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The Blog Contest Winners

written by John Chow on April 4, 2007

How one lazy bum made $176,697.50

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you should know that I’ve been running a few contests last month. Well, it’s time to list the winners!

Flipping Rich T-Shirt Winners

Congrats to the T-shirt contest winners. You are now flipping rich!

Nintendo Wii Contest Winner

This was part of the Evil Blog Contest. Sponsored by the promotional pens maker, 1234Pens.com, I had a Nintendo Wii up for grabs.

I said I was going to do a video draw but scheduling conflicted prevented 1234Pens.com and myself from meeting up. Therefore, I just asked 1234Pens.com to draw a name from the bucket. And the winner is…

Congrats to all our contest winners. You should have received an email from me. You must reply to that email with the information I requested in order to claim your prize.

Thanks to everyone who entered the contests. Look for another contest very soon.

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{ 74 comments }

Jenn April 4, 2007 at 11:50 am

Congratulations Nate!

Kenny April 4, 2007 at 12:53 pm

Lucky Nate, he submitted his entry the night before the deadline! :mrgreen:

WesleyTech.com April 4, 2007 at 3:15 pm

Winners finally announced I see. I think you kept a lot of people in suspense as you had said you would make the drawing at the end of last month. :)

Thanks,
http://WesleyTech.com

KidBlogger April 4, 2007 at 8:33 pm

wow! he’s so lucky :shock:

Nate W. April 5, 2007 at 1:02 am

That I am! When I found out I almost wii’d my pants! :lol: JK!

Everybody Go To April 4, 2007 at 12:02 pm

Awww…I didn’t get the flippin rich tee.

:???:

Jonix April 4, 2007 at 12:26 pm

:mrgreen: next time you’ll.
It’ll be next time, right john?

Vik April 4, 2007 at 12:06 pm

Congrats to all the winners

Scot April 4, 2007 at 12:07 pm

Congratulations to Nate!

Jonix April 4, 2007 at 12:27 pm

Congratulations to all the winners

lyndonmaxewell April 4, 2007 at 12:27 pm

Wow! Congrats to all the winners! :D

Jonix April 4, 2007 at 12:28 pm

A little off-topic, john the auctionAds are giving an error all over the place. If you don’t already know, is just to inform.

John Chow April 4, 2007 at 12:30 pm

It looks like the AuctionAds site is down. Maybe shoemoney forgot to pay the hosting bill.

HMTKSteve April 4, 2007 at 12:34 pm

I noticed that too…

Maybe eBay shut them down because they were approaching the top tier of payouts?

Everybody Go To April 4, 2007 at 12:48 pm

I doubt ebay shut them down, he says on his blog they were moving servers so that’s probably why.

Jonix April 4, 2007 at 3:03 pm

Yep, probably that. But it’s the second time in a short period of time. I wonder if the servers are reliable for that kind of traffic.

Marc April 4, 2007 at 5:22 pm

Servers are the bane of any new online entity. It’s all fine and dandy when you’re just getting a few thousand people a day, but when you scale up like they have you’re dealing with different requirements and the host you’re dealing with might not be able to deliver the goods. Then you have to switch… That can be miserable…

Blogger-Rising April 18, 2007 at 2:31 pm

Marc or John, any advice on how to ramp up to make a clean switch? I expect a few thousand visits a day by the end of the month. :shock: :lol: :shock:
Blogger-Rising.Blogspot.Com

James April 4, 2007 at 12:47 pm

Looking ok here.

Webmaster Labor April 4, 2007 at 1:30 pm

Shoemoney’s reviewme fee is $2500. Must get some sweet traffic to charge that fee. I wonder how many reviews a month he runs.

Jonix April 4, 2007 at 3:05 pm

one or two, he don’t like reviews, has he say on is blog

Marc April 4, 2007 at 5:23 pm

Hence the $1250 motivator :P

Gath April 4, 2007 at 4:44 pm

The last one I remember was for harpzon.com – and a lot of people chewed him out for not putting much effort into it.

Alex April 4, 2007 at 7:44 pm

I saw 404 for the auction ads early today, then it came back to normal, until now

David April 4, 2007 at 12:33 pm

Sweet!! Thanks John!! I’ll soon be rockin my I’m flippin Rich TEE!!! Even though its not true in the future..but I guess its just forecasting the future :twisted:

Marc April 4, 2007 at 5:25 pm

Send John a pic so we can all see how awesome John’s gifts are and you can get a slightly evil backlink :twisted:

David April 4, 2007 at 8:53 pm

Maybe I will!! Or possibly get a pic of me wearing it with John :twisted:

derrich April 4, 2007 at 12:38 pm

I wore my Flippin Rich TShirt last night…again. That thing is magic.

Gary Lee April 4, 2007 at 12:54 pm

holy crap . . he just did his entry like this past weekend or something! i knew i should have waited!!!! congrats Nate!

Dave April 4, 2007 at 1:01 pm

Congrats to the winners :)

Leo April 4, 2007 at 1:02 pm

Congrats Nate!

Nate W. April 4, 2007 at 6:22 pm

Thanks! The Wii is going to rock my socks! :razz:

Amanda April 4, 2007 at 1:04 pm

wow congratulations everyone!!! i just got a ps3.. and we had the xbox360 the wii is on my list for nexties

Stuart Hannig April 4, 2007 at 1:14 pm

BOOO! :evil:

Alex April 4, 2007 at 7:47 pm

BuuuuuHuuuuuu :cry:

Ryan April 4, 2007 at 1:30 pm

Hey John, do you only pick the blogs that are updated frequently and neglect the ones that aren’t in these contests? I can totally see why you’d do that but just wondering.

Jonix April 4, 2007 at 3:07 pm

He can’t review all the blogs ryan. If he must review or talk about blogs, he need of course something in exchange :) is a “win-win game” this one.

Ryan April 4, 2007 at 3:18 pm

Heh true that.

John Chow April 4, 2007 at 5:01 pm

It’s just a random draw.

Marc April 4, 2007 at 5:28 pm

Yeah, John lays out the rules pretty clearly in his contest posts. He said they’d be random draws.

The only spot where he’s ever leaned towards bloggers who update often with good content is when he features some articles from the community.

Alex April 4, 2007 at 7:49 pm

A lucky winner takes it, others wait for the next competition…

simon April 4, 2007 at 1:48 pm

Will you have another Nintendo Wii Contest soon!!

Alex April 4, 2007 at 7:51 pm

The next one should be for PS 3 :!:

Greg Stratz April 4, 2007 at 2:13 pm

Thanks for the t-shirts. Will be taking a picture and posting it when they come.

Go John Go…

Shawn Knight April 4, 2007 at 2:44 pm

Congrats to the winners. Maybe Nate should invite us all over to play the Wii??

Nate W. April 4, 2007 at 3:30 pm

Hey everyone! Wii party at my house! Woohooo! BYOB (bring your own booze)! Hey I gotta give a shoutout to John Chow and 1234Pens.com for an awesome contest with an awsome outcome! :lol:

For anyone who hasn’t already checked out my blog, my focus is (online and offline) business development tips and reflections for young entrepreneurs from a young entrepreneur, me!

Thanks again John and 1234 Pens!

Greg Stratz April 4, 2007 at 3:39 pm

Well where do you live?

Nate W. April 4, 2007 at 3:51 pm

Scottsdale, Arizona. Land of Intense Sun and Business Opportunity!

Greg Stratz April 4, 2007 at 4:14 pm

Dam too far for me. Not time for a raod trip either. so your lucky!!!

Marc April 4, 2007 at 5:29 pm

Bah, too hot down there for we Canadians :oops:

Congrats though ;)

Gath April 4, 2007 at 4:47 pm

Congrats on winning the Wii!

Alex April 4, 2007 at 7:53 pm

Congrats! I guess we’ll be seeing a lot less of you during next couple of months :mrgreen:

Sean April 4, 2007 at 4:34 pm

Cool! Congrats everyone!

I really wanted that Wii lol.

Marc April 4, 2007 at 5:31 pm

The Wii was an awesome prize John, relatively low cost as compared to the rest of the platforms yet it’s still very sought after.

Toss another one for grabs ;)

Gdog April 4, 2007 at 6:11 pm

Dude…I think you made a mistake John. The real Wii winner was supposed to be me!!! :mrgreen:

DanyO April 4, 2007 at 6:24 pm

Sweet, but don’t give too many Wii’s, because people will stop updating their blogs, and play with it all day long.

Alex April 4, 2007 at 8:05 pm

Congrats to Nate, Greg, Kid, Tyler and David :!: :!:

KidBlogger April 4, 2007 at 8:30 pm

thanks alex!

David April 4, 2007 at 8:55 pm

Thanks Alex!! I’ll be posting pics of the shirt when I get it!!

Greg Stratz April 4, 2007 at 11:16 pm

Why thanks. I wil wear mine with pride

KidBlogger April 4, 2007 at 8:25 pm

Yey I’m flipping rich! :mrgreen:

KidBlogger April 4, 2007 at 8:32 pm

congrats nate! lucky you! congrats also to greg, tyler and david, also kidblogger!

David April 4, 2007 at 8:57 pm

In all honesty, I would have loved the Wii, and I would have used it tons!!! But its probably better, because when it comes to stuff like that, I’m terrible, and nothing else would get done :oops:

Alex April 5, 2007 at 7:40 am

Yeah, I would probably give up blogging if I won..

David April 5, 2007 at 10:25 am

haha…I would give up studying and work before blogging…blogging is fun!! Work and Studying isn’t…lesson in this?? Work as a blogger!!! Now if only I could get my page as popular as John’s now!!

Article Checker April 4, 2007 at 9:34 pm

Perhaps when John gives away a car, my name gets picked out of the hat. :lol: Congratulations to the flippingrich&Wii winners!

KidBlogger April 4, 2007 at 10:43 pm

when will john email the winners, still got no mail? :cry:

John Chow April 4, 2007 at 11:23 pm

I sent you an email using you blog’s contact form. Did you get it?

KidBlogger April 5, 2007 at 8:11 am

I didn’t get it… but i emailed you mr chow.. :mrgreen:

Piggy April 5, 2007 at 1:22 am

congrats all

Matt Jones April 5, 2007 at 3:43 am

Well done winners! Doesn’t it feel great to win a JC contest :mrgreen:

Francois Gendron April 5, 2007 at 8:03 pm

awwwww no Wii for me. :(

TeamTutorials April 11, 2007 at 9:48 am

If you didn’t win his wii you can try to win mine at http://www.win-my-wii.com

Mr. Red April 14, 2007 at 2:50 am

i should have entered, a bit late now.