$1,800 of New Prizes Added!
We’re off to a good start in the John Chow Vs. Shoemoney RSS Competition. I have taken the early lead but I’m sure Shoe will be unleashing something big soon. Well, he can bring it because I’m going into stage two of my master plan. Thanks to the support of some kind sponsors, I’m adding $1,800 of prizes to the RSS competition. The new items up for grabs include:
- $50 of cold hard cash by Preblogging.com
- Two books (The Search and Wikinomics) by Piggy Bank Pie
- A free review by CashQuests (value $80)
- One hour of free blog consultation (value $60) by Blog Louder
- Two $25 Barnes & Noble gift cards by Shaun Carter
- $144 webhosting package from Tribune Hosting
- Two text links and a review (value $50) by Online Cash Flow
- One 125×125 banner (value $15) by Etienne Teo
- Five 1000 directory submission packages (value $550) by SEO Next
The biggest prize of them all: a complete WordPress blog redesign valued at $750 by Adriann Pienaar of Adii. The winner will get a custom, unique blog design (unlimited revisions by the client). The design will be supplied to the winner as a widget-ready WordPress theme. You can see some of Adriann’s work here.
How Do I Get My Hands On These Great Prizes?
First, you need to subscribe to my RSS feed and check it every day for the rest of this month. Then you need to blog about it. Link to this post and/or to the post announcing the RSS competition and link to my RSS feed so your readers can sign up to it. Here’s an example of what I’m looking for.
Help John Chow beat Shoemoney in their RSS competition. John is offering some great prizes for people signing up to his full feed RSS. Shoe is offering nothing so go John!
After you’ve done that, send me an email with the link to the post. Once confirm the rules have been met, I’ll add you to the draw. Some of the prizes will be given away randomly to RSS readers but you will only know about it if you subscribe to the RSS feed. It will not be posted on the blog.
Subscribe To My RSS By Email
I am adding an option to subscribe to my RSS via email. This is a really cool way to subscribe. Enter your email address into the subscription box below, then confirm the confirmation email. Once you’ve done that, you will receive all my future post deliver right to your email box! Even if you already subscribed and read my blog with a RSS reader, you will want to give RSS by email a try. It’s really cool.
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Oooo…blog redesign, huh? Adii does good work.
I still get “Not Implemented” javascript errors for every comment in IE7 on this site
I wouldn’t mind a blog redesign it seems all the rage !
I won $100 in WorldOfAngel.com competition and I decided to give 1/2 of it away via John’s Blog.
Invest your monies in a better way…
Thanks for you thoughts, but I’ve already had 40 visitors today from this link here. And this post is only a few hours old.
I’m sure John will mention the advertisers again later on in the month. So for 1 link and 100 visitors, I am a happy bunny.
B
First time I’ve heard of him. I’m indeed impressed.
thats definitely interesting! the monkey is on the job!
Do those web clips at the top of GMail count? You have to add the URL of the feed so I guess it must.
cool, i would love a redesign
Yeah who wouldn’t!
Ok… you got me there, I’ll be making a post promoting you soon Chow! As long as you keep up the great content you write everytime
Sorry for the double commenting, just wanted to share a link to my article, if allowed
Koen’s Entry
I would like to read the articles of others too, so I think you should share it with the public and learn from each others articles!
LOL! Good luck!
Some great prizes there John, i’m all over it.
I could enter for this contest – i could win for the prizes
DAmmit John! Didnt you get my email about the 5 free sites I was willing to give away?
I’m sure there will be more contests.
Whoa those are some awesome prices
nice work John!
What gorgeous prizes. My money is on you.
Hehe.., I guess this is shoe’s strategy to let john to gain some readers at the beginning, and he will come up with something really big for his blog, and leave him behind.. We will just have to wait to see who is the winner.
It looks like it want be competitipon but war.
I’ve blogged this too here
Already subscribed. And loving it.
lov the other prizes but i really lov the pizza (hay am i pluggin myself again dam) your’s truly Thegeekboys.com
haha the pizza’s are actually the most appealing prize to me..as it’s said, small things amuse small minds
Great offer!
Wow so many prices, I hope the names of the winners are not already written down.
Why do you say shoe offers nothing?
He offers quality
Thank you, about time someone noticed the obvious.
With spelling and grammar mistakes though.
Well, sometimes.
Thats part of why i’m so sucesful!
Don’t we all though? Especially the grammer, damn you MS Word!
http://www.starfeeder.com/blog/archives/how_to_blog_about_gaming/
“example of a contest on a different blog: JohnChow.com is trying to beat Shoemoney.com in their RSS competition. John is offering some great prizes for people signing up to his full feed RSS.”
I already subscribe
Ok Mr. Chow count me in for the contests, just signed up for email/RSS feeds. Sent you the details..Free Pizzas are nice but blog redesign would be great!
I’m surprised t see the small number of comments on this one considering the prizes you offer!
John,
Seriously, this is how you want to get new readers? I always thought you advocated great content to build readers. However you are buying people outright. Also I am not sure if such schemes will attract the right set of subscribers.
I understand its a contest and everything, but cmon…
I bet he justs wants the contest to be fun and somehow subscribers benefit from it via prizes.
Mine has been added here
Yipeee so am I in contention for the prize draw now
. Am becoming evil like you 
Seriously people, do you even read this poser’s blog?
Everyone with any sense know that mine is clearly superior! 
Some good natured fun is always good for business, Ill take a look at your site now
Come on Shoe, as someone else said, you need fun, and october is the month of the competitions! This one, problogger’s, one at a b5 sports channel site… When is yours coming
Hmmm, looks like your reading it.
A LOT of prizes. Good luck with your contest.
Good luck to all the winners! Cant wait for the prizes to be given out and see who is the winner! Mr shoe is calling John a Poser?..haha!
Are you doing the rss contest as well as this one?
http://votelicio.us/vote.asp?v=101 John Chow Vs. ShoeMoney
Cant wait for it.. I want to join the contest ….
Good prizes, John. Especially the hosting.
Yeah! I’d like the redesign!
Great blog contest!!
Fantastic prizes!
Blogged about it on my blog ! ! ! I am in your full support john afterall you a celeb for me
Great prizes on this contest John. Everything just sounds yummie.
If it’s still okay to add some prizes for this blog contest, I would like to give away 2 text link ads. Currently TLA 15/mo valued for each link.
John, if you want to add 1000 high quality business cards to your pool of prizes, email me.
Thanks,
Man … you let thegeekboys sponsor your contest … and they stole my design???
Darin
Personally i think what John is doing is brilliant although I am still waiting for Shoemoney’s “plan of action”. I don’t think he’s gonna go down that easy. Nevertheless, you got my bet Mr. Chow.
mmm pizza
Most of the prizes are not useful to me… PIZZA ???
Cool prizes.
I’m in.
Nice contest… here is more about this !
http://www.tothepc.com/archives/john-chow-vs-shoemoney-battle-it-out-with-rss/
I have subscribed to the RSS and here’s my post for the contest. I do want a blog re-design if I do win.
man..i am still waiting for other prize to be announced.