Create a Blog Post and Win an XBox 360
Posted by Erica DeWolf on April 2, 2008
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Okay, so maybe this prize doesn’t have anything to do with e-marketing. Maybe the process required to win it doesn’t really even teach you about marketing. But, the chance to win a free Xbox 360 Elite and a copy of the new Grand Theft Auto IV to be released at the end of April for doing nothing more than writing a posts and comments is something much to good to not announce.
John Chow of John Cow.com is hosting the contest, sponsored by Top Hosting Center, a company claiming they have the “best web hosting plan on the web.”
The contest involves doing certain things to get you a set number of entries into the contest:
- Write a short post about the contest on your own blog linking to the contest post and gain 250 “tickets.”
- Become an affiliate of Top Hosting Center, receiving 50% commission for each sale you refer, as well as 250 “tickets” in this contest.
- Every comment you leave on another blog’s latest post talking about and linking to this contest page will get you 25 tickets.
- Leaving this contest link in a new forum thread will gain you 25 tickets
- Mass message your MySpace or Facebook friends and gain 25 tickets
- Subscribe to John Cow.com and Top Hosting Center’s blog feeds and get 25 more tickets
- Give the contest post a thumbs up on StumbleUpon and receive 10 tickets.
You can gain entries in this contest until April 30th, when the winner will be picked in a lottery type contest. There seems to be a lot of potential for gaining entries into the drawing, so get started now! You only have 28 days left to generate a thousand entries…so go promote it, and good luck!
April 2, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Sounds awesome. I need to get me one.
April 3, 2008 at 12:57 am
The contest sounds great, I am heading over there after spending some more time here. Thanks for the post of the contest.
April 3, 2008 at 1:32 am
Thank you the update on the contest and congratulation on your prize winning the web!
April 5, 2008 at 5:15 am
Nice to see a lot of entries for this comp! What better to attract people than an xbox 360, lol. Well good luck to you! I’m entering as well so, good luck to me too, i hope
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April 7, 2008 at 9:30 pm
I’ve signed up and written a post on my blog. Good luck to all of you entered…but more luck to me.
April 10, 2008 at 4:05 pm
I hate John Chow, thanks for the news though
April 13, 2008 at 10:08 am
i hate video games but cool idea for people who do might draw alot of people
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April 17, 2008 at 3:26 pm
@Terry, its not John Chow, its John Cow lol. I signed up for the contest as well, great prize. Hopefully I’ll win :D. Good luck to everyone.
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April 29, 2008 at 2:42 am
I wanto win that Xbox since i have never had a gaming system. Good luck to everyone!
April 29, 2008 at 8:24 pm
The last hours of the contest. Cross all your fingers!
May 1, 2008 at 6:41 pm
John Chow is the owner of JohnCow.com isn’t he?!?!?!?!?!
May 1, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Oh, and congrats on winning the contest!
May 7, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Very good article. Thanks for the good information.