Jimvesting's July Referral Extravaganza – Contest Winner Announced!
Author: Jim | Filed under: Announcements, Contests
Good afternoon everyone,
Those of you who decided to participate in last month’s contest, I want to thank you for such great support. Despite the relatively low number of entrants, the field was extremely competitive for the top two finishers. This contest was really used as a social experiment on my behalf more than anything else. Despite the doubters, this competition managed to add in 108 active RSS subscribers to my numbers. I feel that word-of-mouth advertising is better than anything that money alone can buy… and with two big competitors that had their eye on the prize (FREE Flip Mino Video Camera), this experiment was definitely a success. 
Before I announce winners, I want to give a big thanks to Market Leverage for once again sponsoring the monthly contest here at Jimvesting dot com. They are clearly dominating the “make money online” niche of blogs, as has been noted time and time again. Market Leverage is my go-to affiliate network whenever I 
want to run an ad campaign to make some money on the internet… so try them out. The least you can do is sign up for their generosity… it’s completely free and you can see what the program is all about!
So how did I decide the winner of the $200 Flip? Quite simply, I made this a competition rather than a contest. This means that whoever actually went out and got the most recruits would win the camera, taking the “luck” element almost completely out of the event. I feel that this is the correct way to run such a referral contest.
In order to get referrals recorded in your name, you had to use the contact form that I set up to email your friends the subscription link. I then got a carbon copy of the referral script, and was able to record the names (along with the sender) and compare that list to my official feed subscriber list to add up the correct number of referrals for each contestant. Now, I understand that this would have been made a LOT easier with some sort of program or mailing list; however, when I’m capable of doing a decent job for free… I’m taking the zero-expense route and doing things myself. 
Now… on to the results.
As I said before, there were a decent amount of people that used the form provided to email a few friends, but two people in particular went way over the top: Enkay from EnkayBlog.com and M. Dinesh from Contest Winner. The lead actually changed hands several times over the course of the last week of action, so I figured I would give both of you a backlink to make it not entirely a waste of the runner-ups time.
So without further ado…
Winner of a Flip Mino Video Camera
M. Dinesh from Contest Winner! (51 Referrals)
Runner Up
Enkay from EnkayBlog.com (44 Referrals)
Honorable Mentions
Hinpaki, The Blogote, Jay Bigley
A big thanks to everyone that participated! The August contest is going to be a bit smaller and easier to enter, I am anticipating a contest focused on handing out advertising spots across the web… so be sure to stay on the lookout for that post!
That’s all for today, I’ll be emailing the winner for some contact information and shipping prizes as soon as I can. Once again, congratulations and thanks for all the hard work everybody that participated!
-Jimvesting
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Congrats to the winners. I wish I could join the next contest
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Cool, congrats to the winners, Market Leverage is taking over man!
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Congrats to the winners… Yes, Market Leverage is certainly taking over the blogosphere. Unfortunately, they are not breaking down my door to offer cool contests… guess they don’t like the content
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Congratulations to the winner
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i never joined this contest because i am thinking its impossible to win on large contest not knowing the contest isn’t really large
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Woohoooooooooooooooooooooo……..
My happiness cant end today.
This is my ever first and biggest contest win ever.
My hands are shaking because of happiness, I can’t even type.
Now I will tell it to my friends whom i promised a camera if they help me.
Thank you so much Jim.
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cool concept for the idea; i already see it being mirrored. Congratz to the winners,
Congratulations everyone! I am happy to see the winners, big congrats to m.dinesh! I hope everyone enjoyed the contest!
Thank you every one, Nathanel big thank you too.
I should especially thank Market Leverage for sponsoring Jim’s contest.
Thank you Market Leverage.
Your welcome m.dinesh, I really hope you enjoy your prize!
And a big thank you to Market Leverage for sponsoring this great contest, and many great contests really!
This seems to be the time you are really rising to the top ML!
Thanks Jim for hosting the contest! Congratulations to the winner! If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to me.
~Debby
AIM: mktlvgdeborah
deborah@marketleverage.com
407-323-1190
Thank you Debby
Congrats To The Winners!
Thanks for the link back. Too bad there isn’t a prize or anything for the runner up!
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Congratulations m.dinesh! Looking forward to next month’s contest, I really like easy contests
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Thanks rajaie
Enkay congratulations for the link back.
You gave me a lot of competition.
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Congrats to the winners that’s pretty cool!
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Congratz to the winner.I hope I too win many contest like this.
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