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Game, Set, Match. Rss Contest Over – HUGE PRIZES LEFT

Posted October 31st, 2007 by Jeremy Schoemaker

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!)

$1,164 1 year subscription to PLRPro.com
$550 XBOX Guitar Hero Package (or cash depending on availability)
$1,895 SES Chicago Pass
$1,500 Drupal site
$804 1 year subscription to PLRProebooks.com

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101 comments. What say you?

  1. Good Comment?
    Reverse Funnel System Blog

    Cool prices :D

  2. Good Comment?
    Wakish

    You guys rock!

    - Wakish -

  3. Good Comment?
    Tony Smith

    Either way you look at it, it was a BRILLIANT marketing idea you guys had!

  4. Good Comment?
    Joeychgo

    the contest was great on many levels Shoe. Great Job.

  5. Good Comment?
    chetan

    Congrats jeremy for officially winning it, although both are good workers in their fields.

  6. Good Comment?
    motorsportBABESau

    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!

  7. Good Comment?
    Catherine L

    Must confess I couldn’t get the hang of RSS. But I had flu – so I was braindead.

  8. Good Comment?
    Tracy Robinson

    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.

  9. Good Comment?
    JoeTech.com

    No grand prize winner announcement yet? You’re killin’ me!

  10. Good Comment?
    Neon

    seems like the subscribers still increase crazily.

  11. Good Comment?
    jim

    Release the winners already! :)

  12. Good Comment?
    Gecko Tales

    Sending out brain waves for me to win. sending brain waves…

  13. Good Comment?
    Chris

    Congrats, mate! I knew you could do it. And thanks a lot for the prize.

  14. Good Comment?
    charles

    after bumping to 18K, now it’s 21K.. wow , that’s awesome. Shoe, maybe in no time you’ll catch up with Darren. :)

  15. Good Comment?
    Ventrilo

    congrats on the win

  16. Good Comment?
    Israel

    so thats your response? I see. thx for the help.

  17. Good Comment?
    maurizio

    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. :D

    Check my blog to see a nice chart with the stats. (anyone feel free to copy it; referrals are welcome :D )

  18. Good Comment?
    Mubin

    Thats what she said.

  19. Good Comment?
    Mubin

    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.

  20. Good Comment?
    Thor Schrock

    Great job Jeremy. You have a gift for promotion that is unrivaled on the Internet in my opinion.

  21. Good Comment?
    $1000 Dollar Project

    thats a massive 1 day increase man! well done, i just checked john chow and even he’s bowing to the awesome shoemoney

  22. Good Comment?
    Thousand Dollar Project

    Congrats on your win shoemoney and congrats to the eventual winner!

  23. Good Comment?
    Domtan

    Jumped to 21K. Now that is impressive!

  24. Good Comment?
    Mubin

    I was on the other end of that Im so busy card.

  25. Good Comment?
    nobody special.

    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!

  26. Good Comment?
    Jack

    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

  27. Good Comment?
    Neil Duckett

    And the count just keep growin!

  28. Good Comment?
    ismar

    LMFAO MAN WTF? 21K now? this nigga just dont stop

  29. Good Comment?
    lyricsreg

    I had my doubts towards the end :)

  30. Good Comment?
    lyricsreg

    New contest : who loses more subscribers in one month :)

  31. Good Comment?
    Jonathan Volk

    Forgot to ask, whats your current value per subscriber?! :D I am curious.

  32. Good Comment?
    Jonathan Volk

    SICK Prizes. :D

    Question: HOW the heck did you get so many subscribers so quickly?!?!?! I was amazed at the huge increase.

    ~Jonathan

  33. Good Comment?
    tom

    Nice job shoe! Proving once again that you are in a league of your own.

  34. Good Comment?
    hisgirlfriend

    Trust me…she shaves….

  35. Good Comment?
    jim

    Congrats dude, i like the redesign… how long will this last? :)

  36. Good Comment?
    č³ƒč²øć€€å¤§é˜Ŗ

    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.

  37. Good Comment?
    Max

    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.

  38. Good Comment?
    Ginene

    Nice Halloween look. You are correct you both win. That is a great way to get readers to subscribe.

  39. Good Comment?
    Rick

    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*

  40. Good Comment?
    John M Weaver

    “hey now there is a difference between bald and shaved. Ask your girlfriend ” …Nice Shoe! …Still laughing!

  41. Good Comment?
    Domtan

    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?

  42. Good Comment?
    Proverbs 10 21

    ***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

  43. Good Comment?
    Mubin

    AWESOME!

  44. Good Comment?
    TenBloggers.com

    Shoe gave a nice Holloween gift to JC.

  45. Good Comment?
    Neon

    i am so shock. i think jeremy planned this all along :D
    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 !!

  46. Good Comment?
    Julian

    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.

  47. Good Comment?
    Worknplay

    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 ;-)

  48. Good Comment?
    ShoeMoney

    hey now there is a difference between bald and shaved. Ask your girlfriend ;)

  49. Good Comment?
    ShoeMoney

    you dont have enough money ;)

  50. Good Comment?
    ShoeMoney

    nah time will tell. Incentivized traffic is always poorer quality. Time will tell

  51. Good Comment?
    ShoeMoney

    I emailed him with the idea. ;)

  52. Good Comment?
    Domtan

    Based on this performance, you could claim the Evil title too. Depending on whether the 4K jump was an evil tactic or sheer magic.

  53. Good Comment?
    Black Ha tDomainer

    Hey Jeremy, when will you release the feedburner boaster script? How much will it cost? Congrats!

  54. Good Comment?
    SonicReducer

    Yep, getting a customer (or subscriber in this case) is one thing. Keeping them is always the challenge.

  55. Good Comment?
    David Savage

    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.

  56. Good Comment?
    shoefake

    shoemoney cheated, ugly bald headed liar.

  57. Good Comment?
    Roger

    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

  58. Good Comment?
    Nomar

    very nice Jeremy :)

  59. Good Comment?
    Roberta

    Great contest! Glad ya came out on top.. ;)

  60. Good Comment?
    Business Blog

    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?

  61. Good Comment?
    james

    Shoemoney must have hacked feedburner its the only way

  62. Good Comment?
    King Jacob

    Pretty impressive, very curious if thats the actual number and not a redirect inflated number.

  63. Good Comment?
    krillz

    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.

  64. Good Comment?
    Joe

    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!

  65. Good Comment?
    serge

    the real winners will be the ones who now subscribe to two great blogs. I really only read this one though.

  66. Good Comment?
    big money

    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.

  67. Good Comment?
    Gary R. Hess

    Quick! Everyone unsubscribe so John Chow can win ;) j/k

  68. Good Comment?
    hoodmonkey

    the redirects where clever.. did they work? ;)

  69. Good Comment?
    MyGoodFinds

    Congratulations to you and John Chow! Now I know how to bait my readers to use RSS too :) thanks!

  70. Good Comment?
    Blog Contests

    Holy crap that would be crafty!

  71. Good Comment?
    Domtan

    Congratulations Shoe. That was a fascinating last 24 hours on your behalf. The 4K jump/reveal was a rabbit out of a hat moment.

  72. Good Comment?
    WP Themes Gallery

    Shoe, congratulations on the win.

  73. Good Comment?
    ShoeMoney

    yea … where were you when I made the “john chow is kicking my ass” post ;)

  74. Good Comment?
    Higher Money

    Weldone on the victory. I always knew you would prevail :)

  75. Good Comment?
    Qtpies7

    congratulations on your win!

  76. Good Comment?
    Roy

    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!

  77. Good Comment?
    Mubin

    WINNER!

  78. Good Comment?
    larry franks

    john chow got knocked the f@&k out

  79. Good Comment?
    Mubin

    I knew it was bound to happen.

  80. Good Comment?
    Mubin

    He was too bust losing weight.

  81. Good Comment?
    George Kim

    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. :)

  82. Good Comment?
    Omar Yesid MariƱo

    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…

  83. Good Comment?
    Instant Community

    Well lets see, who the lucky winner is! :)

  84. Good Comment?
    LeGo

    Agreed, will be nice to see how fast it drops…

  85. Good Comment?
    Hustle Strategy

    Congrats. Going to be a good story hearing about how it happened…

  86. Good Comment?
    ShoeMoney

    hmm 12,000 different entries and you couldnt figure it out =(

  87. Good Comment?
    605videos

    Well done, if there isn’t a update on this soon you will have a lot of frustrated readers ;-)

  88. Good Comment?
    Jorge @ InvestingAdventures

    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!

  89. Good Comment?
    605videos

    Still, you shocked everyone by pulling that out of the hat right at the end ? Theres gotta be a follow up post soon please ?

  90. Good Comment?
    Israel

    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.

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