John Chow Vs. Shoemoney RSS Competition

Looking at figures in the chicklets you posted there really is no loser here. Number of subscribers have skyrocketed for both of you. Both won. That's if the current subscribers don't drop back down once October ends.

John you need to catch up seriously. Shoemoney has everyone signing up 4x each and you barely have mentioned this contest in a week.

The best way is to give me something. What happens then? I will spend my time to blog about your RSS competition. Yes, getting linked frequently in a news blog counts. hooohahaha..!

Interesting challenge...How are feeds counted exactly?
What if someone is subrscribed on 2 readers? Say on a google homepage and in google reader? on in yahoo, pageflakes e.t.c.?
Anyway, good luck, I'm sure you'll win...................you always do :twisted:

My buddy and I just initiated the exact same challange as John Chow and shoemoney. I have 2
subscribers.... wah. Please subscribe to my
solar power blog about state
incentives and tax credits here.

crap..takes so long just to load the page cause of the comment .. anyway... it shows how popular johnchow is..

Hey John,

How are you going with this contest? I'm sure that you'll kick Shoemoney's butt.

Cheers,
Carlo Selorio

I am working on an evil scheme to get people to sign up for the RSS Feed. I will keep you posted.``````````

Good luck John was just over at Shoe and he still has the lead by a small amount :smile:

Running a small tshirt contest in conjunction with theirs! Here is my post about it.. hopefully this won't get caught as spam. Just trying to add a little more fun to the contest, and perhaps help myself!

Great contest! I would like to be one of the winners :)!

:mrgreen:

Subscribed! Great offer John, thanks!

I have made a post of your RSS competition Mr. Chow, hope you like it! *wink *wink

Subscribed :)

Your blog's great. Subscribed. Hope you win!

I'm a relatively new follower of your site. I think it's great marketing and congratulate you on your success. I've referred several people to your site. I hope you win the competition - good luck.

Subscribed!!!

Hey John,

Subscribed!

How can I trust you with the prizes ?
I don't care. Subscribed !

Okay blogged it on my blog ! ! ! I am in your support with a gun. Lets see how we do it :)

Shoemonkey is a liar and posts fraudulent accusations about ODP. I wish you the best.

You said you wondered what the odds are ... well just goto Ziitrend.com and search for 'John Chow' ... then vote. Its a prediction engine starting to make predictions about likely winners based on collective social opinion. You're in the lead currently!

:roll: Competition is good, contests are good. Subscribed.

Like a campaign "Chow on the Shoe"
Controversy breeds more RSS feeds
Charity, I get X number of subscribers I will donate to (charity plug goes here)
Build it and they will come, build a crazy marketing scheme and they will come in droves, over great prizes and we can be bribed :evil:

Good luck in your competition with Shoemoney.

I just wanted to let you know that I have added this contest to several categories within our contest and sweepstakes directory.

http://www.mrprizes.com/individual/listingID_0239....

Please feel free to let me know of any changes you would like made and also keep me up to date on future listings. Have a great day!

Subscribed!

Wow!..this should be definetely a great competition..love it...Good luck Chow!

Competition is good idea! But i think not with the number of RSS subscribers because you'll wind the counter...

Hey John, I have an idea for you. Why not have all your fans write a quick post about your contest then have them post YOUR RSS feed link into their post (We can mass-title the post 'It's Time To Chow Your Shoe'). As an incentive, you could offer a John Chow Golden Platinum review to a random blogger who inserted your feed.

The blogger might win a $400 value review and explode their readership and you could get 500+ blogs X their 100+ readers!

John, I'll rent you my Feedburner button spot for $100 for a week. People will think they're signing up for my RSS feed when they're really signing up for yours! :)

I support you!!!!!! SUBSCRIBE!!

you have broken your 9000 readers! :mrgreen:

it all sounds good to me ! Subscribed (CYM John :))

I thought you had itouch up for grab too....

John

Here's something you two big time bloggers should be doing to test your skills in this feild.

Pick one new blogger each. There feed count has to be under 10 and work with them to increase there subscribers along with yours. Shoemoney should do the same and see who has the best advice and knows the most about growing a blog. You two guys are already huge, and making great money........change someone elses life and continue to grow your blog.......Theres a challange John

This would be an interesting competion, we'll have to see who the better marketer/blogger will be.

Keep us updated.
Cheers,
Carlo Selorio

I've posted my own challenge for you on my blog.

It is a nice trick by the two masters to ramp up their subscribers. Hey, why not. This is all marketing, baby. By the way, I am also giving away a Sansa 4GB MP3 player

While I'm here...

I shot you an email with an idea - in fact I've been working on it a bit this evening in a couple of spare hours. Good luck with the contest.

Since you are making something like 6 cents for each page view, use PPC and buy clicks for less than 6 cents. Use your stats to identify the pages with the highest subscription conversion rate and target those pages. If you can get your clicks for less than 6 cents you'll won't be losing money (theoretically) as long as paid traffic converts at the same rate.

While you're looking at which posts convert subscribers best, write more posts like those this month.

John, hope you'll win, but I made a post about yours and Shoemoney's RSS challenge and explain why I'm gonna win if I should have joined the challenge :twisted:

Check it out

Btw I subscribed to your RSS feed and will only subscribe to Shoemoney's RSS on the 1st of November :twisted:

Write a comprehensive review of current feed readers to drive traffic to your feed by two means

1) make it controversial to get the attention of people who have a favorite reader already

2) use it to also explain how feed readers work to get the attention of people who have never used one.

Another idea is to do a couple posts that are reverse partial feeds. Instead of a small bit of content in the feed that links to the website, have some small bit content in the post that links to the full feed. (may not be possible with your current setup)

Hey John,

Here is a cool way to increase your RSS subscribers. I have created a plugin that allows fetches all the emails from feedburner and sorts the uncofirmed emails allowing you to send a personalized email to them.

Here is the plugin link http://techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/notify-un.... Hope this helps you increase your subscribers and wins me some prizes

Keith

Hmmm.. Im not to sure who should win the Chow or the Money

How you choose the winer randomly..?
but I prefer subcribe Shomoney than you... :lol:

How you choose the winer randomly..?
but I prefer subcribe Shomoney that you... :lol:

I subscribed a long time ago. Hope you win. Sure to get a brilliant idea

Subscribed a long time ago, I'll post towards the end of the month as doesn't that FeedBurner stat only show the number of people of read via RSS yesterday?

Subscribed and post on my blog.

I saw this as well at shoemoney. Great idea great marketing, glad to see this doesn't keep you down when google doesn't ironically shine down on you, good luck, may the best marketeer win !! :grin: :grin: