And the Winner is…
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?
Don’t Forget – Last Day to Enter for $100 CASH!
Don’t forget time is of the essence to win our hard earned money. You have until 11:59pm Pacific Standard Time to enter for your chance to win $100 cash from SmallBizBee.com
How to Enter:
- Send us an article of at least 500 words of original content (not published on another blog or website) before 11:59pm PST on Nov. 16th.
- Make sure the article relates in someway to small business or entrepreneurship
- Don’t make your article to “spammy” (don’t sell us a product or service).
Who’s Eligible?
- Anyone and everyone who has something to add to the conversation regarding small business.
- You don’t have to be a small business owner or expert to take part.
- You also don’t need to write as well as Hemingway!
How will the winner be picked?
- Beginning November 17th articles will be posted on Smallbizbee.com, under the “Featured Story” section of the website, one article per day.
- Articles will be posted in the order they were accepted and will run for 24 hours (from 12:00pm PST to 12:00pm PST)
- The article that receives the most unique page views during their 24 hour period will be deemed the winner!
- Feel free to promote your article on your blog or in other online outlets. You’ll get credit for each unique page view, so get creative and leverage those networks!
How to Submit Your Winning Article
- Email your article to matthew@smallbizbee.com between November 6 and 16
- Subject of the email should read ”$100 Article Competition”
- Include an article title, which will be the main title for your submission (choose a title carefully)
- Include one picture to run as the headline image for your article (optional)
- You will be notified within 24 hours if your article is approved or declined, we will give you reasons for any article declined
What Would Keep Your Article From Being Accepted?
- Unrelated in any way to small business
- Overly spammy or self serving
- Trying to sell a product or service as part of the article
- Article is less than 500 words
- Article is not 100% original content
$100 for 500 words…what are you waiting for, get your name in the hat for the cold, hard, cash!
Win $100 From SmallBizBee.com!
How would you like to be $100 dollars richer by this time next month? Well you can just by submitting an article to SmallBizbee.com! We will be giving away $100 to the author of the most popular article submitted between November 6th and the 16th. No catch, no gimmicks…picture cold hard cash delivered to your door (or Paypal.com account) just for taking part in our little contest.
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The Rules
Submit an article to SmallBizbee.com between November 6-16 to be eligible.
- Article must be related to small business or entrepreneurship
- Minimum of 500 words
- Only original content will be accepted (not currently published on ANY website or blog)
- Smallbizbee.com reserves the right to decline any article that appears to be overly self serving or “spammy” in anyway.
- Feel free to link to your website or blog as part of the article, no product sales please!
Who’s Eligible?
- Anyone and everyone who has something to add to the conversation regarding small business.
- You don’t have to be a small business owner or expert to take part.
Can’t Think of Something to Write About?
- Business owners…what were the challenges you faced when starting a business, how did you overcome them?
- Would be business owners, what is holding you back?
- Advice to new businesses
- Success strategies
- Small business, entrepreneurship, or startup theory
- Thoughts on leadership
- Personal development for a small business owner
- Articles on statistics or facts regarding small businesses
- How do you network with other small business owners
- What social media sites do you use and how?
- Etc, etc, etc…
How will the winner be picked?
- Articles will be collected between November 6-16
- Maximum number of articles accepted will be 30, on a first come first served basis
- Beginning November 17th articles will be posted on Smallbizbee.com, under the “Featured Story” section of the website.
- Articles will be posted in the order they were accepted and will run for 24 hours (from 12:00pm PST to 12:00pm PST)
- The article that receives the most unique page views during their 24 hour period will be deemed the winner!
- Feel free to promote your article on your blog or in other online outlets. You’ll get credit for each unique page view, so get creative and leverage those networks!
How to Submit Your Winning Article
- Email your article to matthew@smallbizbee.com between November 6 and 16
- Subject of the email should read “$100 Article Competition”
- Include an article title, which will be the main title for your submission (choose a title carefully)
- Include one picture to run as the headline image for your article (optional)
- You will be notified within 24 hours if your article is approved or declined, we will give you reasons for any article declined
How to Get Paid
- At the conclusion of the contest we will announce the winner on SmallBizBee.com, and contact the winner via email
- Our preferred method of payment is via PayPal
- If you do not have a PayPal account we will send you a check (and you’ll have to trust it will clear). We will need to collect your mailing address in order to remit your winnings in this fashion.
What Would Keep My Article From Being Accepted?
- Unrelated in any way to small business
- Overly spammy or self serving
- Trying to sell a product or service as part of the article
- Article is less than 500 words
- Article is not 100% original content
So that’s it…no catches and no gimmicks. For a few minutes of your time you could be $100 dollars richer. As Jeff Probst on Survivor would say “Worth Playing For?”…we think so! Please let us know if you have any questions.
Good luck everyone, and thanks for taking part in the $100 Article Competition!
