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Thursday, January 4th, 2007 by Andy Beal

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A Free Zune or iPod to One Lucky MyBlogLog Community Member

>> Yes, if you win, you can select an iPod instead of a Zune <<

So, last month we gave away an iPod just for reading our RSS feed. The lucky winner simply spotted a secret message and took the prize. This contest is even easier!

Step 1 – Join Marketing Pilgrim’s MyBlogLog community.

Step 2 – Er…that’s it. We’ll pick one random member sometime before Feb 16th.

Easy enough? All we want you to do is join our MyBlogLog community and you’ll be entered to win a “shiny” (that’s for you Lisa!) new Microsoft Zune.

Bonus prize: If the lucky winner happens to have mentioned this contest in a blog post, we’ll also throw in a pair of Shure Sound Isolating Earphones.

So there you have it, we’re buying your friendship, but in a good way! ;-)

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35 comments on “A Free Zune or iPod to One Lucky MyBlogLog Community Member”

  1. Shoemoney Says:

    January 4th, 2007 at 7:46 pm

    Andy-

    I challenge You to a mybloglog contest. I will just use a hot chick avatar but no incentives like a contest ;)

  2. MyBlogLog - Antisocial Behaviour? - Andy Beard Says:

    January 4th, 2007 at 8:00 pm

    [...] I am up to 69 community members – that doesn’t currently place my blog within the top50 MyBlogLog communities, but my community is growing fairly rapidly as is my readership. Unlike many top communities I didn’t start with 1000s of members, and so far haven’t offered any incentives for people to join. Talking of which, Andy Beal is offering a Free Microsoft Zune for joining his community. [...]

  3. Andy Beard Says:

    January 4th, 2007 at 9:57 pm

    Lol Shoe, you have already spammed 5000+ people with add contact messages

  4. Andy Beal Says:

    January 4th, 2007 at 10:09 pm

    Heck Shoe, even I’d take that over a Zune. ;-)

  5. jeremy schoemaker Says:

    January 4th, 2007 at 10:24 pm

    Andy Beard wtf are you talking about spamming 5,000 people?

  6. David Temple Says:

    January 4th, 2007 at 10:33 pm

    How about those of us who joined your community without a bribe? Shouldn’t we get an added incentive? You know like a prebribe contest and post bribe contest. Or just send me something to keep me from whining.

  7. Andy Beard Says:

    January 4th, 2007 at 10:33 pm

    Family, Friends and Contacts (5,652

    Refer to the conversionion on the MyBlogLog blog

    http://mybloglogb.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/12/mybloglog_needs.html

  8. Brian Says:

    January 4th, 2007 at 10:56 pm

    Andy, I deserve that Zune. After all, I blog about dogs and spend so much time walking my two dogs that I could really use an update from my poor old Sony Walkman cassette player… OK so I am exaggerating with the walkman, but I think a Zune would look great on me.

    GO Andy.

  9. Shoemoney Says:

    January 4th, 2007 at 11:07 pm

    Andy – stfu dude I never sent anyone spam messages get a fucking clue idiot. Do you look at the people I add who thank me for adding them? Do you see ONE person complain that I spammed them? I went through and hand picked contacts so what its a social environment Im not spamming messages or websites so don’t make it sound like I am.

  10. David Temple Says:

    January 4th, 2007 at 11:33 pm

    I spend a lot of time in MyBlogLog and I have to say that Shoemoney is not even coming close to spamming. I mean look how good looking she is. No wonder she has so many contacts. ;)

    Here’s my favorite spam hound’s message;

    This is a formal invitation to join my group and visit my Blog: http:/ / www. findnews. blogspot. com and Portal : http:/ / www. oneindia. in Kindly leave your openion, suggestion or tip to improve my blog.

    Hey thanks for reading my blog you idiot! You don’t want to hear my openion, belive me.

  11. Andy Beard Says:

    January 4th, 2007 at 11:50 pm

    Congratulations, in the space of 1 hour you have carefully selected 200 bloggers to add as a contact, and many of the poor guys actually think you visited their blog.

    Maybe some of the new community members will even result in new subscribers because you do have a decent blog.

    I suppose you can justify anything by the end result.

  12. Andy Beal Says:

    January 5th, 2007 at 9:17 am

    Now, now, Andy, Jeremy, play nicely with each other…or at least, let me figure out how to monetize this fight. ;-)

  13. Rhea Says:

    January 5th, 2007 at 1:15 pm

    I completely agree with David about those who joined not knowing there were goodies to be had. I don’t even have a blog, I’m there purely to soak up the brilliance of others. Unfortunately, that makes me pretty worthless to the blog community unless you count the fact that I’m a young chic, similar to Shoemoney’s girl that can make your blog look ten times sexier. :P

  14. Andy Beal Says:

    January 5th, 2007 at 1:53 pm

    David, Rhea – you are extremely valued and I hope that you get enough great content from us to reward your efforts.

    If not, I’ll send you an envelope of cash if you promise to pretend. ;-)

  15. David Temple Says:

    January 5th, 2007 at 2:01 pm

    All done tongue in cheek Andy, you know I’ve gotten a lot out of Marketing Pilgrim. (Please send small unmarked bills)

  16. Andy Beal Says:

    January 5th, 2007 at 2:41 pm

    I know David, thanks for reading!

  17. Rhea Says:

    January 5th, 2007 at 10:59 pm

    Not to be annoying, but I can only accept payment in the form of travelers checks or Magners cider.

  18. George Says:

    January 7th, 2007 at 8:11 pm

    LOL… shoemoney at his old SPAM tricks again…? spamming the 5,000 people… geeez

  19. Cygnus Says:

    January 7th, 2007 at 8:58 pm

    Marketing Pilgrim vs Shoemoney community subscriber drive; both of you will win with this…a great idea as both blogs are must reads for marketers. I know I’ll be watching closely.

  20. Kim Krause Berg (cre8pc) Says:

    January 7th, 2007 at 10:49 pm

    What the heck good is a picture of a pretty girl going to do for me???? I’ll take the geek toy any day :)

  21. MyBlogLog Plutoed? - Andy Beard Says:

    January 8th, 2007 at 10:44 am

    [...] Recently Andy Beal decided to issue a free Zune MP3 player to a member of his MyBlogLog community. I actually thought this was a good idea to encourage people to use the service, as Andy has a high readership. Thus I did link through to him in my post “MyBlogLog – Antisocial Behaviour?”. [...]

  22. zz Online Marketing Says:

    January 8th, 2007 at 11:14 am

    [...] Andy Beal from Marketing Pilgrim announced he would be giving away a free Microsoft Zune MP3 player to one lucky member of his mybloglog community, in an effort to get more members. Shoemoney decided to prove that people would rather look at pictures of girls in tight tops, rather than win an mp3 player. [...]

  23. Techn0tic Says:

    January 9th, 2007 at 8:09 am

    My hot chick avatar just doesn’t seem to be working for me, maybe I should try bribery too, I could give away a box full of old/broken PC components.

  24. SoloSEO Blog » How to Optimize your Search Engine Snippets Says:

    January 11th, 2007 at 9:04 am

    [...] Andy Beal, MarketingPilgrim.com (Page, SERPS) No description meta tag. Now the snippet from this one (screenshot above) is one of the most interesting of the examples without a meta tag description, as the entire snippet text is actually pulled from a comment to the blog post (see comment 21). Even if you change the keyword term from “lucky myblog to “free microsoft zune” or “zune mybloglog”, the snippet remains the same. But if I search for “mybloglog lucky winner” it shows a snippet of Andy’s content now. The variability is often fixed with the use of a unique description in the description meta tag. [...]

  25. MyBlogLog-Baiting Says:

    January 15th, 2007 at 9:57 am

    [...] Angefangen hat das Ganze damit, dass Andy einen Microsoft Zune unter allen Lesern verlost, die seiner MyBlogLog-Community beitreten. Eine sehr gute Idee, die ihn letzlich weniger als 1$ pro User kosten wird. [...]

  26. Frank Helmschrott » Blog Archiv » MyBlogLog im Blog Says:

    January 19th, 2007 at 3:53 am

    [...] Auch in der SEO-Szene erfreut sich MyBlogLog mittlerweile großer Beliebtheit. Angefangen hat das ganze – wie soll’s auch anders sein – in den Staaten. Der MarketingPilgrim Andy Beal und Mr. $132.000-Adsense-Scheck Jeremy “Shoemoney” Shoemaker liefern sich seit einiger Zeit den MyBlogLog-Contest. Andy verlost sogar einen Zune an alle die auf sein MyBlogLogProfil linken. Die Community von Shoemoney (sein Profil) verzeichnet derzeit ungefähr doppelt so viele Mitglieder wie die von Andy (sein Profil). [...]

  27. Whorebait: Prostitution on MyBlogLog - Tech Mentat Says:

    January 25th, 2007 at 5:13 pm

    [...] Since I have no established followers/readers/fan-base, the only way I can see building a community quickly is by creating some MyBlogLog whorebait. Some others have tried the “winning a prize” approach (or just “shameless solicitation”) and I like that approach but I want to take mine a step further and add some vanity. It’s quick, easy and everyone loves prizes. [...]

  28. Sex Sells More than Gadgets Says:

    January 29th, 2007 at 12:42 pm

    [...] At the beginning of this month Shoemoney (Jeremy) threw up a challenge to Marketing Pilgrim (Andy Beal) by claiming that he could get more MyBlogLog community members by putting a picture of an attractive woman in his avatar rather than “Win a Free Zune” message. [...]

  29. John Koetsier Says:

    January 31st, 2007 at 10:37 pm

    OK, fine, I’ll enter the contest. But I want an iPod, not a crappy Zune.

    :-)

  30. Ricardo Says:

    February 15th, 2007 at 9:49 am

    …A Free Microsoft Zune to One Lucky MyBlogLog Community Member, thats right people just go to MyBlogLog and sign up, then find marketingpilgrim.com and join their community…

  31. MyBlogLog Contest WhoreBait Winners Announced - Tech Mentat Says:

    February 22nd, 2007 at 3:47 am

    [...] February 16th, 2007 at 12pm marked the end of my MyBlogLog Contest and all I can say is “WOW, What a wild ride it has been!!!” Since stealing the idea, I have been excited (dare I say, Die Hard charged!) with the overwhelming response that my contest has received. Honestly, I never expected so much positive growth over such a short period of time. [...]

  32. MyBlogLog Contest WhoreBait Winners Announced - Tech Mentat Says:

    February 28th, 2007 at 3:45 am

    [...] February 22, 2007 // February 16th, 2007 at 12pm marked the end of my MyBlogLog Contest and all I can say is “WOW, What a wild ride it has been!!!” Since stealing the idea, I have been excited (dare I say, Die Hard charged!) with the overwhelming response that my contest has received. Honestly, I never expected so much positive growth over such a short period of time. To give you an idea of what I am talking about; when I started this contest I only had 22 members to my community and now, after whoring myself out to the general public, I have a total of 28 community members. Fucking A’ Right Whorebaiting works!!! All I have got to say to dissenters of search marketing is “Look Who is Laughing Now, dickweed!” I could go on and on about how much fun the past few weeks have been; the people I have met (you would have no idea who I ended up having a heart-to-heart with at 3am – their last name ends in Steve Urkel), the friends I have made, the parties, the dress barn, the gap… and, OMG I can’t forget, the chap stick contest where we all sang Meatloaf and pretended we were in comas (will you guys ever forget? – my safe word was feeding-tube). It’s been the best parts of Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride – but we are here for the winners today. So let’s get to the prizes. First off, I would like to thank Mr. Ethan Hayes (pictured below) for helping me select the winners. The process for selecting the winners was quite complex but I will try and break it down quickly. First I printed out my community members pictures onto a single piece of paper (yes, it’s harder than you think). Then I cut each picture up into its own “square” (square is in quotes because I can’t cut straight). I then placed the community squares (which henceforth I will call communion or body of christ) in a cup. Lastly, I had Ethan Hayes select a random body of christ from the cup and place it my mouth… and by mouth, I mean, he held it up so I could take a picture. Winners Runner up: SEO Fox What Did He Win: The Runner Up will be granted permission to publicly state that we are “going steady” for one full month (permission ends on March 16th, 2007). I will be watching – you’ve only got a month, so make good on it! First Place: Stuntdubl What Did He Win: The Winner of my drawing will receive 1 Nerf Football signed (autographed) by me personally as well as 2 framed 8 x 10 pictures of yours truly. Here’s the best part – both photos will have ME holding YOUR Nerf football so you know they’re authentic! If you want to claim your prize that email me your delivery address at mybloglogwhorebait@gmail.com (yes, it is a real address). So there you have it Gents. Enjoy and Good Looking Out. BlinkList : del.icio.us : Flog this! : Furl : ma.gnolia : Netvouz : reddit : Spurl : Yahoo MyWeb [...]

  33. Zune Accessory » A Free Microsoft Zune to One Lucky MyBlogLog Community Member Says:

    May 16th, 2007 at 7:55 am

    [...] Original post by Internet Marketing News and Consulting | Marketing Pilgrim January 04th 2007 Posted to Zune [...]

  34. raajaraman Says:

    April 12th, 2008 at 9:18 am

    i like zune player send a reply

  35. MyBlogLog goes from strength to strength | Web Developer 2.0 Says:

    October 24th, 2008 at 8:14 am

    [...] There are some shameless, though not particularly underhanded, self promotion tactics being used to build communities around blogs on MyBlogLog. Using a picture of a hot girl as your avatar is one (increasingly common) way to get people checking out you profile and site(s). Marketing Pilgrim are currently using nothing more than bribery to get new members. [...]