After a week full of great articles, content, comments, and comraderie the time has come to announce the winner of the first $100 competition sponsored by Smallbizbee.com.
For those of you just joining us, here's how the competition worked:
- Contestants submitted an article of original content to be published at Smallbizbee.com for 24 hours.
- The winner is decided by who got the most unique page views in the 24 hours their article was in the "Featured Story" section of our site.
- Contestants were allowed to promote their articles in any way to drive unique page views to their submission.
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Please join us in congratulating Yan Susanto from Thoushallblog.com in winning our first $100 competition. Yan's article titled "The Joy of Self Employment" generated 217 unique page views in the 24 hours it was in our Featured Story category.
How did everyone else do?
In a word...Fabulous! Of the remaining 5 articles in the competition, George at Tumblemoose.com received the 2nd most number of unique views of his article "Business and Balance - A Slightly Different Take" with 127 in the 24 hour period.
Third through sixth was seperated by a total of 72 page views, with the average of this group being 39 views each for the 24 hour period. In this group were the following articles, in no particular order:
Small Business Communication: Multicultural (Global) Conversations
Listen to Yourself Sound Crazy
Thank You Everyone!
A big thanks to everyone who submitted an article in the first, of what we hope are many, exciting competitions here at Smallbizbee.com! Yan, we'll be sending you $100 of our hard earned money soon, looks like you're buying lunch. Any chance you'll leave a comment and let us all know your secret to success?
Final Note
All stats were compiled using Google Analytics. If any of the contestants would like to know their exact page views during their 24 hours of fame, please just send us an email and we'll give you the details.
Look for a follow up post next week where we'll look at some key takeaways from this competition that can be applied to the real life businesses you all are running...you didn't just think this was fun and games did you?
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Hey Yan,
Congrats!
Matt, Thanks for a cool competition. It was a blast!
Cheers!
George
Hey George, thanks for taking part…You all did a great job!
Matt
Congrats Yan! Happy for you man. This contest is a wonderful idea. Too bad I am finding out about it after the fact. I will participate in the next one for sure.
@Gerald
Thanks for stopping by…all the entrants did a great job, I was blown away by the quality of the articles we received!! We’ll see you in the next competition.
Matt
hey~thx for the opportunity~it was fun and I made some new contacts.
WOW, I did it! This will never be possible without the continued support of my network of friends.
Thanks, Matt for such a superb idea and to the rest of participants, you guys did very well. I was just a lucky guy who happened to be the first on the list.
Any chance you’ll leave a comment and let us all know your secret to success?
Possibly…..join me at thoushallblog.com
Cheers
Yan
Wow! Congrats Yan! i’m glad you won, you really deserve it!
@Yan
You earned it…job well done, I’ll be stopping by your blog when you share your “secret” to winning.
Thanks,
Matt