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Win $5,348 In Cash and Prizes from Winning The Web

written by John Chow on March 10, 2008

How one lazy bum made $176,697.50

Gyutae Park over at Winning The Web has came up with another awesome contest. He is giving away $5,348 in cash and prizes put up by well know companies.

Park has done a text book case in how to stage a contest that will generate a lot of buzz and get a lot of people to enter. And the best part is, his out of pocket cost is almost nothing (aside from ordering this review) because all the prizes are sponsored. If you’re thinking of doing a contest, Winning The Web is a good example to study. You should enter not just to try and win a prize, but also to learn how a contest like this can help increase your traffic.

Prizes Up For Grab

  • $650 Cash from Azoogle Ads
  • $500 Cash from PepperJam Network
  • $250 Cash from NeverblueAds
  • $200 Cash from BidVertiser
  • 1 Full Conference Pass to Affiliate Summit East ($949 value)
  • 3 Month Membership to Aaron Wall’s SEO Training Program ($300 value)
  • 6 Month Membership to SEOmoz Pro ($249 value)
  • 26 Week Internet Marketing Plan from Purple Internet Marketing ($800 value)
  • Autographed Copy of Kris’ Jones Upcoming Book on SEO ($20 value)
  • 8 PSD Custom Banner Designs from Banners Mall ($275 value)
  • 2 Exclusive Blog Themes from Unique Blog Designs (2 winners – $100 value each)
  • 2 Revolution WordPress Blog Themes from Brian Gardner (2 winners -$80 value each)
  • 1 Year Swamp Plan Web Hosting from Host Gator ($150 value)
  • 1 Hour Blog Optimization Consulting from Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips ($175 value)
  • 3 Month 125×125 Banner Ad on AndyBeard.eu ($100 value)
  • 1 Month Text Link Ad on Ades Blog ($90 value)
  • 1 Paid Review on Winning the Web – sponsored by 1 Cool File ($100 value)
  • 20 Winning the Web T-shirts (20 winners – $9 value each)

The winners of all of the individual prizes will be selected by a random draw on March 31 – there will be at least 39 winners in total (including 20 free t-shirts to the participants with the most entries).

To participate in the contest, all you have to do is perform certain actions that gain you more entries. The more entries you have, the higher your chances of winning a prize. If I win anything, I’ll give it away to a reader. Good luck!

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A good contest. :mrgreen:

Thanks for sharing, I'm in. If I win something, I'll organize a smaller scale contest. Hehe.

Thanks for the great contest and sharing. Look forward your great tips.

This is so dope! I checked out the site, pretty solid content.

Gyutae, will show you the way, it's his forte, /
how to win it all, the cash and all, a true blogger's winfall.

Richie Champagne :cool:

Quite not short list of prices :)

It's even more money now, great contest! :wink:

I'm participating too. In so many prices available, no way that I'm missing a chance to win !!! :oops:

Yea, money is the biggest motivator. But high-value items (like a premium blog design) are enticing, too.

Cash is the only way to go in contests in my opinion. Money always talks. ;)

Some of those networks require you to be signed up with them, like Azoogle ads for example.

That is one crazy contest indeed! Just do it! :cool:

It doesn't hurt to try. It's free to enter. A blog post gets you 10 entries, and you can keep doing things to gain more entries (like commenting, etc.).

hmm another contest ... perhaps i might t ry

Interesting!
I love contests I may try it.

What are the ads on the top of your blog that appear...way at the top? What company places those ads? They appear to be viral as they change each visit or am I the only one who sees them :oops:

Great prizes and fantastic link bait !

Great prize selection and what linkbait.

Great contest, would love that top prize. I'll have to start networking and get some people to want to give me prizes to auction off on my blog.

So, does he pay for the prizes himself or get the other companies to sponsor him?

The prizes are up to $7,000+! He keeps adding things to win!

Man, that's BIG. Never let this slip away! :oops:

Interesting. I signed up. Hope i can win. Mr. Chow, you should do a contest for one of your readers to come meet you and get a day of lessons with you. Im excited about life again because of you!

That is a nice contest. Thanks.

Woww.. i'm gonna try this one, Thanks

Now at $7,119... :shock:

So when is the cutoff, when you reach $10,000 in prizes?

Speaking of contests, who wound up winning that Ruff laptop? Maybe I missed it. Anyway, congrats to the winner and good luck on this one all.

Just so everyone knows, the value of the prizes has been upped and is currently at $6,622... This is turning out to be HUGE.

Check it out here: http://www.winningtheweb.com/craziest-internet-mar...

Crazy man! Count me in for more entries.

Wow. Nice coup!

thats a pretty sweet contest!

Great prizes! I'll definately give it a look. Makes the $50 I'm giving away look like chump change.

Wow, baller. Now THIS is a contest. None of that "Oh, I'll give you 100 Entrecard credits if you win."

I'll take the cash, thanks.

Balllllin'. Hope you enjoy. :mrgreen:

I blogged about it. I will comment on your site tomorrow and link back to the blog post. This is the craziest contest I have ever seen. How did you get all those sponsored prizes?

I'll let you know in a future post coming soon. Stay tuned. :grin:

It probably involves some heavy networking and a good reputation. Either way, you're able to leverage those assets into a great contest that benefits your readers (prizes), you (more traffic), and your sponsors (exposure, new sign-ups). It's a win, win, win.

GReat job...Congrats. hope it exceeds yourexpectations!

yeah this one maybe i win...lol
Good luck to all and this promoting with power no??

It's a great contest with some fabulous prizes and I entered yesterday. What's nice about it is you can keep accumulating points and get more chances to win as the contest goes on.

I just saw this contest yesterday. Mr. Gyutae really knows how to do it :)

-Mike

That's an awesome list of prizes and quite an easy contest to enter. I see got your entries in with this post John. This contest is not only good for him to drive traffic to his site, it is also good for the companies and sites that sponsored prizes. Good luck everyone!

~Terry

This looks like a great contest and definitely a great way to build traffic to any website.

I wonder though how was he able to get these sponsorships? Direct deals with the company giving out prizes or some other method?

I'm saving that for a post on Winning the Web. Be sure to come and check it out. :)

Wow, that is a sweet list of prizes.

Michael

I love it when contest go crazy it's like a contest on steroids

Those are really awesome prizes! I'm going to check it out, though my luck sucks!

Thanks for the information, I think it's a great contest.

Damn. Now that's a contest.

You got that right. I've never seen so many prizes in one contest before. Definitely going to enter this!