And the Winner of the $150 Competition is…
After eight great articles, some really super content, countless comments, and priceless camaraderie the time has come to announce the winner of the $150 competition sponsored by Bizsugar!
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 first 24 hours their article was on the site.
Contestants were allowed to promote their articles in any way to drive unique page views to their submission.
So now, without further ado…the winner is:
Please join us in congratulating Cathy Iconis from CathyIconis.com in winning our $150 Competition!
Cathy’s article titled Managing Your Cash generated 200 unique page views during its 24 hours in the competition.
A Quick Recap
To recap, the other articles in the competition were:
- Bric-A-Brac Branding
- 5 Tips to Grow Your Business Like Michael Jackson
- How Business Owners Can More Easily Reach the Affluent
- 5 Tips to Organize Successful Promotional Giveaways
- Why Your Online Customers Might Hate You
- A Quick-Hitting 3-Step Content Marketing Campaign to get Customers this Month
- I’m an Entrepreneur. And Yes, I Kiss on the First Date
All of these articles are fabulous (most are the kind I wish I could write myself), and all offer terrific insight for the entrepreneur – don’t miss a one of’em.
A Very Close Competition
Everyone did great, and top to bottom it was an EXTREMELY close!
Of the remaining 7 articles in the competition, Michael Bennett Cohn at Revolving Floor received the 2nd most number of unique views of his article Bric-a-Brac Branding with 157 in the 24 hour period.
From 3rd through 8th only 50 page views separated the entries…nice job everyone!
Thank You Everyone!
Thanks to everyone who submitted an article in the 2nd blogging competition here at Smallbizbee.com!
Big Thanks to Bizsugar.com
A very special thanks to the great folks at Bizsugar.com, and especially Anita Campbell for reaching out to us to offer a sponsorship. They certainly sweetened this deal, and made the competition a lot of fun for all involved.
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.
This year Cathy is $150 richer, next year will it be you?
Congrats Cathy – and to everyone, as there were some great articles in this contest.
Congratulations, Cathy!
There sure was some tough competition.
Matt, I thoroughly enjoyed all of the articles. Kudos on another successful contest!
George
Congratulations, Cathy! Good article.
Nice job everyone who participated — let’s do it again real soon!
And Matthew, on behalf of BizSugar, it was our pleasure to sponsor this contest, because it created such excellent small biz content. My hat’s off to you, too, for leading the charge.
Thanks everyone! I am very excited about winning. My network did a fabulous job spreading the word to help me win. It just goes to show you that you are only as strong as your network.
My husband jokingly told some of his friends on Facebook that our daughter (9 months) would not get any Christmas presents unless I won. One person said we should get her a pony – so a stuffed pony is now on the list!
Thanks again! Remember to check out my site for more information on running a small business and accounting help! (http://www.CathyIconis.com)
Congratulations Cathy, and thank you for pointing out that the strong network was the key to your success. It definitely forms an integral part of the overall recipe, but your offering also needs to be of a high quality, and the combination is what ultimately led to your success.
Great work and writing Cathy!!! It’s always important to have a strong network to back you up in any adventure that your pursue.
Congrats to Cathy and the other writers. These were truly some great articles. This is an excellent way to generate amazing blog or website content.
Congrats, Cathy.
I think it will be interesting to see whether, a year from now, your article still has more pageviews than others that were part of this contest. You have demonstrated the strength of your personal network, but whether or not the content itself will stand the test of time is a different question.
Congrats cathy next time you will have more competition. But what a great way to get quality articles.
Congrats Cathy!! Great work and keep it up.
Congratulation Cathy. Good job & win the prize.