The RSS contest between me and John Chow is now over.
So who won? IMHO we both win. It was great publicity for both of us and we both gained thousands of RSS subscribers. Officially I won the contest, but I think the REAL winner will be revealed over the course of the next few months when all the people who only subscribing for the contest entries.
Also MANY readers who did not know what RSS was or how to use it
Congrats to all the winners and thanks to all the people who helped us win! (you can learn to bring people back to life… but not from a jedi….)
The Grand Prize will be announced tomorrow and its 1 winner take all! (drawn from all month entries!)
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Either way you look at it, it was a BRILLIANT marketing idea you guys had!
the contest was great on many levels Shoe. Great Job.
Congrats jeremy for officially winning it, although both are good workers in their fields.
Being a big John Chow fan I still cant believe you won. The fact that you won is the reason I am here reading your site today!
Must confess I couldn’t get the hang of RSS. But I had flu – so I was braindead.
Great reply, that is why you are the Shoemoney, I saw an old shoe in the road today and my first thought was, man if it had money in it, it would be Shoemoney.
No grand prize winner announcement yet? You’re killin’ me!
seems like the subscribers still increase crazily.
Release the winners already!
Sending out brain waves for me to win. sending brain waves…
Congrats, mate! I knew you could do it. And thanks a lot for the prize.
after bumping to 18K, now it’s 21K.. wow , that’s awesome. Shoe, maybe in no time you’ll catch up with Darren.
congrats on the win
so thats your response? I see. thx for the help.
Congrats, I was saying the same thing.. both wins. Actually he won more than you because he learnt more on how to market his RSS. I’m pretty sure you used more sites to skyroket your RSS stats.
Check my blog to see a nice chart with the stats. (anyone feel free to copy it; referrals are welcome
)
Thats what she said.
Maybe, just maybe shoe had a site where there were alot of visitors but none were making him any money, so SHoe redirected them to his feed….
nah, that didnt happen.
Great job Jeremy. You have a gift for promotion that is unrivaled on the Internet in my opinion.
thats a massive 1 day increase man! well done, i just checked john chow and even he’s bowing to the awesome shoemoney
Congrats on your win shoemoney and congrats to the eventual winner!
Jumped to 21K. Now that is impressive!
I was on the other end of that Im so busy card.
Shoe, that was awesome of you to set up our village with new computers. Thank you. We told everyone and they all wanted email accounts and the free money you’re giving away. You’re such a nice man!
and it’s keep growing, since now john chow readers also be curious about how The Shoe did this. now they subscribed with hope The Shoe will expose his tricks. what? you said i’m wrong? well at least, i will subscribe now, i hope Shoe will expose his tricks :p
And the count just keep growin!
LMFAO MAN WTF? 21K now? this nigga just dont stop
I had my doubts towards the end
New contest : who loses more subscribers in one month
Forgot to ask, whats your current value per subscriber?!
I am curious.
SICK Prizes.
Question: HOW the heck did you get so many subscribers so quickly?!?!?! I was amazed at the huge increase.
~Jonathan
Nice job shoe! Proving once again that you are in a league of your own.
Trust me…she shaves….
Congrats dude, i like the redesign… how long will this last?
Nice work beating him. I can’t really get into his blog, he makes it sound so easy.
Next, you should have a contest for Youtube subscribers with Aaron Wall.
Dude, that Grand Prize is so awesome. I hope i get picked. I’ve put my name in the hat the whole time, maybe this last one is it. Fingers crossed.
Nice Halloween look. You are correct you both win. That is a great way to get readers to subscribe.
Well played my brother! That was awesome.. especially since he was talkin smack and you were playin the ole “I’m so busy” card.. very nice
*golf clap*
“hey now there is a difference between bald and shaved. Ask your girlfriend ” …Nice Shoe! …Still laughing!
Jeremy, did you plan this all along, the outcome, in this matter, or did you only pulled out the bag of tricks when John Chow was in the lead?
***More traffic
***More loyal fans
***tons better prizes
and he had his poker shades(fake chicklet ) on the whole month.
plus
john chow was talking like he won a week ago
i would have paid to see
the look on johns face when he realized what happen!! lol
shoe you da man
AWESOME!
Shoe gave a nice Holloween gift to JC.
i am so shock. i think jeremy planned this all along
d*mn.. and you purposely made the johnchow kicking your ass post to further mislead us! i think you successfully achieve lots of stuff… surprise us all unexpectedly… shock john… create a buzzzzz whether you are cheater. You must be excitedly waiting for this day to expose the true subscribers count. Hey… stop grinning !!
Thanks for kicking the butt of the uncool internet spammer known as john chow.
Someday people will understand that guys like him are just polluting the internet without adding anything relevant.
I am hoping I win the grand prize. been waiting everyday to see if I will win something lol. By the way, congrats, I was telling everybody that you were gonna pull something big at the very end
hey now there is a difference between bald and shaved. Ask your girlfriend
you dont have enough money
nah time will tell. Incentivized traffic is always poorer quality. Time will tell
I emailed him with the idea.
Based on this performance, you could claim the Evil title too. Depending on whether the 4K jump was an evil tactic or sheer magic.
Hey Jeremy, when will you release the feedburner boaster script? How much will it cost? Congrats!
Yep, getting a customer (or subscriber in this case) is one thing. Keeping them is always the challenge.
Wow I did not see this coming, over the past month Chow has been bragging how he would win. Nice turnaround Shoe, can’t wait to see who takes the gold.
shoemoney cheated, ugly bald headed liar.
Ok, now that you have added almost 7k new users (Congrats!), does your method of calculating total income still matter?
Number of rss subscribers x 2 = total income
very nice Jeremy
Great contest! Glad ya came out on top..
No way you could have pulled that without cheating…and thats why I am so happy…you have evil’ed’ the evil John Chow…you got to celebrate this in a big way !!
however…I agree bith of you worked out such a contest that none is a looser ! BTW…whose brainchild was this contest?
Shoemoney must have hacked feedburner its the only way
Pretty impressive, very curious if thats the actual number and not a redirect inflated number.
well earned! This should keep john quiet, as he’s buzzing and writing about haw great and superior he was started to piss me off.
It’s like you turned on the N02 into the engine and left him way back in a nice cloud of smoke to choke on.
I have to admit it was quite the interesting finish. I didn’t think you could pull it out, especially with things so quiet over here and John buzzing the entire time. But hey, that’s why you’re one of the best! Congrats to both!
the real winners will be the ones who now subscribe to two great blogs. I really only read this one though.
yeah jeeze! that was pretty awesome, I didn’t see your counter on the Halloween skin of your site, so I thought you had something secret going on in the background so Chow couldn’t see it coming. I thought it would have been crap if Chow won with him being ahead and bragging all through the last part of the month.
Also, you wouldn’t mind sharing how you obtained so much exposure and converts in one month? I could use some of this knowledge of the Shoemoney.
Quick! Everyone unsubscribe so John Chow can win
j/k
the redirects where clever.. did they work?
Congratulations to you and John Chow! Now I know how to bait my readers to use RSS too
thanks!
Holy crap that would be crafty!
Congratulations Shoe. That was a fascinating last 24 hours on your behalf. The 4K jump/reveal was a rabbit out of a hat moment.
Shoe, congratulations on the win.
yea … where were you when I made the “john chow is kicking my ass” post
Weldone on the victory. I always knew you would prevail
congratulations on your win!
Of course john will say shoemoney cheated. What else can he say? If he knew shoemoney cheated it makes him look worse because it just proves shoemoney knew how to cheat and when to do it.
John Chow claims to be evil! bah!
WINNER!
john chow got knocked the f@&k out
I knew it was bound to happen.
He was too bust losing weight.
How did you do it? Jump this much in one day?
My guess is, you were showing fake RSS numbers throughout this month. Making it look like it’s a close race with John Chow. I believe there is a way to show fake rss numbers by messing with chicklet codes?
Then BAM, last day, you remove fake RSS codes to reveal the real one!
I can’t wait to see follow up post… how you did it.
Congratulations! I don’t like the prepotent John Chow and it’s good that you have won. Anyway, there is a rumor about you cheated to win the contest…
Well lets see, who the lucky winner is!
Agreed, will be nice to see how fast it drops…
Congrats. Going to be a good story hearing about how it happened…
hmm 12,000 different entries and you couldnt figure it out =(
Well done, if there isn’t a update on this soon you will have a lot of frustrated readers
…
So how’d you do it? My guess is you pasted a picture of your RSS chicklet, added a link, and then updated the picture every so often to show a slight growth in your RSS subscriptions. No way you could have jumped 5k overnight. Very crafty sir.. good job!
Still, you shocked everyone by pulling that out of the hat right at the end ? Theres gotta be a follow up post soon please ?
that sucks cuz i subscribed to both rss and email and was never able to enter not even once. thats not fair man. it blows actually. i wish i was able to be entered somehow.