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Home / Contests / OMB’s New Member of the Month Contest!

OMB’s New Member of the Month Contest!

John P.

September 6, 2007 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!

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Filed Under: Contests, Site Updates Tagged With: Camcorder, Contests, Site Updates, Sony

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Comments

  1. Jordan Badon says

    March 9, 2011 at 1:04 pm

    Great beat ! I wish to apprentice whilst you amend your web site, how can i subscribe for a weblog web site? The account helped me a appropriate deal. I had been a little bit familiar of this your broadcast offered vibrant transparent idea

  2. John P. says

    October 2, 2007 at 1:44 pm

    The winner will be announced tomorrow morning, along with this month’s new contest! :-) Look for it around 2:00am CST…

    John

  3. everlast says

    October 2, 2007 at 1:41 pm

    so was there a winner announced?

  4. ThienLee says

    September 29, 2007 at 6:20 pm

    hi
    i subscribed and heres my post http://www.thienlee.com/?p=54

    and i have also
    dugged , Submited to Reddit,Added to Technorati!,Stumble It!

    hope to get extra entries

  5. vandamonium says

    September 24, 2007 at 2:02 pm

    I have subscribed and posted your contest and rules here.

  6. Misty says

    September 22, 2007 at 1:57 am

    Wow, I’ve read the things on how to hack passwords and he’s right! Im new here and I don’t usually comment lol but today I felt like doing so. ANyways, I want to join in…Im from Philippines! mabuhay! Nice to meet you all!

  7. Martín says

    September 21, 2007 at 4:57 am

    I suscribed too!

  8. Emma says

    September 19, 2007 at 4:20 pm

    OK, I subscribed, I hope I’m your new Member of the month. I’ll try to work in some back links later on. I don’t like to have too many contest posts clumped together. Great site, by the way. Emma

  9. gLf says

    September 19, 2007 at 6:50 am

    Hi! is the contest open worldwide?
    thank you!

  10. Alexia says

    September 18, 2007 at 3:00 pm

    You’ve got a great site here, I’ve been reading some of the posts and they’re very interesting!

    I’d definitely love to win a camcorder so I signed up for your e-mail updates PLUS I’ve posted about you and your contest on my blog: http://themommyrambles.blogspot.com/2007/09/if-youre-bored.html

  11. Contest Beat says

    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.

  12. Shrihari says

    September 17, 2007 at 4:54 am

    Hi,

    Check out my entry here : http://myblogcontests.com/2007/09/17/a-30gb-sony-handycam-camcorder/

  13. Eljon says

    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

  14. blog contests says

    September 16, 2007 at 4:20 pm

    Entered.
    http://www.disregardme.com/index.cfm/2007/9/16/Win-a-Sony-DCRSR60-Hard-Drive-Camcorder

  15. John P. says

    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

  16. Laura @ Laura Williams' Musings says

    September 16, 2007 at 4:04 pm

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

  17. Dempsey says

    September 16, 2007 at 3:24 pm

    When does this end?

  18. MyBlogContest says

    September 16, 2007 at 1:36 pm

    E-mail subscribed

    Post here
    http://myblogcontest.com/omb-is-giving-away-sony-dcr-sr60-hard-drive-camcorde/

  19. Tom says

    September 16, 2007 at 11:48 am

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

  20. John P. says

    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

  21. Eljon says

    September 16, 2007 at 7:27 am

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

  22. Eljon says

    September 16, 2007 at 7:18 am

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

  23. TheDane says

    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:)

  24. John P. says

    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

  25. Anastasia says

    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

  26. John P. says

    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

  27. Brandon says

    September 8, 2007 at 8:20 pm

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

  28. Lisa Marie Mary says

    September 7, 2007 at 8:53 am

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

  29. ruby on rails guy says

    September 6, 2007 at 6:34 pm

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

  30. TheDane says

    September 6, 2007 at 4:52 pm

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

    Thanks…

    Kim:)

  31. Brandon says

    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.

  32. MG says

    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 :)

  33. John P. says

    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

  34. TheDane says

    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:)

  35. everlast says

    September 6, 2007 at 7:36 am

    wow, way to give back to the blog community!

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