I had a talk with TUK [The University Kid] few days back about sponsoring a blog contest he was planning to host. I thought there might be few more of them in single digits and we would have a decent contest held up for all the readers. Nothing more apart from this. But all my expectation were torn off after Jason actually published his post on the blog contest. It WAS the longest blog contest post I have read as of today.
TUK has been topping in my RSS subscribed blogs, taking over few oldies and getting my attention. I admire this kid being so young and not waiting to grab the opportunity on knocking the door but making the opportunities knock it. He will certainly go a long way. I have been reading him regularly since last couple of months and commenting on his blog regularly.
So Jason decided to come up with multi-sponsored contest and gave you an opportunity to make multiple your entries by doing very small job. The best one I would suggest is to blog about this contest and earn 6 points. Being in his top commentators list will earn you 3 points, and subscribing his blog and commenting on this blog contest post will earn few more points. Huh, last month it was easy for me to end up in his top commentators’ list but this month the contest post making it difficult for me :).
Well, here is what we are sponsoring:
- One 125 x 125 banner spot for one month advertising worth $30
- One detailed review on this blog worth $40 [with discounted price. We normally charge $60 for this detailed review but these two months are SALE months, and I think that's working looking at our February earnings]
- 500 Entrecard credits, we have given these entrecard credits in one of the contests we held in January month as well.
Here is the price list for you to look at. Make sure your take a glass of water, as it’s a big list to scroll through.
Wordpress Themes
- Two licenses for the Revolution Theme ($160)
- Two licenses for the Premium News Theme ($200)
- Two licenses for the Purple Fever Theme ($100)
- One hundred accounts to the Themes Club ($500)Blog Tools
- Three licenses by FruitfulTime.com ($90)
Blog Analysis
- Full Video Review By Marcus Hochstadt ($700)
eBooks
- SEO Book Donated By The Net Fool
Blog Advertising
One Month
- Two 125 x 125 on Wayne Liew ($30)
- One 125 x 125 On Blogger Noob ($25)
- One 125 x 125 on EZ Money Online ($25)
- One 125 x 125 on Affiliate Gossip ($15)
- One 125 x 125 on Rhyan ($10)
- One 125 x 125 on Jim Karter ($30)
- One 125 x 125 on Neotrepreneur ($10)
- One 125 x 125 on Life is Colourful ($30)
- One 125 x 125 on BLJConsultant ($5)
- One 125 x 125 on Resell Rights World ($5)
- One 125 x 125 on Viking Blogger ($25)
- One 125 x 125 on Dot Com Mogul ($10)
- One 468 x 60 on Blogging 4 Cash ($10)
- Five 16 x 16 on Blogging 4 Cash ($10)
- One 150 x 150 on Blogging 4 Cash ($5)
- One Text Link On Mr Javo ($7)
Three Months
- One 125 x 125 on The WWW Observer ($75)
Blog Reviews
- One Review By The University Kid ($60)
- One Review By Yimto ($20)
- One Review By The WWW Observer ($35)
- One Review By Bloggeries ($25)
- One Review By Neotrepreneur ($10)
- One Review By Life Is Colourful ($40)
- One Review By DaBloggerConsulting
One hour consulation with The University Kid
Thirty minutes consulation with NeotrepreneurDesign
- One Custom Done 125 x 125 Ad By Affiliate Gossip
- One Custom Done Sketch By The Pencil Sketch And Art BlogEntrecard Credits
- 2000 Entrecard Credits By Xavier Media
- 1750 Entrecard Credits By Mixed Market Arts
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Toast & Egg & Me
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Affiliate Confession
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Yimto
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Site Hoppin’
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Neotrepreneur
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Affiliate Gossip
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By BLJ Consultant
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Resell Rights World
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Happier Life
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Article Snatch
- 800 Entrecard Credits By Kirushanth
- 750 Entrecard Credits By Money Making Student
- 500 Entrecard Credits By Bud Calabrese
- 500 Entrecard Credits By Mr Javo
- 500 Entrecard Credits By ImpNerd
- 500 Entrecard Credits By Life Is Colourful
- 500 Entrecard Credits By Money Making BlogsTotal: 15,800
Cash
$100 Paypal by The Profit Hustler
$30 Paypal by Viking Blogger
$15 Paypal by Final Fantasy Fan
$10 Paypal by The WWW Observer
$5 Paypal by Affiliate GossipMiscellaneous
300 Stumbles + 300 Reviews from Niklas
$50.00 In Stumble Upon Advertising By Mixed Market Arts
Twenty Pages By One Buck Wiki
Domain Monetization Package By Domains Earn 4U
One featured, three regular links from The SEOTree Directory
While going through the prize list, one thing grabbed my attention.
One Custom Done Sketch By The Pencil Sketch And Art Blog
This is something interesting than regular advertising, reviews, cash prices. I personally liked this price because of being an artist myself and knowing what it takes to make such sketches. I recently had got my sketch done in The Universal Studios but it was more like Caricature than a real sketch. I framed it and put up on the wall at my home currently, and won’t mind to put up one more by Sue.
One thing, which always make me wonder economics in internet is that we have these competitions, where you can win 125×125 ad spot for one month and it is suppoesd to be worth xx dollars.
This is all fine and dandy, if website has more or less queue of advertisers, who wants to get their ad shown in that particular spot, but if that is not the case, then we can question what is the real value of a spot, which normally has ‘free ad space’ or something similar in it.
As an concrete example… I’ve never sold private ad space in my blog, but as far as I know, I could say that I will donate one 125×125 ad spot for competion xyz and list USD50 without offering any hard facts on why it would be worth it.
If we want to look it from another angle… you have 125×125 Project Wonderful as spot in here, which currently says that I could buy that spot for 10c. Unless some would start competing, I could buy that spot for USD3.10 for whole month (instead of suggested USD30).