Free iPod for MarketingPilgrim.com RSS Subscribers
Sunday, November 19th, 2006;
-- Andy Beal |
How would you like to win a shiny new iPod, just for subscribing to Marketing Pilgrim’s RSS feed?
Yep, by simply adding our RSS feed to your favorite news reader, you can take part in a new prize giveaway. You’ll be kept up-to-date with the latest marketing news AND have a chance to win a new Apple iPod.
Why are we giving away an iPod just for subscribing? Well, to be honest, some of you are still trying to use the old Blogger RSS feed, while others still simply try and just “check in when I can”. We want to ensure that everyone is kept up to date with the very latest marketing news, so we thought we’d add an extra incentive.
Here’s how to enter.
- Simply ensure you are subscribed to Marketing Pilgrim’s RSS feed.
- Keep an eye on the sponsored ads that display in our RSS feed. Here’s an example: ”Pilgrim Partners: Handy Recovery Recover files & partitions accidentally deleted on Windows XP/2000″.
- Sometime before December 20th, we’ll switch out the message on a handful of our posts, for a secret RSS-only message.
- When you see the secret, RSS-only message, simply cut and paste that message in an email and send it to contest AT marketingpilgrim.com. Trust us, you won’t confuse the message with a regular ad, it will include a link and reference to this contest.
- Those who email the correct text to us, within 24 hours of it being posted, will be entered to win an iPod Shuffle MP3 player.
- The winner will be selected at random and announced on MarketingPilgrim.com.
That’s all you have to do! But, wait! There’s more.
The more people that subscribe to our RSS feed, the better the prize gets! Here’s out current feed number:
(Pretty lame and certainly doesn’t match-up with the number of people who visit here each day, so we want more of you to consider subscribing.)
If the number of RSS subscribers increases to 2500 by the time we draw the prize, we’ll upgrade the prize from this:
to this..
If, we hit 4000 total RSS subscribers, by the time we draw for the prize, we’ll upgrade the prize to this:
Or you can choose this instead:
Tell your friends, tell everyone! The more RSS subscribers, the better the prize gets!
So, to recap. Simply subscribe to our RSS feed - which is a prize itself - and you could be the owner of a sexy iPod Video before Christmas!
If you don’t already have an RSS reader, may we suggest the following:
I hope you’ll enter the contest. Those of you who already subscribe to our feed - thank you! - need do nothing other than sit back and chuckle at all the readers who have not yet discovered how easy it is to read MP via a feed reader.
Thanks and good luck!
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November 19th, 2006 at 11:55 pm
[...] Andy Beal of Marketing Pilgrim is one of those bloggers that know how to up his readership. He has just announced today that he is giving away a free iPod to one of his blog’s RSS subscribers just by subscribing and here are the mechanics of this contest. [...]
November 20th, 2006 at 6:11 am
This is a pretty cool contest. My 101 marketing tips should include a link to it
November 20th, 2006 at 8:22 am
Great contest idea Andy!
November 20th, 2006 at 9:29 am
Thanks guys!
November 20th, 2006 at 9:23 pm
[...] Andy Beal is giving away an iPod Shuffle to an eagle-eyed RSS subscriber, with readers who spot a special RSS ad being entered in a drawing to get the super-tiny music player. The idea is to drive RSS subscriptions, and to encourage people to spread word of the contest, the prize gets better the more people that subscribe. If 2,500 people subscribe (Feedburner currently reports 1,219 readers), the prize becomes the new metal nano, and if 4,000 subscribe, it will be a shiny video iPod (presumably the 30-gig version). [...]
November 21st, 2006 at 2:23 am
[...] Another contest idea that I’ve had to generate buzz about the network is to give away an Apple IPOD, maybe a couple of iPOD shuffles in some sort of RSS contest that was suggested by another person, who once I digg through my emails I’ll gladly give a nice link to. But it looks like I’ve been beaten to the punch. It turns out the marketing pilgrim, who I must admit I haven’t ever been to their blog, but has started a contest which they’ll be giving away an iPOD to a certain RSS subscriber. What a great idea! [...]
November 21st, 2006 at 9:46 am
[...] Check out this contest over at MarketingPilgrim. [...]
November 21st, 2006 at 2:21 pm
Why not a Zune Andy? Everyone, except me, has an ipod!
November 21st, 2006 at 2:28 pm
[...] Free iPod for MarketingPilgrim.com RSS Subscribers [...]
November 21st, 2006 at 2:33 pm
A Zune, huh? Consider it done!
November 23rd, 2006 at 8:54 am
[...] Though you might have read many ways of increasing your feed readers, I found that offering a free gift can motivate more feed readers to subscribe. You can win a iPod by subscribing to Marketing Pilgrim’s RSS feed! “Why are we giving away an iPod just for subscribing? Well, to be honest, some of you are still trying to use the old Blogger RSS feed, while others still simply try and just “check in when I canâ€?. We want to ensure that everyone is kept up to date with the very latest marketing news, so we thought we’d add an extra incentive.” [...]
December 13th, 2006 at 2:25 pm
[...] The latest one to do so is that of Marketing Pilgrim where they are giving away an iPod to an RSS subscriber [...]
January 7th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
[...] In a effort to build a large MyBlogLog community, Andy Beal, offered up a Microsoft Zune media player as a prize to random member of his community. Now I had joined my bloglog a while back and at the time of Andys announcement of this contest we were at about the same number of members right around 100 each. I thought I would challenge Andy testing a different route. Instead I would use a avatar of Nicole as my community screenshot (I emailed mybloglog people to make sure this was ok). And so it begins… [...]
January 7th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
I ‘ll comment mine later !!! Thnks
January 10th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
i want to win
January 11th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
[...] Don’t miss other great articles and news stories from Marketing Pilgrim, subscribe to our RSS feed and you could win an iPod! [...]
February 26th, 2007 at 2:57 am
[...] A few months ago, many high profile bloggers in the SEO community started using the MyBlogLog Widget on their pages. This included people such as ShoeMoney, Andy Beal, and GrayWolf. People were excited about building their communities and the opportunity to network with other blogger. I also joined up in December and placed the widget on my blog. [...]
February 28th, 2007 at 4:14 am
[...] A few months ago, many high profile bloggers in the SEO community started using the MyBlogLog Widget on their pages. This included people such as ShoeMoney, Andy Beal, and GrayWolf. People were excited about building their communities and the opportunity to network with other blogger. I also joined up in December and placed the widget on my blog. [...]
May 22nd, 2007 at 5:44 am
Hey pals, I hope for the best using you site!
And hey winning an ipod will rock me to the moon! heheh
June 24th, 2007 at 10:39 am
hai guy,,, all the best…
pray that i win the cool ipod…..:))