A Chance to Win $20,000 for your Business
Beginning Monday, June 22nd, small business owners will have one week to submit a question to Small Business Yahoo! Answers Pro, Kevin Salwen, former National Small Business Editor for the Wall Street Journal online at http://smallbusinessanswers.yahoo.com/.
If Kevin chooses to answer your question, you will have the chance to win the $20,000 prize. The winner will also have the chance to participate in a one-on-one interview with a lead Yahoo! Small Business Expert and have their business featured on the Yahoo! Answers Center.
Additionally, small business owners have access to resources from Yahoo’s Small Business Answer sites and Bank of America’s Small Business Online Community. For more information, see below.
- Yahoo’s Small Business Answers center is a great resource for small business owners, as they can visit the site to learn about a variety of topics through expert articles and previously posted Q&As.
- Bank of America’s Small Business Online Community is a free and open forum available to all small business owners where users can network, share, learn and exchange business ideas in real time.
Running a small business is hard. This contest is easy. You get a chance to win $20k, a great answer to your question, and some free PR, all for a couple minutes of your time.
Let’s get a Small Biz Bee reader to win this thing – Good Luck.
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We Have a Winner!
Last week I posed this question to Small Biz Bee readers.
To “encourage” participation we offered a $20 Amazon gift card to one lucky respondent.
The Question Was…
You’re given $2,000,000 to open a store (can be a physical or virtual) and your only requirements are:
- You have to give your product/service away for free
- Your success is judged on how much you give away
What Would You Do? How would you decide what to put in your store? What would it be, and why?
The responses we got were fabulous (I expected no less from the outstanding readers of Smallbizbee.com!). Well thought out, and creative, and let me just say I’m glad we picked the winner of the $20 by random, and not by the quality of the answer…I don’t know if I could have picked “the best”.
And the Winner is…
Wayne Liew!
Congratulations to Wayne for being our comment winner. As the winner he’ll be receiving a $20 Amazon gift card on us! In case you’re curious, here is Wayne’s response to our question:
As a business consultant, the $2,000,000 will be a big extra for me to help more small business owners. Because I enjoy learning and passing on my marketing and business building skills to others, I actually don’t mind giving away this service for free. In fact, I am thinking of allocating part of the $2,000,000 fund to creative small business owners who just don’t have enough money to grow or to spend on small marketing campaigns.
Wayne also runs a small business entrepreneurship blog that is well worth checking out if you haven’t done so already.
On the Up and Up
Wayne’s winning comment was picked by Random.org, from the 14 comments that were submitted between April 19-26, 2009.
A Big Thanks!
Thanks to everyone who participated. The quality and thoughtfulness of the responses was impressive to say the least…if you haven’t, take a few moments to see what our readers came up with.
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Contest: What Would You Put in Your Store?
In my reading today I came across a very interesting scenario.
I’d like to pose the question to you all and see what we can come up with. To sweeten the deal, we’ll even be giving out a prize to some lucky commenter.
Here’s the Scenario:
You’re given $2,000,000 to open a store (can be a physical or virtual) and your only requirements are:
- You have to give your product/service away for free
- Your success is judged on how much you give away
What Would You Do?
How would you decide what to put in your store? What would it be, and why?
Win a Couple Bucks From Us
Let’s hear your idea in the comments section, and next Sunday (April 26, 2009) I’ll randomly select one of the commenter’s to win a $20 Amazon Gift Certificate.
Fine Print: Smallbizbee reserve’s the right to disallow any comment, for any reason.
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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!
