Comments on: New Contest – Win an iPod Touch!

By: 5 Ways to Keep your Visitors Coming Back Every Day | SoloSEO Blog

5 Ways to Keep your Visitors Coming Back Every Day | SoloSEO Blog — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:38:53 +0000

[...] that a contest can be used to keep visitors checking back often, or to subscribe to your RSS feed. Andy Beal of Marketing Pilgrim runs contests every now and then (this one I actually won!), and one of his neat ideas was to put [...]

By: viper

viper — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:12:33 +0000

i like ipod (be2ethen allah ra7 afoz)

By: jen

jen — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:21:16 +0000

I love the Ipod touch, too bad i didnt win it. thanks for the chance though

By: charlie chalifoux

charlie chalifoux — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:35:51 +0000

i love the new ipod touch i thing it better than psp apple the best brand

By: Shreeganesh

Shreeganesh — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:16:52 +0000

I like Touch I-pod Because this is very ataractive & I like all Eletronics item. I Want I-pod

By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:35:42 +0000

@Mary – yes, http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2008/03/the-free-ipod-touch-goes-to.ht ml

By: Mary_Freebies

Mary_Freebies — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:30:45 +0000

Have you announced the winner yet?

By: Jasmine

Jasmine — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:43:21 +0000

I would like this i pod touch because my friend and I will enjoy having the latest things out.
From: Cliniqe and Jasmine

By: jackjack

jackjack — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:36:13 +0000

soon

By: jackjack

jackjack — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:35:01 +0000

i want to win

By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:04:08 +0000

Announcement coming soon.

By: Curious

Curious — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:55:53 +0000

So did anyone win yet?

By: yingz

yingz — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 08:51:20 +0000

may i know why is my comment still under moderation? something wrong?

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 08:10:56 +0000

Nice competition. Although i read your blog for a long time, i’ve just found i didn’t have you on my reader till today. But i have you now

By: International Freebies » Blog Archive » Blog Contest: 8GB iPod Touch

International Freebies » Blog Archive » Blog Contest: 8GB iPod Touch — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:11:28 +0000

[...] Marketing Pilgrim is giving an 8GB iPod Touch away. All you need to do is subscribe to their feed by email or RSS feed, and spot a secret message [I found it today!] that you have to email to Andy. [...]

By: photojunkie » I finally got myself an iPod Touch

photojunkie » I finally got myself an iPod Touch — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:36:12 +0000

[...] maybe I can win one for [...]

By: hill_mie87

hill_mie87 — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:29:41 +0000

I need the iPod Touch, real bad!

By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:42:31 +0000

@Andrew – thanks for the analysis. Don’t forget the long-term compounded benefits from continual contests like this.

Also, looking at Feedburner, we actually hit a new high on Monday of 9,429.

By: Andrew Miller

Andrew Miller — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:15:01 +0000

9,031 readers today. Looks like a net increase of 252 (~2.8%) subscribers over the course of the promotion. I’m not sure what the blog’s average growth rate is, but I think it’s safe to assume you grew your readership by about 2%.

Was it worth it? On the surface, it’s hard to tell if 252 new subscribers are worth the $299 retail price of an 8GB iPod Touch. The prize could be as much as $499 if the winner blogged and Twittered a link to this post. The value of each subscriber would have to increase dramatically to provide a positive return.

In addition to the increase in subscribers, we can also assume this post generated several hundred backlinks (843 in Y! Site Explorer today) from various blogs and Twitter. Most of them might not count for much, but there is definitely some short-term value there when viewed in aggregate.

However, the more telling statistic could be how many of the new subscribers are still around in another week or so, after the contest is over.

Of course, Andy has other ways to recoup his investment. If only a few of them click on one of the affiliate ads, buy his new book or sign up for trackur.com this could turn into a winning proposition pretty quickly.

Well done Andy. We can only assume that the promotions are successful based on your internal metrics because you keep running them. Either that, or you refuse to believe one of my favorite mantras, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” -Albert Einstein

By: yingz

yingz — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:49:27 +0000

am I entered into the contest?