Win a Macbook AIR - Comment Contest
I love contests and had the idea for a comment contest for a while. Basically every at 11:55PM CST a automated job would randomly pick a commenter as the winner for that day. The daily winners will win a free ShoeMoney T-shirt and we will ship it anywhere in the world that we can legally. Winners will all be notified by email and also posted on the contest page. You must reply to the email within 48 hours. Most of the emails are getting flagged as spam or bulk email due to the contest wording so make sure you white list shoemoney.com if you plan to participate.
Then at the end of the month we would have a drawing for a grand prize which the system would automatically choose from all the daily winners.
I somewhat soft launched the comment contest system last week and as you can see some days have more then 1 winner.
A couple of companies noticed also and asked about sponsoring the grand prize. I tried to fend them off for now saying it was in beta and I was not sure what we were going to do for prizes.
Then Neil Patel made me a offer I could not refuse. He said he would give the winner a Macbook AIR for the months of July and August. So on September 1st we will draw from all the daily winners and the winner will receive a Macbook AIR courtesy of ACS Consulting.
Again open to anyone anywhere in the world as long as its legal for us to do so.
Hopefully if it works out we will continue the contest after september 1st 
Good luck!
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oh the sexy apple. drool drool
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Very inovative Jerremy! Good Luck on the Contest.
Btw, I see three Mac Books AIR in that picture, are you keeping one for yourself
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Good luck to everyone! (:
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Great! I love it. I would love to win a Shoemoney Tshirt or a Macbook Air or Both!
Thanks Shoemoney
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Very nice! You have small numbers for Shoemoney Tshirt ?
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Nice competition - you know I should blatently win the macbook air - because then I would sell it..lol jokes!
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Shoemoney is King of Contests too!
Thanks for the chance.
Rich Hill
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Great Contest and the grand prize is even sponsored by an amazing company! Thanks a lot Mr. Shoemaker, no doubt, I’m participating.
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Hey Shoe,
Go ahead and deliver the Macbook Air to me in Korea :).
Thanks in advance.
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Am already on a spree
Luckily won 3 t-shirts already 
Thanks.. Would try to be active whole of the contest.
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I think the Shoemoney tshirt is more valuable than the macbook air (but MBA is still freaking sweet)!
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Just when I read that I need a Mac with an Intel processor to use the SDK for the iPhone, you announce this. I guess I need to start spending more time on your site.
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Great contest to have! You always have great original ideas!
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Winning prizes(whatever it might be) is always fascinating
And am lucky in this case.
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Anywhere legal? Is that just Canada and the US? A lot of competitions are restricted to just those countries (I’m not sure why though…).
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A Mac Book Air…. men you take this thing seriously…i will watching the site…..
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Great contest, and greater picture….it looks like you standing over an Apple hamster cage after a long weekend. “Look dad..they had BABIES!!!’
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I think this is a pretty cool way to generate more traffic to your blog and reward users who interact with you. Great Idea!
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That’s what I call a “call to action.” Comments should go way up. Most other gurus would make you join their list. Nice change of pace doing it this way…less junk mail.
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No, i won already and Jeremy assured that they are going to be shipped internationally
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I hope anywhere except Iran, Iraq, N. Korea, and such is ok…
By the way: won’t this contest lead to excessive spam?
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Nice contest Jeremy. I am also joining in..
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Cool contest, saw this post via twitter, I’m going for the tshirt, but a MacBook Air would be nice too!
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That’s a really good point starting commenting. I would never comment if there wasn’t this contest. Sounds like an opportunity to me! Great!
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Awesome! I have horrible luck but maybe I can win one day!
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This is cool. Will be commenting more often.
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Great price, I’d love me some macbook air
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I would like to win your Tshirt. My birthday soon, so your Tshirt could be a great surprize for me!
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Do you have a bigger chance of winning if you make more comments?
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Wow cool - I want one too. I wonder if there’s a shipping charge
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wooow m i a lucky one
tell me i m
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I would love to win both!
I would hoist the shirt as a flag in the Himalaya on our roadtrip from Germany to Australia!
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Hmm… would love to have that toy… for free
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I hope that I have chance to win
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wow chetan, you must be damn lucky. 3 wins in 4 days. Btw, why are there 3 winners on the 10th?
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Great contest! T-shirt would be awsome! So would a mac book air to go along with the new iPhone 3g! Thanks for the contest Shoe.
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Very nice. I wonder how many comments a person would need to leave to gain a statistical advantage…
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Awesome
I’d love a mac book air.
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I´d love a macbook air and would also hoist your shirt as a flag in the himalaya on my roadtrip
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I am dying for a Mac Air…Don’t have enough money though
I hope i win it here. 
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shoe hows life - hope everything is great with your new born and too bad we could not chill more while at TAC - but it was great while I was there
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LOL, I’d actually be happy with a ShoeMoney shirt as I already have one but its 2 sizes too large!
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Sounds like a really good idea. Jeremy always comes up with something more original
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OK, let’s try.
)
(i have already the Black T-Shirt… but i’d like to receive the white one! (and the Mac Book Air, of course
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Hope i Win…I am Dying for the Mac Air…don’t have enough money though
here is a great chance. 
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Sweet. Count me in.
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Count me in.
Im Dying for a Mac Air, though dont have enough money. Hope i Win.:)
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Very cool, I always wanted a AIR, but can’t justify buying one…winning one however that is a different story.
And great idea on the contest every day. That is one awesome way to get people talking on your site
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Awesome contest Jeremy! I’m sure you will see a lot more people commenting daily on the site!
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Awesome idea. The fact that it is entirely automated definitely helps you maintain it over the long run…
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Very cool Shoe. I doubt this’ll add much spam, seeing as how the top commentators typically do that plenty enough.
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Awesome contest Jeremy!
I always wanted a macbook air
love you
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Awesome! Good to see that you always find someone willing to put up the cool stuff….MAC Book Air…I would LOVE to have one…but a t-shirt would be a good start, too
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So does the amount of comments you leave UP the chances of winning?
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Your brain must never stop trying to come up with new ideas. This idea will obviously get a lot of people interested. Thanks for offering a contest where a lot of people can at least win something, like a cool t-shirt! I love free t-shirts.
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Wow Shoemoney, talk about a way to increase comment activity on your site. You will now have people coming back day after day and making a daily comment just so they can win a shirt and/or a bigger prize. Is there any criteria about the quality of the post? Also, can a person win more than once and thus have multiple entries into the bigger drawing?
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m i the luck one……….nice idea:)
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Yep this idea is really unique and the script is also his own, selecting one winner daily automatically. And Susan Baron, from Shoemoney Media Group is good at replying to winner’s emails
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Hi Jeremy,
I had been watching ur blog since a month now and am really impressed with the design and ur presentation.
By the by congrats for ur baby .
Only thing that bothers me is since I am from india I cannot take part in any offers or competitions which u sponser.
well better luck me next time.
regards
xtacash.com
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I noticed you mention this on Twitter so obviously we’re getting cross-fertilisation going on…
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Looking great, t shirt and air mack would be nice prize!
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Believe it or not, this is my first time entering some type of contest online. Hope to win.
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Awesome contest idea, I love it!
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Just one question, i saw my name on daily prize winners for 09.july.2008 but i never got any email, i just checked my inbox (nothing in spam two). Is this going today (emails) or i miss chance to get tshirt because “48 hours gone”? Thx!
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Wow again. so tempting. wish wish wish. Hope i will be lucky this time.
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That’s awesome man, great to see Neil/ACS is sponsoring the comment contest. That Cheta fellow isn’t going to need to do laundry ever again at this rate.
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Now that is a great prize and so easy to enter.
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hahaha you would know, having won three shirts so far!
in all seriouness, she’s very responsive and courteous
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It’s a great contest idea with a grat price!
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This is some great news for all of us
I like the idea of a contest!
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Oh, I remember reading a news article recently about how a specific state’s department was suing a contest (offline) because “games of chance” (where winning depends on chance and no amount of skill) are considered gambling and subject to restrictions in certain areas. That’s why so many contests say “Void where prohibited” as a blanket disclaimer. You might want to put that somewhere.
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Awesome Idea and great easy contest, I love it! And I hope that I can win something!
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Chetan, You’ll be able to open a Shoemoney T-shirt store soon
JK!
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Yep! Anyways congrats to you too to win a t-shirt in the contest
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I love mac air!!!
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I think you missed it, as i checked that and also shoemoney pinged me on twitter and asked to check the bulk folder, and i found it in the spam box.
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I have a question and sorry if it out of the topic. Why I don’t have my picture in the comment avatar space even I have mybloglog profile open and cookies enabled?
And how the system will pick me if my comments are anynomious, Nobody can know that Zak Show is commenting as I don’t have something referring to it in my comment space.
Im not asking for something but Im confused about this from long time ago and I think it’s the right time to make it clear for me
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great contest shoe… also great to see other sponsors getting involved. hope i win something…
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Great contest idea and a great prize being offered! This should have some great positive implications for your site - encouraging people to visit the site, instead of just reading the RSS feed, encouraging more active commenting, and making the blog a more interactive environment. The downside as I see it, is that the “signal to noise” ratio is going to get thrown out of whack. You already get a lot of lame comments from people looking to score a “top commentators” spot, and now that will be heightened. Hopefully I’m wrong on this and people try to genuinely add to the conversation, but I’m doubtful.
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Sweet contest. Some of the legalities come in how each state, country, whatever interprets a lottery.
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yep, it will be shipped worlwide as J told me in the other post. and it’s also mentioned in the post.
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And people wonder why you are such a popular blogger.
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I never win anything like this, but how cool would it be to win a Macbook AIR to break the streak? Thanks Jeremy and thanks ACS Consulting!
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It’s not a crime or spam to comment in a blog to take the top commentators spot! Am I wrong?
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Really?? Come on man. When you comment, your name is listed. Don’t you see where it says “Zak Show Says” - that’s identifying you as the commenter. As for the avatar - you have to use gravatar.com
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Jeremy is a great blogger because he really know how to make money online and that’s why people love to read his blog to find new tips, tricks and news that can help them out with their online business
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So you finally decided to go with the Macbook AIR! Pretty good choice Shoe! Great idea for a contest!
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I didn’t say it’s a crime. It just doesn’t add value to the conversation when people post stupid one line comments like, “great post shoe.” Really, what’s the point in posting that? On a post like this, I suppose it’s fine, because Jeremy is offering up a contest idea. For people to say they like the idea makes sense. Most of the time, however, it’s really annoying.
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Haha. Yeah. It is so very tempting Charles!
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Shoe thats a fantastic idea for a contest and a cool prize as well.
One problem though I would like you to know, when one click on Comment on this post to win a shirt in your rss feed, person gets taken to the homepage of your blog. I am not sure if it intentional but it is somewhat cumbersome to then find the post to comment on.
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WOW! This sounds really good. I am not a lucky man all in my life but who knows maybe today my luck will be change its way dramatically:)
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That is a great idea. I wonder if you will share the system you are using to draw the daily winner, it would be cool to add to my wp!
Francesco
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Indeed. You need to register at Gravatar.com and upload a picture / avatar that would be shown here and on a lot of other blogs too that use the gravatar plugin.
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I don’t see that and I don’t see even others commentators name. All what I can see is the date, the time and the comment. For every comment expect these commentators that use gravatar. Anyway thanks man for the gravatar info, I’ll test to see how it will work.
Have a nice day.
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Well, I guess we all have a reason to comment now, don’t we? Awesome idea and great fun of course.
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Well, I think Im in the top commentators list and you can check all my comments, you’ll find that Im trying to add a value and post something useful. I try to the max to avoid these 5 words comments. Anyway I got your point
Thanks for making things clear.
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Great competition!
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That macbook air would rock Hope I win! Congrats on the new baby!
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I would love to win a prize.
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Sounds like a good time to start commenting.. Something I’ve never done on any blog.
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Woo maybe I’ll win!
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Awesome idea! Even i would only win the t shirt it’s worth it to participate!
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Hmm, wonder how many comments you are going to receive until the end of August for people wanting just to win the Macbook Air and not necessarily commenting because they have an opinion.
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Are you going to be coming back to the TAC set before the show ends?
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Free is always a good price
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Hi SM$!
What a great way to incentivize genuine comments for articles!
Damien
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A very cool contest. I want in.
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We’ve been doing contests on our site lately and have fun running them. Good luck with this idea.
Darcy
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Shoemoney for President!
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Aww, i missed the soft launch. oh well, still a good idea!
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Sounds awesome, I’ve been considering getting a macbook air.
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I can always use a new t-shirt and a laptop would be heaven!
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Wow! Very nice prizes and a neat idea.
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Great competition… However, now there are more useless comments.
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This contest is truly a breath of fresh *air*. =)
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That’s a great prize for one lucky punter!
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Still, its not the only reason for which i comment here.. I used to comment here before the contest too as i just love interacting with other Shoemoney readers here..
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I would definitely wear a shoemoney shirt if i won it
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Awesome contest Shoe!
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This is cool, but are you making sure to fend off the commenters that post more than once? Will the system be filtering out duplicate commenters?
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Winning the MacBook Air would be a great excuse for finally getting rid of the last Windows machine in the house…
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This is just effin publicity stunt…. but i like it
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he is the most popular in money-making field…at least, I don’t know any other that outranks shoe
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Great news
Count me in …
This is gonna be a long long chain of “woow, count me in” comments
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you’re a lucky guy…be sure to take a picture wearing one of them and share it with us somehow when you will get it.
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Won’t this drastically decrease the quality of comments? Or do you think that everyone already comments just to get their URL linked to?
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as I understand it, 5 minutes before the midnight the system (a script) picks a winner from all comments from the posts made in that day. Correct me if I’m wrong
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@Shreedhar, I believe you can participate in the contest. Shoe said that he will ship the prizes everywhere in the world where it’s possible to do so. This isn’t a contest only for a part of the globe or only for some countries.
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Apple > than my POS Dell… here’s to hoping!
I love this idea btw great for the readers to become more involved!
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Wow!! Great ShoeContest. Great way to honor your readers.
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Spandex are a privilege.
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Great Contest. The best way to honor your readers.
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Awesome competition - definitely will get people to join the conversation.
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Great Contest Plugin. Will you publish this plug in for wordpress community?
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