybe someone can do a better job of posting the prizes… so we all can read them better. ;)

    @October 17, 2007 4:31 pm
    wethead Says:

    Yes - It actually says “Here is a full list of prizes: (I will be editing this post more tonight but here is the list in online excel format):”

     
     
    @October 17, 2007 4:32 pm
    Jeremy Says:

    OK, OK….You convinced me. I usually read you on my Google reader but now I have started a NG and BL feed as well…and added the widget to my igoogle for both.
    All I need now is the confirmation email from your feedburner. Hopefully it is lagging because everyone is signing up to help you win.

    Good Luck!

     
    @October 17, 2007 4:35 pm

    Shoe! Guess what? My birthday is November 1st..heh no I’m not looking for prizes, I just wanted to mention that :)

     
    @October 17, 2007 4:38 pm
    John Says:

    The formatting of the prize contributors is freakin’ brutal. Why don’t you list what the prizes actually ARE.. and then put a link to the company.

    @October 17, 2007 4:45 pm
    ShoeMoney Says:

    This is about as good as its going to get ;)

     
    @October 18, 2007 11:01 am
    dillsmack Says:

    Why don’t you FOAD?

     
     
    @October 17, 2007 4:39 pm
    Collin Says:

    Yet another great contest, Good luck to all that enter.

     
    @October 17, 2007 4:43 pm

    [...] ShoeMoney pulled out the big guns with his own [...]

     
    @October 17, 2007 4:57 pm

    I wish I could see the face of John Chow while he is reading this blog post
    :)) haha

    @October 18, 2007 12:41 am
    John Chow Says:

    I wish I could see the look on Shoe’s face after the FeedBurner Chicklet updated and see that he’s only ahead by 23. :)

    @October 18, 2007 7:38 am
    ShoeMoney Says:

    winning is winning, besides they dont update for 24 hours ;) Keep watching that ticker chow!

    @October 19, 2007 12:38 am
    John Chow Says:

    The ticker just updated and guess who’s in the lead. :D If you like, you can put up my link now.

    (Comments wont nest below this level)
     
     
     
     
    @October 17, 2007 5:31 pm

    Looks good. What category is the grand prize? Cash/Advertising/SEO?

     
    @October 17, 2007 5:33 pm
    Chris Says:

    Great list of prizes.

    For al those bitching about the list format;

    1) he implied it would be updated and
    2) you can get an html format here: http://oakonfire.com/playground/PrizeList.html - sucks but it’s more readable.

    @October 17, 2007 10:28 pm

    You might need to check it against the list above. I’m only offering $20 from each site, although I am planning on running another contest on my sites, too.

     
     
    @October 17, 2007 5:56 pm

    [...] Oct Shoemoney 13,000.00 RSS Contest - Shoemoney is having a contest with John Chow to see who is going to get the most new RSS [...]

     
    @October 17, 2007 5:58 pm

    cool contest should be fun!

     
    @October 17, 2007 6:32 pm
    The Dino Says:

    well I have to check what is offering John… I might win on both sides :)

     
    @October 17, 2007 6:33 pm
    big money Says:

    I don’t see the “Click Here To Enter Todays Contest!” link in the RSS feed. I am not quite sure how this works exactly. So you want us to sign up for the Google reader in order to view your RSS feed? Or are we getting emails every day and we click on those to enter the contest?

     
    @October 17, 2007 6:44 pm
    big money Says:

    thanks for putting up picture of where the link is, that was quick! Now I am having a little trouble signing up under the 4 different readers. I have entered through “the others feed” but how to I get it through the google one, gator and the other one?

     
    @October 17, 2007 6:51 pm
    big money Says:

    It appears that I have not received a link on a “google reader”, I believe think this might be the problem.

     
    @October 17, 2007 7:00 pm
    big money Says:

    I have entered 3 of the 4. Those are some kickass prizes! Is the bowling ball a shoemoney ball or custom logo on it?

    @October 17, 2007 7:14 pm
    ShoeMoney Says:

    I will find out ;)

     
     
    @October 17, 2007 7:03 pm

    Tight, I am going to try to win this one…

     
    @October 17, 2007 7:25 pm
    Kiltak Says:

    Show: I see John chow is starting to influence you…

    That huge “SUBSCRIBE TO OUR RSS FEED” popup is highly evil and annoying.

    Great job ;)

    Just one thing, please remove it after the end of the contest!

     
    @October 17, 2007 7:25 pm
    Kiltak Says:

    Shoe.. Not show :)

     
    @October 17, 2007 7:54 pm
    jim Says:

    when i clicked on it thru bloglines is said “Sorry, this contest is for subscribers only.”, is it because i’m using the beta version?

    @October 17, 2007 7:54 pm
    jim Says:

    Regular bloglines won’t work either…

    @October 18, 2007 4:30 am
    Adnan Says:

    And it’s not working on my Google Reader

     
     
     
    @October 17, 2007 8:26 pm

    wow, finally the shoe is out in this competition

     
    @October 17, 2007 8:53 pm

    Well… I knew you would come out with something big for this competition, and you did it. Lets just see what John Chow’s counter is going to be.

     
    @October 17, 2007 9:02 pm
    wethead Says:

    This contest is going to rule !

     
    @October 17, 2007 9:09 pm
    Farmer Says:

    It worked in newsgator and bloglines but there isn’t any link for the contest in google reader or in the email.

     
    @October 17, 2007 9:13 pm

    I feel mightly inclined to give it a go.

     
    @October 17, 2007 9:13 pm

    I’m excited for this contest! Maybe I can win something, seeing as how John Chow never lets me win!

     
    @October 17, 2007 9:31 pm
    Barry Says:

    Awesome contest Shoe - lets kick some Chow! - not seeing anything in todays email or newsgator yet just this post announcing the contest….

     
    @October 17, 2007 10:18 pm

    Hahaha, very evil. Lets see how it works

     
    @October 17, 2007 10:21 pm
    PPCRiches Says:

    What a great idea - I’ll be blogging about
    this awesome “Give away” to our readers
    and probably having my own contest for my
    blog soon =) haha great idea I love it.

    JJ

     
    @October 17, 2007 10:30 pm

    I am defintely in for this one, you got it ShoeMoney as always on top of your game!

     
    @October 17, 2007 10:43 pm

    Wow. You spent a lot of time on this. You better win!

     
    @October 17, 2007 10:53 pm
    King Jacob Says:

    1 in 12000 those aren’t terrible odds,:) so Ill enter.

     
    @October 17, 2007 11:28 pm
    Brian Mark Says:

    Wow… if you don’t win, he must have come up with something really amazing. Anyone who says you’re not a marketer just needs to look here to know they’re wrong. :)

     
    @October 17, 2007 11:42 pm
    Harry Says:

    This is a great idea. I have made my ENTERY for today :D

     
    @October 18, 2007 12:09 am
    strong941 Says:

    This is awesome stuff — i’m green and ready to learn. any thoughts for someone very new to all of this??? feedback welcome.

     
    @October 18, 2007 12:11 am
    strong941 Says:

    Yes indeed this is some awesome marketing!!

     
    @October 18, 2007 12:11 am
    bryanglanz Says:

     
    @October 18, 2007 12:14 am
    Wayne Liew Says:

    The prizes are certainly attractive! I have submitted my entry for today!

     
    @October 18, 2007 12:50 am
    lyricsreg Says:

    Dang … that’s a lotta prizes. Hope I win something :)

     
    @October 18, 2007 1:42 am
    David Says:

    Damn - I’m using Firefox Live Bookmarks and can’t see the extra entry links. :(

     
    @October 18, 2007 2:21 am
    marhgil Says:

    subscribed to your e-mail feed. i hope i win :)

     
    @October 18, 2007 3:05 am

    I’ve subscribed as well… I hope I win something! SEO Book, Free 1 Year hosting for my blog… anything would do I guess.

    Cheers,
    Carlo Selorio

     
    @October 18, 2007 3:54 am
    big Says:

    $250 - Free reviewme review on mubinahmed.com - From mubinahmed.com

    You must be kiding, it’s PR2, he should have paid you for posting his link here :D

    @October 18, 2007 7:51 am

    Clearly some folks overstated the value of their services. Still, it’s a great collection of prizes, and even if it’s only a PR2, I’d take the link / traffic from him. Every little bit helps.

    @November 7, 2007 2:50 pm
    Mubin Says:

    Its actually PR4. And I have given the price as stated from reviewme.

    There are other factors that come into consideration.

     
     
     
    @October 18, 2007 4:04 am
    Mubin Says:

    I subscribed but Im not getting any posts through the feed.

     
    @October 18, 2007 4:45 am
    maurizio Says:

    From my stats it seems today you are losing.

    As usual:
    Check my blog to see the competition’s stats on my right bar.

     
    @October 18, 2007 6:07 am
    Michael Says:

    Wow, that is some really nice prizes!

     
    @October 18, 2007 6:25 am

    What`s the big deal about the prize list format .. geez it`s not that hard to read!

     
    @October 18, 2007 8:54 am

    This reminds me of those contest we had in elem school where we bought paper rings to see which class could make the longest chain. The class that won got a pizza party. That was a great way to blow some nickels.

     
    @October 18, 2007 8:59 am

    That is an awesome way to boost your stats and stickiness, I usually just type in shoemoney.com every day but now it is worth it to actually open up my bloglines account.

     
    @October 18, 2007 9:26 am
    Zac Says:

    I hope I win the Spiderman Statue! haha

     
    @October 18, 2007 9:53 am
    Bizzo Says:

    When I try and subscribe again through boglines it says I am already subscribed. What am I doing wrong?

     

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    @October 18, 2007 10:06 am

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    @October 18, 2007 10:09 am

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    @October 18, 2007 4:14 pm

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    @October 18, 2007 6:09 pm

    is this the same content to the pubcon passes and hang out with shoe contest in vegas?

     

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    @October 18, 2007 7:04 pm
    Googlelady Says:

    Good luck for everyone!

     
    @October 18, 2007 7:45 pm
    Roberta Says:

    I just saw John Chow’s post and came over to subscribe to your feed via RSS and email….great contest!

     
    @October 18, 2007 8:07 pm
    ibt Says:

    I got my 4 entries for today…hope win something…any pubcon pass?

     
    @October 18, 2007 10:07 pm
    Songchai Says:

    Oh what a contest, this is very excitig

     

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    @October 19, 2007 9:10 am
    JLH Says:

    Both email and Google reader give me, “Sorry, this contest is for subscribers only.”

     
    @October 19, 2007 9:58 am

    I’m having the same problem, with email, google reader and bloglines

     

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    @October 19, 2007 6:14 pm
    Ash Haque Says:

    And you also just broke the 13,000 subscriber count, congrats!

     

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