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:
$1,895 – 1 full conference pass to SES Chicago – From Incisive Media
$1,500 – 1 drupal customized site. You pick the niche, and they will create a 15 page site loaded with some really cool drupal features – From Swimming Pool Knowledge
$1,485 – 5 copies of PPCRiches.com – From PPCRiches.com
$1,164 – 1 year subscription to plrpro.com – From PLRPro
$1,000 – 10 free pages on Million Dollar Wiki – From Million Dollar Wiki
$948 – 12 copies of the SEO Book – From Aaron Wall
$804 – 1 year subscription to www.plrproebooks.com – From PLRPro Ebooks
$650 – 1 full site SEO Analysis, includes: 1000 directory submissions, 4*200 article submissions, 20 one way links and social bookmarking – From Seonext.com
$550 – 1 Xbox 360/Guitar Hero Package – From Groovle
$500 – 5 pages on the Million Euro Wiki – From Million Euro Wiki
$500 – 1 SEO Site Audit (keywords, site architecture & inclusion, on-page factors, competition, link profile & other analysis tips) – From Winningtheweb.com
$500 – 5 “Sponsored Listings” from the Site Sift Web Directory – From Site Sift Web Directory
$450 – 1 entertainment package – From EntertaimentScripts.com
$449 – 1 free blog makeover – From Weborithm
$420 – 7 free words on WordHugger.com – From WordHugger
$400 – 3-5 free press releases and submission consulting – From blogonexpo.com
$350 – 1 license of Web Application Tool – From SoftLogica
$348 – 1 year free subscription of SoloSEO, SEO Project Management Software – SoloSEO
$300 – Promotional BIC PENS – From BIC Promotional Pens
$250 – Free reviewme review on mubinahmed.com – From mubinahmed.com
$209 – 1 WordPress coding spot – From PSDchopstick.com
$201 – 3 licenses of Backup Platinum – From SoftLogica
$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
$100 – Google Adwords account – From Darin Carter
$100 – 1 limited edition Spiderman statue – From www.ZacJohnson.com
$100 – Cash prize – From cpashare.com
$100 – Refund on any hotel booked through seeyourhotel.com – From Seeyourhotel.com
$100 – Gift card to newegg.com – From TeamTutorials.com
$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
$75 – A review on the blog adityaspeaks.com and a square banner to the winner on the sidebar for 2 months – From Codematics Technologies
$75 – 1 domain registration plus 6 months of free shared web hosting – From Web Hosts Report
$60 – 1 hour of Blog Consulting courtesy of blogLOUDER – From blogLOUDER
$60 – 125×125 banner on www.MillionBlogs.org for 3 months – From MillionBlogs.org
$50 – 2 free for life 125×125 ad spots on the site www.yourworldgallery.com – From Yourworldgallery.com
$50 – Amazon gift certificate – From Desktop Nexus
$50 – Clockworkz Party Shop gift certificate – From Clockworkz Party Shop
$50 – Cash prize – From Wootagent.com
$50 – Cash prize – From Contestu.com
$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)
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!
About the author...
Jeremy Schoemaker – who has written 2412 posts on ShoeMoney.com.
Hi I am Jeremy Schoemaker and ShoeMoney.com is my blog. 99% of the post here are done by me but you will see others occasionally make guest posts. This blog is fun to write but for my day job I run several online companies.
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Game, Set, Match.
HAHAHA
Talk about evil. Jesus. Your rss is about to skyrocket. Awesome job shoe! Can’t wait to compete!
Nice work getting 13K worth of prizes.
Nice, a free conference pass as well,
Watch out John Chow
Great prizes…
this seems a bit over complicated… i assume if we register this way we will count 4 as four feeds.
yes einstien (5 actually if you count email)
Does the bowling ball have anything inside of it? Such as a rose or a hand or anything of this nature?
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?
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.
HEY –
There is a bowling ball on the list
Thats actually awesome, looks like there are prizes for everyone
Moto says he’s going to teach you a lesson. Better hide your Pandas folks!
Maybe someone can do a better job of posting the prizes… so we all can read them better.
i should have created a new blog and blogged about it tonytsai style… interesting method to try and get subscribers 5x’s over.
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):”
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!
Shoe! Guess what? My birthday is November 1st..heh no I’m not looking for prizes, I just wanted to mention that
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.
Yet another great contest, Good luck to all that enter.
This is about as good as its going to get
haha you dunno how much your comment just made my day
ok, more prizes for us then, donkey.
I wish I could see the face of John Chow while he is reading this blog post
) haha
Looks good. What category is the grand prize? Cash/Advertising/SEO?
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.
cool contest should be fun!
well I have to check what is offering John… I might win on both sides
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?
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?
It appears that I have not received a link on a “google reader”, I believe think this might be the problem.
I have entered 3 of the 4. Those are some kickass prizes! Is the bowling ball a shoemoney ball or custom logo on it?
Tight, I am going to try to win this one…
I will find out
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!
Shoe.. Not show
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?
Regular bloglines won’t work either…
wow, finally the shoe is out in this competition
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.
This contest is going to rule !
It worked in newsgator and bloglines but there isn’t any link for the contest in google reader or in the email.
I feel mightly inclined to give it a go.
I’m excited for this contest! Maybe I can win something, seeing as how John Chow never lets me win!
Awesome contest Shoe – lets kick some Chow! – not seeing anything in todays email or newsgator yet just this post announcing the contest….
Yup, you are creating controversy, any publicity is good.
Great stuff Jeremy, you got some buzz marketing in your pocket. 
Hahaha, very evil. Lets see how it works
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
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.
I am defintely in for this one, you got it ShoeMoney as always on top of your game!
Wow. You spent a lot of time on this. You better win!
1 in 12000 those aren’t terrible odds,:) so Ill enter.
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.
This is a great idea. I have made my ENTERY for today
This is awesome stuff — i’m green and ready to learn. any thoughts for someone very new to all of this??? feedback welcome.
Yes indeed this is some awesome marketing!!
wow
The prizes are certainly attractive! I have submitted my entry for today!
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.
Dang … that’s a lotta prizes. Hope I win something
Damn – I’m using Firefox Live Bookmarks and can’t see the extra entry links.
subscribed to your e-mail feed. i hope i win
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
$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
I subscribed but Im not getting any posts through the feed.
And it’s not working on my Google Reader
From my stats it seems today you are losing.
As usual:
Check my blog to see the competition’s stats on my right bar.
Wow, that is some really nice prizes!
What`s the big deal about the prize list format .. geez it`s not that hard to read!
winning is winning, besides they dont update for 24 hours
Keep watching that ticker chow!
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.
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.
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.
I hope I win the Spiderman Statue! haha
When I try and subscribe again through boglines it says I am already subscribed. What am I doing wrong?
Why don’t you FOAD?
is this the same content to the pubcon passes and hang out with shoe contest in vegas?
Good luck for everyone!
I just saw John Chow’s post and came over to subscribe to your feed via RSS and email….great contest!
I got my 4 entries for today…hope win something…any pubcon pass?
Oh what a contest, this is very excitig
The ticker just updated and guess who’s in the lead.
If you like, you can put up my link now.
Both email and Google reader give me, “Sorry, this contest is for subscribers only.”
I’m having the same problem, with email, google reader and bloglines
And you also just broke the 13,000 subscriber count, congrats!
massive number you have there!
I signed up for the emails and I’ll add you to my google reader when I figure out how to do it, lol.
Great!! I just post about this contest.
http://myblogcontest.com/help-shoemoney-to-win-13000-in-cash-and-prizes/
Just dropping you a line to let you know that I have added your contest to several related categories in our directory.
http://www.mrprizes.com/individual/listingID_0487.htm
Please feel free to keep me up to date on future listings. Have a great day!
Look slike a winner!
Ok, I just added your RSS to my Google Reader. Hoping to win me and my family some Shoemoney swag….lol
Its actually PR4. And I have given the price as stated from reviewme.
There are other factors that come into consideration.
Its funny, you had more than 20k subscribers last month. Today the Feedburner chicklet shows 13,402. Where have those 7-8k subscribers gone?
Nice contest.Cool prizes.
These are really great prizes. Especially the SES Chicago
Ya Thanks Posting Shol
Wow, I wish I could have experienced this contest, lol
whewww…i just noticed it today
I adore both you and John Chow very much
WOW….13k in prizes….i think atleast i will get one prize….This is awesome stuff and great way or marketing
earn money on ptc sites .thnx
Ohhh what a loss , why didnt i see this offer earler .
If there are any more offers coming up let me know .