OMB’s New Member of the Month Contest!

by John P.

Sony DCRSR60 CamcorderWell, One Man’s Blog has continued to grow in every category I tend to measure, be it Technorati, Alexa, Feedburner or simply traffic stats. As a result, the advertising that I’ve placed on the site has been generating excess cash beyond what’s required to keep my dedicated servers running, and I’ve decided the best thing to do is give some back!

So, I’m happy to announce the implementation of the OMB Member of the Month Contest! Here is the deal… At the beginning of each month I’m going to announce the OMB Member of the Month winner along with the prize for the upcoming month. You can do either (or both) of the following to qualify:

  1. Subscribe for e-mail updates. This makes sure that I have your e-mail so I can contact you if you win, and it allows my readers that don’t have Web sites to still have a chance at winning.
  2. Create a post with at least one link back to any OMB article during the contest month. Please make sure to leave a trackback on the post you link, or drop me an e-mail, so I can keep track.

To make sure we start out with a bang, the first ever prize is going to be a Sony DCR-SR60 Hard Drive Camcorder with a retail value of $599. Great for video blogging because there is no tape! Record to hard drive, then USB it right into your computer for uploading!

I bought this as an evaluation unit and it’s been opened and tested one time only.

Now, I’m not promising that every month will be a $600 prize, but I will tell you that every prize will be something that I would personally love to receive. And as most of you probably know by now I’ve got some tasty toys.

Details I’ve already thought through:

  • If you win I’ll ship anywhere in the world. I don’t care where you are! So, everyone is eligible.
  • Winners will be chosen by a random drawing which I’ll have my wife select while blindfolded (or at least not looking).
  • If you do something spectacular to help promote this site it will earn you extra entries. (Like start a Digg, Stumble, or Reddit storm, create graphics or improve my theme – or anything else generally kick ass.)
  • The rules may be changed a little here and there to keep things fair if I’ve forgotten anything. Please ask questions if you see glaring holes in the plan.

If you’re going to enter via a blog article, how about helping spread the love about this contest? And if you don’t have a Web site but are a regular reader, perhaps it’s time to get an e-mail subscription (top right of the page) so I can include you too? See my privacy policy if you have any concerns.

Thanks to all of you for continuing to read and contribute at One Man’s Blog. You guys are the reason I keep going!


{ 35 comments… read them below or add one }

1 everlast September 6, 2007 at 7:36 am

wow, way to give back to the blog community!

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2 TheDane September 6, 2007 at 11:14 am

1 – Subscribe for e-mail updates. This makes sure that I have your e-mail so I can contact you if you win, and it allows my readers that don’t have Web sites to still have a chance at winning.

2 – Create a post with at least one link back to any OMB article during the contest month. Please make sure to leave a trackback on the post you link, or drop me an e-mail, so I can keep track.

Rule 1 and 2 are contradicting each other a bit…

1 says that people without sites can join and rule 2 says you gotta blog about something on this blog :)

Did I miss something?

Kim:)

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3 John P. September 6, 2007 at 11:22 am

Perhaps I need to be a little more clear with regards to this. When I said there are two ways to qualify I meant it was and “either” / “or” situation… not that you have to do both… :-)

Of course, you certainly can do both if you want. But not required.

John

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4 MG September 6, 2007 at 11:51 am

Sounds good John – I’m in! It’s great to see your proceeds go to worthy causes. I was really impressed with that :)

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5 Brandon September 6, 2007 at 12:10 pm

Woohooo, Hope you guys are up for a challenge :)
I don’t need a new camcorder, but I am competitive :D

Thanks for giving back John, even tho u don’t need to.

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6 TheDane September 6, 2007 at 4:52 pm

Ah ok, that cleas it up, I was just a bit confused.

Thanks…

Kim:)

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7 ruby on rails guy September 6, 2007 at 6:34 pm

Believe it or not, i was considering buying camcorder! I am in.

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8 Lisa Marie Mary September 7, 2007 at 8:53 am

Holy cow, John!! That ROCKS!!! :D

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9 Brandon September 8, 2007 at 8:20 pm

The emails have actually been getting me to come back :D Guess it’s working John..lol

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10 John P. September 8, 2007 at 9:27 pm

That’s great Brandon. I sure am glad to have you. ;-)

Personally I find the e-mail subscription feature very useful. I have a whole boatload of sites in my RSS reader, but I do not read them every day. I reserve subscribing by e-mail to just a few select sites.

I assume everyone else is as selective as me, so I really feel honored to be on the short list for anyone, much less hundreds of people. It certainly motivates me to try to have something new and entertaining every day.

John

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11 Anastasia September 11, 2007 at 11:58 pm

Here are my entries :)

* Subscribed to the RSS/email
* Posted a Blog Entry
* Added a graphic for the contest to my site
* Dugg this story
* Stumbled it
* Added to Technorati Favs

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12 John P. September 12, 2007 at 12:11 am

Wow! That is definitely worth bonus entries. :-) Good luck in the drawing!

This is actually getting pretty exciting for me because it seems like more of you guys are getting excited about it.

I just wish I had a truckload of these things to give away because I would like to see a lot of people win it at this point!

John

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13 TheDane September 12, 2007 at 12:48 am

I just wish I had a truckload of these things to give away because I would like to see a lot of people win it at this point!

And if you let a certain Dane in the Philippines win, well then you have the perfect excuse to handcarry the prize over and stay for a vacation :-D

Kim:)

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14 Eljon September 16, 2007 at 7:18 am

sir, can the post or link back contained on another post with a different topic???

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15 Eljon September 16, 2007 at 7:27 am

i already subscribe via email, dugg it and stumbled it… my usernames there is leonmagnus02

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16 John P. September 16, 2007 at 11:28 am

Eljon,

Of course you can. I welcome syndication on other sites. All I ask is that you please include a link back here. :-)

John

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17 Tom September 16, 2007 at 11:48 am

thanks john for good contents!I was really impressed with that

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18 MyBlogContest September 16, 2007 at 1:36 pm
19 Dempsey September 16, 2007 at 3:24 pm

When does this end?

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20 Laura @ Laura Williams' Musings September 16, 2007 at 4:04 pm

I posted about your contests on my blog under my Sunday Edition of Contests Galore

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21 John P. September 16, 2007 at 4:18 pm

Dempsey,

As I mentioned in the post, this contest will end at the end of the month. Then I’ll start the contest for the next month.

If however you are asking me when I will stop running the monthly contest, I can’t say. I have no plans to ever end it at this point, so in theory there will be a new contest every month from now on!

John

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22 blog contests September 16, 2007 at 4:20 pm
23 Eljon September 16, 2007 at 9:47 pm

i already linked to this log and this post here: http://eljonsalenga.blogspot.com/2007/09/contests-and-links.html

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24 Shrihari September 17, 2007 at 4:54 am
25 Contest Beat September 17, 2007 at 1:21 pm

Hi there

I blogged about your contest on Contest Beat here – http://www.contestbeat.com/a-sony-hard-drive-camcorder-up-for-grabs/

All we do is write about contests in the blogosphere so hopefully we can send you a few more entries too!

Regards, Matt.

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