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Stefan over at Perfect Blogging contacted me saying his birthday is coming up and asked if I could do a review of his $1,000 birthday contest. My first thought was I’ll won’t tell anyone and enter myself so I have a much better chance at winning the thousand bucks. Then I discovered that Stefan isn’t really giving $1,000 away to one winner. Instead, he’s giving $50 to 20 winners.

How To Enter

To enter the contest, head over to Perfect Blogging and enter your email address into the RSS by Email box. On February 15th (Stefan’s birthday), Stefan will loaded all confirmed RSS by Email subscribers into a List Randomizer and have it randomly split out 20 entries. Those 20 subscribers will each get $50.

It’s quite clear that Perfect Blogging understands that a blog’s most valuable asset is its RSS subscription base and anything you can do to increase it will help you in the long run. A contest is a great way to get more RSS subscribers. My RSS contest with Shoemoney resulted in me increasing my RSS by 4,691 subscribers in one month.

While winning $50 is not a great a deal as winning $1,000, at least I have 20 shots at it. Perfect Blogging has 129 RSS subscribers right now but I bet less than 20 of them are on RSS by Email. That means my chance of winning is 100%! Of course, once you guys start entering, my odds will go down. But that’s OK. It’ll be really cool to have 20 John Chow dot Com readers take all the money. :twisted:

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    34 Comments

    2008-01-27 20:29:45
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    Thanks, John. Hahaha. I’ve entered. :)

    Comment by Chris Jacobson
    2008-01-28 07:49:22
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    I entered too. :razz:

     
     
    2008-01-27 20:52:24
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    Just entered. Who wouldn’t want to win $50?

     
    2008-01-27 20:58:33
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    i entered!

     
    Comment by Karol Krizka
    2008-01-27 21:00:22
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    Good contest, especially since there will be 20 winners. :twisted:

     
    Comment by Hafiz Dhanani
    2008-01-27 21:22:17
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    Well I’m glad you shared it with us! I’ve entered :!:

    Comment by Ankur K
    2008-01-27 22:30:07
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    He shared ONLY because he is too lazy to keep it for himself for just 50$’s ……

    You think he would if it were 1000 to 1 person? :twisted:

     
     
    Comment by Shaun Carter
    2008-01-27 21:31:47
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    I’ve just entered… thanks John.

     
    Comment by InfoEmpresa
    2008-01-27 22:17:46
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    That idiot placed the link to his “subscribe to my rss feed by e-mail” incorrectly. Not only do you NOT get to the afored mentioned page, but also he placed the link to his wordpress RSS feed, instead of the one with feedburner…

    :roll:

     
    Comment by Ankur K
    2008-01-27 22:27:32
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    That guy beat your evilness john!! Smart guy! :idea:

     
    Comment by AndrewPavelski
    2008-01-27 23:13:44
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    Well John, thanks for sharing the info :razz:

     
    Comment by EarnBlogger
    2008-01-27 23:37:35
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    That’s a nice opportunity for all. Thanks John :twisted:

     
    Comment by Laarni
    2008-01-27 23:50:46
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    Thank you for sharing!! :p

     
    Comment by Mike Huang
    2008-01-28 00:24:15
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    Darn John, if I knew you were that nice to plug people with good ideas, I would’ve asked you to help me with my contest :)

    My contest is one of a kind giving away prizes to 12 different winners with about 3-5prizes each :)

    -Mike

     
    Comment by Andrei Buiu
    2008-01-28 00:45:48
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    I have one question: can I subscribe with more then one email? :twisted:

     
    Comment by Stefan
    2008-01-28 01:38:13
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    No, you can’t subscribe with more than one email.

     
    Comment by Dom
    2008-01-28 02:23:28
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    I’ve entered too.
    On a related note, I’m giving away my iPod Nano in a competition..

    http://www.moneyblogger.org/2008/01/23/win-an-ipod-nano/ :)

    Comment by Tariq Bamadhaj
    2008-01-28 11:56:28
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    I’ll be sure to take part in this.

     
     
    Comment by Pete
    2008-01-28 03:26:33
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    Thanks John, I’ve entered as well.

    Here’s a contest I’m holding, ending soon! I’m giving away a 2-disc audio book on the Battle of Moscow.

    http://ww2db.com/news.php?news_id=83

    Please show me some support and enter! Thanks!

     
    Comment by David Chew
    2008-01-28 06:04:50
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    Nice post john. $50 sounds good.

     
    Comment by Simon Lau
    2008-01-28 06:23:17
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    Sweet, thanks John for the heads up on this

     
    Comment by SEO Optimization
    2008-01-28 06:36:54
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    I am still lurking that luck to win a contest, even tho the price is not as hot as $1000 like you said, i still have to taste that “winning a contest” feeling :P

    Comment by Will
    2008-01-28 07:24:25
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    yea i know what you mean. when I first won a design contest I was so excited lol.

     
     
    Comment by Pete
    2008-01-28 06:52:56
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    @SEO Optimization : Would you like to participate in my contest?

    http://ww2db.com/news.php?news_id=83

    Not too many has participated yet, so your chance of winning is pretty high! Of course it’s not as nice as $50, but it’s a freebie nevertheless! :)

     
    Comment by Fat Kid Unleashed
    2008-01-28 06:55:27
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    Thanks for the heads up, John. Sounds like a great contest.

     
    Comment by Will
    2008-01-28 07:22:19
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    “My first thought was I’ll won’t tell anyone and enter myself” and then blog about how we missed an opportunity lol.

     
    Comment by moon
    2008-01-28 08:07:03
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    I think your post will add at least 100 surbscribers for him.He is advisable to tell you this, haha :razz:

     
    Comment by Mike Panic
    2008-01-28 09:19:38
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    When I first launched my blog I ran a similar contest, giving away a 1GB USB thumb drive once my RSS subscription by email reached 100. It only took about 3 weeks to hit it and went very well.

    I’ve entered into this one, thanks for letting me know about it.

    If anyone is interested, I’m giving away a $25 iTunes gift card for making a guess and leaving a comment on an article over on my blog. Contest will end in the next few days so get in now if you are interested.

     
    Comment by Tariq Bamadhaj
    2008-01-28 11:55:03
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    I’m in too :D

     
    Comment by Collin LaHay
    2008-01-28 12:50:10
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    Darn, my chances just dropped finding out you plugged it! =p

     
    2008-01-28 17:24:21
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    [...] You might want to try your luck to win an even quicker $50 just by subscribing to PerfectBlogging’s RSS feeds by email. - via John Chow [...]

     
    Comment by jleblanc
    2008-01-28 18:25:15
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    Im looking forward to the $50, thanks John!

     
    Comment by Chip
    2008-01-29 02:17:05
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    Done. I’ve entered. It’s not the 50 bucks, it’s the fame. :twisted:

     
    Comment by RacerX
    2008-02-05 11:54:26
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    In as well..We’ll see…Wonder if his count will tank after that!

     

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