RSS Contest: Slyvisions vs. 4 Other Blogs
I’m proud to present that I am participating in my first major competition/contest against other bloggers. Four other bloggers to be exact.
If you know about the RSS contest between John Chow and Shoemoney back in October of last year, you should know what this one is going to be about. That’s because it’s the same type of contest, but with 5 bloggers: Ian Fernando, The University Kid, the Internet Babel, Thomas Sinfield, and the ever-great Slyvisions. So what’s the contest all about? Simple: whoever, out of the 5 blogs, gets the most growth in RSS subscribers for a month wins.
Below, you’ll see the number of subscribers each blog had before the contest officially started today. Notice my numbers? It was 178 yesterday. Take a look at it now (at the top header). It’s exactly at 200. Already a 22 subscriber increase! And that’s nothing compared to how much more I will get with the strategy and tricks I have in my sleeve.
The contest will then end on the 5th of March.
The idea of starting this contest actually originated as a competition between me and Jason from the University Kid. Then as we talked more about it, Jason decided that it would be a good idea if there were more bloggers in our level that competed against each other. Then we went on from there.
If you haven’t subscribed to my RSS feed yet whether by an aggregator or by email, make sure you do! The only way I can win this contest is by the help of you, my readers! If you visit this blog regularly, you should have already subscribed to it. If not, don’t forget to! I know that there are those who don’t want to subscribe (yet) or don’t want to at all. If you haven’t subscribed yet because you don’t know what RSS is and how to use it, check out this video. But if you still don’t want to subscribe for no particular reason… well, let me tell you that this will change. In the next few days and weeks, I’ll be giving out more offers and prizes that will make you want to click that RSS button, so make sure to check back regularly. But what’s the best way to get the latest news to you? Subscribe!
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How are you doing the contest? Sheer number of readers or percentage increase? If percent then the guy with 7 readers schooled you all. He will win this contest by accident.
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The pic at the far right looks like it shows 7 readers in the chiclet.
My question is this…how are you measuring the growth…in sheer numbers or by percent increase?
Did you guys work that out or agree on which method you will use?
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Hey Sly,
Good luck with the contest. I’ve subscribed! By the way BlogEntrepreneur, I suspect they are measuring the growth in sheer numbers.
Keep up the good work,
Hafiz Dhanani
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Hi Sly,
I have been to your site a number of times and have not yet even subscribed to your RSS. This is even more of a reason to.
Good Luck.
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This sounds like a very interesting contest and one way to get readers to subscribe to your feeds, which is suppose to boost your rankings also, I have been told .altho I do not know much about feeds I do hope you come out ahead. These contests that different people have on their blogs seems to bring in alot of traffic keep up the good work and good luck.
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Cool! I’m was subscribed but my Google Reader got too much stuff so I unsubscribed. Looks like I’ll subscribe again.
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Well, damn, I guess I can’t participate in this contest, huh? Too bad… good luck man!
Jay
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BlogEntrepreneur - the contest is based on who get the most new subscribers. we figured this to be the fairest and easiest way to judge a winner.
Best of luck slyvisions… looking forward to seeing some of your ideas!
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Hey Sly, nice stuff you guys came up with, guess I’m part of your number already.
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Of course I’ll support a good blog friend (from MyBlogLog) and have feeded you in my Google Reader. Good luck!
By the way, You might like to feed mine too:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/RennybasTerella
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Good Luck on the contest.I cant wait to see how this goes 5 great blogs. I hope all of you guys get a good traffic boost from this.
Bud
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signed up, may the best man win!
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Great blog post, keep it up
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Just subscribed, all the best.
I was going to have a contest with couple other bloggers in the same way, but people would feel boring just seeing these, so better i would try something else now
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Are you accepting sponsorships for this contest?
If so, drop me an email at the address given in this comment.
Interesting contest,
I see you’re already pulling tricks out of your sleeves with the free ebook offer
On a sad note, feedburner is blocked in China, so I can only subscribe via email.
Good luck!
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What a great idea for a contest! I’ve got my money on this blog. It’s great to see new blogs networking in the blogosphere!
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How are you doing so far? how about a halfway result, letting us know a bit about the score, adding a bit of exitement …?
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[...] is currently in a competition with 4 other bloggers (Ian Fernando, Slyvisions, Thomas Sinfield and The University Kid) to see who can gain the most subscribers in 1 month. More [...]
Hey I am going to subscribe to your RSS right after this commnet, hope it helps ya out!! good luck to you!
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done it.