Twitter Viral Contest

Posted on: January 15th, 2009 by Jeremy Schoemaker

THIS CONTEST HAS ENDED!

Last Saturday I launched a new contest to giveaway 2 flip mino’s and (possible) a MacBook AIR.  To enter all you had to do is

  1. follow me on twitter.
  2. Tweet : “Just entered to win a flip minoHD. Just follow @shoemoney and retweet. http://xr.com/fliphd”.

If I got over 20k followers before February I would throw in a Macbook AIR.

Here is a screenshot from twittercounter showing when we started the contest.

@shoemoney was one of the most retweeted items on twitter for days!

Picked up about 2k followers the first 2 days then it tailed off.  This is probably partially because I went to las vegas for 4 days.

I also created a page with all the entries and odds to win.  (this page is getting a lot of traffic)

We will direct message the winners starting on Feb 1st (hence why you need to follow) and give you 24 hours to respond until we get 2 winners. Good luck!

Since then I have had many companies inquire how they can get in on this cutting edge twitter contest.

If you or your company would like to donate a prize please use our contact form for with your proposal.

Post written by Jeremy Schoemaker

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.

More about Jeremy at http://www.shoemoney.com!

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84 Comments. What Say You?

  1. Greg Melton
    March 2, 2010 at 10:21 am

    Nice numbers on the contest! I l know I’m a little late on commenting on this post. But it definitely helps to have a nice base to push your initial promotion through the roof.

    I wanted to share a contest platform I recently launched called, http://skril.com.

    It allows you to create contests which use OAuth from twitter, facebook, yahoo, google friend connect, linkedin, myspace, digg, friendfeed, and youtube.

    You define the prize and bonus prize (for people who help promote your contest via status update or comment on your youtube video) and we handle all the entry collection, status updates, email confirmations, and provide a simple widget for collecting entries from your site.

    Would love to hear feedback. Good luck with future contests!

    Thanks,
    Greg

  2. careeroverflow
    February 13, 2010 at 2:08 pm

    Enter to win an iPod Touch from CareerOverflow:

    http://careeroverflow.com/contest

  3. stencils
    November 4, 2009 at 1:53 am

    well good luck to reach 20k twitter follower

  4. MoneyMan
    February 5, 2009 at 1:01 am

    Hey shoe you made the http://www.twiterfart.com top of the fart list along with chow for spamming twitter…nice job!

  5. Zeno
    February 4, 2009 at 11:59 am

    this contest is on http://www.TwitFart.com now, they say, shoemoney fart on twitter :D

  6. Busby Tester
    January 30, 2009 at 2:46 am

    I shall consider to join the contest.

  7. Call Center Gal
    January 21, 2009 at 8:18 pm

    You got me as a follower now. You can check it out..and I just twitted about your contest..so I guess I’m in. :)

    Have a great day!

  8. Necoda
    January 21, 2009 at 6:17 am

    I could really use a MacBook Air.
    Followed you and tweeted.

  9. Roberta
    January 21, 2009 at 2:15 am

    Thanks for having a cool contest, following both you and John Chow now. I don’t usually win stuff like this, but it’s nifty just the same.

  10. mecozz
    January 20, 2009 at 5:37 pm

    congrats, good luck get 20k and i retwitter at

    http://twitter.com/gadiez

  11. @contests
    January 19, 2009 at 9:22 pm

    Looks like you’ve started quite the phenomenon! Starting to see new contests every day.

    If anyone out there is starting a contest and wants a free plug, just let me know at:

    http://www.twitter.com/contests

  12. CA Results
    January 19, 2009 at 4:10 am

    I am still not into twitter. How much traffic can I attain if I have a few followers ?

  13. omorinski
    January 18, 2009 at 11:03 am

    Thanks for the extra push to use Twitter. i still can’t seem to get a handle on how to use the site fluently. It seems to promise both more and less at the same time….

  14. Money Academy
    January 17, 2009 at 5:41 pm

    you got 13 k till now , i’m sure you will get more than 20 k before feb

  15. IronBlogger
    January 17, 2009 at 4:03 pm

    I’m sure you will get to 20k no problem.

  16. Monty - Webhostingoffers.org
    January 17, 2009 at 4:03 pm

    I’m in too ! :D

  17. jlchannel
    January 17, 2009 at 9:19 am

    Joined ….

  18. The Poker Jerk
    January 17, 2009 at 1:55 am

    Hurry up fools, join the contest so I can win my laptop!

  19. Ben Pei
    January 17, 2009 at 12:58 am

    I am in!

  20. Static
    January 16, 2009 at 5:06 pm

    2K in a couple days is just unbelievable… I wonder if I’ll reach that feat by the end of this year, because my 2009 resolution was 1000. :/

  21. Monty - Webhostingoffers.org
    January 16, 2009 at 4:48 pm

    These contests only work for the biggies.. If someone with absolute no followers on twitters has the same contest.. trust me.. he won’t even reach 200! But lets see what happens.. :D Will ShoeMoney hit the 20k mark? or will he hit the 25k mark? :D Good luck shoe.. :D

  22. Mieke Janssens
    January 16, 2009 at 4:27 pm

    I’m dying to know how you track entries…
    ;-)

    Greetz!
    Mieke

  23. David Llorens
    January 16, 2009 at 3:22 pm

    Stone cold ripped this off to promote solar: http://tinyurl.com/a9d86q, it’s not going viral for me via any means despite a pretty solid launch), so you have basically a 1 in 20 shot at this iPod at this point :-( . Working on creating same style PHP page for scoreboard.

  24. Templates Blogger
    January 16, 2009 at 1:19 pm

    Following

  25. Doug
    January 16, 2009 at 12:12 pm

    What the heck happened on Oct 21st?!
    :)

  26. Nick Stamoulis
    January 16, 2009 at 9:31 am

    people love free giveaways. This is a great way to get people’s ears to perk

  27. Asher
    January 16, 2009 at 8:48 am

    Hia,

    I’ve entered the contest… how on earth will you be judging to give out the prize to the winner though? Is everything tracked?

    Asher

  28. Make Money Online Tips
    January 16, 2009 at 8:22 am

    Entered the contest, not expecting to win though.

  29. WOMWON
    January 16, 2009 at 6:47 am

    Good luck reaching your target. We entered the contest and tweeted!

  30. Atniz
    January 16, 2009 at 2:45 am

    Wow.. you doubled your followers within 3 months..

  31. Jean D.
    January 16, 2009 at 2:44 am

    Your Message Say hey! Count me in. Orange you glad you said Apple?

  32. Free Itouch Give Away Contest
    January 15, 2009 at 11:59 pm

    Pretty Darn Cool =) , I am doing a twitter contest as well but mines pretty small compared to yours just an Apple Touch Give away

  33. Sky Xavier
    January 15, 2009 at 10:51 pm

    ohh man. thats a huge number. by the way i am also part of the contest and looking for the results. :)

  34. AJ Kumar
    January 15, 2009 at 10:45 pm

    Your blowing up man. Twitter is getting major publicity thanks to you.

  35. Earn Extra Money with Jeff (required)
    January 15, 2009 at 9:52 pm

    Wow, Twitter contests are exploding everywhere as well as your followers, yet I STILL see people commenting on how you can’t do anything with Twitter…

  36. Greg Ellison (required) (required) (required) (required)
    January 15, 2009 at 9:14 pm

    very cool I hope you hit the 20K. Greg Ellison.

  37. Raja Kamil
    January 15, 2009 at 8:35 pm

    Sweet tweet !

  38. Four20
    January 15, 2009 at 7:16 pm

    I think it is late to tempt people with the MacBook Air(you know you won’t break 20k by then). . .but I entered anyways

  39. mecozz
    January 15, 2009 at 6:18 pm

    count me … i hope i get macbook :)

  40. sumter sc
    January 15, 2009 at 5:49 pm

    I haven’t gotten into twitter too much, but its amazing to see what you are doing with it

  41. tudio (required)
    January 15, 2009 at 4:24 pm

    yeah Gina, it’s so much better to stay focused on all the bad stuff than having a break from it and a chance to win some great prizes to boot! “Life is what you make it! Always has been, always will be”
    Keep up the fun stuff Shoe!

  42. Chris Edwards
    January 15, 2009 at 2:47 pm

    Nice contest Shoe! I like my odds as of right now – (Odds of winning a prize : 489:1) lol

  43. Ruben Ricart
    January 15, 2009 at 2:29 pm

    Hey Shoe I checked out the contest page and something must be up with the script that picks up the contestants because I tweeted about the contest and for some reason I’m not on that list..???

  44. Ruben Ricart @ Free NYC advertising
    January 15, 2009 at 2:26 pm

    You will accomplish the Goal! I know it..

  45. Zac Johnson
    January 15, 2009 at 2:13 pm

    Very cool. Nothing like getting viral promotion from others on a big scale.

  46. Money Is Everywhere
    January 15, 2009 at 1:50 pm

    Good Luck in getting those 20K followers. I have faith!

  47. Rockstar sid (required)
    January 15, 2009 at 1:44 pm

    Looking for the macbook :D tweeted it..

  48. Steven-Sanders
    January 15, 2009 at 1:42 pm

    You’ve got a long way to go in only 17 days.

    • Storm
      January 15, 2009 at 2:22 pm

      Big numbers, although with every new tweet our odds of winning reduce !

      Good luch with reaching the 20K, hopefully you will reach a tipping point very soon and it will start to go mental.

  49. Affiliate Blogger
    January 15, 2009 at 1:39 pm

    Rad stats. Glad I was actually reading your blog that day :)

  50. teamray
    January 15, 2009 at 1:36 pm

    good luck getting those 20k twitter followers.

    • Taris Janitens
      January 15, 2009 at 1:56 pm

      I think this is a small mountain to climb especially considering the fact that it sounds like other companies are going to be adding prizes

      • Atniz
        January 17, 2009 at 9:50 am

        After I place Twitter widget on my blog, I’m getting an average of 3 – 5 new followers daily. I think this is a good start. But, earning 20k followers, we must do some magic.

  51. Gina
    January 15, 2009 at 1:24 pm

    Sorry, there are too many bad things going on in our real lives to get involved in this childesh nonsense these days.

    • Jeremy Schoemaker
      January 15, 2009 at 1:56 pm

      are you frickin kidding me? in the time it took you to comment you could have done it.

      • jim
        January 15, 2009 at 2:22 pm

        Gina showed me the light, I unfollowed you and your childish nonsense. hahaha, I don’t want to win anything!

        • Ruben Ricart @Advertise in NYC for Free
          January 15, 2009 at 2:27 pm

          Huh??? must be an inside joke?

          • Goran Website
            January 16, 2009 at 3:15 am

            I’m asking myself the same question dude. Are these people really this rude or just kidding?

          • Monty - Webhostingoffers.org
            January 16, 2009 at 4:45 pm

            If you still din’t realize.. let me tell you.. THESE PEOPLE AREN’T RUDE NOR ARE THEY KIDDING ! :P They are just jealous or pissed with the tweets they are getting from the people they are following lol

  52. Diet Cleanse
    January 15, 2009 at 1:20 pm

    What offensive tweet did you put out there in mid-October when every follower left you for a day?

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