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Contest: Win a free copy of Solo Training, the DVD
Posted by: | CommentsLoren W. Christensen has been kind enough to donate a prize for another contest here on my blog. He’s giving away one copy of his best-selling video “Solo Training” to the lucky winner.
Win this DVD!
How do you enter this contest?
Easy: sign up for a free membership account at my site. The winner will be drawn at random from all those members on Saturday April 10.
There’s just one stipulation, this contest is only open to US residents. But don’t let that stop you from joining in because when you do, you also get a free e-book, my newsletter and a lot more.
Good luck!
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Contest month is now over and conclusions.
Posted by: | CommentsAs of this post, the month-long contest is now officially over. I notified the last winner (eagerly awaiting his response) and have sent out all the prizes except that last one. Unfortunately, the grand prize will not be awarded because we failed to hit the 10.000 unique visitors mark. More in a bit. First some thoughts:
- The feedback I received was very positive. I want to thank all of you who support my blog and promoted it across the web.
- I was extremely surprised that so many people either didn’t receive/reply to my email telling them they won a prize. Didn’t see that one coming.
- I was even more surprised when winners said they “didn’t have time to receive the prize.” Whuh? You’re just going to receive it in the mail dude…
- The winners that did reply always seemed happy with their prize. I never got “Damn, I wanted the other book!” or anything like that as a response. :-)
The grand prize, to be awarded if we broke 10.000 unique visitors in a month was this:
- Street Steel by Michael J. Danich.
- Slam Set Evolutions by Joseph Simonet.
- The Fighter’s Guide to Hard-Core Heavy Bag Training by yours truly.
To achieve this, I asked participants to make a link to this place on their blog, site, Facebook or Myspace page. When I looked at my Analytics results for February, there was indeed a slight increase in traffic coming in from new links. But unfortunately not all that much. Google doesn’t allow posting complete figures so I’ll just show the graph:
Because the contest ran from Feb 1 until Marc 2nd, you can add up that last column to the second one. So there is indeed an increase in traffic but not nearly enough to reach the target. Which brings me to another couple tentative conclusions:
- Maybe the prizes weren’t enough incentive for participants to make a link to the blog.
- Maybe this requirement wasn’t clear enough. I thought it was but I could be wrong.
- If you have any ideas or suggestions to increase the effectiveness of such a contest, feel free to let me know in the comments section.
What I’ll do next time is try to be even more clear. Perhaps do a short video to introduce the contest and explain it that way. We’ll see how it goes. All in all, I think the result is pretty positive and am already working on another contest…
One more important thing: If you registered for this contest, you are still eligible for all future contests. So if Lady Luck wasn’t on your side this time, she might favor you in the future…
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Last day of the contest!
Posted by: | CommentsJust a quick reminder: tomorrow is the last day of the contest. If you spread the words and get a truckload extra unique visitors here by tomorrow, you can win these prizes here:
Street Steel by Michael J. Danich.
Slam Set Evolutions by Joseph Simonet.
The Fighter’s Guide to Hard-Core Heavy Bag Training by yours truly.
Don’t forget to read the rules and sign up for the contest. Good luck!
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Contest Winner and this week’s contest
Posted by: | CommentsI just got word back form one of the contest winners. Here’s Eric B. who looks like he’s happy with his prize.
Congrats again to Eric! I’ll post the review of this video soon, so stay tuned for more on this.
There’s still one more prize to win: Kelly McCann’s Pocket Pistols: Small-Frame Handgun Strategies for the Street with Phil Motzer.
This week's prize.
If you want a chance to win this awesome DVD, just read the details for the contest . It’s free and easy to do. Don’t wait around though because there’s only four days left before the contest ends!.
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Contest of the week: Last week!
Posted by: | CommentsThis week’s prize is:
Kelly McCann’s Pocket Pistols: Small-Frame Handgun Strategies for the Street with Phil Motzer.
Entering is easy as pie. Read the rules here.
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Contest update: Check your mail…
Posted by: | CommentsYou might have been wondering why I haven’t announced the latest winner of this week’s contest. Well, it’s simply because the winners don’t reply to my mail telling them they won. There might be a few reasons for that:
- The winners don’t receive my notification for some reason. Yet, I don’t get error messages that my mail bounced and other people get my mail just fine.
- They don’t read their e-mail regularly. That’s certainly possible. But you’d think that they do so at least once a week.
- The don’t want the prize. Also possible. But then why not reply to my mail and say so?
Checking your mail isn't always a bad thing...
This week, I’m up to the second person not replying to the e-mail notification of their win. In an effort to avoid even more delays, here’s what I’ll do:
- I’ll select the winner every Monday and send a notification mail out that same day.
- If I don’t hear from you by Tuesday evening 8pm (GMT+1), you forfeit your prize and I’ll select somebody else.
- If I don’t hear from him/her the next day, same time, I repeat the procedure.
- If I don’t have a winner after three times, the prize goes to next week’s winner.
You’d think it would be easy to give away free instructional videos and books but apparently it isn’t… :-)
Anyway, check your e-mail every Monday or Tuesday at the latest and then reply to my message. In fact, do it right now because I still haven’t heard from this week’s second winner.
Check it!
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Contest of the week: Winner #1 and the next contest.
Posted by: | CommentsJust a quick post to announce the first winner of the “February = contest month” extravaganza:
Congratulations to Eric Bacci! He wins a free copy of the video “Urban Knife Warfare” by Kelly Worden.
The next contest starts as of right now and the prize is this:
Jim Cirillo’s Tales of the Stakeout Squad by Paul Kirchner.
Once again, to enter is easy:
- Make a free account here.
- Post a link to this blog (http://www.wimsblog.com/) either:
- On your site
- Add it to your blogroll
- Make a blogpost if you’ve already linked to here.
- Add it on your Facebook or Myspace wall.
That’s it, takes one minute and you’re done!
I’ll announce the winner of this great book on Jim Cirillo next week. Stay tuned.
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